2003 novels

Everything I do holds me captive; from how I treat people to how I am treated. How I was raise haunts me every day. Nothing is ever easy and only when you realize this will someone like me try to find a ‘happiness’. I found a category of ‘happiness’, and that is art. As a small child, maybe I was six or seven, I knew I was to take care of myself and try as hard as I could not to be dependent on my parents. My father was often tired but would take care of me as any parent would, buying…

Perplexing Coding This picture symbolizes my AP Computer Science class because in this class, I had to come up with different types of codes, like the one shown, to write and format. I chose this image because once I entered this class I knew that coding was exactly what it appeared to be. Complicated. Most of my class was filled with seniors so the first few months I struggled to learn the material that they already knew. When Mr. Ellich asked questions like what does “string” mean in coding,…

The Kite Runner Film and Novel It is supposedly said that the movies and books are nothing alike. Many movies take out crucial details that are included in books to prove important facts, yet those points make or break the whole plot of the movie. In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and Marc Foster’s movie The Kite Runner, themes, symbols, and main ideas are portrayed differently. Through the distinctiveness of the themes, symbols, and main ideas it is evident that the novel has more context,…

Friends Close, Enemies Closer: The Story of Betrayal, Guilt, and Redemption. Friends are supposed to be there for you in times of need, be a shoulder to cry on and share your best experiences with. This was not the case for Hassan and Phineas. In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Amir (a wealthy Pashtun boy) surrenders the dignity of his best friend Hassan (a poor Hazara boy), only to be haunted by the guilt of his choice, sending him to make done what is right many years later. In A Separate…

Leaving a Legacy Abraham Lincoln once said, “In the end, it 's not the years in your life that count. It 's the life in your years.” (Quotes) The quality of a person’s life can be determined by many different components. Some people define their lives on things such as wealth or materialistic items while others base theirs on the experiences they have gone through or the knowledge they have gained over time. The choices a person makes in life all eventually lead to what they are…

journey that will ultimately pave the path to redemption. This is the case in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, as Amir, a troubled Afghan boy, makes a corrupt decision that takes him on a journey to find redemption for the guilt that he feels. In the novel The Kite Runner, Hosseini uses Amir to reveal how betrayal over a loved…

How I Know I Matter To My Friends Over the years I have become really good friends with a lot of people. However, I have two friends that absolutely mean the world to me and they will tell you the same thing. These two guys are named Jacob Bullock, and Will McCoy. They both went to a rival school “West Jones” while I went to Laurel High. Will and I met each other as soon as we started kindergarten. We both went to Saint Johns for elementary school. After 6th grade we were separated but stayed…

Sisters with Different Aspects In the short story “Everyday Use” Maggie and Dee are two sisters but are different from each other. Both have different personalities such as things they have faced throughout their lives. The sisters grow up together with their mother by their side, but they both grow up with different things on their minds. Maggie is a girl that contrasts herself from her sister after she had an accident: “she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely ashamed of the burn…

For some people, tragedy is what it takes to realize core values and grow. In Jonathan Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Oskar Schell is a gifted nine year old in search of a meaning for his life outside of his central tragedy--the passing of his father in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. More than anything, he cannot escape from his own mind and his obsession with his father: “It doesn't make me feel good when you say that something I do reminds you of Dad” (Foer). Despite his gloom, one…

Hassan is a motherless Hazara boy who lives with Ali, his “father”, in Baba’s backyard (Hosseini, 2003). He is Amir’s best friend, servant, and half-brother, as well as, Baba’s son. He is known for his loyalty to Amir and Baba, even after Amir betrays him by allowing Hassan’s rape and telling Baba that Hassan is a thief (Hosseini, 2003). He enjoys listening to Amir’s stories and kite running, however, one day of kite running changed Hassan and Amir’s relationship forever. After Amir had won the…