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Vicki K. - 1) If it wasn't for the violence then we wouldn't have ever gotten to the significant parts in the book. Without the violence, the book would be completely different and the turning points wouldn't be the same.

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2. I think a full circle would be when Hassan is threatening Assef to shot him in the eye with his slingshot and then later in the book when Sohrab meets face to face with Assef and then follows through with Hassans threat and actually shots him in the eye with his slingshot.

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Lexy H. question 3 pt 2-
I think that Baba expected a child more like Hassan, looking to please and always do the right thing. He wanted him to be strong and manly, whereas Amir is kind of a coward and would not do the right thing if others felt different. He is also very insecure and jealous of anyone who gets more attention from Baba like Hassan, in which he steals to frame Hassan for what is seen as, “the only sin” by Baba. So overall I believe that Amir is opposite of what he wanted

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Katelynn Question 1. The whole novel is kind of based around violence, violence is seen as normal over there. A lot of the main points in the novel root from violence, so without violence there would be no book.

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The Quote Khan Made really was a connective quoutt to real life, actually hsving underlying meaning, gave life to the story - Jake H

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3. Yes, parents influence their kids to be the way they envision the child being. Parents always have ideas of how their child should act, or turn into. But the children will be what they turn into the parents can only influence them minorly.
mackenzie wnuk

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Another way to look at the full cycle spectrum is today these events still take place, this book was written in 2003 things like this still happen 16 years later in the middle east.-Gavin

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3. I agree with Rahim Khan on how you can't color a child with the way you want them to be, they have to be their own person and grow the way they need too. You can't force a child to be the way you wanted them to be.

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Ashley McGowan- 3. You can't create your own child. You can raise them the way you want but you can't guarantee they will turn out the way you want.

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Jake H - Violence drove the story, as the story unfolded, the true meanigs behind violence open up to the reader.

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They (the Taliban) can’t control the children’s imagination with coloring or their free will. -Ian Johnson

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I agree with what Ryan says about the coloring books and how you can't fill them with your own colors Cameron Heppe

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3. the color book analogy was great but i feel that parents really even with out trying draw in the lines they color in because your parents  really dictate whom you become especially with regard to your environment at home.

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logan Miller- Baba and Amir came to the U.S. in order to save themselves from the dangers that are back home in Afghanistan. But in doing so they had to leave their home and everything that means behind to begin completely anew. This causes Baba to have to come to terms with having lost not only his wealth, but everything he has spent his life creating. I also believe that with the loss of Baba's wife, (Amir's mother) Baba had connected the world around him in order to deal with her death. And leaving his home, his world, he had truly lost her. it was this coupled with the loss of his home that drove baba's health into degeneration (which was also a physical representation of his depression). While this is true, Amir came to America in order to try to bury his past, to forget the horrors of his former home, and to forget what he had done to Hassan.

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Liam Tolliver: 2. The book shows how that if nothing is done to stop these things in Afghanistan, history will repeat itself. Therefore become the present.

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LexyH. question 4- For Amir this land was an opportunity to be away from anything that was associated with the past and his betrayal of Hassan. Whereas Baba had to leave his birthplace and the only place he knew as home behind. I think Baba truly felt remorse for his decision to leave and wanted to take it back.

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the novel presents the past and the present as in the way they present sohrab as ¨another hassan¨ were as they are so simular they can almost be taken the same important role in the book.

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We as students look for that thrill and action in the stories we read, when reading the kite runner the violence pushes the story forward and the discrimination is what makes us care. -Gavin

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Big Mike- "Children are not color books, to be filled with our favorite colors" I agree, you can't control who they are, or how they feel. The child should have the ability to choose their own life path.

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1. I agree with what's being said. Without violence in this novel, there wouldn't of been much of a story to be told.

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Makayla DeVos- 3. I agree with Jake, these kids never had the chance to express their creativity or even find their favorite colors. Between the hardships and coloring books i think their hardships over power their favortie colors.

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Jake Giddings-
Also if we didn’t have violence in the book what would be the point of the story. The hardships that were in the book wouldn’t have been a thing if violence wasn’t in there

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Violence. If it wasn’t involved in the Kite Runner then I feel like the whole situation would of been a lot different. -Ian Johnson

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Makayla DeVos-
How would the story change without violence? With out voilence hassan could be completely diffrenet throughout the story. However Amir wouldnt change his morals.

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violence is something that is always present in the book all the way to the end

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1. violence is the thing in the book that is brought up the most, everything would be changed if there had been no violence in the story, things would be a whole other story without it.

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Alexa Steele Q3: You can't decide what someone needs to be like. I agree with the quote about how you don't get to fill them in like a coloring book. They're going to be whoever they want to be and there really isn't much that you can do about it.   Q1: If there wasn't violence in the novel, there wouldn't have been the book. Violence plays a huge role in the book because that's a lot about what it is.

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1. violence Is the root of the story and wIthout It the tone would have never been set. It changed everyone n the story's character. Assef hassan Sohrab and more

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Ashley McGowan- 1. violence shaped the whole book and would have been a completely different book without violence. The whole book was about fear and war.

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1.  Violence set the tone for most of the book. it is what made the book interesting to read, oddly to say. if there wasn't violence in the book Amir namely would not have felt guilt for what happened HAssan, but guilt for another situation later on.
mackenzie wnuk

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Trey Ingles - 1.) The violence in this book is a key part because it really shows what its like to be over there rather than here in america. 3.) Children need to have freedom to do what they want and pick what they like not what their parents like who want them to like the same things as them.

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Lexy Hallock- 1. I believe that violence shaped the different themes of forgiveness and courage, being that Hassan was raped and Amir ignored that. If we did not have this violence then Amir could not come full circle to deal with his guilt and make himself a better person.

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Makayla Kurchak 1. violence has shaped the story, because this is how Taliban and general evil characters keep rule over the land. Americans have never experienced violence the way individuals in other nations. 2. Kids still see all this violence and can't control with what they see and are molded by what they're around

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Lexy Hallock

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Katelynn Townes Question 3. We need to let children become their own people, we can't force them into our beliefs. We need to let them form their own views and opinions of the world.

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Mackenzie Wnuk

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9. The path to redemption is individual--other people cannot forgive you and make you feel better. You must forgive yourself. It is up to yourself to determine what it is that will make you feel "good again". You decide if you have changed/learned your lesson from the experience... You are responsible for taking it and turning it into a lesson for the self. So, Amir did reach redemption; his character changed because of the mistakes he made in the past.
10. In the beginning of the novel, kite running was something that revealed the unequal distribution of power within a relationship. In the end, kite running was used as a type of bonding or establishment of friendship/kindness/love.

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Jake H,

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Matthew Jeffrey

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Ian Johnson

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If violence was not present during the kite runner we may alter the story way too much to keep the same context. -Gavin

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Makayla Devos

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Logan Miller-  If violence was not in the story then the entire plot would be different. The whole story would be changed because violence was one of the largest things that the characters had to deal with, both with Hassan when he was raped, and all the way until the end when the children of the orphanage were being sold in order to save the rest of the children.

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Elena Silos Morales

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Big Mike-I agree with Hannah. Hassan and Amir's relationship had violence, and without it, Amir would not of felt guilt for Hassan being raped.

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Jake Giddings

Discuss the roll of violence in the novel. Violence is what sets the main theme and fear of the characters in the book

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Gavin Cossou

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Jake Haskins

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Tyler Boni- Nobody can be controlled to change the way that they are. People can suppress how they think and feel, but cannot do that forever. It is only a matter of time before it actually comes out.

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Hannah Prachyl

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I agree with Josh in question one where he said the violence shaped the entire novel. WIthout violence it wouldn be 'The Kite Runner'. On question three I agree a lot with Lexi and Lizzy Emerson where you can pick what attributes your child inherits and you only have so much influence on who your child becomes in the end.       Sam Philley

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Lizzy Emerson

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Liam Tolliver: 1. Violence is how the taliban and other terrorist gain control and power over the civilians. If there wasn't any violence there would not be a book called the kite runner.

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Martina Lancewicz- (Question #1)  The violence of the book seemed like we wanted to read it more to see what else would happen. If the violence wasn't a big part of the book, everything about it would be different.

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Cameron Heppe how would the story change if there was not violence?  I agree with what Jake is saying with the Taliban and how the violence is the root of the story

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Ashley Mcgowan