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    end of that maze‚ what do you you do. That is what these 12 characters had to do‚ and the grassland is not easy to live in. This book is called Maze Runner‚ it is a non-fiction written by James Dashner. I think that this book was very well written and described. There was something about it that it felt like I was in a movie‚ when I read it. “Maze Runner” takes place as I said earlier in a huge grassland‚ which the main characters called the Glade. They described the walls of the maze being 200-300

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    Name: Mike Teacher: Ms. Willey Course: ENG4U Date: 12/15/13 The Kite Runner Argumentative Essay When one person does something wrong‚ that person was affected by himself or by other people. This quote is related to Amir‚ the main character in the novel The Kite Runner. The novel The Kite Runner was wrote by Khaled Hosseini. It is talking about Amir; he is a wealthy boy in Kabul‚ Afghanistan. He has a best friend name Hassan. Amir is the owner in other Hassan is his servant. They are friend when

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    Class Tensions in “The Kite Runner” With receiving numerous awards on “The Kite Runner”‚ Khaled Hosseini has become an international best seller. With more than eight million copies sold world wide‚ Hosseini shares that the story was inspired by his childhood in Afghanistan. When moving to California with his family‚ Hosseini recalls the passages in the book of Amir and Baba as immigrants in the United States to be the most resembling of his life. Through the period of adjustment from living in

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    The Kite Runner The novel “The Kite Runner‚” written by Khaled Hosseini‚ is about a young man named Amir and the experiences he went through during chaos in his country‚ Afghanistan. The story centers around Amir‚ the main character‚ and Hassan. Amir and Hassan are totally different people. Amir is well educated Muslim. Also he tends to read a lot of books. With his nerd like attributes‚ is somewhat disappointing to his father’s eyes. Hassan is a servant to Amir’s family

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    The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini illustrates the effects of past events on Amir’s present actions‚ attitudes‚ and values. The effects were both positive and negative. Past events can “change the course of a whole lifetime”. The raping event that happened during Amir’s childhood affects his actions even during his adulthood. After the rape event‚ Amir feels guilt and that guilt made him go on the road of redemption. The actions of Amir saving Sohrab were driven by this guilt from the past. Those

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    Symbolism Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner describes the effects of social levels when a boy betrays his friend in time of need. Amir is a Pashtun and Hassan is a Hazara. The social differences between the boys impact Amir’s actions when he encounters Hassan in a situation of sexual abuse‚ yet he chooses to run away instead of helping; a regret he carries over the years. The symbolism in this story provides a deeper insight on how Amir and Hassan’s friendship progressed over the years through kites

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    In Kite Runner‚ Takes place in the month of December 2001‚ and the narrator‚ who tells his story in the first person‚ talks about his past lifethat occurred in 1975‚ when he was twelve years old and growing up in Afghanistan. He does not tell the audience what happened‚ but talks about the past events that made him who he is right now. He starts of by telling the audience about a call he received last summer from a friend in Pakistan named Rahim Khan. Rahim Khan asks the narrator‚ whose name is Amir

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    our first word‚ mine was Baba” Kite runner is about a twelve year old boy �� Amir‚ who wanted be loved and treasured by his father. Through his continuous and struggling effort in earning Baba’s affections‚ the lack of security and recognition from Baba lead to his willingness to sacrifice other people around him just to secure his position in Baba’s heart‚ which paves the way for future devastating events. Thus‚ to a great extent that I agree “The kite runner’ is a story of a boy’s thwarted longing

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    FULL TITLE • The Kite Runner AUTHOR • Khaled Hosseini TYPE OF WORK • Novel GENRE • Bildungsroman; Redemption story LANGUAGE • English TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN • Los Angeles‚ CA; 2001 - 2003 DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION • May 2003 PUBLISHER • Riverhead Books NARRATOR • The Kite Runner is narrated by Amir four days after the final events of his decades-long story. POINT OF VIEW • The narrator speaks in the first person‚ primarily describing events that occurred months and years ago. The narrator

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    Statement of intent: I have done a formal writing piece of the Kite Runner to show what I know about this novel‚ and to show some of the ideas in the text that are represented by cruel and kind behaviour. (Analyse how cruel or kind behaviour was used to show one or more ideas in the text Note: ideas may refer to character‚ theme or setting.) The Kite Runner In the novel ‘The Kite Runner’‚ written by Khaled Hosseini‚ the themes of cruel and kind behaviour helped me with the understanding of the

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