Blade Runner

Many fathers of immigrating families try to achieve the "American Dream" to provide their families went through hard labor, poverty, and trying to obtain citizenship in the United States. Junot Diaz, who is a modern writer, novelist, and a creative writing professor at Massachusetts institute of Technology wrote his first bestselling novel Drown and is best known for this novel. In Drown, Ramón is a vivid example of a Father trying to achieve the "American Dream" to bring his family from the…

The Treasure Within Your Heart Sacrifices are what defines your values, what you treasure often is what you find pain in giving up. The result of such, however, can end in various ways, leaving different scars. Amir, from The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossieni, defines his values as a kid and later seeks redemption. Redemption seems like a far too big word for our main characters situation however. Amir as a kid was not aware of the consequences of his actions or ready to deal with what…

Yes, I had a strong sense of the time and place in the novel, as Amir explains everything in details. It convoyed when he described the house in the beginning when they lived in Kabul and how large and beautiful it was. Also when they went to America I also had a strong sense of what there life was and how everything changed, the apartment they lived in was small, there income was extremely low they basically had to start from the beginning. Furthermore, when he went back to Afghanistan and…

Paulo Coelho has portrayed great adventure and self righteousness in the novel “ The Alchemist” a story about a young boy filled with curiosity to seek his treasure, what is the treasure is the real question. Santiago is a young shepherd focused and dedicated to completing his very own personal legend.Santiago’s father has is a kind family man who had always hoped his son would become a priest but loved him anyway when he became a shepherd. There are many other characters that are going to be…

The poem “Casey at the Bat” and the story “David and Goliath” have many similarities and differences. One way they are similar is that they both were confident in themselves. “Casey at the Bat” says “There was pride in Casey’s bearing and a smile on Casey’s face” and “David and Goliath” says “David in the name of the Philistine gods and shouted, “Come on! When I’m finished with you, I’ll feed you to the birds and wild animals!”. Both of these show that Casey and David are confident, Casey with…

In the novel” The Kite Runner” Amir makes some controversial choices that change the outcome of the book and lead to the eventual heartbreaking death of Hassan. The most tenacious choice by Amir came when he and Hassan were kids. Amir and Hassan grew up in a tough neighborhood that consisted of two different Muslim groups, which were the Pashtuns and the Hazaras. Hassan belongs to the Hazara group which was extremely despised by their country Afghanistan. These two religious groups definitely…

The Kite Runner Everyone make mistakes, every person will sin. They can be huge or small but different people have different ways to face their mistakes. Some people will ignore their mistakes like nothing had happened, some people will hide their mistakes forever and haunted by guilt like Baba in The Kite Runner, he did not told anyone that Hassan is his son and he had slept with Ali's wife just after Amir's mom pass away. The best way to deal with mistakes is to fix it and learn…

When people read a book they most likely find a character they can relate to or admire. For me that character was Thomas, He is a character from the Maze Runner series by James Dashner. In fact Thomas is memorable to me because he is both curious and courageous. Thomas a character from the Maze Runner series, by James Dashner is a very courageous person in many ways. Immediately he finds himself thrown into a very confusing and scary place. He wakes up surrounded by faces he doesn't know…

In the story The Kite Runner and In The Crucible, there are some things that are alike about the characters and the whole plot and how their personalities are the same and actions. In the stories The Crucible and The Kite runner they both have betrayal and guilt in and love in the two stories. The betrayal for the crucible was because John and other betrayed the Salem village and their religion and for betrayal in The Kite runner how Reham notice Baba’s betrayal of Ali. The guilt in both the…

The Night Listener reading reflection The Night Listener is a story about Gabriel Noone, a writer, also a late-night radio story teller, fascinated by the life story of a thirteen-year-old boy, Peter Lomax, whom is a fictitious kid created by a mentally disordered woman, Donna Lomax. Even though the existence of Pete is just an illusion, it is also the support that Gabriel and Donna both depends on. In chapter ten, page 136, Jess questioned the existence of Pete after having spoken to both of…