Kite Runner

“What was the author's purpose(s) in writing this book, and how can you tell? How well was this purpose achieved?” “How would you describe the author's style of writing? What's your opinion of the style?”

            In this novel “Kite Runner” was about a kid name Amir and he was a spoiled little kid. He had a dad which was the richest person in their country or town name Kabul. He also had a friend that was living with them through out some of the story. His name was Hassan and they use to do everything together like read books, walk with him where ever they want to go, and especially kite running. Until one day these older boys jump his friend Hassan and then Amir found his friend and he just watched him being physically rape. That’s why I think this novel “Kite Runner” is based on redemption.

            The author’s purpose was about redemption because it showed it through out the whole story. There was a spoiled kid name Amir that couldn’t defend himself but his friend Hassan takes care of him and he is smaller then Amir. When Hassan helps Amir out, Amir doesn’t repay him anything. Like the time that Amir won the kite running tournament Hassan knew where the kite was going to fall. Then everyone was cheering for Amir, Amir noticed that Hassan was gone, later when they finished cheering for him he went to go look for Hassan. He went all over the place and the old guy that worked in a convent store asked Amir “what he is doing looking for a Hazara”. “Amir replies that the Hazara is the son of his father’s servant”. Then the old guy said “he saw the Hazara going south” .As Amir was walking there he seen three boys in the alley that he knows, their names were Kamal and Wali and last Assef. They told Hassan to give them the kite but Hassan refused because he was trying to give the kite to Amir. Because that was Amir’s first time ever win a Kabul tournament of kite running. Then they were jumping Hassan and Amir was just watching like it was a show or something. He was about to jump in and help Hassan but instead he waited until Hassan was done getting brutalized and rape. As Amir seen the three boys run then that’s when Amir seen Hassan limping. He went with Hassan and then Hassan gave Amir the kite while Hassan was crying and bleeding. I think that the purpose was achieved because it showed that Amir didn’t do anything to help out Hassan, Amir even called himself a coward for not helping. In my opinion I think that this is redemption.

            The style of this writing is that it relates to a lot of people in this world that are doing the same exact same for others. Which is called redemption? This kind of relate to me because my dad is doing a lot of things for me because he believes that I am going to have a good future and be successful in life. He does things for me like no other parent would ever do in their whole in tire life in my opinion. My dad always tells me to do my work. He tells me to do well in school to have a better education then he did. Whenever he tells me that for some reason I just don’t put it in my head I just ignore him like if he had said nothing at all. My dad had tried to do everything for me but for some reason it doesn’t work out with me. So now I am trying to do everything I can to pay him back. I try to do better in school so that he can forgive me and love ma like he use to. Like Amir and Hassan, Amir try to make Hassan forgive him by hitting Hassan with a pomegranate so that he can hit Amir back so that Hassan could accept his apology. I think that Hassan wouldn’t accept it because it had really affected him so much. Like the same thing with my dad all the things that I did for him was always affecting him because instead of me doing well I did badly. Now I am trying to turn that up side down so that I can get my dads respected back so that he can believe me. What I just said actually happen in kite runner too because he tried to get back Hassan respect. But in a different way not the way to do good in school but for him to through the pomegranate back at Amir but Hassan was too intelligent for that. Hassan was a good kid and always did things for Amir.

            In conclusion I really know what the author’s purpose of this novel is. In my opinion this novel is based on redemption because Amir feels responsible for his mother dead. As he played in the kite running tournament, he feels like he should bring back the kite to Baba so that he can redeem himself to Baba. All he wants to do right now is to make his dad proud of him. Amir doesn’t care for no one but himself that’s why he didn’t even care when Hassan was getting jumped and raped. All Amir did is take the kite and gave it back to Baba so he can be proud. But all Amir is doing is hurting his own friend. He wanted good things to happen to Hassan so he told his dad that Hassan stole his watch. Then Ali and Baba had a talk about the watch if Hassan stole it. Hassan said “yes” then Baba said “I forgive you” then Ali said “no I don’t want to live here anymore” then Baba said “I forbid you to stay” But Ali wouldn’t. I guess Amir did that for a reason to keep Hassan in a better place then he is. This is why i think it is redemption.  

           

           

Kite Runner

     In this novel Kite Runner at the end was kind of sad. I didn't read but i heard it from people but then i heard that there was a lot of killing at the end. That's is always a good way to end the novel but i rather let the novel make another good way instead of death. Like the last novel we read which was "of Mice Men's"it was an ending i didn't expect. He killed his own friend i would of ran away with him but know instead he killed him because Lennie was George's misery. I actually cried i didn't know he would have done that. When i seen George struggling in killing him that's when i was saying in my head " don"t kill him don't kill him he is your friend i know he made you mad and everything but just don't do it can't you see he is mental."

     I feel like this book is more about the relatives and the family. I am just wondering why did they name it Kite Runner because he was just talking about it little in my opinion. They have should of called it " the redemption " because he talks about Amir the most and what he does. He is a spoiled kid. But know he is trying to get the bad things out of him so that he can regret. He try's to regret it by being a religious person. Like Hassan. Hassan has been religious his whole life because he did good things and they did bad things to him but he didn't do nothing back. He just let it happen like its nothing. I think in the begin of the story it was all about Hassan's life.

     I also heard people saying the story was sad and people saying its boring because of the Kite part. I feel like it would of been boring to because you think that it was going to be more death but then it just tells you something about kites and how do you play it in Kabul. If i had made it there I'm just being honest but i wouldn't have read that part because i might tell that it's going to be boring.
    

Response to Luis Alba

I took this quote from Luis Alba because I really thought it was interesting and true:

Oakland is a great place to live at. I live in Oakland. Oakland is so much fun, so many things to do all day. You can go walking around, play sports, or just hang out with some friends. There are many places where you can go, the park, stores, or just outside. Many people out there say," Ohhhh... Oakland is dangerous, do not go outside or you will get shot." No, this hardly happens where I live, sometimes. Most danger is not during the day, it is during the night. What would you be doing at night all alone anyways.

    I live in Oakland to and I can tell it’s not a bad city. Well it’s kind of bad but it turns good. My neighborhood use to be full of drug dealers. There were a lot of them until police always passed by and got someone. This was a good thing because it made that street dirty and ugly because of the drug dealers. The entire drug dealers do is making people look bad in Oakland and I'm pretty sure in other places to but it makes Oakland look really bad. Because of the population that Oakland has.

     I really think Oakland is a good place without the drug dealers. I really think that everywhere else is worse than Oakland. I know that Oakland is kind of bad but a really good place to live in my oppion. I love Oakland especially because of the weather I think it’s perfected and I pretty sure it is because I know that the Bay keeps the weather balanced. Oakland is mostly safe but sometimes it just gets out of control at of nowhere.

     I love Oakland and I will live there my whole life no matter what anyone says. I will love Oakland until I die. I don't care what anyone says about Oakland I was born here and I will die here. When I grow up and be an intelligent person I am going to make Oakland the most beautiful city in the whole wide world then that when a lot of people are going to come and live there. It will be known as "home of the peace". Someday in the future.

I am mad! I need help

   
  I don't no why this is still happening to me. I am trying to do well in school but all I'm getting is bad grades. I don't know why. I am doing work but I'm still getting bad grades I am really losing my cool, I just want a good grade but I can't now I might get kicked out of A.S.T.I. but I don't want to. I want to stay so that I don't have to take 4 years of college. I want to make my father proud of me, I hate it when he compares me to other people like my brother who gets A's and B's which I hate so much when he compares me.


     I want to stay but I don't think I have a chance of staying because of my grade. I am trying to do better than my first marking period. I promised I will. Well I think I am doing well but I guess I am not. I have never been kicked out. But I guess this is going to be my first time. I just want to have a good grade so that I can succeed and only take 2 years of college. I am hoping I can stay this whole year to show them something. I am very pissed and mad at myself. I am tired of my lack of work now I am going to show people who I really am. I am going to be a good student. I am going to ignore people when they talk to me. I will make improvements.

    
     I am going to make changes and I am going to try really hard to make those changes so that I can have good grades better than my first marking period. I am going to do all my work, I won’t get distracted, I won't talk, and I will always focus so that I know what I am leaning about then talk about it later. I will take notes and study them even though I am not having a test tomorrow. That's the point of learning. If I don't get anything I will stay after school and learn about it. I will get help when I really need it and when I don't need it. I am going to do this just for my future.

RESPOND ON BASSAM!

I took this quote from Bassam:

The people that beat him up were also drug dealers. There were about 30 drug dealers all going off on one person. They were fighting over territory because if they didn’t have a spot to hide then they couldn't sell there drugs without the police finding out.

     I know what you mean bassam because i work in a store where theres a lot of drug dealers and they always fight. It even happened today at my store at 11/5/10. they is this guy in my store right now yelling for no reason. they are crazy out here your going to get use to it because i see it all the time and I'm already use to it i ain't going to help them at all because all they do is just staying doing the wrong thing. I'm not going to help anyone that is doing the wrong this because its not right.

     But if these drug dealers change their lives and be good i bet nothing would of happen to them at all because they would just mind their own business and do something with their life. Instead of just selling illegal drugs to Innocent people is just wrong truly wrong. i would help them out if some nice people getting jumped i would just tell my brother call police and i might even go and help him out literally.I don't care if my parents yell at me i just know that he is doing the right thing. I like when people do the right thing because for some reason it makes me happy from the inside of me but when someone is doing something bad it just like stabs me in the chest.

     I just wish that they're is a lot of people that manage to do the right thing instead of the bad. All you have to do is just follow simple rules basically laws. These laws where made for a reason so that  people can obey it instead of the people disobeying it. There is no point for anyone to follow the laws whats so bad about them? Bassam so one day you are going to get use to it maybe your area is not so bad as ares but it is believe me.

Family Day!

     Today at family day it was so fun i couldn't believe it could be this fun we played different activity which was ummmm... family fued which we lost :(. Then they asked us a lot of questions like whats your favorite song and i said just the way you are by Bruno Mars which i like and also this other girl did her name was Karen. I was really happy that we had something in common in our family. I really like the family because they are really nice to you and funny which was me. Then they told us we can play a game that you draw then the person have to guess whatever it is. Which we didnt play because we where still doing the question thing about us which i liked so much by not more then the family fued. the family feud was the best.



     I liked it but then i hated it at the same time because whenever we get the answer right but we don't know the last then other teams gets it.its like doing all the work and someone else is getting all the credit and thats the part i hate so much.we had so much fun just like a real family would do. i like our family so much because they are funny and very creative and thats what i like about my family the most and most of them like a lot of things that i like and when i said that we were creative i made a new name for our family THE TALENTED.



     I said that we are because we all have something we good at. We all thing of things really creative like things on TV and you no who you are my famil members. i really think that are family is cool. They also help you on things like grades especially. they are really smart and thats what i like and they always help you out when you need it. Basically they are always there for us when we need it. I am so happy we have a family and i really think thats a family is a good thing in asti.

KITE RUNNER!

     In this story "Kite Runner" the author tries to show us how he's life was back then and how is was related to know.

    This story is basically how the other want to express hes life and I it is with out his parents which is really sad. He has a friend that he doesn't really call him a friend because he is spoiled and another reason is that its in his religion like his dad said. This story shows how life use to be between other like the differnces between Amir and Hassan. Amir is a spoiled kid and doesn't give resepect to Hassan i mean like he doesn't show we he is like who Amir think he is.

     My oppion of the author is thats he is trying to show the differents between eachother. I really think he wrote this Book to show people that this isn't the only time that happen. It happen to most people and i guess thats like the most top reason of the book. He knows that it effects their feelings which i think he wrote this. No matter who you are it doesn't matter if you are poor, rich, fancy, cool, popular, and even lonlly. He is trying to say that you can always change by reading the 40th page. It just pops up in my had so i had to let it out.

     Inconclusion i think he is trying to help people change he is trying to keep people as normal they can be like not rich not a show up and etc. I think he trying to say that everyone can be different but he want them to be the same just to be like friends and be happy what you got and don't be spoiled. I'll agree if he is because i know how that feel so thats why i chose to right this. Because it doesn't just affect one person its all over the world. THANK YOU  FOR WRITING THIS BOOK!