Book report

Book Report: "The Kite Runner" In the novel, "The Kite runner", Khaled Hosseini tells The unforgettable story of cruelty yet redeeming love. Hosseini creates a powerful and haunting tone. In "The Kite Runner", the plot covers multiple betrayals and redemption. In "The Kite Runner," the father and son relationship between Baba and Amir is not always positive. Amir always struggles to get Baba's attention, and often feels like an outsider in his father's life. An example of their relationship is…

It is safe to say I have read a few books on eschatology/prophecy (study of the last things). Many describe The Antichrist as a mastermind without differentiating between a mastery that stems from wisdom and understanding, and a “cunning” that proceeds from craftiness and wickedness. They are not the same. The latter is a mastery of foolishness. The Antichrist is anti-Christ. Although in appearances, he may try to imitate him, in reality, he is everything Christ is “not”. Where does wisdom come…

that are highly applied in today's world to stitch together a story of a futuristic dystopia. Some would agree that the setting in which Farenheit 451 faces is much like our own society today. The book takes place in a world where firemen do not put out fires, they start them and burn books and houses. Books are illegal and frowned upon and creative and intelligent thinking is a sin. Ray Bradbury grew up in a time where televisions were starting to show up and many people think it's scary how…

quality of students’ thinking. They may skim books for what they’ll need to know. They’re less likely to wonder, say, “How can this be true?”” (Kohn, 2011) When book reports were given out, I thought I was so smart because I chose the book that didn’t have seven hundred pages. I had chosen a book with three hundred pages. When it came time to sit and read my book I couldn’t because I didn’t understand what I was reading. When I was writing my book report, every so often I would throw in things…

No, one even the bravest of knights ever returned from there, for they fade away in the dust storms that arise out of nowhere. The land looked on with wild devastation and hate, so arid that it supports sparse vegetation. Unsuitable for humans to inhabit, so dry, the sun so hot, the skin burns and blisters in a short time, the wind blows indurate there, pitting the skin, a place that seems lifeless. This Dark Empire contains, grotesque spirits hidden deep beneath the surface. These souls and…

During the socratic seminar, many topics of controversy were talked about. After this discussion, my understanding of The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, reaches a new level of perception. There were many parts of the discussion where ideas that never entered my mind were brought up by a classmate. One of the first things discussed during this seminar was if Liesel’s stealings were ok or not and if she could be classified as a thief. A few of my classmates believed that Liesel was not a thief due…

Self-Evaluation Essay Little did I know that I was going to learn a lot more than I thought throughout the semester in ENGL 1433. I began the course dreading reading and writing. I just wanted to be done with the class before the class began and go back to science classes. I never have considered myself a good writer or someone who was good at analyzing literature, it was never something I enjoyed. Despite these initial thoughts and preconceived notions, I did, for the most part, enjoy the…

In the book Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi, it talks about Juliette trying to get her life back on track after waking up in the middle of nowhere. Warner had been testing Juliette so that he could understand his mother’s sickness. In this journal I will be talking about the 3 important objects in the story. The first person that Juliette sees when she wakes up is this diffident man asking her how she’s feeling and if she’s okay. Not till later did she find out that mans name was Warner and he…

Sodanie Oum Our Outcasts: Mountain Prompt It was New Year's Eve, Jackie and her girlfriend Chris wanted to see the midnight fireworks from the top of the hill that they lived near. But, Chris calls it a mountain because she thinks it adds more flare and excitement to their lives. They are walking up the trail to the top of the "mountain". Jackie has just finished her 5th cup of coffee and throws it on the ground. "Ah yes. By midnight it'll be the 5 year anniversary of the day I got disowned…

In the classic book The Sneetches, Dr. Seuss tells a story about biases and the desire to fit in. The star-bellied Sneetches look down upon the non-star-bellied Sneetches. “With their snoots in the air, they would sniff and they’d snort ‘We’ll have nothing to do with the plain belly sort!’” With the invention of a star on and star off machine, a cunning entrepreneur capitalizes on the Sneetches desire to fit in (and later to stand out) by adding stars to the bellies of the Sneetches without…