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Currently, the Ahmanson Theatre which is owned by the Center Theatre Group is displaying the National Theatre Production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night-Time. This production is based off the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night-Time by Mark Haddon and was adapted into a play by Simon Stephens. The play is about the coming-of-age of an autistic teenager by the name of Christopher John Francis Boone who tries to solve the mystery of who killed his neighbor’s dog.…

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, follows Amir, a boy from Kabul, Afghanistan, through his emotion-filled life. Throughout the novel, we witness Amir’s experiences with extreme guilt, unworthiness, selfishness, and selflessness. Majority of his relationships have one of these embedded into them. Including his relationships with Hassan, his family’s servant, and his dad, Baba. Hassan and his father, Ali, both serve Baba and Amir. Hassan is around Amir’s age, and because of that, they often…

doesn’t feel guilty by hand, he keeps thinking of it whenever he is doing anything for example he got married he thought of Hassan, he couldn’t have children thought if Hassan already had children, he was studying and he remembered when he was reading books for Hassan moreover basically Hassan was in Amir’s mind constantly without any options, he was basically haunting him. He is also unable to accept and forgive himself for redeeming himself. Also a second conflict is Amir's relationship with…

By saying he wants Hassan to stop harassing him, we learn how much of a coward and wimp he truly is. Amir was prepared to ruin his only friendship with Hassan, to prove to himself that the rape didn’t happen. He hoped that Hassan would fight back for their friendship, which he didn’t. He wanted Hassan to still be at the door when he opened it, and when he wasn't he realized their friendship has truly faded away. Amir wanted a reason to blame Hassan for what had happened and to avoid feeling…

“The only way Amir can survive the long ride in the fume-filled tank is by remembering flying kites with Hassan.” As a reader goes through the story they may look at this statement and be confused as to how thinking of Hassan could calm Amir. After Amir has watched his friend get raped, went behind his back, and lost his friend for good, a reader would think that the thought of Hassan would make Amir even more uncomfortable. Amir strived to survive the ride in the fume-filled tank and that was…

Hosseini characterizes Hassan as a person living a treacherous life so other’s may have a good one. Hassan’s innocent nature causes Amir to develop a close relationship with him. Knowing well that Amir has been much more fortunate than him, he proceeds to still show unconditional loyalty as his servant as well as a friend. The societal standards for a servant are that they be segregated from the owner and their standard of living no matter the person. The depiction of social injustice towards…

swimming pool and then nicknamed himself after the irrational number. He survives 227 days lost at sea with a Royal Bengal Tiger until he arrives at the coast of Mexico. Life of Pi is a truly incredible book crafted by Yann Martel’s exquisite knowledge of mundane facts which help aid the legitimacy of the book. Great novels have great authors and Yann Martel is no exception to this rule, he builds Life of Pi on an astonishing premise, full of literary playfulness. Although one can read Life of…

15 year old autistic boy, who witnesses the murder of a neighborhood dog, throughout the book Christopher is trying to solve this mystery. As a young adult Haddon worked with Autistic individuals, as a caretaker. So all of the information concerning Christopher is fist hand and quite factual. In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon shows Christopher’s rites of passage throughout the book. Although Christopher does fit the stereotype of someone with autism, such as the…

from the voice of the protagonist himself, in an intention to rebuild, step by step, his discovery journey. The result is a coming of age kind of story. Some authors, through books or fictional narrative, bring awareness to the readers on a specific topic: from war to health, from economics to religion. There are many books that deal with psychological issues, therefore introducing the theme in a softly way, touching the strings of…

18). The lack of a good relationship between the two caused Amir to be hateful and even immoral at times. The first sign of this was when he was trying to win the kite fighting contest. Amir thought this was his chance to get to his father. In the book it states, “I was going to win, and I was going to run that last kite. Then I’d bring it home and show it to Baba. Show him once and for all that his son is worthy. Then maybe my life as a ghost in this house would finally be over” (Hosseini 56).…