https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf Invitation to notice en-us 2016-12-09 19:29:39 UTC 2025-11-02 07:13:32 UTC hello@padlet.com tonyamarquez1_1 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142895666 America was different. America was a river, roaring along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.]]> 2016-12-09 19:30:54 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142895666 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896288 -Amir uses asyndenton in order to share the calming feeling he has towards America. 
- in America, he has no worries, nobody knows his past, therefore, he feels free, like a river.
-he states that his sins are so heavy they will drown  in the river.]]> 2016-12-09 19:33:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896288 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896319 -talking about America as a "was" and not an "is"
-water as a symbol that can wash away any problems maybe some of Amir's gulit. ]]> 2016-12-09 19:33:16 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896319 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896325 -Water symbolizes cleansing\rebirth]]> 2016-12-09 19:33:17 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896325 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896337 -No Ghost- No memories to haunt him 
-"Water carrying me"- America is a fresh start for Amir, nobody knows him, nobody knows what he's done and "hasn't" done.

]]> 2016-12-09 19:33:19 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896337 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896350 Figurative language
-metaphor
-personification
-asindeton
-antithesis
Describes how traveling to America relieved his aching guilt. ]]> 2016-12-09 19:33:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896350 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896391 -water = rebirth 
-amir has the chance to leave his past behind
-relief to an extent , his new life will be different, the past remains but he does not have to feel the guilt if he does not see it 
-alliteration ]]> 2016-12-09 19:33:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896391 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896408 - There's no one in America to remind Amir of what he did. To Amir, America is a fresh start.]]> 2016-12-09 19:33:33 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896408 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896454 - American doesn't look back/always looks forward
- Nobody knows him; which means nobody can remind him of what he did, or rather didn't, do.
-Water=rebirth/rejuvenation
-Stepping into America gives him clearance, but also the ability to atone for his sins. ]]> 2016-12-09 19:33:42 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896454 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896467 -It implies that Amir is from a place of sin and bad memories
-Water is a symbol for rebirth and cleansing and it would clean out Amir's sins
-America moves on and doesn't remind him of the past]]> 2016-12-09 19:33:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896467 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896498 - Uses water symbolism meaning rebirth.
-  asyndenton is used to speak on the negative things america is lacking
- Hassan and the sins of his past are left behind

]]> 2016-12-09 19:33:47 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896498 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896511 - three parts to each sentence.
- water cleaning, america is the river
- asyndenton
-water is a metaphor
-enumeration ]]> 2016-12-09 19:33:49 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896511 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896514 -water is a purifying agent 
-Amir isn't as burdened by Hassan's rape
-asyndenton
-compares his lack of action to sin 

]]> 2016-12-09 19:33:50 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896514 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896550 -Uses strong metaphor- America and the river
-]]> 2016-12-09 19:33:57 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896550 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896577 -He's glad that he is in a place where all the stuff he did is forgotten 
-Metaphor for America:how  you can go start fresh somewhere 
-In Afghanistan Amir was drowning in his sin and now that he is in America he finds himself in a manageable state 

]]> 2016-12-09 19:34:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896577 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896603 -water is a symbol of rebirth and new beginnings
-the American way is too fast to dwell on the past
-Nothing in America will remind Amir of his sins including Hassan

]]> 2016-12-09 19:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896603 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896608 -Comparing how his life was in Afghanistan
--Water symbolism 
-Talking about how his sins in Afghanistan are forgotten in America 
-]]> 2016-12-09 19:34:10 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896608 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896617 - America doesn't move slowly enough to dwell on the past
- Amir doesn't know anyone in America, so he'll fit less guilty
 - Water represents rebirth]]> 2016-12-09 19:34:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896617 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896651 - a metaphor
- a new beginning for Amir

]]> 2016-12-09 19:34:17 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896651 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896686 The passage is very to the point, has lots of symbolism with water which helps us to personally relate, passage gives some insight into his personal feelings, and gives the impression of the feeling of a clean slate.]]> 2016-12-09 19:34:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896686 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896770 2016-12-09 19:34:41 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896770 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896772 -Amir is happy because he feels as though America is a new start and nothing bad can happen there 
-Water can be a symbol for a rebirth, he can be cleansed here. ]]> 2016-12-09 19:34:41 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896772 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896789 2016-12-09 19:34:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896789 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896790 2016-12-09 19:34:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896790 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896798 - The water is the key to rebirth from his sins.
- Water is compared to America=Metaphor.
- Water is a symbol of Admir taking shame of his sins, but also a place where he can do things different.]]> 2016-12-09 19:34:47 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896798 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896813 -the water represents rebirth
-america for amir is like a new beginning 
- ]]> 2016-12-09 19:34:51 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896813 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896814 - Water is renewing and a cleanse. 
- He believes America is a new start where no one knows him or his past. 
- Rebirth ]]> 2016-12-09 19:34:51 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896814 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896884 A fresh start for Amir in America. 

]]> 2016-12-09 19:35:05 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896884 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896929 -He feels as if America is giving him a chance to start over
-water symbolizes rebirth.
-America is a place where the past can be forgotten.

]]> 2016-12-09 19:35:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896929 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896982 -I think it is weird that he says the river will carry him to someplace with no sin even though America is kind of like a land of sin...
-I think that sometime in the book Amir called himself a ghost, maybe this is noteable because he is trying to escape something that he is, but the purpose is more towards "the harelipped ghost" Hassan so not sure
-Everything that he wants to let go of are just things that make him himself and he never lets them go... There is like this reoccurring belief he has that things will fix themselves when that is not the reality ex: His relationship with Baba being fixed by a kite]]> 2016-12-09 19:35:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142896982 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142897082 Amir sees the start of new beginning in his life.]]> 2016-12-09 19:35:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142897082 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142897094 -The passage contrasts with the way of life in Kabul where Amir felt trapped.
- This river symbolizes Amir's new life where he can forget the past.

]]> 2016-12-09 19:35:56 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142897094 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142897116 lots of water imagery: compares America to a river here, Afhganistan to a lake, Hassan's dream about the lake
 ]]> 2016-12-09 19:36:04 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142897116 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142897215 - has the American expectation 
 -  he is only thinking about his life now

]]> 2016-12-09 19:36:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142897215 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142897445 -There's a metaphor comparing the river and America.]]> 2016-12-09 19:37:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/142897445 https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/143028913 - River- water= rebirth, renewal
- roaring along= fast paced, can't dwell on past
- He can let go of his sins because there would be no familiar place, person, or event that would bring back up the memories and the guilt.]]> 2016-12-12 00:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyamarquez1_1/10rb2s3wjlvf/wish/143028913