Sohrab, and Baba's betrayal to his friend Ali. Amir's story begins with an incident that haunted him throughout the book and this incident involved Hassan his best friend. He watched him get rapped and did nothing about it. He began thinking of one of Hassan's dreams with a monster in the lake, "There was a monster in the lake. It had grabbed Hassan by the ankles, dragged him to the murky bottom. I was that monster" (Hosseini 86). After a few years of suffering he went back to Afghanistan to
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Summary Chapter Twenty The devastation in Kabul took Amir's breath away. The buildings and streets had turned into rubble, and fatherless children begged on every street corner. When a red truck full of Talibs drove by, Amir was mesmerized by them for a minute. Farid warned him never to stand at the Talibs again, because they welcomed any chance to start a conflict. An old beggar overheard them, asked for change, and started a conversation; while chatting, he quoted a line from a poem Amir recognized
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Stephen Bentley, and his attempt to persuade a Pakistani family to send their youngest daughter to a special school because she is mentally retarded. The family in question is the Khans, an immigrant family consisting of Mr. & Mrs. Khan, their son Hassan, their daughter Shireen and two older daughters whom we do not hear anything specific about in the story. Mrs. Khan, the mother, will not realize that her daughter is not a normal girl, so she does everything she can to convince the social worker
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diverse amount of childhood experiences that have shaped him. The most massive event that shaped his character undoubtedly is cowardly scampering away while Hassan gets raped. After Hassan bolted through the city to find the second place kite, Amir soon followed likewise to find his friend, Hassan cornered. Steadfast in his loyalty to Amir, Hassan refuses to hand over the kite which leads to his eventual rape. Scared, Amir runs.
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School number: 004027 | School name: Australian International School, Vietnam | LANGUAGE A: LITERATURE | Language A studied: Vietnamese Level: SL | Examination Session: | Candidate name: Văn Duy Bảo | Candidate session number: | Part 1: Works in TranslationWorks studied (2 at SL) Please indicate the particular work on which the candidate's written assignment is based by checking the box. | Works | Author | | 1. Bếp (Kitchen) | B. Yoshimoto | | 2. Người đua diều (The Kite
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One person can affect the life of others. Who do you think is a legend? Is it someone who is a hero or exhibit super powers? Or is it someone who is infallible from making mistakes? Well, the character that was described earlier in the novel as a legend was Baba. He was seen as the most perfect figure to be looked at for its bravery, generosity and caring for others. His actions best describe him than words, as he
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BBA MERIT LIST FOR BBA(Hons) Program FALL 2012 SEMESTER Ref No Name 1 ABDUL REHMAN 2 HESHAM NAEEM 3 SUMBAL EJAZ 4 MUHAMMAD ZAIN AKRAM 6 HAMMAD SHAHID 7 AWAIS-UL-HASSAN EJAZ 8 HASHIR ALI 9 MUHAMMAD SAAD SALEEM 10 NOUMAN FARRUKH 14 FARA SHABBIR 15 MUHAMMAD AHMAD LODHI 16 WAJID TALAL 17 MOHAMMAD SHAKIR KHAN 19 MOHSIN RIAZ 24 MAAZ NAZAR 25 MUHAMMAD SALMAN KHAN 27 ALI MAQSOOD 28 SEHBA FAYYAZ 30 SANA YAHYA 31 MUHAMMAD KAMRAN MANZOOR 32 HAFIZ JHANZAB ANJUM 33 ASLAM IRSHAD 34 MUHAMMAD
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can alert any conscious citizen in the world against immorality. He presents Amir and Hassan as representatives of the Afghan children through these characters Hosseini identifies thousands of Afghan children’s terrible sufferings. Amir, the narrator of The Kite Runner, is the son of a rich businessperson in Kabul. He is a Poshtun boy as well as Sunni Muslim and his best friend is of their servant’s son Hassan who is a Hazara from an ethnic minority. The novel reveals the cruelty and violence prevalent
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instill and maintain unwavering commitment intheir members by using a set of psychological tools that are called mind control. Ruinous mind control can be conceptualized in terms of four primary components, which together form the acronym B.I.T.E. (Hassan 1): a) Behavior Control b) Information Control c) Thought Control d) Emotional Control
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development of resilience in Karim, Hassan, and Hopper. This development took place in Karim’s experiences in a conflict zone, Hassan’s endurance, and Hopper’s losses. Karim’s experiences and endurance in Ramallah under Israeli occupation has led to his development of resilience. Karim, being the main character, has endured many events and Israeli actions, which in turn has developed resilience in him. One such event was the embarrassment of his father, Hassan Aboudi, and other Palestinians by the
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