I generated many descriptive and juicy and some weak connections, many were text-to-self due to how much this book relates to me. Let me begin by bestowing my text-to-self connection, the majority of these are very deep and emotional. One text-to-self connection I made was Nadira’s parents and my parents. They both left a country because it was not safe, my parents left Lebanon due to its tragic circumstances at the time and Nadira’s parents left pakistan since it was at war. My parents retreated leaving their parents,relatives, and friends, they did not abandon everything just for safety, it was for the a better future and education. Lebanon does not have a major industry for jobs, the majority of people were cashiers, construction workers, …show more content…
engineers, and a rare group were doctors. They did not want their children to grow up and have a small choice of occupations, they wanted their children to follow their dreams. Much like my parents, Nadira’s parents evacuated pakistan so that their kids could have a very successful jobs. Another personal text-to-self connection I established was Me and Nadira, we both are the least focused on in our families. My parents always focus on my older brother since he is in university, They treat me like i'm just a average kid but I know when I am in university they will consider me a prodigy. Like me, Nadira is evaluated very poorly compared to Aisha due to her extravagant grades. Their parents focal point is getting Aisha accepted by the best university in America or Canada. I always dreamed of becoming a director and actor but my friends and family tell me that it's foolish and stupid, every time somebody says that it motivates me even more to conquer my passion. To this day I work hours on end trying to get higher grades than before, I save up every dime I can find so that I can buy a camera and star in a movie. Nadira does the same thing when Aisha and her parents bring her down by telling her she will never succeed and her dreams are useless, Nadira ignores them and works even harder so that one day she can shove in their face. Thats enough of my personal feelings, let me now explain my text-to-world connections. One connection I made was about Nadira’s dad and Malala, they both are going through various rigorous quests for the future of education. Nadira’s dad immigrated to America from Pakistan illegally just so his daughter's could have a better education, he later tried to apply to Canada but it was a failure and left him in jail. Malala wrote a blog about girl schools in Pakistan and her experience, she later got shot by the Taliban for standing for girls education, even after that she still makes speeches about girls education. Another text-to-world connection I created was FouseyTube and Nadira. You might be wondering who FouseyTube or Yousef Erakat is, Fouseytube youtuber and actor who dealt with countless struggles to get to where he is today. All of his siblings became doctors and lawyers while little old yousef had a big dream of becoming an actor, his parents were not thrilled with the idea due to his culture and what the media accepts these days. Ignoring what his parents said, he became a full time actor, he soon realized that nobody wanted to hire a muslim guy into a hollywood movie.
He then became a youtuber for 6 years and moved to Los Angeles, After numerous additions he finally got a role in a movie called Boo! A Madea Halloween. Nadira is unquestionably similar, she comes from the same culture, her sister wants to become a doctor or lawyer like Yousef’s siblings, and both their parents did not believe in them at first. My last text-to-world connections is focused around North Korean citizens not being able to leave their country. Countless koreans and still risk their lives to leave the country because of how dangerous and putrid the environment is. Much like the Koreans, Nadira and her family left Pakistan due to the harsh treatment and poor education. Also in both their situations it's some what illegal, for Nadira’s family it's illegal because they immigrated to America without valid passports or registration and for the Koreans it's illegal to leave the country whatsoever. Now, allow me to bestow my text-to-text connections. My only text-to-text connection I invented was about the book called The Room, The Room is a book about a girl who got kidnapped at the age of 12 and was held in
room. The kidnapper feed her and took care of her for 10 years, along those years he raped her countless times causing her to have a kid. The girl tried her best to hide him from seeing the kidnapper, unfortunately he eventually saw his forced father. This book relates to Ask Me No Questions in a couple ways, many of the reasons are short and self explanatory. When Nadira’s father was hiding his family from the police for several years it was like when the girl was hiding her child from the kidnapper. Nadira’s family going to get kicked back to Pakistan like it's some sort of jail,The girl is literally locked in a room and never allowed to leave like Nadira’s family. These are all the personally and somewhat motivational connections I generated, hopefully you enjoyed and I can't wait to make my next book report.
This book teaches the importance of self-expression and independence. If we did not have these necessities, then life would be like those in this novel. Empty, redundant, and fearful of what is going on. The quotes above show how different life can be without our basic freedoms. This novel was very interesting and it shows, no matter how dismal a situation is, there is always a way out if you never give up, even if you have to do it alone.
They always say to never judge a book by its cover, but my first impression I got when I looked at this book was that people gathered around a bus waiting for their family members to get off. After reading The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang I then realized that the people on the cover weren't just waiting around for their family but finding their loved ones they once lost. When I first started reading this book I was a little nervous because I never read that many books and I feel that the reason why I don’t is because not many books stand out to me. In school I would have to read books for the class or for a book report but get bored or my attention couldn’t stay focused. Just a few pages into this book and I seemed interested in what was
In conclusion, there is a numerous amount of themes in the book, A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah. These themes, along with other morals shown in the book, can be learned by the books readers, and Ishmael problems can relate to other people’s problems, which can help them get through the struggles they are having in today’s
Many times when reading a novel, the reader connects with one of the characters and begins to sympathize with them. This could be because the reader understands what the character is going through or because we get to see things from the character’s perspective and their emotions and that in return allows a bond to form for the reader. The character that is the most intriguing for me and the one I found comparing to every book that I read during school was Stacey from the book “Ravensong” Lee Maracle. The character Stacey goes through a lot of internal battle with herself and it’s on her path to discovery that she begins to understand herself and what she’s capable of. Throughout the novel, Stacey has a few issues she tries to work through. This is emphasized through her village and in her school that is located across the bridge in white town. Stacey begins dealing with the loss of Nora, and elder in her town. And this in return begins the chain of events that Stacey begins on the path of self-discovery not only on herself but everyone around her. She begins to see things differently and clearly. Stacey is a very complex and confused character, and she begins to work through these complexities through her thoughts, statements and actions.
The author targets the emotions of parents who are forced to think about losing their children as result of the war. Moreover, readers are overcome with sadness due to their emotional bond established with the character in the previous chapters. The passage relates to the author’s purpose in that particular chapter by providing a window into the hours after the Khost tragedy.
The type of narration, the plot’s rising action, and the overall imprint that is left on the reader, pushes this book above and beyond. Whaley creates a picture for the reader by using third- person omniscient point of view. This method helps the reader better understand the main characters. The rising action development was extremely easy to follow. The descriptions of the characters and the background information helps explained how the story was laid out. Also, the author seemed like he wanted the reader to realize the purpose of the three-way friendship. It represented how a relationship allows everyone to learn from their flaws and unwarranted decisions from other’s reactions. This book is truly unique, from the composure to the character’s
Firstly, I liked the way in which the author uses his experiences to relate ...
Overall, Khaled Hosseini wrote a story, based on experiences from his own life and the history of Afghanistan from the turn of the 20th century until present day. He added the universal human theme of being good again, allowing this book and these characters to appeal to readers everywhere. He also crafted one of the most successful and popular novels in the Afghan American genre. Looking at the The Kite Runner from the outside in, or from the perspective of the author’s life and Afghanistan’s past, it is easy to see that Hosseini manages to open the eyes of the Western reader. A person on this side of the International Date Line is forced to reconsider their general perspective and beliefs about Muslims and Afghanistan after picking up The Kite Runner.
In the story the most important character is Lesley. Lesley is a spoiled, pretty, Jewish, fourteen year old living in Canada. As the story progresses we see Lesley change to a caring and mature person by overcoming the differences in her new life. Two other important characters are Nat Shelby and Mustapha. Lesley’s father, Nat Shelby is the person who decided the family needed to live in Israel. Mr. Shelby decides he doesn’t want his daughter growing up as a spoiled uncaring princess. Mustapha, other important character, is an Arab boy who Lesley watches abuse his donkey across the Jordan River. All the Jews are not supposed to hate Arabs, but Lesley however comes in contact with Mustapha by the river and talks to him as a person not as an enemy. Mustapha made Lesley a more understanding person towards different kinds of people. The character I would most admire is Lesley for her ability to adapt to a new home, country and way of life.
No one knows what will happen in his or her life whether it is a trivial family dispute or a civil war. Ishmael Beah and Mariatu Kamara are both child victims of war with extremely different life stories. Both of them are authors who have written about their first-hand experience of the truth of the war in order to voice out to the world to be aware of what is happening. Beah wrote A Long Way Gone while Kamara wrote The Bite of the Mango. However, their autobiographies give different information to their readers because of different points of view. Since the overall story of Ishmael Beah includes many psychological and physical aspects of war, his book is more influential and informative to the world than Kamara’s book.
Everybody wants to escape from reality, but people are bound by the laws of society, social status and financial problems. The main characters of “Araby” and “Eveline” experience
Going through this, seeing the way other Syrians treated me and how they tortured me without any pity, looking at their faces which seemed to be as cold as ice, made me feel as if I was a stranger in my own country. As I stayed longer in captivity, the feeling of being a stranger grew inside me. I was being slowly detached from the place I’m in, from my country. And by time it wasn’t only the kidnappers that thought of me as a stranger, but I myself recognized that I was too. Everything seemed odd: the walls, the land, even the sound of language the people spoke was eccentric to me. Reading Ahmed Mohsen’s article all of those feelings directly arose to me. For Ahmed downtown Beirut seemed a strange
Mohsin Hamid is a Pakistani writer and self-confessed “transcontinental mongrel”. Born in 1971 in Lahore, Hamid shifted to the United States at the age of eighteen. He attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School and worked briefly as a management consultant in New York. After living in London for a few tears, he moved back to Pakistan and currently lives in Lahore with his wife and daughter.
One’s sense of self is a reflection of those with whom the most time is spent. Both positive and negative relationships determine aspects of identity. Family relationships can often be the most complicated, Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner tells a story about a difficult father-son relationship between Amir, the protagonist, and his father Baba. “I let myself dream: I imagined conversation and laughter over dinner instead of silence broken only by the clinking of silverware and the occasional grunt. I envisioned us taking a Friday drive in Baba’s car to Paghman... We’d go to the zoo to see Marjan the lion, and maybe Baba wouldn’t yawn and steal looks at his wristwatch all the time. Maybe Baba would even read one of my stories. I’d write him a hundred if I thought he’s read one.” (Hosseini, 56). Amir creates a vivid anecdote in this chapter of what his ideal relationship with Baba could be but his mind quickly returns to the realities of his life. Hosseini uses strong imagery to describe Amir’s ideal relationship with Baba and parallels it to his daily confrontations with him. Amir yearns for his father's love and attention. His lack of unity with Baba hurst his identity because he feels neglected which results in Amir’s inability to communicate his feelings and contributes to his resentment towards Hassan. Neglect is a form of abuse, although Amir was never physically hurt by his father he faced the challenges of being in a impugnment relationship. Often times people become trapped in verbal and physically abusive relationships, living in constant fear of staying or losing the ability to escape. Similarly, The Help contains a subplot between a maid, Minny, and her abusive husband Leroy.” ‘If I didn’t hit you, Minny, who knows what you’d become.’...’Who knows what I’d become if Leroy would stop goddamn hitting me’ “ (Stockett). The author inputs anaphora, the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of
In this book review I represent and analyze the three themes I found the most significant in the novel.