In Afghanistan young Amirs earliest memories of life in Kabul are blessed with a cultural heritage that values tradition blood ties and a deeply rooted cultural identity As an upper class Pashtun Amir enjoys the luxury of education material comfort and a constant playmate Hassan who is the son of his fathers longtime Hazara servant Ali Twice in his lifetime Amir is morally tested in his relationship with Hassan The first time a victim of his own arrogance Amir fails his companion Hiding behind
Khaled Hosseinis quietly powerful debut novelThe Kite Runnerfulfills the promise of fiction awakening curiosity about the world around us speaking truth as the lessons of history echo down the years The themes are universal familial relationships particularly father and son the price of disloyalty the inhumanity of a rigid class system and the horrific realities of war In Afghanistan young Amirs earliest memories of life in Kabul are blessed with a cultural heritage that values tradition blood
thebadguy The Book Thief Love is an important theme in the book thief Love presents itself in all kinds of different forms on Himmel Street There is the love between parents and children There is the love between two people who share similar circumstances There is the love felt between friends There is even an unexpected love developed between employer and employee Love is used to hold people together and tear people apart Love is what creates every bond The story is set in Nazi Germany and the
In the novel The Book Thief Marcus Zusak explores and compares the juxtaposition between great brutality and beauty in the human spirit The author demonstrates how the characters in the novel can overcome cruelty and ruthlessness with acts of extraordinary kindness and humaneness This is shown through the novel with Max and Liesels friendship when Hans gives one of the Jewish camp prisoners a piece of bread and when Rosa and Hans protect Max from the Nazis Zusak illustrates that a humans capaci
NORTH AND SOUTH North and South written by Elizabeth Gaskell can be seen as a love story at first sight but when it is deeply examined it is true to say that North and South is one of the successful novels which reflects the social life and cultural norms of Victorian Era This novel enables us to see those times of England to some extent from the eyes of a middle class lady Margaret Hale who experiences of the life standards of both the south and the north of the England The aim of this article
Accounts of the State of Nature and characterization of Human Beings Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes was written thanks to Euclid like a geometrical proof where the first chapters set the foundations upon which the book and his later ideas will be based One of the main arguments presented is that in a state of nature the characteristics of human beings would put us in a war of all against all The state of nature is when there is no government rules or regulations except those strategies that can get
Black Like Me is an astounding autobiographical diary about a white man from the north who temporarily transforms himself into a Negro because he wants to visit the south and experience the difficulties faced by black Americans in the year 1959 At that time there was racial discrimination towards the blacks with segregation in the south and the blacks suffered poverty hunger and hopelessness John Griffin was his name and in this diary he explains his experiences and feelings throughout his enti
Black Like Me As I begin reading the story John Griffin introduces himself to the readers He began with a speculation if he became an African American he could help understand the difficulties between races as a white man and African American in the south and with this knowledge develop a means to bridge the gap His desire to know if Southern whites were racists against African Americans population of the Deep South or if they really judged people based on the individuals personality as they sa
Sympathizing with a Terrorist The initial reaction of an American reading Alan Moores V for Vendetta may not be hmm their fascist government seems immensely similar to our own government Why is this Is it because the American government has directed its public away from this thought After all the United States is the self proclaimed greatest democracy on Earth The government in V for Vendetta can be seen as more than just a criticism of the British government at the time it can also be seen as
This is a beautiful highly emotional story about a young lad who does an angel a good turn and who gets his reward The first thing you need to be clear about is that this is not your average Angel Gabriel Hes a disgusting crumpled up heap of vermin ridden tramp I suppose who Michael finds in the far corner of their derelict garage He actually eats the spiders that scramble across him and the mice that scuttle round the disintegrating lean to I thought he was dead He was sitting with his legs st