Another Sad Love Song

This metaphor represents Amir desiring not to continue to live his life with the guilt that was basically suffocating him to the point where he was beginning to regret his choices and deeply reflecting on who he was as a person and friend to Hassan. Aside from that I found a simile, "I flinched, like I'd been slapped". This meaning that the emotionally pain that he's suffered is similar to someone being slapped. This passage could represent the themes of betrayal, redemption, and love. The love in this story being the brotherly loved that Hassan has towards Amir being selfless while Amir's towards Hassan could be called selfish. Even though Hassan knew of Amir being present that day in the alley his love towards Amir was strong enough to forgive him. The betrayal being that despite the loyalty and friendship that Hassan has given Amir he decided to not stand up for him, he betrayed Hassan's trust. The last theme being redemption due to Amir wanting to do something in order to redeem Hassan's friendship and trust back but isn't doing anything to do

Everyone has had an embarrassing moment in their life at one point or another; slipping on ice in public or forgetting a coworkers name at the company picnic. Making a fool of yourself is bound to happen, especially in a setting outside of what you are accustomed to. Some people do not like reliving these moments while others have a gift for turning their embarrassment into a great story. Kellie Schmitt’s essay “The Old Man Isn’t There Anymore” is a perfect example of laughing at oneself. Throughout a cluster of Chinese do’s and do not’s, Schmitt tells the reader of one specific event and its comical conclusion. The essay is fun to read and relate to. Laughing with the author is made easy while she gracefully shares her missteps while she and her husband adapt to living in China. Learning new customs for an inevitable occasion most Americans probably are not privy too makes the essay most interesting.

If I stay, which is an outstanding novel written by Gayle Forman, was published in 2009 and is an emotionally gripping story. The most interesting part of the novel starts with Mia’s life after the accident. The readers also learn about her life before the tragedy with the help of plentiful flashbacks. She recalls her colorful and vibrant family members so vividly that they could easily step off the page and break the hearts of the readers. Furthermore, her remembrances also highlight her passion for music and romance with her boyfriend. Moreover, the readers will find the entire novel very interesting and inspiring and will also find the climax of the novel very satisfying. The story revolves around seventeen year old Mia, who finds herself dealing with the aftermath of a terrible car accident which killed her entire family. During the coma, Mia goes through an out-of-the-body experience and observes all her friends and family that gather at the hospital. The memory of Mia flashes before her and she debates about whether or not she should wake up and face the grief of losing her family or, if she should die. Before summarizing the story, it is pertinent that the main characters of the story should be discussed briefly.

The piece is classified as Aboriginal Australian literature. It was published in the 1960’s. The purpose of the text is to give hope in a new beginning after the events involving the racial tension between the Aboriginals and the white settlers. The poem is directed to the Aboriginal people of Australia who suffered from these events

The short story “The Love Of My Life” by T.C. Boyle's examines two couples who are imagined to be inseparable and how no love comes closer to theirs. The story follows young high school couples who are in the merge of a bright future. They are always together “wearing each other like a pair socks”. They idolized the love they share is something far from real and it is true love. While Jeremy is set to attend Brown and on the other hand China were in Binghamton things took wrong turn. Over the summer before their going to college they mistakenly conceived a baby while they are at a camping trip. The story was pleasant and everything was green and China and Jeremy went to a trip together and had sex. The couples were so keen to avoid this from

This song is full of multiple literary devices such as hyperboles, metaphors, and imagery. The hyperboles in the song emphasize strong feelings such as love, hate, and pain. For example, “Just [going to] stand there and watch me burn” (Rihanna, 1), is emphasizing that she is in extreme amounts of pain and all that her significant other is doing, is watching her suffer. “You ever love somebody so much you can barely breathe when [you are] with [them]” (Eminem, 33), emphasizes and how he is so in love with

The quote “the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years” (pg. 1) shows, in the most blatant of ways that although Amir ran away to California, he continues to feel guilt about his inaction towards Hassan’s abuse 26 years earlier. The guilt about his past “claws its way out” whether Amir is living in Afghanistan or across the world. The second quote selected, discusses how the knowledge of Hassan’s rape weighs on Amir and will do so for the rest of his life until he deals with the issue. His curse is he’s ‘’going to get away with it.” The final quote “My body was broken—just how badly I wouldn’t find out until later—but I felt healed. Healed at last. I laughed” (pg. 303), is describing how Amir feels after he is beaten by Assef. Having faced his fears and felt sufficiently punished for what he did to Hassan, Amir is finally somewhat free of the burden that had been weighing on him. Having recognized his past, he needn’t run from it any longer. The song designated to represent this theme (“What I’ve Done” by Linkin Park) perfectly represents, facing one’s past. The passage stating “I'll face myself, To cross out what I’ve become, Erase myself, And let go of what I’ve done” (verse 3) describes how confronting oneself leads to redemption (“cross out what I’ve become”). By repenting the singer is forgiven by others and himself for what he has done. In other words, he can finally start to “let go”. This is exactly what Amir does in The Kite Runner. He returns to Afghanistan to repent for his actions toward Hassan, and in doing so he learns to forgive

I seek things that makes sense to me; it could be a person, it could be a feeling, or sometimes it could be a fantasy that I made up in my head. Everyone has these urges, these impulses to find what they are looking for; even if they do not know quite yet what that may be. Our minds, have a way of helping us cope with thoughts or feelings that seem inexorable to understand; by creating pictures in our heads, such as in the play Love Song by John Kolvenbach. The play follows a man name Beane, Beane is unorthodox and lives a desolate life. Besides his sister, Joan, and her husband, Harry, he has no one. Beane uses his mind to create a relationship with a woman named Molly, Beane falls in love with his illusion of Molly, and creates a light in his heart that before was absent. Beane used his illusion that his mind created to make sense of being companionless, Molly helped Bean cope with being alone, she guided him and made him feel important. The play exemplifies how it an instinct to seek things that make sense to us, such as Beane with Molly. Through Beane’s perception of love, the illusion in his mind of Molly, and allowing his apparition of Molly create true love in his heart, he was able to make sense of the person he is.

In line 7 (“He isn’t an enemy now”) the speaker is telling herself that she should not be dwelling on the past because her ex can’t hurt her anymore. The “bitch” seems to be doing fine in controlling her emotions until line 9 when her ex-lover asks her: ““How are the children? They must be growing up.” An immediate change of tone occurs here. There is an internal struggle going on between her heart and her mind. The speaker’s mind is telling her to be polite to her ex, forget the past and move on. The bitch’s heart, on the other hand, is keeping her from moving on and causing her to struggle with feelings of desire. This is clear, for example, in lines 10-13: “At a kind word from him... Down, girl! Keep your distance.” The speaker knows that if she accidentally gets to close to this ex-lover by having feelings again, she will only end up getting hurt. Kind words and gestures can often be deceiving and I have learned that unfortunately charming people are dangerous. I have been hurt numerous times by such personalities by only looking at their kind side and ignoring other flaws. The bitch is warning herself to not get caught up in this trap of feelings again.

“This One’s for the Girl’s” recorded by Martina McBride is written by Chris Lindsey, Hillary Lindsey, and Aimee Mayo. It was written to encourage women of all ages to be themselves regardless of the various difficult situations they may be facing. The song also advises girls of all ages to live in the moment and enjoy every minute they have because life flies by. Martina McBride’s recorded song is helpful to girls around the world by its optimistic tone and motivating theme.

A student by the name of Leilani Thomas silently protests her rights ,as she stays seated during the pledge of allegiance .She is Native American and strongly defends her culture and beliefs .In her homeroom class, a teacher wasn't pleased with her decision .So the teacher deducted points off her participation grade because she remains seated during the inauguration of pledge allegiance .Thomas was dumbfounding by the teacher lack of remorse and unintelligent response. The teacher told Leilani “you are making bad choices.”In Thomas defense , she is not making a bad decision moreover, she is standing for her ancestors.

Rebecca Stead is fame as an American writer of fiction for children and teens. The achievement of her novels is not doubtful. She was born on January 16, 1968 and raised in New York City. Vassar College was the institution where she acquired her bachelor’s degree in 1989. Moreover, she has started to write since she was a child but she altered her career to become a lawyer. However, Stead started to become of writing subsequent to the birth of her two children. Her inspiration of writing children’s novel was from her son and her collections of story stories on her laptop. One day, her 4-year-old son by chance pushed her laptop out off the dining-room table and destroyed her piece of writing. Stead was very angry with her son and she went to the bookstore to find books which can inspire her to write. From that moment, her motivation and loving in writing began to boost up, and her debut novel was First Light which won The New York Best Times. Due to her great spirit in writing, she won The American Newbery Medal in 2010, Winner of the Boston Globe –Horn Book Award for Fiction, IRA Children’s Book Award for Young Adult Fiction, A Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner and A National Parenting Publications Gold Award for her second novel, When You Reach Me, followed by achieving Guardian Prize in 2013 as the first winner for her third novel, Liar & Spy.

When you start to read the first words of a book by Jeff Zentner, you immediately become entranced by it. Especially with his second novel Goodbye Days, page after page you want to know more of what’s to come and it’s not an easy book to put down.

If one is aiming to write a poem it is useful to know by detail the basic elements of poetry to understand and control better what and how to say things, they are: voice, stanza, sound patterns, figures of speech and the poetic forms.

Most of the time when you think about heartbreak, you think about a boy and a girl who were madly in love and then one day something tragic happens, and they have a catastrophic breakup. My first heartbreak was nowhere near that. My first heartbreak was a feeling that makes the pit of your stomach feel like it just fell through your body and sends a cold chill into the center of your soul. Although heartbreaks can evoke pain and suffering for a while, sometimes everything does work out for you, and it will all be worth it.