The Kite Runner Chapter 6-7

Chapter 6

Every winter year, Kabul have a kite fighting tournament. Baba takes Amir and Hassan to an old blind man who makes the best kites in the city. Baba buys them three identical kites, Amir would always ask Baba to buy a bigger and better kite, he would but he would also buy Hassan the same kite and Amir wish he could be the favorite one. Hassan is the best kite runner in Kabul and he always know when and where a kite is landing before the kite lands. Amir likes Hassan athleticism and wants to run just like him. Baba thinks that Amir is going to win, but Amir believes that he’s going to win and says that it’s his mission to win so that he doesn’t be the ghost in the house anymore and he would be pardoned for killing his mother.

Chapter 7

The tournaments has been held in Amir’s neighborhood. Amir won the tournament and is very happy about it, Hassan than hugs Amir congratulating him but Amir can see it in Baba’s face that he wanted them to separate. Hassan told Amir that he will go get his kite, Amir went to go look for Hassan because he couldn’t find him, Amir than begins to ask people and they were disgusted from why he was looking for a Hazara and Amir than says that it was his old man servant son, but they told him that he ran south. Assef and his little crew caught Hassan and stated that they would let him go if he gives up the kite. Hassan told them no and states that Amir would be mad if he gave them the kites Assef than says that Amir doesn’t like Hassan and Hassan states that him and Amir are friends. Assef and his crew began to go towards Hassan, Amir was going to say something but he just watched them. One of the boys, Wali, told Assef that what they are about to do to Hassan is sinful but Assef say that he was only a Hazara, Assef had raped Hassan, Amir didn’t know what to do so he ran. Hassan than comes back and gave Amir his kite and they never spoke of what happened.

The Kite Killer(Chapter1,2, and 3)

Chapter 1- The narrator mentions that his past made him the person he is today, he located in San Francisco, something happened in his past, when his childhood friend called and everything from his past had bring back into his mind, I believe that the narrator has probably did something bad in his past.

Chapter 2- The narrator had a flash back from when he was a little boy, he had an childhood friend name Hassan, who was also related to Hazara, Ali was Hassan father and Sanaubar was Hassan mother. Sanaubar and Ali were first cousins, she never cared about Hassan at all, less than a week later after she gave birth, she left him and went to travel with singers and dancers, The narrator(Amir) mother died when she was giving birth to him, Hassan always had Amir back, Hassan always took the blame for Amir.

Chapter 3- Baba(Amir’s father) had build a orphanage for children, people doubted him because they believe that he didn’t have the blood for business, not only does he have the orphanage, he also have a restaurant, houses, and more. Amir feels alone because of Baba not giving him the attention that he wants, every time he would try to talk to him or ask him a question he would either yell or just grunt. Amir told Baba about the mullah teaching him that drinking is a sin and Baba told Amir that they all are liars and that there are only one sin and that is theft and that drinking and other things were the variations of theft. Amir didn’t like how Baba always treated other children nicely, he even wished death on the other children he was building the orphanage for.

“Alone” by Maya Angelou

Today in class, I’ve presented my poem today, which was “Alone” by Maya Angelou. I’ve memorized everything but every time I present I get nervous and stutter and I don’t like that at all. The process of presenting this poem was excellent, I got the grade that I wanted. This was a very fun project to do because the poem was essay to understand not only for anyone but for myself as well because I can relate to this poem. I feel as if I need to put myself out there in society and not be scared of anyone’s judgement. This poem has taught me that I’m not alone, I have family and friends by my side. Even people with money can not survive by being alone, money is not always the way to solve problems. Overall, I had fun doing the project and it was a very essay project to present.

Absent

Absent.

The Myth of Music (for my father)

Today in class, we talked about the AP essay scores rubric. It talks about the things that you have in your essay, which can prevent what you make on the AP Exam. For example, having errors, not answering the prompt, or not completing the essay at all you can make potentially make a 0. We looked at examples of some AP students essays, after that we scored them and explained why we’ve chosen that score. We than scored each other essays, and talked about it in class. What I learned today was what you needed to have on your essay to have the perfect score, you don’t have to try to aim for that 9, you can easily pass the AP Exam if you do good with multiple choice and making at less a 5 or higher on tour free responses.

Incident

Today in class, we talked about words that offended us. A word that offended me was the word “bitch”, this word offends me because of how they use the word and because of the meaning of the word, which means female dog. In class, we talked about the word “nigger” and the different aspect of the word. I’ve learn new things such as that people use “nigger” for a lot of things. Such as nigger rich, nigger work, and etc.. I’ve also learned some other words that can also be offended to black people such as tom, mammy, and etc.. We’ve watched some videos on how “cracker” and “honky” is very offensive to white people but it’s not worse than “nigger”. Some people were interviewed and people were saying that it’s not offensive than the word “nigger” is. I believe this because white people wasn’t going to places that they weren’t allowed to go to unlike black people. They always had signs that were saying “no niggers allowed” or “niggers only”. Us black people had to dealt with racism for a very period of time and we still experience it today. Words can change everything about something for example, in the poem “Incident” by Countee Cullen. A little boy went to Baltimore, and he was very happy to experience the city, and the only thing he remembered from being their was that this boy called him a nigger. Words can be very conceited, and in that situation it was.

The Myth of Music for my father

Today in class, we read a poem by Rachel M. Harper, “My Myth of Music for my father”. It was about how a song the speaker remembers when her and her family were spending time together, and how the song bring back the memory from when her and her family were having family time. The important thing I learned today was that music creates moments that will always be with you. I believe that this is true because everyone has that one song that they would hear and it would bring a memory back from when they were an child. For me, I was at my house with my mom and dad and they use to always play this song called “Sweet Love” by Anita Baker, every time I hear that song it always bring that memory up from when I was a little girl singing that song.