1) He is starting to show how guilty he feels towards other people. He begins to realize how much like Baba he is. Just like Baba, Amir betrayed a very close friend and did not feel guilt at first. To make up for the guilt Baba paid for Hassan's nose repair. Amir after finding out the kids are starving tries to give them money by leaving it around the house.
2) Kabul is completely different becoming a war torn zone. When Amir returns he says he can hardly recognize the city. Buildings are destroyed, beggars every where, some of them children no older than six years. Amir also sees that many of the children are sitting with their mothers and not with a father, due to all the fathers being busy fighting. The kite shops that were once powering businesses no longer appear anywhere in Kabul. All the trees no longer exist because many were cut down in order for people to have firewood, and to reduce the number of snipers. Baba's orphanage that he had built was destroyed a few years before Amir's return. The city no longer has steady electricity so they are forced to use diesel fuel which gives off a terrible smell.
3) In order to feel atonement for what he had done to Hassan, I think Amir will take in Hassan's son to lessen his feeling of guilt. I think that something dramatic will happen to Amir that will open his eye's to everything he has done to the people who loved him the most.
Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Friday, September 24, 2010
Independent Reading- MP1
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
9.30: Page 70
10.18: Page 150
10.28: Rest of book
The setting of my book is in the South during the 1920's- 30's.
My book is about an African American woman named Janine who is trying to follow her dream while growing up in South/central Florida. She has to struggle with one being black and two being a woman.
Characters: Janine Crawford, Tea Cake, Pheoby Watson, Jody Starks, Logan Killicks There are a few other people but do not have any impact so far on the story. The people mentioned all have something that connects them to each other. Janine was married to Tea, Jody, and Logan. Her best friend is Pheoby who is with her most of the novel.
Some themes so far include language/speech- even though she doesn't have the best vocabulary she still uses her voice strongly, power- they want the power to achieve something that they normally can not have, love/relationship, race/racism
The time period that this book takes place in is during a rough time in America in the South. Even though it wasn't all just in the South racism was very much looked upon as normal custom. For many African American women to be successful in this era a lot of hard work and struggle had to be dealt with.
Zora Neale Hurston
9.30: Page 70
10.18: Page 150
10.28: Rest of book
The setting of my book is in the South during the 1920's- 30's.
My book is about an African American woman named Janine who is trying to follow her dream while growing up in South/central Florida. She has to struggle with one being black and two being a woman.
Characters: Janine Crawford, Tea Cake, Pheoby Watson, Jody Starks, Logan Killicks There are a few other people but do not have any impact so far on the story. The people mentioned all have something that connects them to each other. Janine was married to Tea, Jody, and Logan. Her best friend is Pheoby who is with her most of the novel.
Some themes so far include language/speech- even though she doesn't have the best vocabulary she still uses her voice strongly, power- they want the power to achieve something that they normally can not have, love/relationship, race/racism
The time period that this book takes place in is during a rough time in America in the South. Even though it wasn't all just in the South racism was very much looked upon as normal custom. For many African American women to be successful in this era a lot of hard work and struggle had to be dealt with.
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