The Kite Runner‚ Khaled Hosseini Chapters 1-5 (PP. 1-47) Reading Questions 1. The novel begins with a flashback. What do you think is its purpose? What do you learn about the narrator? The purpose of the book in my opinion is to set up the setting of the main idea of the book and to give the readers Amir’s opinion on his fellow characters‚ so they can see the main idea. You learn about Amir’s life and how this event has affected him. 2. Who is Hassan? Describe him physically. What
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1) Throughout the border state of Punjab‚ whether in villages or cities‚ drugs have become a scourge. Opium is prevalent‚ refined as heroin or other illegal substances. Schoolboys sometimes eat small black balls of opium paste‚ with tea‚ before classes. Synthetic drugs are popular among those too poor to afford heroin. 2) The scale of the problem‚ if impossible to quantify precisely‚ is undeniably immense and worrisome. India has one of the world’s youngest populations‚ a factor that is
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From the beginning‚ Asia has always had a huge impact on the history of the world. Without contributions from caliphs like Ibn Fadlan‚ traders like Abraham bin Yuji‚ and nobles such as Ibn Battuta‚ our world would be very different today. Xuanzang‚ a Buddhist monk‚ fled his Chinese monastery illegally to travel to India‚ and retuned after 17 years‚ around the same time the Tang dynasty began‚ where he later reunited with his brother‚ and remained a buddhist monk. Ibn Fadlan‚ a noble who traveled
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READER RESPONSE Section 1: Summary In this chapter we are going to see that after the rape‚ Amir and Hassan spend less time together. Baba and Amir take a trip to Jalalabad and they stay at the house of Baba’s cousin. When they finally arrived to BABA’s cousin they got an Afghan tradition dinner and Baba stared talking about the tournament that his son won but Amir wasn’t feel comfortable with that. After dinner‚ they all lie down to bed in the same room‚ but Amir couldn’t sleep. He said
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INTRODUCTION Recent political and economic developments at the global and regional levels have resulted in a more conducive development environment in the Asian and Pacific region and the opening-up of opportunities for international trade and tourism development for the developing countries of the region‚ including those which are landlocked. Nevertheless‚ the lack of unhindered access to the sea adds transport costs and time to international trade transactions. In addition‚ landlocked countries
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particular for them to stop what they were doing. One of the leaders of the Taliban‚ Noorullah Noori. Noorullah and Malala both came from the same place but are different in nature. One of the Taliban’s soldiers said that Noorullah wanted to go to Afghanistan just to kill Americans. While Malala wants to save people’s lives and education. One day she might save everyone’s education and life one
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Pashtun‚ and Hassan‚ a Hazara‚ grew up together like brothers but always had the boundary of discrimination and tradition that Amir couldn’t seem to disregard like his own father had. Dealing with the life of being a Hazara can be deadly living in Afghanistan and for Amir to accept Hassan as a friend seemed unreal. Holding him back to protect his own friend over himself was never his own intentions‚ which lead him to live years in guilt. The conflict between the discrimination against Hazaras and Pashtuns
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Ancient India India is one of the world’s oldest civilizations. Its ancient history dates back further than most and has many periods. Very little is known about the earliest inhabitants of India. Ancient tools found in the Soan Valley and South India are the earliest evidence of humans in India discovered so far. Some of the tools date back to the Paleolithic Age – 400‚000 to 200‚000 years ago‚ other tools date to the Mesolithic Age and the Neolithic Age (8000 BC – 4000 BC). The first
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Assignment I Identify what you think is the single most important factor—political‚ economic‚ cultural‚ or environmental--in the Middle East prior to 1948 that has influenced today’s world. Explain and discuss this factor and its influences today in the Middle East using detailed and specific examples to support your argument. Without equivocation oil in the Middle East has been the biggest factor to influence today’s world. With the exception of food‚ no commodity is more widely in demand
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where Baba and I grew up together. Although we did grow up together‚ Baba never referred to me as a friend. Similarly‚ for our ethnic and religious differences. At the same time ‚ I continue to refuse to give up my morals and my lifestyle in Afghanistan in contempt of my beliefs. Amir ‚ aside from your ethnic ‚culture and religious discrepancies between you and Hassan‚ Hassan looks beyond those differences‚ like Baba and I grew up. Baba is a courageous individual with a strong mind as well
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