The Other Side Of The Sky By Farah Ahmedi Analysis

When you were a child, do you remember ever making a promise to be loyal to a friend? Maybe you exchanged cute heart necklaces or pendants or carved your names into a tree. In Khaled Hosseini 's The Kite Runner, two kids, Amir, and Hassan seem to have a strong friendship, represented in their names carved into a pomegranate tree. However, Amir reveals weakness in their friendship when he betrays Hassan by not intervening when the town bully, Assef, sexually assaults Hassan. In Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Carol S. Dweck describes two types of mindsets. One is the fixed mindset, which is the belief that a person has a fixed amount of intelligence, and one cannot see growth in error, and a growth mindset, which is the belief that

Hannah Roberts conveys her idea of the inevitability of change and the changes individuals go through as they age. Her ideas on having to change and mature as people get older are powerfully expressed throughout “Sky High”. Roberts explores the idea that change is inevitable, and happens as time goes by. The imagery in “It’s an older, more age warped washing line I reach up to now” creates an image of her childhood washing line aged over the years. The washing line can also symbolise Roberts’ youth deteriorating as she transitions into adulthood.

Through this inconvenient situation, they find themselves stranded in the desert. According to Farah Ahmedi’s memoir on pg. 11 (The Other Side of the Sky), “The gate to Pakistan was closed… Where would we stay? There was nothing here, no town, no hotel, no buildings, just the desert.” Soon enough, Farah Ahmedi spots the solution to the situation which is to bribe the guards with money. Unfortunately, Farah and her mother didn’t have the money, but luckily they find another helping and compassionate family that offers help to them. This generous family tells them a secret about a goat path that leads to Pakistan which smugglers use too. Based on Farah Ahmedi’s memoir on pg. 12 (The Other Side of the Sky), “The woman told us that her husband, Ghulam Ali, had gone to look for another way across the border. He was checking out a goat path that supposedly went over the mountains several miles northeast of the border station.” The next day, they set out for the goat path. The climb was long and exhausting including with Farah Ahmedi’s mother, which had an asthma attack which took longer and her prosthetic leg, but they preserved. Farah Ahmedi’s determination and the will to survive brought/lead to her success. Farah Ahmedi finds out that even in a grave situation, there are still kind people like Ghulam Ali. Ghulam Ali gave Farah Ahmedi a chance of survival and gave

Throughout the book “Flight” by Sherman Alexie the main character Zits is in search of where he belongs and why people have mistreated him throughout his life. In the midst of the action in the novel, Zits begins to experience character jumps, where he is trapped in the body of different characters. Each character jump that Zits has contributes to his growth into becoming more mature by allowing him to expand his perspectives and reflect on his own ideology. The most significant jumps are into the bodies of the little Indian boy, Jimmy the pilot, and his father. These jumps force Zits to develop his present ideas about revenge, violence, and forgiveness.

The Other Side of the Sky by Farah Ahmedi and Tanim Ansary is a memoir about Ahmedi’s life during the Afghanistan War. Ahmedi and her mother needed to flee to Pakistan in order to survive, but the Pakistan border gates were already closed to Afghan refugees by the time they arrived. Ahmedi “felt desperate to get through,” (Ahmedi 11) as they were “stranded out there in the open.” Even though Ahmedi found out the secret of getting through, which was “all a question of money,” they could not use it to their advantage. Feeling discouraged, Ahmedi and her mother camped out and met Ghulam Ali, who helped them get into Pakistan. Ghulam Ali told them, “You and your mother are

When one loves a person or thing dearly, then they have the tendency to do almost anything they can to protect and save them from whatever harm they come across. Katniss volunteered for the games knowing she was saving her sister from a terrible fate. She made a promise that she would try her best to win the Hunger Games, but her confidence in her own ability to kill another person was minimal. She did not want to get any blood on her hands but knew that in order to win she would be forced to. The author of Genocidal Killer, Crispin Sartwell recognized situations like these when he said, “your goodness, like mine, has little to do with who you are and everything to do with the social conditions you find yourself in” (Sartwell). The circumstance Katniss found herself in was full of violence, pain, and ruthlessness which further contributed to the tainting of her

To undertake a mission means to set a goal for yourself means to set a goal for yourself to accomplish. People are determined and work hard to reach their goals. For example, Farah Ahmedi climbed a mountain on a prosthetic leg to reach freedom. Aengus traveled long and hard to find love. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was determined on killing the snakes and saving his new family. These characters had different reasons for pursuing their goals and doing what they did. Ahmedi wanted freedom, Rikki-Tikki wanted to protect his new family, and Aengus was set on finding love; however all three shared the determination to accomplish their goal.

The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese led to the entry of the United States in the World War II. While the war was going on, the United States decided to put Japanese into camps an effort to get rid of Japanese spies and make sure that nobody had contact with Japan. In Farewell to Manzanar, an autobiography written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston, the author shares her experience at camp Manzanar in Ohio Valley, California during the 1940s. The book was published in 1973, about 31 years after Wakatsuki left camp Manzanar.

Oppression, defined as, “unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power” (merriam-webster.com) and prejudice, defined as, “injury or damage resulting from some judgment or action of another in disregard of one's rights” (merriam-webster.com), both actions that have changed people. Some people are changed for the worse and some are changed for the better, but some choose to share their story. Two people named Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and Elie Wiesel did this, they shared their story with the whole world. They both did this by writing autobiographical memoirs, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston wrote Farewell to Manzanar alongside her husband and Elie Wiesel wrote Night, both sharing their experiences during well known events that have happened in the world today. Even though the stories have taken place at different places and different times, the people involved in these event experienced the same things. This does not mean that they were affected in the same way, they were affected differently in their own ways.

Refugees have to flee home with no where to go and not much to take. In the novel, Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Ali, ha and her family had to flee home because their was a war close by and if they didn't flee they were likely to be killed or captured. In the article, "Children of War" by Author Brice, he explains what a couple of refugee teens went through when they had to flee. People have to flee from there home a lot when their are wars in there area if they've don't flee there very likely to die or be captured. Refugees from all over the world have to flee and find home. While on their journey they face several challenges like not having much food or water, and the risk of dying.

I chose to compeer between the articles of Fareed Zakaria, from 2008 and 2011. I believe that Zakaria's article from 2011 continues the same thots or concerns he had in 2008, but in a more focus way.

Amir is a young man from the Wazir Akbar Khan District of Kabul, his best friend when he was little was Hassan. Amir’s life is like a series of unfortunate events because Afghanistan's Monarchy fell because of The Soviet Military and the Taliban regime. He had gotten a phone call from Rahim Khan to go to Pakistan, when he went to Pakistan he crossed the threshold. The dragon battle is when Amir faced Assef for the first time since they were kids.

Imagine living in a country involved in war. Farah Ahmedi undertook a mission to get into Pakistan. Living in the perilous country Afghanistan, Farah needed to escape. Aengus from “The Song of Wandering Aengus,” Farah who wrote Escape from Afghanistan, and Buck from The Call of the Wild all undertook missions because they wanted a better life, :However, all three were determined to improve their life with happiness. Aengus wanted to make his life happier by finding a glimmering girl.

Jason undertook the mission to save Lyrian, Buck undertook the mission to survive, and Angus had the mission to find the girl with apple blossoms in her hair.However, all three were motivated because they wanted to live or wanted love.

Speaking of one of my favorite artworks at the Mass MoCA, it's called Edge of the Cloud (2011), produced by Randy West. This artwork is comprised of thirty almost identical inkjet prints. More specifically, West scanned the same sheet of paper for thirty times; and the subtle nuances among those sheets are different shadows or marks, which were resulted by different scanning conditions each time. When those thirty sheets of prints are put together, viewers can see an overall image of the shape of a cloud from a distance. I really appreciate this piece, for it encompasses a sense of trick of art; further, the tension between a realistic representation of a concrete object and the mysterious abstraction really spices up the artwork as a whole.