A Thousand Plateaus

A Thousand Splendid Suns An action will deal with any circumstance. However, the situations one has been in, and the challenges one has experienced determine that action. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, the protagonist, Mariam, has to face many hardships in the city of Kabul. She learns how to endure her real life situations. It takes friendship, strength, and sacrifice in order to endure life. In order for a person to endure a challenge, that person needs to have strong…

have personally endured things from breaking bones to the death of loved ones. Khaled Hosseini portrays many types of endurance on the journey through the two main characters’ lives with the literary devices and word choice he uses in his novel A Thousand Splendid Suns. Both Laila and Mariam, although coming from completely different backgrounds in Afghanistan, find each other with very similar hardships. They survive through unimaginable physical and mental abuse, wars and loss in their lives.…

This is a book about the relationship between father and son. Baba blames Amir for his mother death… throw it Amir changes feeling when he grows up and changes that has affected him by where he lives at. Baba and Amir attitude changes throw the book when Baba gets really sick and Amir there to help him throw it their relationship starts to become stronger.after Baba dies.. Amir behavior come from Baba and they way Baba treated Amir. Amir will do anything to help his dad like him and love him.…

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, starts off with a mane by the name of Amir receiving a phone call from Rahim Khan, a man from his childhood who was good friends with Amir’s father. Rahim Khan is telling Amir how things have changed since he has been away from Afghanistan. Ramin also tells Amir that he has to come back to Afghanistan, and that he has the chance to become good again. The story for the most part after this call takes place in Afghanistan through the eyes of early life Amir.…

In literature, no scene of violence exists for its own sake. In the book titled The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini there are many scenes that contain violence, and these violent scenes do not exist for their own sake. The Kite Runner showcases the friendship between Hassan and Amir, and how one disloyal action can lead to years of guilt. The violent scenes in this book include war, murder, fighting, and sexual abuse. All of these scenes all contribute to the overall meaning of the book and each…

When one chooses to face them on behalf of their community, for the benefit of many, they deserve to be allauded and honored as the heroes that they are. They are a special breed of humanity, one such person is Malala Yousafzai. In The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell states, “the hero is the man of self-achieved submission.” We witness this submission in Malala, who was aware of her potential, and the need to make a stand. She committed herself to fight…

Today our world is filled with everyday heroes displaying all kinds of extraordinary needs for others. Through her heroic acts, Malala represents the epitome of an idealistic everyday hero by taking a stand against extreme violence in order for women to receive the equality of education rights for women. Her heroic actions, especially getting shot in the head while fighting for what she believes in, shows her loyalty and bravery to the people, furthermore displaying her as a hero. Just like…

For example, Mariam had to show strength as a child not to be resentful of her father on the basis of her Nana’s negative attitude towards him ‘his idea of penance’ and Laila had to learn to adjust to life without her family at a young age. This sets the context for where the roots of their inner strength have derived from. Moreover, the mood of the novel is rather negative, as it displays intense agony and sadness which the characters face. Mariam and Laila display how they conquer the…

“Redemption has several specific meanings. [It is] salvation from the states or circumstances that destroy the value of human existence itself” (Clark 77). The states or circumstances mentioned in the quote above are linked to the sins humans commit or the regret and guilt that stains our minds after performing immoral actions. Once these sins are implemented, one naturally receives the desire to redeem such actions. This concept of redemption is quite popular in the storyline of many different…

Joseph Campbell, a mythologist, writer and lecturer, discovers common patterns of hero myths and stories that are told from around the world which are still relevant today. Campbell acknowledges the main steps to a mythic hero’s journey, such as the call to adventure, refusal of the call, crossing of the first threshold, and the belly of the whale. The film Divergent reveals these steps of a hero’s journey. Divergent is essentially about the government controlling society by dividing them into…