Anticipation Guide.

1) The key to all emotional healing can be found in nature.
Disagree


2) Nature is filled with harsh cruelties.
Agree


3) A person’s priorities should place family before work.
Agree

4) Enjoying life is more important than pursuing fame, glory, and knowledge.
Agree

5) Those born with social and financial advantages have a responsibility for those who are not.
Disagree and agree but if had to choose: Disagree

6) Ignorance is bliss.
Agree


7) The pursuit of knowledge is a volatile quest.
Agree

8) Someone’s ego (over-inflated sense of self-worth or superiority) will cause a tragic fall.
Agree

9) Children learn their behaviors by watching and mimicking adults.
Agree

10) Most people are basically cruel.
Disagree

11) Society makes a person whatever he becomes.
Disagree and Agree but if had to choose Agree

12) The “disenfranchised man,” who finds himself unable to live within society for whatever reason, is someone for whom we should feel sympathy or reverence.
Disagree

13) Rejection and mistreatment can manifest themselves in a person becoming rage-filled.
Agree

14) If a person or an animal is treated with cruelty, he will respond to others in the same way.
Agree

15) Those people we deem “monsters” in today’s society are merely misunderstood.
Disagree

11) Society makes a person whatever he becomes...
- This all depends on how strong the person truly is, but mainly I agree with this statement. For example an African American child is born in the Bronx what are the chances of him being the first one of his family to go to university, or becoming a civil engineer? Of course there have been cases were the person has exceeded this, especially in sport, but if your are influenced by the society rich or poor, at a young age you "become the society" Also the people you are surrounded by in the society decides what kind of person you become. For example your parents are extremely rich, your probably going to end up being stuck up, because you are surrounded by people who instantly get anything and everything they want including the society. I know every country even cities have their dangers but if raised up in London for example your son or daughter might be corrupted and introduced to your surroundings such as hooliganism, Alcohol, drugs etc. This is the same case anywhere else in the world. Societies need to be better...



15) Those people we deem “monsters” in today’s society are merely misunderstood.
Disagree

I strongly disagree with this statement because everyone by now should know how the world clicks, so people perfectly understand what they are doing and why. For example someone has enough of being bullied and comes to school one day and kills everyone in there, this particular person knows exactly what they are doing. How can someone that is accused of rape or molesting a child be misunderstood, they perfectly know what they are doing and what they are capable of. These "monsters" know exactly what they are doing but if I had something to say to these people, I would tell them: think about the consequences as well as how you are going to take someones life away with your actions. I on the other hand am misunderstood on how these "monsters" can do such things.

The Kite Runner- Review by Paul Engomites

The #1 New York Times bestseller The Kite Runner was published by Khaled Hosseini on August 3rd 2003, at the time this extraordinary book was like no other, many different reviews, and critiques described this book as “powerful…haunting” “moving and unexpected” “evocative and genuine” The Kite Runner fulfills the promise of fiction and has many different themes and genres such as love, honor, guilt, fear even redemption. The themes are “universal” familial relationships, particularly father and son, the price of disloyalty, the inhumanity of a rigid class system and the horrific realities of war. The novel both transforms the life of Amir, Khaled Hosseini's young narrator, who comes of age during the last peaceful days of the monarchy, just before his country's revolution and its invasion by Russian forces. The mood and tone change unpredictably and there are many different ones. For instance it is very thoughtful, tragic, filled with despair and very sad but at other times it is uplifting and hopeful. The author effectively employs literary devices accurately as well as characterization to define the characters. (Amir and Hassan) I personally could not connect with the book, because it was based on a cold blooded war, and hope not to in the future. I would definitely recommend this book to older people around the age groups of 20+ because Khaled Hosseini’s writing style is tricky and might not be understandable to some, but otherwise reading this book was a great use of time.

TKAM

Thomas Robinson reached around, ran his fingers under his left arm and lifted it.
He guided his arm to the Bible and his rubber-like left hand sought contact with
the black binding. As he raised his right hand, the useless one slipped off the
Bible and hit the clerk’s table. He was trying again when Judge Taylor growled,
“That’ll do, Tom.” she furiously said. Tom took the oath and stepped into the witness chair. Atticus quickly induced him to tell us:
Tom was twenty-five years of age; he was married with three children; he had
been in trouble with the law before: he once received thirty days for disorderly
conduct.
“It must have been disorderly,” said Atticus. “What did it consist of?”
“Got in a fight with another man, he tried to cut me.”
“Did he succeed?”
“Yes suh, a little, not enough to hurt. You see, I—” Tom moved his left shoulder.
“Yes,” said Atticus. “You were both convicted?”
“Yes suh, I had to serve ‘cause I couldn’t pay the fine. Other fellow paid his’n.”
Dill leaned across me and asked Jem what Atticus was doing. Jem said Atticus
was showing the jury that Tom had nothing to hide.
“Were you acquainted with Mayella Violet Ewell?” asked Atticus.