~BooK R3sPonCe~

This is basically a brief explanation of Amir's actions and ways of resolving his conflict in my own opinion. This has to do with mostly why Amir decided to choose the path and solution that he had at the end of the book.

I agree 100% with the following quotes/selected passages, it gives off specific detail about how I felt throughout the last blog posts and up to my last analyzation of the book.

"Amir's strong desire to impress his father is the main motivation for his behavior early in the novel, and it is the main reason he allows Hassan to get raped. From that point forward, he was driven by his feelings of guilt as he searches for a way to make up for everything he has done. He does so through courage and self-sacrifice, and he tells his story as a form of penance. "

What I find through this Quotation/analyzed passage happens to be a sequence of events that all occurred in oder. Not only do I find that Amir had done what he did out of courage and motivation. I find that Amir was the true lost one within the life he had.

"Amir describes Sohrab as looking like a sacrificial lamb during his confrontation with Assef, but it is actually himself that Amir courageously sacrifices. In doing this, as Hassan once did for him, Amir redeems himself, which is why he feels relief even as Assef beats him. Amir also comes to see Sohrab as a substitute for the child he and Soraya cannot have, and as a self-sacrificing father figure to Sohrab, Amir assumes the roles of Baba and Hassan."

After understanding, and taking in Amir final decision as his own and his way of making up for what had been done; I began to see a different perspective on Amir and his selfish choices only as the act of a child and one in desire of too much attention. At first look Amir had no future and no point within the story, and thinking of how he had thoughts of not saving Sohrab even though he owed it to Hassan for his foolishness. I find it acceptable to say that Amir is clear of doubt and shame, and he has earned the relief of his guilty feelings and actions.

Sources:

http://www.sparknotes.com/the-kite-runner/characters.html

Facebook; Harmful or Not?

The main point of my post here is a response/argument against Stan's Re:Facebook Post about how Facebook can (sometimes) be truly addicting. My response post here is to rebuttal against Stan's thoughts and ideas towards what the power and effect of the social network facebook has towards people in general, and people of ASTI.

"Facebook is the most addicting thing that I can think of."
"I agree with this statement completely. If I'm writing an essay on the computer then several times ill say to myself "oh well I'm just going to check really quick." Then 40 minutes later I see that I am on facebook talking to random people or maybe I have seen a link on facebook and now I am looking at more video's on you tube or something related. Another case is that I am upstairs doing my math and I'll say to myself oh my parents won't mind if I check facebook really quick. Then 30 min later again i will find my self conversating. I think that I need to just not go on facebook for about 2-3 weeks so that I become less addicted to it. But what I don't understand is how can a program that is actually quite uninteresting is so addictive."

First off, I would like to clear up on how I agree with Stan on the most part. However, where our ideas come apart is the part where he describes facebook as now-and-days overall truly addicting. For one, yes I will admit if I would be doing any homework on the computer, I would for one, ”say to myself "oh well I'm just going to check really quick." Then 40 minutes later I see that I am on facebook talking to random people or maybe I have seen a link on facebook and now I am looking at more video's on you tube or something related.” Although I tend to find facebook honestly helpful when it some times comes down to not understanding, or forgetting a homework assignment. I will admit, in the begging of the year facebook had been a certain type of study hall for me and several students that formed some homework/study group. Towards the end of the first semester (and mostly now). This is mostly due to the point of were facebook has become more interesting. I tend to have more friends who would go on now, so it wouldn't be an-hour-a-day thing, it would result to being and over 3 hour a day process, where no homework is down. I agree one hundred percent with Mr. Sutherland's idea/theory, where the amount of homework we achieve wouldn't be so high in hours, if we were to do homework if a certain amount of hours straight with no breaks (especially facebook).

Free post: My Spiritual Awakening??? Part 1

Instead, my father had a story in mind. One of his personal favorites in-fact. My dads stories always happened to start off with the settings building the suspicion. He began, “The Woods was dark and always cold, there were stone ruins once called home to Muslim freedom fighters during the time of the Roman empire conquest over almost all of Asia including Syria, that means our home country.” He continued, “when I was about 13, me and a couple of friends would always go to a hang out spot on weekends.”

“Our favorite hang spot just happened to be the abandoned ruins and Woods, where we use to hunt down birds with slingshots. Ali your uncle, he had been truly the craziest hunter and most skilled with his deadly slingshot.” I assumed that's what had made my Ali my fathers best friend and cousin. My father had then told me about how one day, Ali dared the boys to go out to the woods and abandoned ruins as night. Than father described houses broken, ruins where people once lived. He went into great detail on how the windows were sealed in with rocks and blocks, and how inside nothing could be seen because it appeared to have been entirely pitch black. My father told me how he and Ali walked in the front of their little crew. My father noticed Ali start to run, so he followed and stayed right behind him, with my fathers first step, Ali was already ten steps ahead.

Ali remained confident and barged in the abandoned ruin house. My father described how he managed to have stopped himself after Ali faded away into the dark house. My father slowly approached the door, and suddenly heard Ali let out a cry so loud, that my dad had fell back from being so surprised. “Hand me a flashlight”, he described in a panic voice. After shinning the light in the abandoned house, my father didn't see Ali anywhere. Then he happened to have noticed that on the ground within the house, was a large hole that was big enough for even a sheep to have fallen through. My father and the boy's simply assumed that Ali had fallen into the hole and could still be okay. He continued, “I shined the light down at the hole, I noticed Ali was down there and okay.” My father Changed his voice and said, “Ali kept in contact while he was down in the hole, until he suddenly stopped his talking and not a word was echoed from where he had been,” he pleaded. I assumed the next part of the story appeared to be my father's personal favorite part. Out of no where, my father smiling said, “Ali had came from around the house and rejoined the group, Ali told my father and his friends about how he had saw “The Prophet Muhammad.” “Ali bragged about being chosen and how he had an important duty,” my father joked, yet remained focus with a serious impression.

~Responce 2 book~

Looking back at my earlier post, my opinions and the way I see Amir as not only a person but as a friend an kind person toward the world has changed a lot in reading the last section.

"What had jumped out on me while reading the first couple of chapters of this story were my impressions towards the characters in the story, and the impressions the characters had upon themselves and each other. To start it off, what mostly caught my attention through this section of the book was the so called “relationship between Amir and Hassan. The first question that comes to mind is. “Did Amir even care about Hassan in terms of being friends or just kids who grew up together.'? Or did he just see him as an outsider and treated him like dirt because of popularity and terms of fitting in. At the begging of the story it seems that Amir respected Hassan as he was an adult, but as a child he tried his hardest to not get into a serious friendship with Hassan. Leaving Hassan to struggle and fight on his own in times when Hassan needed Amir the most. On the other hand, Hassan stuck up for Amir when in trouble and in need of help."

Reflecting on my words, i noticed that Amir has showed his guilty feeling through out his tough times dealing with the deaths of his friends and beloved ones. After loosing so many of his loved ones, he takes a risk of leaving the women he loves (knowing that almost everyone else in his life is dieing) just to go visit an ill friend, Rahim Khan.

After realizing who Hassan really was, it made Amir feel like his father was a sinner, a thief that lies. On the impressions of Amir, Baba's sins seemed to relief him of his own actions. After hearing the story about Hassan's death, Amir after deep thinking and thoughts of greed, but covered up with guilt; takes matters into his hands by heading over to a Orphanage.

This quote explains Amir's realization of guilt, and how he dealt with it. To me it also shows how Amir type of character can ignore most tragedies in his life. For example, Amir felt ashamed about letting Hassan down by not rescuing him, yet the way he faced his problem was by isolating Hassan from

“That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.”

~Responce 2 book~

Development Or

Begging:

I come from an universe unique and never there to be seen. Best part about that is it shows the Earths true colors are among with my favorite colors. They say most of the Earth is made out of water, and I say the way I drink it's water it might as well be made out of me. My hair consists with a trendiness amount of deep color. However, that not being the color of blue,night, and green like the Earth's center and even the mighty “Crust”! The dreams that come out from beneath me seem to conquer most lies when perhaps bluffing. Traveling has always been my theme; however, it never seemed like traveling suit out to be my most major or popular thing. The extra particular material of my body is not a relative term. It's not even a proper adjective. Perhaps it is just the material accumulated in my body from consuming those extra calories. I don't own my own car or maybe you can say I already may have, but not that soon? Although, I somehow have this car I am still not in the age of properly driving this “jeep”. Perhaps up in maybe 2 more years I'll most likely be past my permit and holding onto my drivers license. It may seem to look like I love to wear all these colorful colors, although I am highly seen with blue jeans and black sweaters. Can you guess who am I?

Modern:

Whats Makes America ...America

Being a recommended post, i looked into Kathy's post about oil and why its a problem.

“Oil: this is what America uses to power most of its machines and it is also what caused a war. After the prosperity of the 50’s and the civil rights conflicts of the 60’s, another problem struck the U.S. Hostility flared between America and Middle Eastern countries over decreasing the supply of oil . In October 1973 a shocking decision made by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries lead to chaos in the political and economical world, and shook up millions of lives in America, thus leading to today’s war between Iraq and America over the oil export limitations.”

So oil, thats your answer to what makes our technology tick. Well i can't agree with you Kathy, nor can i disagree. A huge issue is what i heard out of the mouth of a contributer. I say it's all a bunch of crap. Wiping out thousands of men, women, and children isn't a problem to any humans these days. It seems like Oil happens to be what America wants, however the "cause" of going there in the begging was to stop a possible terrorist threat towards the people of both America and the other country's we claimed were in trouble. Yet it seems we caused more harm to the other people (even the innocent ones). I find it funny how most of the fundings and taxes have been influencing wars instead of stopping them. We blame Bush, however i don't think only one man is responsible for what has been done.

“Today the fight still remains but has shifted toward the territory where the oil lies, in Iraq. Iraq is one of the top oil producers in OPEC. So, America is trying to reach their oil, as if it is a competition. In the U.S. oil is very important and is used for mainly things such as planes, produce, machinery, and many others. It was recorded that 20,680,000 barrels were used in a day in America which is about 13,000,000 more than any other oil consumers . Oil is a profitable good and is extremely useful but the simplest attempt at a change in energy use, or even dependency could have brought us out of fighting many years ago. This fighting has caused enough casualties and even has had Americans held hostage in war. To prevent the further conflict alternative sources of dependent energy would solve many of our foreign oil conflicts.“

~B00K R3sPonCe~

As finishing up the given section of the Story “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini the responses and questions that came to mind were solid ideas that sent me in a curious mood, wanting to read on and ask further and deeper questions.

“The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini was published in 2003. The Kite Runner is the story of strained family relationships between a father and a son, and between two brothers, how they deal with guilt and forgiveness, and how they weather the political and social transformations of Afghanistan from the 1970s to 2001.“

http://www.enotes.com/kite-runner

What had jumped out on me while reading the first couple of chapters of this story were my impressions towards the characters in the story, and the impressions the characters had upon themselves and each other. To start it off, what mostly caught my attention through this section of the book was the so called “relationship between Amir and Hassan. The first question that comes to mind is. “Did Amir even care about Hassan in terms of being friends or just kids who grew up together.'? Or did he just see him as an outsider and treated him like dirt because of popularity and terms of fitting in. At the begging of the story it seems that Amir respected Hassan as he was an adult, but as a child he tried his hardest to not get into a serious friendship with Hassan. Leaving Hassan to struggle and fight on his own in times when Hassan needed Amir the most. On the other hand, Hassan stuck up for Amir when in trouble and in need of help.

After getting around the end of the check point, I started to notice the changes in Amir's behavior and the way he began to blame Hassan for his mistakes. As if it was always Hassan's fault for the way he was treated and blamed. As a result, if Amir was mad he wouldn't blame anyone but Hassan. If he felt that his father didn't except him for any apparent reason, he seemed to always get jealous and result in harming another or trying to eliminate and competition (although Hassan had never been a threat.) The main question that always leads from this point is gonna always be the same. “Why”? Why doesn't Hassan give up his loyalty to Amir. He got set-up for stealing Amir's birthday gifts and understood it was a result of what Amir had done to him. Yet he still didn't confront Amir for his behavior and lies. He only agrees that he was the one that stole Amir's gifts. Over all that has happened why didn't Hassan take the final move towards Amir?