{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"41549099","dateCreated":"1313959155","smartDate":"Aug 21, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"IsaacW2013","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/IsaacW2013","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1273192704\/IsaacW2013-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/kiterunneraplang.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/41549099"},"dateDigested":1532175065,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"On marking things with our initials","description":"Is it really necessary? If looked into the history, everyone can see who posted what. It could also get a bit confusing since two people in the group have the initials M.S.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"41549697","body":"It's not necessary by any means. This is a group project, and what was started by one person may be edited and completed by various others. If we want to keep this looking professional and have decent flow, it's best just to not create stops with our initials.","dateCreated":"1313960996","smartDate":"Aug 21, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"msherock","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/msherock","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1313628150\/msherock-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"41555257","body":"Agreed! Thanks for pointing it out","dateCreated":"1313976786","smartDate":"Aug 21, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"hannahlamb","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/hannahlamb","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"41549051","dateCreated":"1313958987","smartDate":"Aug 21, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"IsaacW2013","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/IsaacW2013","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1273192704\/IsaacW2013-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/kiterunneraplang.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/41549051"},"dateDigested":1532175065,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Hey Doug","description":"Move all of us into the organizers category for the Wiki, I have limited permissions with what I'm allowed to do to the pages.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"41466929","dateCreated":"1313626639","smartDate":"Aug 17, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"msherock","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/msherock","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1313628150\/msherock-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/kiterunneraplang.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/41466929"},"dateDigested":1532175065,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"If you'd like some poorly written notes","description":"Over the summer I accumulated various direct quotes\/vague descriptions of each device. It is all on a Word document but I am not sure how to send this out if any of you would care to see it.
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\nSo what would be the best way of sending this out? If you each send your email address I suppose I could send it through there...","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"41467653","body":"Allusion
\n\u2022 Sanaubar \u201ctempted countless men to sin\u201d (Hosseini 8)
\n\u2022 Genghis Khan: In response to Amir telling Baba his teacher seems nice, Baba replies, \u201cSo did Genghis Khan\u201d (Hosseini 17)
\n\u2022 Throughout the novel, Rostam and Sohrab, the story of a king, Rostan, who kills his rival, Sohrab. Right before Sohrab\u2019s death, he reveals that he was the son of Rostan:
\no On impressing his father with the losing kite from the competition, Amir compares his scene to \u201cRostam and Sohrab sizing each other up\u201d (Hosseini 67)
\no Comparing the beauty of Soraya to \u201cthat of Tahmineh, Rostam\u2019s wife and Sorab\u2019s mother from the Shahnamah\u201d (Hosseini 140)
\no Amir takes in Hassan\u2019s son, Sohrab, after Hassan is killed.
\no Amir and Hassan were half brothers, but this was not revealed to Amir until shortly before Rahim Khan\u2019s death.
\no Hassan, like Sohrab in the story, took after his father\u2019s heroic personality.
\no Amir\u2019s name means \u201cking,\u201d and Rostam is a king.
\no Similar to how Rostam hosted a royal burial for Sohrab, Amir narrates a novel for his late friend Hassan, in a sense glorifying his life.
\n\u2022 Running of the Bulls: \u201cHordes of kite runners swarmed the streets, shoved past each other like those people in Spain\u2026 who ran from bulls\u201d (Hosseini 52)
\n\u2022 Arms wide open: The usual description of Jesus. \u201cHassan stood with his arms wide open, smiling, waiting for the kite\u201d (Hosseini 55)
\n\u2022 Gladiators: In ancient Rome, gladiatorial battles were fought to the death. Regarding spectators at the kite competition: \u201cThe chorus grew louder\u2026 like Romans chanting for the gladiators to kill, kill\u201d (Hosseini 65)
\n\u2022 Snake in the Grass: The snake is what made Adam and Eve deceive God, and Amir is deceiving his father: \u201cI wanted to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass\u2026\u201d (Hosseini 105)
\n\u2022 Ahmad Shah Massoud: An Afghani who resisted Russian troops and opposed the Taliban to his death: On Farid\u2019s appearance: \u201cOn his head he wore a brown pakol, tilted slightly to the side, like the Tajik hero Ahmad Shah Massoud\u201d (Hosseini 230)
\n\u2022 Jesus on the Cross: Assef\u2019s appearance resembles that of Jesus when in the coliseum. Jesus died for what he believe in, similar to how Assef fights for the Taliban: \u201cThe hem of his loose shirt fluttered in the breeze, his arms spread like those of Jesus on the cross\u201d (Hosseini 271)
\n\u2022 Jean Valjean and Javert: Characters in Les Mis\u00e9rables. Jean is an ex-convict seeking redemption, while Javert is an inspector. On the atmosphere in Raymond Andrews\u2019 office: \u201cI felt like Jean Valjean sitting across from Javert\u201d (Hosseini 328)
\nSymbolism
\nSmile\/Harelip
\n\u2022 On Hassan\u2019s birth: \u201c\u2026out came Hassan. Out he came smiling\u201d (Hosseini 10)
\n\u2022 After Hassan\u2019s surgery to correct his harelip: \u201c\u2026that was the winter that Hassan stopped smiling\u201d (Hosseini 47)
\n\u2022 Amir\u2019s lip after getting surgery: \u201cThe impact had cut your upper lip in two. Clean down the middle\u2026like a harelip\u201d (Hosseini 297)
\n\u2022 When flying a kite with Sohrab: \u201cI looked down at Sohrab. One corner of his mouth had curled up just so. A smile\u201d (Hosseini 370)
\nPomegranate Tree: Amir and Hassan\u2019s friendship, childhood
\n\u2022 By carving the names of Hassan and Amir in the bark:\u201cThose words made it formal: the tree was ours\u201d (Hosseini 27)
\n\u2022 Amir threw pomegranates at Hassan after feeling guilt over their friendship, but Hassan would not hit back
\n\u2022 In Hassan\u2019s letter to Amir: \u201cThe droughts have dried the hill and the tree hasn\u2019t borne fruit in years\u201d (Hosseini 217)
\nBrass Knuckles: fear, pain
\n\u2022 \u201cHis word was law, and if you needed a little legal education, then those brass knuckles were just the right teaching tool\u201d (Hosseini 38)
\nKites: Childhood, innocence followed by guilt, bonding
\n\u2022 The relationship between Baba and Amir, with their \u201cspheres of existence\u201d: \u201cKites were the one paper-thin slice of intersection between those spheres\u201d (Hosseini 49)
\n\u2022 Amir\u2019s fondest memory: \u201cHassan and I\u2026 our eyes turned up to the kite in the sky. Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don\u2019t have to say anything\u201d (Hosseini 122)
\n\u2022 Before returning to Afghanistan after Rahim Khan\u2019s call, Amir observes in San Francisco: \u201cI glanced up and saw a pair of kites\u2026\u201d (Hosseini 192)
\n\u2022 Farid\u2019s description of Kabul: \u201cBut you won\u2019t find kites or kite shops on Jadeh Maywand or anywhere else in Kabul. Those days are over\u201d (Hosseini 246)
\n\u2022 While flying a kite with Sohrab: \u201cWe stood quietly side by side\u201d (Hosseini 369)
\nPolaroid Photograph: Amir\u2019s lost friendship with Hassan, Hassan\u2019s presence after death
\n\u2022 \u201cThe next time I saw him smile unabashedly like that was twenty-six years later, in a faded Polaroid photograph\u201d (Hosseini 67)
\n\u2022 Sohrab sleeps the Polaroid under his pillow with after Amir gives it to him
\nIrony
\n\u2022 Baba speaks of theft being the worst sin, yet he was a thief of Ali\u2019s wife and stole truth from Amir and Hassan:
\no \u201cThere is only one sin, only one. And that is theft\u201d (Hosseini 17)
\no \u201cA man who takes what\u2019s not his to take\u2026 I spit on such a man. If I ever cross paths with him, God help him\u201d (Hosseini 18)
\no \u201cAnd now\u2026 I was learning that Baba had been a thief. And a thief of the worst kind, because the things he\u2019d stolen had been sacred\u201d (Hosseini 225)
\n\u2022 When Hassan\u2019s smile is finally fixed by surgery, he does not smile anymore: \u201cBy the following winter, it was only a faint scar. Which is ironic. Because that was the winter that Hassan stopped smiling\u201d (Hosseini 47)
\n\u2022 Although he says to avoid using clich\u00e9s, Amir\u2019s teacher reinforces his statement with a clich\u00e9: \u201cA creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clich\u00e9s: \u2018Avoid them like the plague\u2019\u201d (Hosseini 197)
\nForeshadowing
\n\u2022 \u201cLooking back at it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975 \u2013 and all that followed \u2013 was already laid in those first words\u201d (Hosseini 11)
\n\u2022 Assef threatening Amir after Hassan defends him: \u201cThis isn\u2019t the end for you either, Amir. Someday, I\u2019ll make you face me one on one\u201d (Hosseini 43)
\n\u2022 \u201cThe next time I saw him smile unabashedly like that was twenty-six years later, in a faded Polaroid photograph\u201d
\n\u2022 Amir eating grapes while waiting to meet with the Taliban: \u201cI popped another one in, unaware that it would be the last bit of solid food I would eat for a long time\u201d (Hosseini 275)
\nSimile
\n\u2022 Hassan\u2019s appearance: \u201ca face like a Chinese doll chiseled from hardwood\u2026 eyes like bamboo leaves\u2026\u201d (Hosseini 3)
\n\u2022 \u201cSometimes, my entire childhood seems like one long lazy summer day with Hassan\u201d (Hosseini 25)
\n\u2022 \u201cTo him, the words on the page were a scramble of codes, indecipherable, mysterious. Words were secret doorways and I held all the keys\u201d (Hosseini 30)
\n\u2022 Amir on Hassan\u2019s insight: \u201cHow could I be such an open book to him when, half the time, I had no idea what he was milling around in his head?\u201d (Hosseini 61)
\n\u2022 Amir to Hassan after witnessing him in the alley: \u201cSpeaking those words was like chewing on a rock\u201d (Hosseini 78)
\n\u2022 \u201cI stepped back and all I saw was rain through the windowpanes that looked like melting silver\u201d (Hosseini 109)
\n\u2022 How Baba will not let go of his memories living in Kabul: \u201cBaba was like a widower who remarries but cant let go of his dead wife\u201d (Hosseini 129)
\n\u2022 \u201cIt turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names\u201d (Hosseini 155)
\n\u2022 \u201cReturning to Kabul was like running into an old, forgotten friend and seeing that life hadn\u2019t been good to him, that he\u2019d become homeless and destitute\u201d (Hosseini 246)
\nMetaphor
\n\u2022 \u201cAmerica was a river, roaring along, unmindful of the past\u201d (Hosseini 136)
\n\u2022 On Sohrab\u2019s smile: \u201cA tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird\u2019s flight\u201d (Hosseini 371)
\nCharacterization
\n\u2022 Characters usually revealed all at once, in lengthy paragraphs or descriptions
\n\u2022 Much physicality applied to description
\n\u2022 Only characters with significant importance are given names
\nTheme
\nCourage\/Voice
\n\u2022 Baba on how he sees Amir play with other kids: \u201cI see how they push him around\u2026 And, you know, he never fights back\u201d (Hosseini 22)
\n\u2022 After watching Hassan being raped by Assef
\n\u2022 \u201cI opened my mouth, almost said something\u2026 But I didn\u2019t. I just watched. Paralyzed\u201d (Hosseini 73)
\n\u2022 \u201cI could step into that alley, stand up for Hassan\u2026 Or I could run. In the end, I ran\u201d (Hosseini 77)
\n\u2022 Amir\u2019s self-criticism: \u201cYou\u2019re gutless. It\u2019s how you were made\u201d (Hosseini 275)
\nGuilt
\n\u2022 On taunting Hassan with vocabulary that he didn\u2019t know: \u201cI would always feel guilty about it later\u2026 I would tell myself that was amends enough for a harmless prank\u201d (Hosseini 29)
\n\u2022 On wishing that Rahim Khan was Amir\u2019s father: \u201cI was overcome with such sudden guilt that I bolted to the bathroom and vomited in the sink\u201d (Hosseini 32)
\n\u2022 When Amir\u2019s first book is published: \u201cThere was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it\u201d (Hosseini 183)
\n\u2022 In response to why Amir and Soraya couldn\u2019t become pregnant: \u201cSomething, someone, somewhere, had decided to deny me fatherhood for the things I had done. Maybe this was my punishment\u201d (Hosseini 188)
\n\u2022 Amir dwelling on speaking Hassan\u2019s name for the first time in a while: \u201cThose thorny old barbs of guilt bore into me once more, as if speaking his name had broken a spell, set them free to torment me anew\u201d (Hosseini 202)
\nTurning to Religion
\n\u2022 When discovering that Baba might have cancer: \u201cI recited half-forgotten verses from the Koran\u2026 and asked for kindness from a God I wasn\u2019t sure existed\u201d (Hosseini 154)
\n\u2022 In response to Sohrab\u2019s suicide attempt: \u201cThere is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray\u201d (Hosseini 346)
\n\u2022 Amir\u2019s routine of praying daily: \u201cI didn\u2019t have to consult the prayer pamphlet\u2026 the verses came naturally now, effortless\u201d (Hosseini 364)
\nSyntax
\n\u2022 Lengthy sentences, paragraphs
\n\u2022 Typically several clauses
\n\u2022 Elaborate words, very descriptive","dateCreated":"1313628591","smartDate":"Aug 17, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"msherock","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/msherock","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1313628150\/msherock-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"41471035","body":"those are very good notes! they will be very helpful for the things i was a bit confused on...","dateCreated":"1313634571","smartDate":"Aug 17, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"Shaae48","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Shaae48","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1313626386\/Shaae48-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"41465031","dateCreated":"1313621808","smartDate":"Aug 17, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"Shaae48","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Shaae48","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1313626386\/Shaae48-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/kiterunneraplang.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/41465031"},"dateDigested":1532175065,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Who is doing what?","description":"I don't think we talked about who gets the different parts... Would anyone mind if I did the rhetoric devices?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"41466521","body":"Doug called me earlier and I guess we're all working on those tonight and then for the rest of the week on the different things...","dateCreated":"1313625712","smartDate":"Aug 17, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"IsaacW2013","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/IsaacW2013","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1273192704\/IsaacW2013-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"41466819","body":"ya...we figured that out and I didn't know how to delete this lol","dateCreated":"1313626329","smartDate":"Aug 17, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"Shaae48","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Shaae48","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1313626386\/Shaae48-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"41467431","body":"This is probably something that we should have discussed in class. It's fairly difficult to converse over the interwebz for a project like this. Perchance we could come up with an outline as to what we're doing so that we can work individually and as a group. Like anyone may edit a page (otherwise there is a clear distinction of who worked on which part of the website, and that is odd) since we all have an idea of what's going on. Since we seem to be accessing this page at different times of day, we could continue work between ourselves\/other members.
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\nIf so, we could probably start by deciding which rhetorical devices would be appropriate for this novel...","dateCreated":"1313627979","smartDate":"Aug 17, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"msherock","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/msherock","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1313628150\/msherock-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"41469211","body":"Yeah I'm going to be honest, Doug and I probably won't be on the same times as you guys because of band. Schedules are weird and make it so that homework is done later at night unfortunately.
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\nI think it may be difficult to work on the same pages at the same time anyway, we might have contrasting ideas or other complications...","dateCreated":"1313631617","smartDate":"Aug 17, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"hannahlamb","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/hannahlamb","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"41469439","body":"I think that maybe we should talk this over before or after class just really quickly, because I'm a bit confused about what exactly we're supposed to be doing. sorry. It could just be me being stupid o.o","dateCreated":"1313631805","smartDate":"Aug 17, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"hannahlamb","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/hannahlamb","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]}],"more":false},"comments":[{"id":"41578263","dateCreated":"1314050595","smartDate":"Aug 22, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"Shaae48","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Shaae48","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1313626386\/Shaae48-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/kiterunneraplang.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/41578263"},"dateDigested":1532175065,"commentId":"304169","orphaned":false,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"comment","title":"Comment: This comes from the 90th Surah Al-Bal...","description":"This comes from the 90th Surah Al-Balad explaining that being kind to others brings kindness from Allah. Here it is in Arabic just for
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