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The Kite Runner Chapters 18-22
3.I dont read books by choice ever and i thought this would be another boring book...I was wrong. The book has suprisingly kept my attention and i am enjoying reading it. The book has an awsome storyline.
Hassan is the most honest and kindest person i have ever read about. He would do anything for Amir who in the beginning i did not like.amir just watched hassan have his dignity and power taken from him and all for a kite...whats up with that?I began to like Amir more towards chapter 8 and 9.then skipping along some,it ends up Amir and hassan were brothers...didnt see that coming.
The book gives me a different perception of the world because it shows you how horrible things are like when hassan and his wife were murdered or how hard it is to make a living if you are not one of the few who are very wealthy. Also when they moved to america, Baba had to get a normal pay job and were just barely getting by.

The Kite Runner Chapters 18-22
1. Human rights are basically the how we as people can act with out going against the law. Everyone should have human rights; people can't take someone’s rights away from them that’s unconstitutional. Every human should have the right to have free speech. If someone took the life of another, than you should be able to deny someone’s human rights.

2. Amir’s altercation is something that I didn’t think would happen, I was completely shocked at how he has changed from his childhood, and Amir doesn’t seem like the person to do such a thing as heroic as this. It showed that Amir isn’t a coward anymore, and showed the he has grown out of letting other’s take the blame for his actions.

3. My personal experience while reading this book is that I got a taste of the real Middle East, which I thought was mostly stereotypes. At first I thought Amir was a good kid, he comforted his friend and everything that a good kid would, but then he just lost all of my trust later in the book.

The Kite Runner Chapters 18-22
1.)Human rights are the right that every human is born with, for instance the right to breathe and the right to happiness and the right to say how they feel and exspress those feelings in a reasonible manner. although, i do beleive in human rights i feel as though if a bad crime is committed by a person they could loose some of those human rights, like their right to freedom and to their right to express how they feel freely.
2.)i beleive that for once in Amir's life he felt like he had no other choice but to face his fears. if Amir would not have found out that him and Hassan were brothers i do not beleive that he would stepped up to the plate and went after Sohrab (Hassans son, Amirs nephew). I do beleive that this new altrication put a new twist on the story because it shows how much amir has matured, for a little defenseless boy to a man who is now goin back to the country that him and his father had once ran from.
3.) This book is a wonderful example to me of how there are people out there that have it worse than us. Our problems that may seem huge, in comparison to this book are so insignificant. Being that the book is in Amirs perspective it's hard to really see the situations in this book through anyone elses eyes. but i do feel bad for Hassan knowing that he could have had a better life if only he would have been "Baba's son" through his whole life time and maybe that would have spared him his life. and Baba must have always known that Hassan would have had a better life and if he would have taken Hassan with him and Amir to America he would still be alive and living well. Also like Birdyshaw said i didnt really like amir in the begining of the book but now im starting to see maybe he has alway had it in him to take up for him self he just never had a good reason to until now....

The Kite Runner Chapters 18-22
2. When Amir was a kid he would run away from his problems or get Hassan to deal with them, but now he is going and solving all the Challenges he will face.

The Kite Runner Chapters 18-22
3. The book shows a view of Pakistan that is unseen. The book also shows how the country and its living conditions has changed over almost 30 years. When I read the book I felt that I could predict the characters actions and the way they would take certain situations.

The Kite Runner Chapters 18-22
2. when Amir was a kid he would run away from his problems or get Hassan to deal with them, but now he is going and sovling all the Challenges he will face.

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Siddhartha by Hermann HesseSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse was born into a Christian missionary family on July 2nd 1877 in Wurttemberg Germany. Hesse grew up with Christianity surrounding him in every way. After finishing school, he moved on to theological seminary. Through his adulthood, he shocked many who knew him by rebelling against his parents and the beliefs he had been taught since birth. He spent an abundance of time moving between schools and through institutions after an attempted suicide. After his long journey through attaining an education, he began working in a mechanic apprenticeship in a clock tower. The solitude that came with this job gave Hesse the opportunity to reinstall faith in his life. He found the stillness of working in the clock tower a key place for reflection and meditation. Because of his refreshed interest in religion, Hesse sought a new profession in which he could express this curiosity. He began another apprenticeship with a book seller in 1895. The bookstore was called Heckenhauer, which specialized in theology, philology and law. It was here that he began reading and intensely studying theological writing, texts on Greek mythology and Gothe, Lessing and Schiller. Gothe, Lessing and Schiller wrote within about philosophies through poems, plays and critiques.
By this time, he had begun writing his own ideas and publishing them. He focused his studies on works written by German poets such as Clemens Brentano, Friedrich Holderlin, Joseph Greiherr von Eichendorff and Novalis.
The first novel that Herman Hesse went public with was called Peter Camenzind. Because of the sheer success that this novel experienced, he was able to continue his career life as an author.
In 1911, Hermann Hesse took an extended trip to Sri Lanka and Indonesia. By taking this trip, Hesse’s new interest in Buddhism was emphasized. The novel Siddhartha provides t {hermann_hesse.jpg} hermann_hesse.jpghe reader with a boy name Siddhartha’s spiritual journey during the time of Buddha. Siddhartha was written in 1922. The name comes from two Sanskrit words, siddha, which means achieved, and artha meaning wealth. When these two terms come together, the phrase translates to “He who has attained his goals.” One of the main reasons Hesse wrote this novel was to cure the sins he had in his life. By announcing the sin that was present in his life, and writing about worshipping Buddah, he was cleansing himself. The first half of the book was easy for Herman Hesse to write because he was writing of things that he had learned through learning and becoming Buddhist. On the other hand, the second half of his book was going to focus on things the he had not yet experienced, so he felt that he could not write about something he didn’t fully understand. In order to have the spiritual experiences that he felt he needed, Hermann Hesse exiled himself and immersed himself in completely in the Hindu and Buddhist teachings. {great_buddha_statue.jpg} great_buddha_statue.jpg
The novel is written on the “three stages of life” of the traditional Indian philosophy, student (brahmacarin), householder (grihastha) and recluse (vanaprastha). Also, the novel’s themes are the four noble truths as well as the eight-fold path.
The Four Noble Truths are:
1. Suffering is universal and inevitable.
2. The cause of the sufferings of life is desire and our bad deeds, karma.
3. The end of desire leads to the end of suffering.
4. The way to end desire, and hence to end suffering, is to follow the righteous eight-fold path and discover the divine truth is inherent in all of us.
The Eight-fold path includes:
1. Right View
2. Right Intention
3. Right Speech
4. Right Action
5. Right Livelihood
6. Right Effort
7. Right Mindfulness
8. Right Concentration
Siddhartha the Musical.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXX8yzzDKw8&feature=related
Let's go to this site together!
http://www.thebigview.com/buddhism/eightfoldpath.html#Right_View
"The art of Buddhism; an introduction to its history and meaning.(Brief article)(Book review)." Reference & Research Book News (2009). General OneFile. Web. 5 Nov. 2009. <http://find.galegroup.com/gps/start.do?prodId=IPS&userGroupName=va_p_freder_a>.
Frenz, Horst. "Hermann Hesse The Nobel Prize in Literature 1946." Http:nobelprize.org/. NobleFoundation. Web. 4 Nov. 2009. <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1946/hesse-autobio.html>.
"Hermann Hesse." Wikipedia.com. Wikimedia. Web. 3 Nov. 2009. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hesse>.
Hermann Hesee. Photograph. Http:poetry4u.net. Web. 5 Nov. 2009. <http://poetry4u.net/xe/files/attach/images/65/558/001/hermann_hesse.jpg>.
The Great Buddha Statue. Photograph. Http:www.great-buddha-statue.com//. Web. 4 Nov. 2009. <http://www.great-buddha-statue.com/great_buddha_statue.jpg>.

"Speak : First Semester"
What passage, scene, dialogue especially impressed or provoked you? What "lasting" images stayed with you after you finished this semester?
How does this 'speak' to you?

"Speak : First Semester"
What passage, scene, dialogue especially impressed or provoked you? What "lasting" images stayed with you after you finished this semester?
How does this 'speak' to you?