Kite Runner 18-20

In the past chapters Amir has shown a lot of growth and progression. Amir has become a lot less selfish. After what he heard to Hassan and and his wife, shot and killed, he want to help Hassan's orphan son.

I thought it was ridiculous how much Kabul had changed when Amir returned. He did not even know this place any more. It was a place of chaos and catastrophe.

Unfortunately I see the story only getting more sad and depressing. Things may get better for a little but I think it is inevitable that the story will continue to be sad and we will see several characters hardships.

Kite Runner Chapter 8-9

1. AS i read on, I dislike Amir more and more he is not trying to make anything better with hassan. He is just being selfish and trying to forget about it himself. By trying to forget it he just makes things worse by acting like it never happened and it resulted in Hassan and Alli leaving Amir and Baba forever.

2. In the scene with the pomegreantes Amir wants to get a reaction out of Hassan and make Hassan lash out back at Amir. Hassan is a pacifist and won't react which just makes Amir feel worse.

3. We learn thatA mir is the worst of the three because he sees things being done and doesn't do anything about it. Although Assef is a very bad person Amir is worse.

I chose a picture of Ghjandi because Hassan is a pacifist and will never do anything to harm any one else. Just like Ghandi

3rd MP Reflection & 4th MP Preview

1. Looking back at my theme I am quite disappointed in myself. This is the worst grade I have gotten on a theme so far this year. I can't even read this theme readers writing so I don't even really know why she didn't like my theme. She circled all of the pronouns that I used so I guess she just didn't like the tense and way I stated it rather than actually disliking the journey that I chose.

2. I am very proud of my TMD project. My group worked very well together and I think that it was a great project to have. It let us show that we knew and understood the book and we were allowed to be as creative as we wanted.

3. I expect the 4th marking period to be fun. I know we will still have to do work and what not but I think it will be quite relaxing. I am excited to read the Kite Runner because I hear it is a great book. I want to learn a lot but have an extra chillin 4th marking period at the same time.

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This scene was a very tense and serious moment in the book. This scene, as shown through the movie, was when there is a big argument between the attorney and the waitress of a diner. The attorney was being rude so the waitress lashed out. The attorney got angry so he threatened the waitress with his knife. The waitress became terrified as if she was having a flashback. You could inference from the novel that the waitress acted like she had been in that situation before. She must deal with drug addicts a lot at that diner. What I could not figure out however is was it the drug that drove the attorney to act that way or was he actually angry?

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“They work in pairs,” said my attorney. “Sometimes in gangs. They’ll climb right into your bedroom and sit on your chest, with bowie knives.”(145)

I thought this was a very interesting conversation in the story. It was with the attorney, who is high on several drugs, talking to an oblivious police officer who has no idea that the man he is talking to is a crazy dangerous drug addict. It is instances like this that keeps the story on edge. These two men who are involved with so many drugs are at a police drug conference in Las Vegas. Taking risks is a huge theme in this novel and this is truly shown within this scene.

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The end of the novel was quite interesting, confusing, and intriguing all at the same time. The attorney and the narrator finally get rid of Lucy by paying a cab driver to take her to another hotel. She eventually calls them at the Flamingo but Dr. Gonzo makes up a story to get her off their backs and leave them alone. Right while Dr. Gonzo does this the narrator takes pure Adrenaline. This is the craziest drug any of them have done. They compare it to mescaline and say mescaline is nothing in comparison to this adrenaline. The narrator takes the drug and from then on the novel describes the crazy things he is seeing. Not only does the room change around him but so do the people he encounters. Peoples' appearances completely change proving that this drug can completely change someone's state of mind. Eventually the narrator wakes up with a completely ruined hotel room. He walks around with a tape recorder of what he heard while he was tripping on the many dangerous drugs that he used over the time period. While listening and recollecting the narrator goes through many flash backs and begins to remember his crazy drug experience. It is a miracle that the two were not arrested because they went all around Vegas drugged out of their mind, messing with different people such as Dr. Gonzo screaming at the couples in the car on the Las Vegas strip.

I think that Lucy is a great symbol used I the novel for paranoia. She is just like the hitch hiker from the beginning of the story. When the narrator and his attorney run into either of them they freak out and just drive the other direction. Another symbol used in the novel was the two different nice cars that they got. It’s a symbol for living the good life and having a lot of freedom to do whatever they please.

This novel about two characters traveling is very similar to many of the books we have already read for our senior year. A key theme in the novels we have read so far is trips and all about traveling. During these trips and journeys that the characters take, whether it be physical or mental, it always lands them somewhere other than where they started. In the motorcycle diaries Ernesto turns into Che. In Invisible Man the narrator completely changes throughout the novel. In Fear and Loathing the narrator and Dr. Gonzo experience so much throughout their trip and basically lose their minds by the end of the book.

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Here is a picture of the narrator in the movie at the police convention. It is a little ridiculous because all of these dressed up officers are in this nice hotel resort and then the narrator strolls in with several different drugs in his system and he looks like a hippie. He is not dressed nicely at all and is not trying to fake who he is at all. I find this funny because it is surprising neither him nor the narrator have gotten caught yet because they seem to stand out so much. The narrator and attorney really risk a lot by doing what they do and don't seem to be too afraid to take their chances.