Ace Ali is an intelligent 18 year old who lives in Baltimore Maryland. Ace decides to drop out of high school and work at a warehouse because of his belief that the education system is flawed. After the death of his brother Ace’s mother Maria Ali became overbearing, so he decides to live on his own. At night Ace is a vigilante with plans to seek justice for his brother. Ace has a father named David who is active in his life but throughout the episode he will come off as a friend because he looks young and acts immature. Eventually Ace finds a lead on who was involved in the death of his brother and realizes that his brother was a drug dealer working for his mother Maria who is an assistant of her brother Diego Hernandez who is drug lord
The play Kamau by Alani Apio exhibits a very strong example of the dramatic difference between the ways that local and non-local people view the value of land. The main character Alika is much attached to the land that his family has lived on for years, as the land that they’ve lived on has become their undeniable home. Alika works for a tour company that takes tourists around the island and gives a brief history of things that have happened on the island. However, Alika’s boss, Jim, is employed at a company that has just bought the land that Alika and his family live on and this company plans to build a resort in place of Alika’s home. The land in question has two very different meanings to two very different people. The struggle and
Reymundo was born in Puerto Rico in 1963 in the back of a 1957 Chevy. His mother was married at age sixteen to a man that was seventy-four years of age. Reymundo’s father died when he was almost five years old, therefore he does not have much memory of the relationship that they had. Reymundo has 2 sisters with whom he did not have a relationship with, one sister would always watch out for him, but that was about it. After the death of Reymundo’s father, his mother remarried a guy named Emilio with which she had a daughter for. After Emilio, Pedro came in to the picture with his son Hector. Pedro was an illegal lottery dealer and Hector sold heroin.
Throughout Amir’s journey to absolve himself from the internal and distressing pain he has felt ever since witnessing the devastating altercation in the alley, trying to reach a standard his father, Baba, would approve of also took a toll on his childhood. Baba often speaks of how he cannot fathom the fact that Amir is a part of his bloodline. (quotes quotes quotes) Trying to achieve the perfect son status that Baba wanted Amir to be clouded his mind so greatly that, during the moment, Amir did not show compassion towards Hassan’s troubling moment of need. What matter most was retrieving the last fallen kite to his father to prove he was not a mistake that Baba made Amir believe he was. Even after Baba’s death, his actions brought more despair and uncertainty to Amir’s complicated life. The secrets and lies that were kept from Amir and even Hassan could have altered the fate of both men. (quote quote quote) Throughout the novel, Amir could arguably be considered as selfish, rude and mean toward his half-brother Hassan. However, since Baba never told the two about their true relationship Amir grew up disliking Hassan because he did not know that they shared blood. Knowing their true identities possibly could
Ace is the leader of the “bad guys” and is clearly struggling to fulfill common male stereotypes. In one scene, Ace and his buddies are racing down a street. Another car is heading straight for his but he does not move off to the side and recklessly risk his own life and the other people in the cars. Afterwards, he simply says, “I won” (Stand By Me). He is dangerously trying to be the alpha male and that strong male stereotype goal is influencing his behavior. Stand By Me also shows Ace and his friends discussing going to find the dead body. Two of his friend do not want to go and Ace does not care. He raises his voice and uses harsher language to seem to be tougher and demands they go. He is once again trying to be the alpha male by being more assertive and manly to his
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera was born on April 4, 1957 in Sinaloa, Mexico. He was born into a poor family in a rural community. His parents are Emilio Guzman Bustillos and Maria Consuelo Loera Perez. For numerous generations, his family’s legacy lived and died in La Tuna, Sinaloa. Although a number of myths about his father being an opium farmer have not been proven, he was actually a cattle rancher. Guzman has two younger sisters and four younger brothers. As a child, Guzman had a responsibility of selling oranges. In fact, he dropped out of school in the third grade to work for his father. Although his father physically abused him and treated him brutal, he stood up to his father when it came to his younger siblings for their own protection.
on helping him or not. In the end Amir was too afraid of what would happen to him so he runs away. The author states “ I could step into that alley, stand up for Hassan--the way he'd stood up for me all those times in the past--and accept whatever would happen to me. Or I could run. In the end, I ran...I ran because I was a coward. I was afraid of Assef and what he would do to me. I was afraid of getting hurt" (Hosseini). Amir's fear of what would happen to him played a major role in the story. Amir became very upset with himself and was afraid of what people would think if they knew what he did. He let his fear win his childhood friendship with Hassan and win his father's lifelong friendship with Ali.
At the beginning of the novel, Amir and Hassan were complete opposites, but as the novel progresses, it is shown how they are one in the same. When Amir was younger, he did not have the caring and faithful qualities like Hassan did, but once he was called upon to take charge of an important situation, he quickly gained those qualities. Amir overcame his past struggles to become more mature and gain those necessary qualities to live an honest life. Hassan brought out the best qualities in Amir, and their unique friendship changed Amir’s life forever.
Ace was introduced as a hard working dry cleaner employee then changes to a notorious drug dealer. Living in an urban neighborhood and having drug dealer friends Ace was always surrounded by drugs. Yet, instead of following the crowd Ace chose to make a living working at a
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go” - T.S. Elliot. When the world falls and seemingly all is lost, heros take a firm initiative to be a shining beacon in a world of darkness through expressing traits such as being open to growth, loving, and committed to doing the right thing. People like Robert Neville, Tim Foster, and Sensei Tomonaga Ijiro are heroes for expressing these exact traits in a different worlds of utter chaos. Neville shows his loving personality by risking his own life to save his dog, Sam, and welcoming Anna and Ethan despite years of isolation. Tim Foster shows his Open to Growth by getting over his parents death to fight for the future of mankind and by rapidly promoting through the
Khaled Hosseini introduced the reader to Amir as a shy, young boy who loves to read and as seen from his father Baba’s eyes he is an outcast. Baba believes so much so that Amir is an outcast of the family that he stated on the phone with Rahim Khan that “If I hadn't seen the doctor pull him out of my wife with my own eyes, I’d never believe he’s my son” which means that he would have disowned Amir if he wasn’t present at his birth.
Hassan from TKR a loyal servant of Amir always loved his boss he did not think of him as a boss but as a brother. But did this loyalty and love make him get into a wrong situation and yes it did after the kite tournament Hassan was determined to run and get Amir the winning kite but along the way he got caught by bullies which then got him into a scary rape scene. Now the only person that could help Hassan was Amir. “I stopped watching, turned away from the alley. Something warm was running down my wrist. I blinked; saw I was still biting down on my fist, hard enough to draw blood from the knuckles. I realized something else. I was weeping. From just around the corner, I could hear Asset’s quick, rhythmic grunts. I had one last chance to make a decision. One final opportunity to decide who I was going to be. I could step into that alley, stan...
Even though many many years had passed, Amir always had that day in the alley on his mind, he could always vividly see the incident and it ate away at him. He felt like he had to do something to be good again. Which is something that a good friend of Amirs father had told him. “There is a way to be good again.” This led Amir to go back to Afghanistan to rescue Sohrab, Hassans son after Hassan and the rest of his family have been murdered. Amir felt that he could make up for his betrayal by doing this, by putting his life in danger for a man that he had not seen in many, many
In conclusion, through Amir’s betrayal towards Hassan, leads to breaking the relationship with each other and also both their fathers. The strong connection between Amir and Hassan represents strong brotherhood but the consequential troubles breaks the bond. Amir’s guilt leads him to break a strong brotherly relationship with Hassan and Amir’s guilt haunts him for more than 30 years, but when he rescues and adopts Sohrab, the guilt ends and Amir redeems his past sins. Amir attempts to change what he did in his childhood and redeems it by retribution of his sins.
Two boys, Amir and Hassan, grow up together as good friends in Kabul, Afghanistan. After an eventful day at a kite competition, an incident occurs in their lives which has a lifetime effect, especially in Amir's life. A couple of years later, when communist invade Afghanistan, Amir and his father, Baba, flee to California. As Amir matures in California, he meets the love of his life. Soon after Amir's married, his father passes away.
Perseverance is key for survival because that action and thought can lead to great things. In “The Story of Keesh” and “The Life of Pi” both characters faced extreme environments that no man wants to face. Keesh and Pi use their skills to craft ideas and utilities to help them throughout their journey.