(Scene- A clean and bright room with two chairs. The Millay character sits on the left while Khaled waits behind the scenes to enter. Shirley is on the phone, whispering if she doesn’t want anyone to know that she is on the phone. She appears upset. She looks up and realizes she is on the air, and quickly puts her phone away)
Shirley. You will be sorry! (With an overly enthusiastic voice, stuttering at first) Good morning, everyone! Welcome to Good Morning America. Beautiful weather today in New York, 75 degrees Fahrenheit with 30% chance of rain - not too bright, not too stormy. Today I’m very lucky to be joined with one of the greatest writers of all time. This man wrote best selling novel The Kite Runner and has just received the Barnes and Nobles Discover Great New Writers award. Ladies and gentlemen...please welcome, Khaled Hosseini!!
(Audience cheers. KHALED enters.)
Shirley. It’s a pleasure to meet you! Thank you for being here.
Khaled Hosseini. Well, thank you for having me.
Shirley. Oh that’s no problem at all. First of all, congratulations on all the success of your new book: The Kite Runner!
Khaled. Thank you!
Shirley. Let’s talk about the book. We asked some of viewers, because everyone has a voice, to send in their opinions and questions about the book, so if you don’t mind, you could address some of them?
Khaled. Sure!
Shirley. Let’s jump right into it. @frenemie03 asks: What is the relationship between Soraya and her father?
Khaled. Soraya had an
2. What does it mean to be human? Did your concept change after reading the book?
An additional objection that I had for this book was that in some parts, it failed to narrow in on where the setting was. At some points, it would simply state an island, or maybe just a city name. As readers, we cannot be expected to know where these places are or what country they are in. As an author, she should have clarified these details better.
3. What are the best parts of this book? Why? What are the worst parts of this book? Why? Give details with page numbers from the book to explain.
Overall the book was a good read and touched on some various topics that are discussed in our class.
1. Discuss your views on this book. Did you enjoy this book or would you have wanted to read another book? Give at least 3 reasons why or why not.
I did actually really like this book. I was not sure if I was going to enjoy it when the project was first assigned, but after reading for a while, I became really interested
2) Tell me about one aspect of the book you found most troubling (i.e. an issue the author addressed, a recommendation she may have made, a particular philosophy or idea she promoted)
On May 29, 2003 Khaled Hosseini published his first book, The Kite Runner. It is a tale of Amir, an Afghan boy trying to make up for the mistakes of his childhood. The Kite Runner has gained many awards including a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year and an American Library Association Notable Book award. People have praised this story across the globe calling it “powerful” and “unforgettable”. One interesting factor of Khaled Hosseini’s book is his fragments that might only be a phrase or a single word.
Lucy Honeychurch is a dynamic protagonist in A Room with a View and her voyage to Italy drastically changes her perspective about conforming to society. Lucy is from the English middle class, and her family sends her to Italy with her cousin Charlotte for a cultured experience to become more sophisticated and educated. This vacation is irregular; Lucy develops a romantic relationship with George, and she challenges her past judgements of English society. This vacation signifies the beginning of Lucy’s growth as an individual. The title A Room with a View states the progression of Lucy Honeychurch’s accidental journey of introspection and her desire to find independence and escape from English social norms.
In October 1929, at the close of the Feminist Movement, Virginia Woolf published her famous writing, A Room of One’s Own. This feministic extended essay, based on a series of lectures Woolf presented at Newnham College and Girton College, channels Woolf’s thoughts and insights about women and fiction through the character of Mary Benton, who serves as the narrator. Through A Room of One’s Own, Woolf addresses three major points: having money and a room of one’s own (creative freedom), gender roles, and the search for truth. These three themes exist in other short stories such as “The Office” by Alice Munro and “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen, where they reveal themselves in varying degrees.
In Chapters Four and Five of A Room of One 's Own,, the focus on Women & Fiction shifts to a consideration of women writers, both actual writers and ultimately one of the author 's own creation.
In the story “A Clean, Well- Lighted Place” by Earnest Hemingway begins with the main character and his co-worker in a café. The two are analyzing, and discussing a deaf, drunk Oldman, who is their last customer of the day. As the deaf old man insists on having more whiskey, the main character informs the young waiter as to why and how the old man tried to commit suicide. They began to converse about the Oldman’s depressed life. The younger waiter is in a rush to go home to his wife, while the older waiter is patient and he stands up for the Oldman, being able to relate to him. Hemingway’s sentence structure and writing style represents the comparison and contrast between setting, people, and objects, along with emphasizing how it is to have and be nothing.
Khaled Hosseini, the author of The Kite Runner, has a writing style unique to him in a way that the majority of his sentences are short and non-complex. Although there are numerous words in Farsi, most are explained right away to limit confusion. “‘You look khoshteep’, Baba said. Handsome” ( Hosseini 166). Hosseini incorporates an abundance of figurative language in his book, an example of this is repetition. The line, “There is a way to be good again” is said several times throughout the book to show its significance in the novel (Hosseini 2). Figurative language is extremely important because it adds a meaning and value that is much stronger than saying it differently.
A clean well lighted place by Ernest Hemingway has a few themes that stand out clearly but the one theme that stands out to me is despair. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, despair means to lose all hope or confidence. In the story, the older waiter and the old deaf man somehow share a common bond of despair. Both men are of age and like to be out, late at night, alone. Asides from the story alone, the theme of the story can be brought out by the setting. The setting contributes to the story’s theme in different ways. The setting contributes to the mood of the story, to the structure of the story, and to the lesson of the story. The café represents salvation for despair which is shown through the setting of the
I’m sitting in my room that I have now, taking some time, and imagining what my magical bedroom would be like. My magical, imaginary bedroom would be out of this world, extraordinary. Something many people probably dream about, but know they would not, or could not have. It would be a dream come true if I could actually have a bedroom like this. I also wished my family and I could live in an extremely big house. With many rooms, such as, a big kitchen, a two car garage, 3 bathrooms, and 4 bedrooms, one for guests.