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Kayla, Rob, Jeremiah, Tracey, & Rebecca
2.)Soraya is the first woman to have an impact on Amir's life. Amir has never had a female in his life. He was raised by men. Soraya ends up taking care of Baba when he is sick. Soraya also tell's Amir how proud of him she is when he writes his stories. "I can't believe you can write like this," Soraya said. (172)
4)Amir is trying to redeem himself in many ways: The way he treated Baba while he was ill, his visit back to Kabul to visit Rahim Khan and how he offered so much help to him, as well as his role of a faithful husband and aspiring father.
Assignment 3: Brock, Jessica, Cassidy, Ryan
1. When he considered himself a tourist in his own country when in actuality he really was, because he wealthy childhood.
- We didn't think that they had actual houses we thought they lived in mud huts, with no cars.
2. Soraya is the only woman in the novel with a major role.
- I've always dreamed that i'd hold it in my arms and know my blood had fed it for nine months, that I'd look in its eyes one day and be startled to see you or me, that the baby would grow up and have your smile or mine. Without that...Is that wrong? (165).
3. Soraya is really the character that has done the most "unforgivable" act, having ran off with another man before marrying Amir, however with Amir having his own skelatins in his closet, forgives it and marries her anyway. Amir framed Hassan, and although he was framed, Hassan still confessed and Baba forgives him.
4. Going to see Rahim Khan in Kabul.
Assignment 3 Brandon, Kari, Kaylin, Andrea
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2. Soraya is really the only major woman character in this story. As Baba is dying, Soraya takes on the responsibility of taking care of him. (This is the motherly role).
3.Amir has betrayed Hassan in the past, but that made him more able to accept imperfections in other people. He was okay with Soraya's history, when she had went off with another man before marriage. He appreciated his father a little more perhaps. He also visited Rahim Khan in Pakistan when he told him there was a way to be good again.
Baba redeems himself for not spending time with Amir as a child by doing devoting his life to him. General Taheri softened up towards his daughter in his older years, by visiting in her classroom.
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Study Guide 3
Josh, Breanna, Brian
1.Many people have a picture in there head of Afhanistan. How they are different then American's but they are not. There are cliques just like there is here. Amir was a wealthy upper class so he was in his own class. They are poor. They are all undereducated. Many are murderers. This is not real it is a mean sterotype that needs to be corrected. Just lookin at Amir's life you know that he did not grow up poor and he was not a mean person.
2. Amir had never had a women in his life wehn Soraya comes into the story eveything changes, but it doesn't she cared for Baba and took care of them. He also read stories to Baba when she took care of him. He showed Amir a nurtering side to himself.
3.Baba didn't like the idea of Amir becoming a writer but on his death bed accepted it.
Soraya has her past which is really more culturally unfogivable but she says it not something she should have to be ashamed of.
4. Taking care of Baba when he was dying. Visisting Rahim Khan in Peshwar.
Devin, Jennifer,and Sarah
. "A little past the redbrick buildings of Peshwar University, we entered an area my garrulous driver reffered to as "Afghan Town." I saw sweetshops and carpet vendors, kabob stalls, kids with dirtcaked hands selling cigarettes, tiny restraunts- maps of Afghanistan painted on their windows- all interlaced with backstreet aid agencies" (Hosseini 196). I think that the cab driver, tried to make the Afghan's sound worst. He didnt want to say that they were made to leave their homes and sent to start fresh in a place they were not comfortable with. The cab driver also said that "Muslims have to help Muslims" (Hosseini 194). If thats the case then why would he talk so badly about them.
2. Soraya is the only womenly figure that Amir has ever known. After Baba dies, she learns to take care of Amir. Without her I think that Amir would be lost. He has never had to be on his own and with Soraya by his side he doesnt have to. She takes on the role of being the mother. "'I am so proud of you'" (Hosseini 183). Soraya says this when Amir gets his first book published.
3. Amir over and over again betrays Hassen although Hassen does nothing but be loay to Amir reaptitivily. Amir lets Hassen get rapped and then lets there friendship go with out holding on in the long run teaching him to be a better friend. Baba does not accept Amir through out childhood or his dream of being a writter bu on his death bed accepts it and they make peace. Soraya and her past of having sex with another man before marriage is "unforgivable" to the culture at the time of the story although Its fogivable to Amir as he has is own "Secret" past he marries her anyways.
4.He trys to redeem himself by taking care of Baba on his death bed. As well as viting Rahim Khan in Peshwar. He is trying to turn his selfish ways around no matter how badly he does not want to do somthing he knows the right things and does it to try and be the "good" guy i think alot of the reson behind it is still his guilt
Can you give a couple examples of clichés in the novel?
1. One important cliché: “the elephant in the room”. That is said quite a bit in the book. That is what Amir feels like when he is around Rahim Khan, because he knows that Rahim knows about what happened to Hassan. They have never spoken of it before, but now that Hassan is visiting Rahim on his death bed, he knows that it is coming out at some point.
What stereotypes or misconceptions about Afghanistan or Afghans in general has the novel cleared up for you?
1. Not really me, but I think that some people believe that everyone over there is the same. It was pretty interesting to learn that there are so many different ethnicities and backgrounds out East. And not everyone/every group get along. They have discrimination there, just as we do here.
What is Soraya’s impact on the story at this point?
1. Soraya has really been a light in Amir’s life, for a few reasons. Because of her being honest about her past to him, Amir has realized that he isn’t the only one that has made mistakes in the past, and I think that is what attracts him to her. She isn’t perfect and he isn’t either. Because he never knew his mother, she is sort of a motherly figure as well. She takes care of Baba when he sick and dying and cares for Amir as well. She accepts Amir as he is, knowing that there is something that he isn’t telling her. “But I think a big part of the reason I didn’t care about Soraya’s past was that I had one of my own. I knew all about regret.” (pg. 180)
Which characters perform acts that seem unforgiveable and in what ways do they redeem themselves?
1. Soraya has her past, which in today’s culture is very normal, but at that time and in that culture, were unforgiveable. She has, in a way redeemed herself by getting married. As she states, her and her family thought that after doing what she had done, no one would ever want to marry her. Her family feels very blessed that she is getting married to a decent man. “She smiled and took my hand. ‘I’m so lucky to have found you. You’re so different from every Afghan guy I’ve met.’”.
2. Amir, of course, has done something unforgiveable. But I don’t feel that he has fully redeemed himself yet. He is definitely on his way, by going out East. But I feel that by the end of the book he will. He really wants to let go of the past and make everything good again.
What moments, scenes or passages might be constructed as steps towards redemption for Amir?
1. I think a big step for Amir is going out East to see Rahim Khan. That is big because I think Amir knows that when he goes out there he will have to face his past. But Amir feels ready for anything, I think he is just sick of not being completely happy in life.
Jeremiah
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