https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z Our reflections on the use of language in the text. en-us 2018-01-22 21:02:42 UTC 2025-11-17 04:18:42 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225111689 Hosseini uses lots of imagery in the book "The Kite Runner". For example in chapter eight when he is describing the fireworks during Amir's birthday party. "People cheered, burst into applause each time flares sizzled and exploded into bouquets of fire."]]> 2018-01-26 16:01:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225111689 csears85 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225145875 A symbol in the Kite Runner can be the kite. It shows that when he wins the contest, its shown as a trophy and happiness. But when it gets cut it can show an act of betrayal or sadness.
-Cassie and Kaiya ]]> 2018-01-26 17:11:33 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225145875 gtunsenperez73 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225147065 In the kite runner, the kite could be a symbolic trophy and represent happiness but once it gets cut it can represent sadness.]]> 2018-01-26 17:13:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225147065 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225147215 A symbol in the Kite Runner could be a kite.]]> 2018-01-26 17:14:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225147215 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225147435  In the kite runner Amir gets a leather journal for his birthday and as an adult he becomes a writer.  The journal is a symbol of him becoming a writer. ]]> 2018-01-26 17:14:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225147435 mcarlton62 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225147639 A symbol in the Kite Runner is the money he gets for his birthday. Amir gets lots of money for his birthday. Money can represent greed, sadness, and can make people insane. As we learn in chapter eight Amir becomes an insomniac and will never be able to forgot what he did. Correpondingly to becoming insane, Amir seems to never be happy, as he begins to always avoid Hassan.]]> 2018-01-26 17:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225147639 kevulich20 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225147939 A symbol in The Kite Runner the kite. It symbolizes victory and success, however, it also symbolizes Hassan's sexual assault and when Hassan loses his happiness.]]> 2018-01-26 17:16:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225147939 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225147994 In the novel, The Kite Runner, the winter season symbolizes Amir's happiness as a child. He looks forward to this specific season all year long and when it's over, looks forward to the next winter.]]> 2018-01-26 17:16:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225147994 aedgar24 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225148008 A symbol in the novel "The Kite Runner" is the kite, which symbolizes success, but also the sexaul assalut that happened to Hassan]]> 2018-01-26 17:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225148008 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225148583  The use of imagery is abundant in Hosseini's book, "The Kite Runner". At the end of chapter seven, Amir experiences post-traumatic emotions due to the powerful, evil event that he witnessed, he paints the story of his return home to his father, how is is accepted in and how he is glad that he forgot about Hassan. a selfish act, considering his friend and servant just got sexually abused, yet the scene is depicted as warm yet emotional, but not sad, scene of reconciliation between a father and son.]]> 2018-01-26 17:17:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225148583 lberti19 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149046 Amir in chapter one  starts off immediately with foreshadowing and flashback by saying "I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975." Amir is writing this in 2001

]]> 2018-01-26 17:18:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149046 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149048 The author uses immense imagery to help describe what Amir was seeing, "I opened the door to the smoky study and stepped in... listening to the news crackling on the radio. Their heads turned. Then a smile played on my father’s lips. He opened his arms. I put the kite down and walked into his thick hairy arms. I buried my face in the warmth of his chest and wept. Baba held me close to him, rocking me back and forth. In his arms, I forgot what I’d done. And that was good."  This scene displays incredible imagery, the author describes the quote as if your in Amir's position and your experiencing what he's seeing. 

]]> 2018-01-26 17:18:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149048 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149068 2018-01-26 17:18:33 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149068 iharmon58 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149080 In page 17 Baba states, "There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft." Which foreshadows Amir's leaving Hassan alone to deal with his assault and basically steals his childhood.]]> 2018-01-26 17:18:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149080 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149113 In chapter 6 when Amir describes that sometimes when he looks Hassan he saw "two faces" one that he knew and one that was "lurking below the surface" (Hosseini 54). This could be foreshadowing to a change in Hassan]]> 2018-01-26 17:18:40 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149113 nwalker241 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149152 An obvious foreshadowing in The Kite Runner, was in chapter 5, where Hosseini writes, "Because that was the winter that Hassan stopped smiling." (Hosseini 47). This foreshadows the traumatic event that occurs to Hassan after the kite fight.

]]> 2018-01-26 17:18:45 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149152 aedgar24 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149373 IN the novel, "THe kIte Runner", the book is almost entirely in past tense, and the main character, Amir, is always looking back on the things he did, and it's almost always in a sad, grim and ashamed way. An example of this is when he's describing the assualt on hassan, and he repeats the image of the snow when hassan walks away, showing the reading that it is an image burned in his mind and that he cannot forgive himself.]]> 2018-01-26 17:19:17 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149373 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149447 Throughout the novel the Author writes in past tense, telling his story from when he was younger. He does this to give more reliable information coming from an adult not a kid. ]]> 2018-01-26 17:19:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149447 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149635 In chapter seven of The Kite Runner, the author uses imagery to describe the alley in which Hassan is assaulted. He writes, "A havoc of scrap and rubble littered the alley. Worn bicycle tires, bottles with peeled labels, ripped up magazines, yellowed newspapers, all scattered amid a pile if bricks and slabs tilted against a wall," (Hosseini, 75)]]> 2018-01-26 17:19:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149635 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149769 The start of the book is told in present tense. The author says, "I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975" (Hosseini 1).]]> 2018-01-26 17:20:14 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149769 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149888 An example of imagery in the book "The Kite Runner" occurs in chapter three, when Amir goes to the lake with Baba. Amir uses imagery While describing the setting when he says, "The water was a deep blue and sunlight glittered on its looking glass-clear surface." (Hossenini 14).]]> 2018-01-26 17:20:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149888 dsoriano93 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149913 2018-01-26 17:20:35 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225149913 vtrujillo44 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225150129 During a walk that Amir decides to take, he explains "The early-afternoon sun sparkled on the water where dozens of miniature boats sailed, propelled by a crisp breeze.'' (Hosseini) During his walk, he describes the beauty of his surroundings which appeals to the sense of sight. It shows how one can learn to appreciate the simplest of things in life.]]> 2018-01-26 17:21:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225150129 dsoriano93 https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225150528 The author uses imagery in The Kite Runner when he says "Now only the folded clothes greeted me"(Hosseini 80) In this quote you are shown how the past events have changed Amirs relation with Hassan.]]> 2018-01-26 17:21:59 UTC https://padlet.com/dkline6/7rmuzw26dy1z/wish/225150528