Name: Aidyn Thao Professor Name: Ms. Caponigri Subject: Honors English 10 Due Date: 2/13/2023 Wounds of Change In the book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Hosseini uses the motif of wounds to show how they can change a person’s personality, or their relationship with others.
The book Into Thin Air written by John Krakauer is a novel written from his perspective on the 1996 Everest disaster that took place May 10th, in which he was involved. The 1996 Everest disaster included 3 climbing teams, Adventure consultants that was led by Rob Hall, Mountain Madness, which was led by Scott Fischer and the Taiwanese Expedition, led by Makalu Gau. With all three teams, there was a total of 33 climbers. 19 climbers get trapped at the death zone (26,247 feet) due to a sudden storm. One group was stuck on the South Col, another group ended up getting stuck near the Hillary Step, and the other group was stuck near the south summit.
Nature can be very powerful against humans. In situations when humans have to deal with nature, many natural calamities occur that may cause situations such as death, injury, or illness. Jon Krakauer, the author and protagonist of the book Into Thin Air, expresses the conflict of man vs. nature to support how the natural calamities while climbing and descending Mount Everest set his and everyone else's lives at risk. John Krakauer always had a dream of climbing Mount Everest since his father introduced mountain climbing to him at the age of eight. In the year 1996, Krakauer finally received the chance to climb Mount Everest along with other clients when Outside magazine sent him to Nepal to write about his expedition to the summit of the mountain.
In 1996, 29,029 feet above sea level, a expedition to climb Earth's largest mountain went horribly wrong. In the autobiography, Into Thin Air, eight climbers lost their lives trying to descend from the top of the world making this the second worse fatality rate ever to occur on Mount Everest. To be able to successively climb Mount Everest, clients must be intellectually competent, which is one of the pillars of the Grad at Grad. Being Intellectually Competent means that students go above and beyond the expectation both academically and in every day experiences, while taking the knowledge students learn in class and present it into the community. Jon Krakauer, the author, shows in his expedition multiple cases of him growing to be Intellectually
What would it be like to experience an avalanche first hand, would you have survived? Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer is about his own personal experience and the experiences of his team about being caught in a storm near the peak of Mount Everest. With eight people dying on top of the mountain during the expedition and two out of the three guides in Rob Hall and Andy Harris. While Andy Harris’ body was never found he is presumed dead and died while trying to help Rob Hall, causing both lives to be lost.
Into Thin Air Essay The book Into Thin Air, written by Jon Krakauer, explores the struggle of man versus man and man versus nature. The very different personalities proved costly to everyone involved on the expedition. The team of climbers that were hiking toward the summit of Mt. Everest on May 10, 1996, was oblivious to what lay ahead of them. No matter how advanced the hikers were, Everest on this day would test the will and endurance of everyone attempting to reach the summit. The one element that no one person could elude was pain.
Hosseini’s father was also a very skilled man in Afghanistan (Khaled Hosseini). Also, Amir and Baba moved to California after they immigrated to America, which was where Hosseini and his family immigrated to (Khaled Hosseini Critical). Hosseini used his experiences in America to help him write The Kite Runner. After a communist group overthrew the Afghan government, Hosseini’s father moved his family to America, where they began their new life. In The Kite Runner, Baba had left Afghanistan with Amir due to the impending war.
Khaled Kosseini, the author of the successful book “The Kite Runner” was born on March 14,1965 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Before Khaled dedicated his time to writing he lived in Afghanistan and in the capital of Iran, Tehran with his 4 other siblings, him being the oldest. In 1976 he and his family moved to France since his dad got a secure job there. Later on he and his family tried to return back to Afghanistan but because of the 1976 April Saur revolution (Democratic party seized power) they were unable and headed to San jose, California for refuge. Khaled attended high school where he learned english.
The book I read was Refugee. Refugee was about three family's hometown who was transformed into a war zone. All the conditions cause them to flee their home, to try and find a safer place for them to live. Joseph was a character that stuck out to me in the book. Joseph was a Jew whose house was invaded by Nazi soldiers.
Farid calls Amir a tourist, meaning that Amir grew up sheltered, experiencing a different kind of lifestyle in comparison to what Farid considers to be the traditional Afghan lifestyle. Farid is saying that because Amir grew up differently from the typical Afghanistan, he would be considered a tourist, as he lacks the experience a typical Afghan local would have, growing up in different circumstances. When Amir says he is back home, he means that he is on the land of his kin, as Baba, and the rest of the generations of his family, grew up and lived on Afghanistan land. Amir feels a connection to the land in Kabul because of the blood connection it has with him. Farid is correct in saying that Amir has always a tourist in Afghanistan, as Amir
Malcom Gladwell is an author who had written the book called ‘Blink’, which is about snap judgments and first impressions. He had been invited to give a lecture on a Tedtalk show about strategies on how firms can govern people in order to find the perfect ingredient in each product. Malcom decided to talk about the perfect way to find the perfect product, which was created by a person he values a lot and owns a consultant shop, Dr. Howard Moskowitz. A client Pepsi asks Howard for his help for his company, to figure out how much aspartame must be kept in each can of pepsi between the ranges of 8 and 12.
In Khaled Hosseini's novel, The Kite Runner, the protagonist, Amir, undergoes a drastic transformation that brings him from a scared boy that hungers for the attention of his father to a full grown man that is willing to stand up for himself and commit selfless acts to right his previous wrongs. Amir must overcome an upbringing in a war torn country and his own jealousy and cowardice to become a man that fights for what he thinks his right. This transformation is one that Amir brought upon himself due to the guilt that he possesses in the novel. Early in the story Amir is faced with a life defining moment. After Amir is finished winning the kite-fighting tournament, he goes looking for Hassan, his half-brother.
A Thousand Splendid Suns Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns “A thousand splendid suns” is a phrase that comes from a poem written in the seventeenth century by Saib-e-Tabrizi about Afghanistan. Saib-e-Tabrizi speaks of his admiration for the beauty of the country.
A Thousand Splendid Suns Essay Women in the 1990’s had it rough after the Mujahedeen take over. After his takeover, an increased number of laws were made to limit the freedom of women when before, women were happy, they could get educated and roam freely. The novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini demonstrates the life of an Afghan woman before and after the Mujahedeen take over. Babi, the father of Laila tells the reader that women were lucky to be living during their time, “It’s a good time to be a woman in Afghanistan.”
Kite Runner The author of the Kite Runner is Khaled Hoesseini. He was born in 1965 in Afghanistan and then moved to America. Whilst living in America, he published novels one of which is the Kite Runner. The Kite Runner novel is a novel which depicted the Afghanistan condition from fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan trough the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the rise of the Taliban regime (Kurilah, 2009)
