The Maze Runner

Between rape, murder, the Taliban, and a strained father-son relationship, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is an emotional rollercoaster with many lessons to discover. The lessons I have gained from this novel is that politics and society should not affect our relationships, rape needs to be more of an open topic, and there is always redemption for those who search for it. Politics and society can affect how we interact with each other. In Afghanistan there are two major ethnic groups: the…

For this personal response I will be speaking about Amir from The Kite Runner. This character from the very begin is a complex charter, he has many endearing qualities such as caring for his friend, and excelling in school, but his draw backs show I side to him that is much different his jealousy of his friend Hassan and the attention he get from his father is overpowering and causes him to make many decisions that affect his friends happiness out of selfishness and jealousy for his own…

The book Stormbreaker, written by Anthony Horowitz is a great book. Stormbreaker is about a 14 year old boy, Alex Rider, who gets recruited into the spy business after his uncle, who was a spy, dies. He is sent to a millionaire's home and manufacturing plant to check a few things out for M16. The setting of the story is in London, England, where M16 is stationed. This affects the main character because he is headed to look over something at Port Talon and at the end of the book he has to find a…

In the Anthropocene we are met with an imminent realization that climate change will alter the current way of life as we know it today. Coming to terms with this knowledge is never easy and artist from around the world have contributed their views and ideas on what the future may potentially be. Cormac McCarthy brings us into a world that has been morphed by an unknown catastrophe. This story follows a classic McCarthy structure by being as vague as possible with the names of the characters and…

robot’s humanity. Ex Machina, directed by Alex Garland, depicts this deceit when Ava seduces Caleb into helping her escape. By manipulating Caleb, Ava exhibits mature thought and surpasses human mental capabilities. In addition, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner exhibits how replicants possess similar intelligence to that of humans; the replicants mirror human behavior closely enough that only the “Voight-Kampff” test can discern replicants from humans. By paralleling human’s rationality, robots prove…

Family and friends would have never guessed that the kid who they once knew, with a bright future ahead of him and a role model to many, would be the prime suspect to acts of terrorisms against America. To his family and friends, he seamlessly hid the real pain that he was going through, starting with the divorce of his parents, causing his father to return to Russia and making his older brother Tamerlan to become the head of the house. Under all the pain and influences around him, a monster was…

The DC flick Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice displayed a completely new Lex Luthor, who may seem to be an eccentric genius but actually turns out to be a sociopath hell-bent on destroying Henry Cavill’s Man of Steel as well as Ben Affleck’s Caped Crusader. Luckily, Jesse Eisenberg’s character has been arrested in the film and is currently facing jail time. However, his company LexCorp Industries is officially washing their hands of Luthor by issuing a statement on Instagram! The official…

Susan Carland sends $1 to the United Nations Children's Fund for every hate tweet she receives Carland, 34, says she is getting so many hateful messages from anti-Islamic people She says Koran guided her on 'how to turn tweets from trolls into a force for good' Koran guided me on how to turn tweets from trolls into a force for good, said a Muslim woman who donates $1 to United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for every hate tweet she receives. "As a Muslim woman, people from many different…

Good Morning, Today I would like to talk to you about relationships in In the very first chapter Raphael tells the reader, “I am a trash boy with style.” this concludes that even though Raphael is a trash boy he is proud of it and may be a little better off in some ways compared to other boys living on the dumpsite. He is not only a boy but an important part of his family and later on in the book when Raphael is taken by the police we figure out that he is the core of his community. The people…

Jeff gets in contact in Joe only to find out that he doesn’t really keep up with his old football buddies anymore and this shocks him. Joe says it is because it’s a “pseudo-community” not a real community where friendships come out of it. It was a community because of the environment they were in they were forced to be together so from that these fake like friendships came out of it. Where they would party and hang out but it was not like a true friendship. Because of this Joe has not had any…