Introduction

Have you ever had a moment where you were scared or weak and decided to take cowards way out. Did that moment effect your life? Did you miss out on a chance at love, a friendship or another opportunity of greatness?

Resume

First Name: Khaled
Last Name: Hosseini
Ethnicity: Persian
Born: 1965, Kabul, Afghanistan
Died: N/A
Previous Jobs:
-Taught history Classes
-Taught Farsi (Persian language)
-Resident in Cedars-Sinai Hospital
Education: Medical Degree from California University
Moved? To California, United states on political asylum from communists
Personal Info: I established the Khaled Hossieni Foundation using my wealth from my national bestsellers THE KITE RUNNER and A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS.

Current Location: San Diego, California, USA

source: http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2008/1124/barnes-noble-interview-with-khaled-hosseini

An interview with Khaled Hosseini, done by a Mr. James Mustich, Editor-in-Chief, Barnes & Noble Review. The whole interview is a 9 page textual document so i am highlighting the main points of it in this post.


-The first thing it reveals is a quick bio of hosseini: "Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1965. At the age of 11, he moved to Paris with his family as a result of his father's diplomatic posting to the French capital by the Afghan Foreign Service. Four years later, unable to return home because of the Soviet invasion, the Hosseini family was granted political asylum in the United States and moved to San Jose, California, where the future author pursued his high school education. He subsequently enrolled in Santa Clara University, earning a Biology degree before attending the University of California at San Diego's School of Medicine. He spent seven years as a practicing internist before the publication of his first novel, The Kite Runner, in 2003."


-Then they go on talking about how he was influenced by the storytelling was of afghan in his story's and his other literary influences in his household such as poetry and his family.

Kite Runner Visual Age

Graphs

-Graph conmapring Amirs Relationship with Hassan and Babba.

Instructions: I will give you a handout and draw a graph showing your relationship with 2 friends, "significant others", or family members. Have option to show the class

Montage Rationale

(rationale for the montage i haven't loaded up on here yet.)

For my montage, i did the theme of cowardice and the sorrow that comes afterwards. I used pictures that expressed violence, rape, and fighting, and then the sorrow that comes afterwards. We chose many cowardice pictures to express the scene where Hassan gets raped by Assef and Amir des nothing to help, even though a few scenes earlier Hassan saves Amir from getting beat up by Assef. This lack of courage causes Amir to loser his friendship with Hassan, then frame him so he would have to o away forever...

Goodbye Quote

The hardest part of any friendship is when it's time to say goodbye. As much as we might like things to stay the same, change is an inevitable part of life. The universe may seem huge and the rift between friends on opposite side of the world may seem a great distance. There are many tools available with which we can communicate, but even without these tools there is a secret that only real friends know, and it is this. All the mountains and valleys in the world cannot separate friends whose hearts are as one.

Non Fiction Extension (Kabul in Winter)

http://books.google.com/books?id=EJsD1UVJKPsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=kabul+in+winter&hl=en&ei=H4j0S_vMHoL48Aa-0aGkBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false


Kabul in Winter, by Ann Jones, is a book written about life in Kabul, emphasizing violence and rape, primarily on afghan females. I feel like this works with THE KITE RUNNER very well because of the rape of Amir, and the similar settings.

Kite runner poetry Extension