January 2003

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…

Brendan Fraser, an American-Canadian actor who has portrayed several different roles in his time, once proclaimed that “darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos.” Fraser’s statement reveals that in order to reach redemption, one must face darkness in his/her life. Though darkness can be hard to conquer, one can make the conscious decision to overcome it by venturing on a chaos filled journey that will ultimately pave the path to redemption. This is the case in…

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…

The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini in 2003 is a narrative, which features a young Afghani boy named Amir and his personal struggles of impressing his father to deciding what is right and wrong in life and how to treat his best friend, who is also his servant. The novel deals with many personal tragic events and the events occurring in Afghanistan during the 1970-1980s, which includes the Soviet intervention, thousands of refugees escaping and the Taliban rule of Afghanistan. Khaled…

The Kite Runner Written Analysis In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, the plot is constructed in a circular structure. Through circular structure, Hosseini accentuates characters’ development. The circular structure facilitates the parallelism between Amir and Hassan’s relationship and Amir and Sohrab’s relationship. As a child, Amir struggles with internal conflict between treating Hassan as an equal or as an inferior. The last time they flew kites together Hassan turns to Amir and…

What would one expect to be the feelings of a man who was born and raised in Mumbai, but travelled the world during his child- and adulthood? A man who has lived in London, New Delhi, New York and Hong Kong? It are the feelings of just a common man that Dom Moraes - an Indian poet - portrays in his poem ‘Sinbad’. An analysis of the poem reveals that through the apostrophe which addresses ‘Sinbad’ and formal characteristics such as rhythm, free verse and punctuation, the reader gets an impression…

We all make mistakes in our lives. Some of them are more forgivable than others. The novel, The Kite Runner revolves around the main characters, Amir and Hassan, their childhood, and the incident that vastly changed the course of their lives. The author, Khaled Hosseini, develops the idea or theme of forgiveness through the characters of Soraya, Baba, Hassan, and Amir. Forgiveness is something that can bring the forgiver peace of mind and free him or her from anger that can repair one’s…

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…