Blog Post Seven

In the book I'm reading The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, The main character Lily goes on an adventure to the city to find out whether or not her mother is really dead or not. Her father T.Ray has her convinced that she was the one who had killed her mother because even herself has memory of the incident.  When Lily and T.Ray get into an argument about her being out late at night she decides it is time for her to leave so she goes to jail to help free her friend Rosaleen after she had been beaten by men because she had dumped snuff on there shoes. The only clues Lily has of hopefully finding out something about her mother is a picture of black Mary which she had seen on a honey bottle while she was in a store. That picture lead her to a honey farm in hopes of possibly learning more about her mother and what really happened to her and why she kept the picture of black Mary.

The inductive leap Lily made  was when she would argued with T.Ray on the reason why her mother was dead. It gave her pieces to the puzzle whenever her and T. Ray would talk about her mother because she is curious to learn more about her. The argument helped Lily go forth with her adventure and gave her more clues as to what had really happened to her mother and whether or not she is really dead or not. I think it also helped her learn more about who her mother really was because she doesn't have very much knowledge because she only knew her mother while she was young. When Lily goes to the honey farm she is in hopes that her adventure will not end there and that she will be able to gain something from being there and figuring how the black Mary picture has a purpose with her mother.

Kidd, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees. New York: Viking, 2002. Print.

Blog Post Six

In my story A Thousand Splendid Suns By Khaled Hosseini, I think symbol is a good poetic device because when Zalmai is playing with his new basketball that his father had brought and it is one of the things he has left of his father since he was murdered. This is a good use of symbol because is shows how much his father meant to him. It was also a sign of a new beginning with a new life. It shows a new life because Tariq had come back for Laila to help her escape from the abuse of Zalmai's father. It is almost a symbol of peace. I look at it as when he bounces the ball it may be annoying and hard to listen to just like how life is full of many annoying things. I think that the more he bounces the ball the better he will get at it. Just like how life has it's ups and downs but in the end things get better even if you don't see it from the start. My final though of it being a symbol is that the bouncing reminds me of the sound Laila heard when Rasheed was beating Mariam. She heard the constant thumping of them running around attacking each other. Just like the sound the basketball makes when it is bounces off the wall. 

 Hosseini, Khaled. A Thousand Splendid Suns. New York: Riverhead, 2007. Print.

Blog Post Five

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseil

Significant Elements:

1. Laila's daughter Aziza

2. Rasheed's Gun

When Laila had given birth to her daughter Aziza, Rasheed knew that her and Tariq had done something together before he had moved away. She is significant because she is all Laila has left of Tariq. She would do anything to protect her daughter if when Rasheed was beating her she would make sure that she didn't get hurt as much as she did only because she didn't want Rasheed to take the life of her daughter, her only memory of her true love.  

Rasheed's gun that he hides in his room is significant because it shows his strength as a man. He would be willing to use his gun on his wife if she did not obey him because he does not have any tolerance for woman disrespecting him. So him keeping a gun in his room places fear for Laila and Mariam not to get out of line because then they both knew that he was not scared to kill either of them if they tried to pull something over on him that he did not accept. 

 Hosseini, Khaled. A Thousand Splendid Suns. New York: Riverhead, 2007. Print.

Blog Post Four

Responsibility :  Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry it's own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

 (Roosevelt, Eleanor)

I think that responsibility is when you take on an important role in your life that could be life changing. I think that if you work towards the goal of having this new  responsibility it could make your life worth much more. I think that in the story dancer there is much responsibility because Clarissa was a trouble making kid who had been through a lot in her life but she gains much responsibility because she learns how much dance means to her. 

In my story  A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseil Mariam takes on responsibility by taking care of Laila after her parents had passed away. She takes on the role of being her mother and treating her and her children like family since she no longer had any family. I think that is true responsibility because it is hard to just take someone u don't know and all of a sudden make them a part of your family. I also see a strong friendship between those two as i go on through my reading. 

 Hosseini, Khaled. A Thousand Splendid Suns. New York: Riverhead, 2007. Print.

Blog Post Three

Courage: To take on heart racing activities to achieve goals while going out of your comfort zone. 

This theme is apart of my story A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseil. It is apart of it because the main character because she has a lot of courage because she takes in this little girl and takes care of her because she is hurt. I also think the little girl named Laila has a lot of courage to be able to get brought into this home and be taken care of after her house had fallen on top of her because of the war going around. She also has courage to know that she is now alone because both of her parents have been killed by the incident. I think based off of what had happened to the characters in the story is that the theme comes in many different ways. It can also effect many people in many other ways. I think my definition still relates to my story because people go through heart racing events that change there lives in the story. They also go very far out of there comfort zones to try and work to there goals. I think that if they continue to work towards there goals and look away from there past there courage will go stronger to get them through everything. 

 Hosseini, Khaled. A Thousand Splendid Suns. New York: Riverhead, 2007. Print.

Blog Post Two

The five elements in my story so far are, 

- Character 

- Mood 

- Imagery

- Diction

- Pathos

In my story I think "Character" stands out the most to me. While reading my story there are little things that slowly start to show about different characters throughout the story. When I think of this element the character that stands out the most to me is Mariam's husband Rasheed. When the first got married I was wondering why there wasn't much said about who he was. All i knew was how he was dressed. Although as I went on through my reading I started to learn more about how he was a slob in his own home. Right now i'm at the part where we are finding out about his past wife and how his room actually looks like. "Beneath the gun were several magazines with curling corners. Mariam opened one. Something inside her dropped. Her mouth gaped of its own will. On every page were woman, beautiful woman, who wore no shirts, no trousers, no socks or underpants. They wore nothing at all." (Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns 75-75) When read this I started to get a better picture at who Rasheed was as a person. It is like this with almost every character in the story but her husband stood out to me the most. So I think if I were to meet another character I would have to wait to find out about them throughout the story. 

Hosseini, Khaled. A Thousand Splendid Suns. New York: Riverhead, 2007. Print.

Blog Post One.

In a good book the top three qualities i look for is description, adventure and emotion. In order for me to fall in love with the book there needs to be lots of description leading up to a great adventure. I want to be able to feel like i am right there in the story. I want there to be a lot of emotion so i can feel what the characters are feeling. Those qualities are basic builds for a great book. I enjoy reading books like that because these three tie into each other perfectly. If there are lots of description in the emotion i feel the way the characters feel. If there is lots of description in the adventure i feel like i am on the journey with the characters. If there is a good adventure the story would be filled with many different emotions as the characters face good times and bad through there journey.

The book i am reading is called A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseili. I think since the book is about Afghanistan there is going to be great description and emotion. So far have felt much emotion from the characters in the story. I feel that there is going to be a great adventure because the daughter had went off into the city where here Nana told her not to go. So much emotion has been brought through with the death of her Nana. I'm curious to know where he adventure is going to take her.  

Hosseini, Khaled. A Thousand Splendid Suns. New York: Riverhead, 2007. Print.