Question

Help please?

Answer 1

KiteRunner response re-writes.

The following responses to the short answer on the test are generally correct in content—you are NOT adding to their analysis. Your task is to rewrite them eliminating wordiness. Complete on looseleaf.
You may:
• Combine/rearrange sentences
• Change words into other parts of speech
• Omit unnecessary words AND 1st/2nd person pronouns
• Improve on “to be” verbs and any of the “pet peeve” words like “a lot”, “very”, “thing”, and “the reader”.

#1
The literary device used is a simile and it is significant because it shows visual imagery reflecting the way Amir felt when Hassan and Ali leave Baba’s house. Just as Hassan is precious to the family and significant to Baba and Amir, silver is also a precious item. In the phrase, “looked like melting silver” the metal is getting rid of, paralleled to the way Amir is getting rid of Hassan. Also, the rain is important because it resembles how Baba cries for the first time because of their departure. Rain is also associated with a bad omen, making the mood very sad.

#2
The literary device used in the provided quote is a simile. Rain is being compared to melting silver. This shows great significance in that: silver is a rather valuable metal, and it is being described as melting. Hassan and Amir’s relationship was also valuable and being destroyed with Ali and Hassan leaving. The simile shows a creative comparison of two important things falling apart.

#3
The literary device used in this quote is a simile comparing the rain to melting silver. It is very significant in the fact that everyone was sad for Hassan and Ali leaving, which, is like the rain. So, the melting silver in the simile represented Hassan and Ali leaving. Silver is worth a lot and so were Hassan and Ali. Thus, them leaving was like someone burning silver.

#4
The first kite-flying episode is done in a more ‘greedy’ matter, because Amir cares only about making Baba proud. The other episode is done in a more intellectual and real manner (w/ Sohrab and Amir). It is symbolic of Amir’s character change and maturation throughout the novel. I feel that through these episodes Hosseini reveals that the nature of their country may change, but it will never let go of the memories and traditions (kite-running being an example of unchanged tradition). He also reveals that in his country , different people are brought together with their one common culture.

#5
The scars on the lips of the boys may function as a sign of connection between them. Hassan is simply a servant for Amir at the beginning of the novel. The positions change after Amir decides to confront Assef. Amir now serves Sohrab and takes care of him for Hassan. Both scars are also signs of redemption in the novel. Amir is redeemed by saving Sohrab from Assef who is the one that gave Amir the scar in the fight, while Baba is also redeemed by getting Hassan’s harelip fixed through surgery. The main difference is Baba’s redemption did not include revealing any truth. The boys are now connected by a father and a scar.

Answer 2

@andrea6201 can you help? You are really good

Answer 3

What would be helpful is: A thesaurus.

Anyways, its basically saying summarize it and switch it up in your own words.



Example: #1 The literary device used is a simile and it is significant because it shows visual imagery reflecting the way Amir felt when Hassan and Ali leave Baba’s house.


Ways to convert this sentence is:

* use synonyms,

* cut, or make new sentences.

* combine and use conjunction words like and, because, etc.

* word it in your own understandings.


Want some possible choices?

Answer 4

Can you summarize 2,3,4, and 5 like you did with number one? Please?

Answer 5

@MissSmartiez you have no idea how helpful you are if you help me with all of them

Answer 6

You're amazing! I'm just in a hurry to get these done

Answer 7

Example: #1 The literary device used is a simile and it is significant because it shows visual imagery reflecting the way Amir felt when Hassan and Ali leave Baba’s house.

Literary device, the simile, was used in this story that helped the reader imagine, or paint a picture, about Amir's feelings. Without it, the reader wouldn't be able to know or comprehend how she/he (Is Amir a girl or boy?) felt when Ali and Hassan left Baba's house.

Answer 8

What I summarized was an example of summarizing the thesis for number 1. I will assist you with 1 and 2, maybe 3, but you would need to contribute.

Answer 9

Amir is a boy. Everybody in this story is a boy lol

Answer 10

Ok, XD

Answer 11

What exactly did Amir feel like? Was he jealous? Over protective? What driven him to try to get rid of Hassan?

Answer 12

He was Jelious because his always gave attention to Hassan and not him

Answer 13

His father*

Answer 14

1# Literary device, the simile, was used in this story that helped the reader imagine, or paint a picture, about Amir's feelings. Without it, the reader wouldn't be able to know or comprehend how he felt when Ali and Hassan left Baba's house. The overall mood was jealousy. Jealousy over Hassan.

The reader can identify several similes. Such as how the author compared rain to Baba’s cries, which was a result to the withdrawal of him and Hassan (Just a guess. Correct me if not). Another one is “Looked like melting silver.” Hassan was described as a ‘precious’ resource to the family, which was why they compared him to silver, also a precious resource. The melting of the metal resembled how Amir was ridding the family of Hassan.

Answer 15

Thanks for #1! If you want more medals I can give them to you by posting like "what is 2+2 and you can just post a random response so I can give you more. You're a lot of help for helping me with the rest

Answer 16

No problem! You don't have to go through all of that trouble, it depends on you. I am up for it though.


Your welcome!

Answer 17

Okay it's all good. You're going through this for me so I'll do it for you. Can you help with the rest?

Answer 18

Sure! First, I need you to try to summarize a few. Say for instance, number 2. I didn't read all of it and I can advise you for number 2 as I work for number 3.

Answer 19

Amir lives with his father, Baba, in Kabul, Afghanistan. His mother, who had died during childbirth, had left behind a collection of Sufi literature. From early childhood, Amir likes to read stories from her books to his servant and playmate, Hassan. While Amir is privileged and able to go to school, Hassan is busy with housework. However, in their free time they are good friends. To commemorate these happy times, Amir carves their names on a pomegranate tree.

Living in a single-parent home, Amir yearns for his father’s attention and gets jealous of Hassan when his father bestows favors on Hassan, favors like arranging cosmetic surgery for his harelip. Amir’s desire for his father’s affection also stems from his father’s indifference toward his son’s interest in books. When it is time for the local kite-flying contest, Amir gets excited because he knows that his father will be watching him with genuine interest.

Hassan is excited about the contest, too, and after Amir wins, Hassan runs and catches the prizewinning kite for his friend. Unfortunately, the neighborhood bully, Assef, and his companions stop Hassan and demand the kite from him. Hassan does not surrender the kite and is physically assaulted and raped by Assef. Amir sees the assault but, fearing confrontation with the bully, does nothing—an act of betrayal that will affect Amir into adulthood and forever change his relationship with Hassan.

Both Amir and Hassan know the social gap that defines their identities. In Afghan culture, Amir is a Pashtun and Hassan is a Hazara, which makes him a servant. Religious difference also sets them apart, even though they both are Muslim: Amir is Sunni, and Hassan is Shia. Pashtuns, the majority ethnic group in Afghanistan, make fun of Hazaras, a minority ethnic group, treating them as pariahs. Children taunt Hassan’s father, Ali, as “a slant-eyed donkey,” and Assef insults Hassan as a “flat-nosed” Hazara who does not belong in Afghanistan.

Amir is not disturbed with his servant-master friendship until the kite incident. Even as a twelve-year-old kid, he is old enough to know that he has not been good. Hassan’s presence reminds him of his own guilt, so he asks his father to get new servants. Baba refuses but, instead, frames Hassan, accusing him of theft; Hassan and his father leave Kabul. A few years later, because of the Russian invasion, Baba and Amir secretly leave Kabul, too. They cross the border into Pakistan after a difficult journey and emigrate to the United States.

Baba adjusts to the cultural and economic challenges of living in the United States and is happy with Amir’s educational success. Amir had majored in English to pursue a writing career, his childhood dream. On weekends, he helps his father sell at the local flea market, where he meets Soraya, the daughter of an expatriate Afghan general. Amir and Soraya soon fall in love, and Amir’s father makes lavish arrangements for a grand wedding. Baba, who has been suffering from cancer, dies one month after the wedding.

Amir and Soraya are happy together, but they remain childless for many years. Twenty years later Amir is a successful novelist in the United States. An old friend of his father, Rahim Khan, calls Amir on the phone and invites him to Pakistan. Amir meets him and soon learns that Baba had sold his home to Rahim. Rahim had then brought back Hassan and his family to live with him. Unfortunately, in Rahim’s absence, Talibs had come to the house and shot Hassan and his wife; their son, Sohrab, ended up in an orphanage.

Rahim also reveals that Hassan was actually Baba’s son, and Amir’s half-brother. Amir is outraged by this belated discovery, but he also recalls his own guilt. Thus, he embarks on a dangerous journey to Afghanistan to atone his past sins and to rescue Sohrab, his nephew.

Afghanistan is now under the oppressive control of the Taliban. After a great deal of searching, Amir meets a Talib, who agrees to arrange a meeting with Sohrab. Amir goes to the appointed place and recognizes Assef, the neighborhood bully from their younger days, who is now a Talib; Assef practically owns Sohrab. Assef says he will release Sohrab only if Amir will engage in one-on-one physical combat with him, and win. In this mismatched fight, Amir is seriously injured. Sohrab hits Assef in the eye with something fired from his slingshot, and Amir and Sohrab manage to escape.

Sohrab and Amir flee to Pakistan, and Amir is hospitalized. He plans to return to the United States with Sohrab after he recovers from his injuries, but because he is not a legal guardian of the child, he cannot obtain a U.S. visa for him. A lawyer advises Amir that to legally adopt Sohrab, it would be necessary to place Sohrab in an orphanage. When Amir reveals this plan to Sohrab, the child is devastated and feels betrayed; Amir had promised him that he would never send him to an orphanage. Sohrab attempts suicide, and Amir finds his nephew’s body in the bathroom, covered with blood. Amir screams for help and vows to become a devout Muslim if God will spare Sohrab’s life. Sohrab lives, but he no longer talks or smiles.

Finally, Amir is able to return to the United States with Sohrab after Soraya obtains a humanitarian visa for the child. The couple do their best to make Sohrab happy in his new home, and Amir forbids his father-in-law from ever referring to Sohrab as a Hazara. Later, Sohrab shows signs of a faint smile as Amir runs after a prizewinning kite.

Answer 20

I've already done a summery as an assemsent and I figured it would help you so here you go(:

Answer 21

@MissSmartiez does this help?

Answer 22

yes, thank you.

Answer 23

Yay(: I need these by tomorrow for school could you let me know when you finish?

Answer 24

@BlueMoon1 I will only do a few. Not all of it because it is your homework too.

Answer 25

That's fine. Could you do 2-4?

Answer 26

I will do 4, and maybe half of five. 2 and 3 I don't necessarily get.

Answer 27

Okay that's fine

Answer 28

@MissSmartiez?

Answer 29

You can still help with 4 and 5 right?

Answer 30

Oh, I made mistakes too.

Make sure you reword a bit and correct the comma usage. I will do the revised format:

#4 When Amir was participating in the ‘first flying of the kite’ contest, he is shown as greedy and selfish. Amir merely cared about making his father proud and himself safe. He let Assef, whom was a neighborhood bully, rape, assault, and oppress Hassan in fear of meeting the same fate. However, in the story, it shows a drastic character development in Amir when he was older. Not only did his maturity level change, but also his heart. He appeared to be genuinely sorry and regretful. Amir also seems selfless towards Sorhab too.

Through the events, it showed that even when Amir’s country underwent changes and morphs; the traditions and memories; good or bad, does not. It also displayed that his people are/can be brought together in union with their common culture. (Say what it is.)

Answer 31

As if right now, I recommend you doing the rest, thats all I can do. Someone needs me.

Answer 32

You're getting like 10 medals after I get done(: thanks! After your done can you Summerize 5 though? I'll definitely do the rest @MissSmartiez

Answer 33

@MissSmartiez???? Please? Just #5 and I'll never bother you again

Answer 34

Other then when I reward with medals

Answer 35

? You didn't need to spam me, XD, I was coming back, just getting water and tea.

Answer 36

Awww I'm sorry I feel bad now. Ugh I am just in hurry. I'm sorry:(

Answer 37

Its ok, well I need yo go offline, so, start summarizing before I come back.

Answer 38

@MissSmartiez here is the summary: after recovering from the beating he endures in order to rescue Hassan's son Sohrab, Amir develops a scar on his lip which resembles the scar that Hassan had since childhood, also on his lip. Which is both ironic and symbolic. Amir's new scar makes him more like Hassan, just as his rescue of Sohrab makes him more like Hassan: Amir rescued Sohrab from Assef, just as Hassan once have rescued Amir from Assef. To further he irony, it is with his slingshot that Sohrab saves Amir from being beatin to death, just as his father used the slingshot to save Amir from Assef many years ago. Amir's scar becomes both a badge of honor and courage

Answer 39

@MissSmartiez can you help with #5 I need it by tonight