Azairah: A Narrative Fiction

This research project is focused on understanding a book, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. In addition, the project objective is to understand choices, actions, and processes of characters and what factors led them to arrive to such consequences.

I will be writing my essay on innocence and experience to show how it relates to “Araby” by James Joyce. While reading the story, and what I’ve understood is that it’s a very depressing story about a young boy that is between 12 to 17 years of age who had his first experience in feeling loved and perhaps having a life alone. Later on in the story towards the end the experience will be very sad as we talk about it.

In order for Amir to be a tragic hero he should portray essential elements of a tragic hero:

“Yeah but you never know if you’re good at something until you try” Myah stated.

A&P by John Updike and Araby by James Joyce are two short stories that have multiple differences and similarities. A&P is about a teenager and his lust for young ladies and Araby is about a young boy who had a crush on a older girl. I will be comparing and contrasting the portrayal of women, love and epiphany in the two short stories A&P and Araby.

Inexplicable pain... It was unbearably sad that she could relate and understand what Lauren Brennen was going through. Innocent though just as guilty as Ian. But she didn't care. No one cared for her when she was in this situation. No one care if she lived or dead. So she sat there and she witnessed this young woman get battered and beaten by her handsome accomplice. The more she watched, the less her heart ached for Lauren. The less she felt sorry for herself anymore. This was her reality. "This is what I had to go through Ian. And you and your friends watched as this happened to me. You're just as much a rapist as Cole is." Taking a deep breath in through her nose the smile returned to her face. Watching Kyle pull off what he promised... "You said it yourself, honey. An eye for an eye. You should definitely rape her." But listening to Kyle defend Azairah and what she'd been fighting for, for so long, what was haunting her and terrorized her for months... It was relief. It was like a huge weight lifted off her shoulders. Smiling like a school girl as Kyle blew her a kiss, she stood then, Ian's eyes watching carefully as she moved around him. "More fun than

In his novel Ishmael, Daniel Quinn discusses the destruction and salvation of the world. By way of a newspaper ad, an unnamed narrator meets a telepathic gorilla, named Ishmael, who had put up the ad to find a pupil with a desire to save the world. Spurred by his benefactor’s obsession with Nazi Germany, Ishmael imparts on the narrator what he knows best: captivity (Quinn 24). Ishmael claims humans of what are considered civilized cultures are captives of a story that in turn keeps the world captive. Ishmael calls this large group “Takers,” while he calls everyone else—usually hunter-gatherers of “primitive” cultures—“Leavers” (Quinn 39). In order to save the world, Ishmael believes Takers need to be freed from the story they are

After everything that happened, Amir living and dealing with walking away from that alley instead of standing up for Hassan the two were atop a hill sitting against a low cemetery wall under the shade of a pomegranate tree. This is where I believe the end was. The end of the relationship between Amir and Hassan. Amir was trying to lure Hassan into hitting him by throwing pomegranates at him, screaming to hit him. Hassan would not do a thing, instead of retaliating, Hassan just stood there, not moving a muscle. Amir feeling guilty was hoping that Hassan would hit him and by that forgiving him so Amir would finally be able to sleep at night and that things could go back to normal. Sadly for Amir, that was not the case. A few days later Hassan's

The Kite Runner, a novel written by Khaled Hosseini, focuses on Amir’s journey in life, both physically and emotionally. During Amir’s childhood Afghanistan became very unsafe. He and his father, Baba, fled from the city of Kabul to Pakistan and then made their way to America in hope of a better life for Amir. "For me, America was a place to bury my memories. For Baba, it was a place to mourn his." The need for Amir to "become good again" is embedded in the idea of a physical for redemption of his dignity.

Who knew that a couple of words could start a whole adventure? In Salman Rushdie’s, “Haroun and the Sea of Stories,” Haroun Khalifa makes the mistake of asking his father, Rashid Khalifa, ‘What’s the point of it? What’s the use of telling stories that aren’t even true?’ (Rushdie 22). By asking this, Rashid gets hurt and breaks down. He takes his son on a storytelling job he has, and when he tries to tell a story, nothing comes out. This is how the adventure begins and follows the hero’s quest, because it has a departure, initiation, and a return.

Each morning, there would be another body, Reza has stricken again. The bodies are impaled with wood spikes on the town hall’s entrance, their bodies ripped apart, yet their heart is still beating. It was time to put an end to this violence. That is when Tiras, the majestic hero, came and would use words, not violence, to get rid of the creature Reza.

As one moves southward, the mountains become progressively higher, pierced occasionally by valleys running west to east. This region is known as the hill country of Ephraim in much of biblical history (Tullock, H. 2012). Farther south, it becomes the hill country of Judah. This region actually has two parts: (1) the Shephelah, an area of low-lying hills, and (2) the plateau on which Jerusalem is located (Tullock, H. 2012). Separating the Shephelah and the Judean plateau is a north–south valley that made approaching the plateau from the coastal plain especially difficult (Tullock, H. 2012). There are basically four approaches: (1) the Valley of Aijalon, which is the easiest and most famous; (2) the Valley of Sorek; (3) the Valley of Azekah; and (4) the Valley of Elah (Tullock, H. 2012).

There was a girl named Azenia with long flowing brown hair and dark blue eyes that were as blue as the ocean. Her best friend Diamond had dark brown hair with light hazel eyes, however she wasn't as beautiful as Azenia. These pretty girls attended the same school, but little did they know that something strange and unexpected was going to happen to them.

On a dark, gloomy night the sound of the factory drowned out the outside world. Sparks flying from the welding rods, gears are grinding. Two workers exhausted working over there unusual overtime hours . They look like Monsters with all their welding equipment on. Raekwon had an eerie feeling about Jack Because he knew that jack had stolen from the company. Jack breaks the silence and ask him about the missing tools. By raekwon being silent made jack automatically assume he knew. Raekwon Adrenaline Was pumping Because he knew an altercation Was coming but he didn't know when. He felt the stare of jack Piercing into the back of his head. Finally Raekwon’s shift was over and as he was getting into his car he got a sudden burst of Adrenaline as he caught jack standing in the middle of the parking lot staring into

In the short story Araby, we are shown a young boy’s first encounter with love and what he will do for this girl. To help represent the protagonist’s emotions and the way he views the world around him, Joyce uses color. The use and absence of color in the story helps the reader identify what the boy finds important in his life. This is done by using dark and sombre as adjectives and also not using color. Except, when Mangan’s sister (protagonist’s crush) is being described in the story. This when Joyce decides to use abundance of color to help create a contrast between the girl and the rest of the world.