The Kite Runner / Creative Writing / CORRECTION

• RATIONAL:

"The Kite Runner", a novel by Khaled Hosseini, tells the story of two children: Amir and Hassan.
They get separated by the destiny, when the soviet invasion hit Afganistan. Years later Amir will come back to the country where he was born, to rectify all what he did wrong, and safe Hassan's son, Sohrab.

My work will be linked to the book, because I will tell what Rahim Khan, a friend of Baba and Amir, lived during the soviet invasion and the taliban government in Afganistan. I will do this because the book doesn't tell anything about this period of history. The book narrates after all this happened.

In this case, my goal is to tell the experience of Rahim Khan during the war in Afganistan, and how were his feelings during conflict.

For this I will use the text type of a diary, to narrate the events in a first person perspective. Also, it will write in a semi-formal language.

• CREATIVE WRITING:

24/12/1979

Today is Christmas. The last week I bought a present for Amir jan. It´s a story book for children.
The stories of the book have a very simple vocabulary, and it´s not really an interesting tale as the books he likes to read. But the importance of the book is not what it is, it's the message it leaves.
I know that he might not like it, but he has to understand that Hassan is not different to him. Baba told me that he is not with them now. That´s bad. I hope the book helps.
If only he knew the truth...

25/12/1979

Neither the book nor Allah can help us now.

The "reds" invaded us, showing up no mercy, not even on Christmas night. They advanced in Kabul with tanks, and a great army, shooting everyone who was fighting with them, killing everyone who was afraid of them.

I couldn't be able to give Amir his present. He is leaving the country by now. There's no future in Afganistan for him now. Maybe America is better. Hope I can meet them there as soon as possible.

1/1/1980

I can't leave Afganistan, at least by now.

The Russian army is killing everyone in the frontier with Pakistan, after the massive emigration of the first day of the invasion.

I have been in my house since Baba and Amir left Kabul. Fortunately, I have supplies to survive some weeks. 

28/4/1980

All the supplies I had are gone. Despite I have been getting more supplies by exchanging goods at the black market, this time I got nothing. 

Dealers don't want money. Nowadays, in our situation, money is just a worthless piece of paper. They want bullets. Fortunately, a had plenty of them. 

Before all this mess, I liked going to the forest, away from the sound of the city. I liked to hunt. The only thing I used to hear there, were my shots. Now I hear shots everyday in the streets.

Today all the forest are gone, thanks to the Soviets. And what is more important, I'm running out of bullets.

Maybe it is time to go out. 

11/6/1996

Some people died fighting the invaders. There are people that lost all their hope, and just committed suicide. 

I prefer to be optimistic.

Yesterday I spent some time taking care of Baba's house. With the Taliban in control of the country, I believe that everything will be like it was before.

Last week I went to a Hazara village to find Hassan. I spent a long time looking for him.

The family must be all together when Baba and Amir jan come back.

Hassan has grown up. He told me the reason of his departure from Baba's house. I knew Amir was bad. That book I bought were supposed to help him. But now the book can help Hassan. With it he can learn to read and write. 

After all, what happened he is still loyal to Amir. He will take care of the house with his son, Sohrab.

12/11/2001

The Taliban are not better than the Russians.

The last day, they get in the house, and beat me until I was unconscious

When I woke up Hassan and his wife were dead. They also kidnapped Sohrab.

It was foolish to be optimistic. I must go to Pakistan. I feel sick, after they beat me. 

I can’t rescue Sohrab, but I now who can do it.

He has to know that there’s a way to be good again.

He has to know too many things.

Hope the letter Hassan wrote to him can help.

Questions:

1. When and why were reservations founded?
2. How different are they from national US land?
3. Why do so many Native Americans live outside the reservations?
4. Do reservations help preserve tradition and culture?

Answers:

A1: The reservations where found in 1887, until they get stronger in 1934 with the Indian New Deal. They were founded because USA people wanted to move the tribes from their land, because it bother their European Culture Expansion

A2: Indian reservations are lands that belong to the Native American Tribes. This lands are part of USA, but are just located in there thanks to a legal designation. In here Native Tribes are free to live, in a territory that is indepedent from the USA Constitution.

A3: Many Native Americans live outside the reservations, because this lands belong only to specific tribes, that may cannot be their culture. Also some of them prefer to live in USA, to live better and leave poverty.

A4: Yes they do, because in there they can still live people from the differents Native Cultures. This can prevent the extinction of culture, for example the language.

The Kite Runner - Creative Writing - Rationale

The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini, tells the story of two childrens: Amir and Hassan.
They get separe by the destiny, when the soviet invasion hit Afganistan. Years later Amir will come back to the country where he was born, to rectify all what he did wrong, and safe Hassan's son, Sohrab.

My work will be linked to book, because I will tell what Rahim Khan, a friend of Baba and Amir, lived during the soviet invation and the taliban government in Afganistan. I will do this because the book doesnt't tell anything about this period of the history. The book narrates after all this happen.

In this case, my goal is to tell the experience of Rahim Khan during the war in Afganistan, and how were his feelings during conflict.

For this I will use the text type of a diary, to narrate the events in a first person perspective. Also it will write in a semi-formal language.

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The Kite Runner - Creative Writing - Rahim Khan Diary

24/12/1979

Today is Christmas. The last week I bought a present for Amir jan. It´s a story book for childrens.
The stories of the book have a very simple vocabulary, and it´s not really an interesting tale as the books he likes to read. But the importance of the book is not what it is, it's the message it leaves.
I know that he might don't like it, but he has to understand that Hassan is not different to him. Baba told me that he is not with them now. That´s bad. I hope the book helps.
If only he knew the true...

25/12/1979

Neither the book nor Allah can help us now.

The "reds" invaded us, showing up no mercy, not even on Christmas night. They advanced in Kabul with tanks, and a great army, shooting everyone who was fighting with them, killing everyone who was afraid of them.

I couldn't be able to give Amir his present. He is leaving the country by now. There's no future in Afganistan for him now. Maybe America is better. Hope I can meet them there as soon as possible.

1/1/1980

I can't leave Afganistan, at least by now.

The russian army is killing everyone in the frontier with Pakistan, after the massive emigration of the first day of the invasion.

I have been in my house since Baba and Amir left Kabul. Fortunately I have supplies to survive some weeks. 

28/4/1980

All the supplies I had are gone. Despite I have been getting more supplies by exchanging goods at the black market, this time I got nothing. 

The dealers doesn't want money. Nowadays, in our situation, money is just a worthless piece of paper. They want bullets. Fortunately a had plenty of it. 

Before all this mess, I liked going to the forest, away from the sound of the city. I liked to hunt. The only thing I used to hear there, was my shot. Now I hear shots everyday in the streets.

Today all the forest all gone, thanks to the Soviets. And what is more important, I'm running out of bullets.

Maybe is time to go out. 

11/6/1996

Some people died fighting the invaders. There are people that lost all his hope, and just committed suicide. 

I prefer to be optimistic.

Yesterday I spend some time taking care of Baba's house. With the talibans in the control of the country, I believe that everything will be like it was before.

Last week I went to a hazara village to find Hassan. I spend a long time looking for him.

The family must be all together when Baba and Amir jan come back.

Hassan has grown up. He told me the reason of his departure from Baba's house. I knew Amir was bad. That book I bought was suppose to help him. But now the book can help Hassan. With it he can learn to read and write. 

After all what happend he is still loyal to Amir. He will take care of the house with his son, Sohrab.

12/11/2001

The talibans are not better than the Russians.

The last day, they enter to the house, and beat me until I was unconscious

When I woke up Hassan and his wife were dead. They also kidnapped Sohrab.

It was foolish to be optimistic. I must go to Pakistan. I feel sick, after they beat me. 

I can’t rescue Sohrab, but I now who can do it.

He have to know that there’s a way to be good again.

He have to know too many things.

Hope the letter Hassan wrote to him can help.

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The Kite Runner - Chapter 22 Reflection

• Differences:

1. If we read the book, we can know what was Amir thinking in the scene. He was having lots of flash backs, while he is trying to convince Assef to take Sohrab (the son of Hassan) with him. For example, when he first saw Sohrab, he reminds him, how Hassan was when he was a child
2. Also in the book, Amir gets much more damaged after he fights Assef. While in the book, he get broken bones all around his body, in the movie Amir just get damaged eye.
3. In the book, Assef tells Amir how he survived in the jail, and how he decided to help the talibans in Afganistan. In the movie, Assef dont say anything about this.

• Similarities:

1. What happend in the chapter, is exactly what the movie show to us. However the movie make a summary of the chapter, leaving behind some details. (For example: What was Amir thinking in that moment)
2. Some of the phrases that the characters say in the movie, are exactly what they say in the book.
3. The clothes that the characters are wearing in the movie are very similar to what is described in the book, specially Assef, who is wearing a white suit, with his "John Lennon" glasses on.

The Kite Runner - Chapter 12

1. In what way does Soraya’s story about her illiterate friend differ form Amir’s?
2. What period is described as a time of many ‘firsts’?
3. What was Baba’s final resolution about his diagnosis?
4. Why was Amir envious of Soraya?

Answers:

A1: Soraya's story about her illiterate friend differ with Amir's story, because she helped her friend to learn how to write and read. Meanwhile Amir bother Hassan, teaching him words with another the wrong meaning, while he laugh because of his innocense and ignorance.

A2: The period Amir described as a time of many firsts, is the time when he saw a lot of things that he has never seen have during his life. For example, to saw Baba sick and coughing blood.

A3: Baba's final resolution about his diagnosis is a lung cancer. He don't want to take treatments and remedies to make his disease better or at least dalay it.

A4: Amir was envious of Soraya, because she was brave enough to tell him her secrets, while he even cannot tell her his story with Hassan.

Opinion about Cloning

Nowadays with the technology growing as fast as the human being can conceive, cloning can be closer than we think.

During the past years, we already clone animals. As an example there is Dolly the sheep, the first animal to be clone. But can be possible to clone a human, to clone us? 

This maybe could not be only a science-fiction thing, that we see in the movies, this could be in the future something real for us, something normal.

But is this ethical? In my opinion is not.

To clone a human, you also have to duplicate his memories, his feelings, not only his body. If we forget to duplicate this, we would have an empty piece of bones and flesh, an useless body.

Anyway if we achieve cloning our feelings, that means that in that momento we achieve to create life, a whole human with all his perfections and imperfections.

Thats not playing to be God? To an atheist, this maybe is not an argument against cloning. In that case, I ask: What will happen when you clone yourself, what will you win? What he should do in his life, replace you?

Anyway, if I were a doctor, and its necesary to clone someone what kind of people I would clone? I would clone people inspiring, who can motivate others to be better, and do great things. 
Where I would conduct this? Everywhere, the kind of people that I would clone can be living in any country, and part pf the world.
But what is more important, clone the first human, or clone a healthy child? The answer is clear: I would clone someone healthy, that can live his live well. What's the price if I clone the first human, and he can't live in a normal way.
Also if I clone someone, I would let the people know about my experiments, so they can give me their opinion about it, because cloning if someone that involves all of us.