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Post by Mr. Malloy on Apr 1, 2020 22:15:55 GMT
As stated earlier, one of the things that you will be tracking throughout the course of the novel are motifs. Please feel free to go back and take a look at the notes on motifs if you wish. Here in the coming weeks, you will be expected to submit a Motif Tracking Guide. Again, the motifs that will be explored are:
*Fathers and Sons *Friendship *Dreams *Discrimination *Guilt and Redemption *Kite Running *Your choice
Looking specifically at Chapters 8-10, identify at least one (1) passage from the text that is an example of one of the above motifs. Write the passage, include the page number, and then briefly describe its significance, i.e. how is this an example of your chosen motif? Why is this passage important? The examples you provide can be used and included on your Motif Tracking Guide.
For example…
“I’d chase the car, screaming for it to stop. I’d pull Hassan out of the backseat and tell him I was sorry, so sorry, my tears mixing with rainwater. We’d hug in the downpour” (Hosseini 109).
This is an example of the Guilt and Redemption motif. The guilt that Amir is dealing with is eating him alive, and he desperately wants to go back and change his actions. He feels that even if he says that he’s sorry, this will redeem himself and allow him to feel better. Unfortunately, Amir has not been given this opportunity.
By next class, please read Chapters 11 and 12!
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Post by Skyy Bertelsen on Apr 2, 2020 15:18:05 GMT
"Little shapes formed behind my eyelids, like hands playing shadows on the wall. They twisted, merged, formed a single image: Hassan's brown corduroy pants discarded on a pile of old bricks in the alley" (Hosseini 84).
This is an example of the Guilt motif (lacking Redemption), The guilt that eats at Amir subconsciously appears, and throughout his car trip, he is also thinking of the "event" that had been done to Hassan, and Amir did nothing. This guilt will shadow Amir for a very long time, and he will be unlikely to ever make up for it.
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Post by Jaidyn Perez on Apr 2, 2020 15:19:04 GMT
"Baba never said so, but I knew he saw my car sickness as yet another of my array of weakness - I saw it on his embarrassed face the couples times my stomach had clenched so badly I moaned"
At the beginning of Chapter 10 the Father and Son motif is shown. Baba and Amir are traveling and Amir is feeling car sick. Amir knows this is one of his weaknesses. He thinks Baba is embarrassed of him. Readers can make the inference Amir doesn't feel loved by Baba and wants to be the best so he can receive the love. This motif repeated times through out the book, Amir is constantly searching for approval from his father.
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Post by Tyson Pallatt on Apr 2, 2020 15:28:40 GMT
"Baba came right out and asked. "Did you steal that money? Did you steal Amir's watch Hassan" Hassan's reply was a single word, delivered in a thin, raspy voice: "Yes." I flinched, like id been slapped. My heart sank and I almost blurted out the truth. Then I understood: This was Hassan's final sacrifice for me.
This is an example of the motif friendship. Hassan and his father Ali both know he would never steal, however he wanted to protect his best friend Amir. It shows how loyal Hassan is to Amir.
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Post by Tyson Pallatt on Apr 2, 2020 15:33:38 GMT
(Hosseini 105)
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Post by Halie Goodsell on Apr 2, 2020 15:34:12 GMT
"The words I'd carved on the tree trunk with Ali's kitchen knife, Amir and Hassan: The Sultans of Kabul...I couldn't stand looking at them now" (Hosseini 87).
This is an example of a regret motif between Hassan and Amir. In chapter eight, Hassan and Amir are not on the best terms they are mad with each other and in this quote, Amir regrets carving their names in the tree he wish he had never done it.
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Post by liambas on Apr 2, 2020 15:36:39 GMT
"They twisted, formed, merged a single image: Hassan's brown corduroy pants discarded on a pile of old bricks in the alley."
This passage is at the beginning of chapter 8, when Amir is riding in the car with his father and other people. While he has hid that he'd known what happened with Hassan, saying he was "sick" or that he had no idea what happened, his guilt triggers him to be sick when one of his father's friends gives him an odd look while the others congratulate him for his victory that his kite was never defeated. It's a breaking point for Amir when he can't hold in the lie that he doesn't know what happened, and throws up when he's faced with the reality of the entire situation.
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Post by Daniel Broce on Apr 2, 2020 16:01:07 GMT
¨I ran because I was coward.I was afraid of assef and what he would do to me.I was afraid of getting hurt.¨ (Hosseini 82)
Towards the beginning of chapter 8 Guilt is shown from Amir. Amir in chapter 7 ran away from assef and once Hassan came back Amir pretended to not know what was going on but cared more about the blue kite then Hassans safety.This event caused Amir to feel his guilt towards Hassan fr not helping.
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Post by Lakoda Sherry on Apr 2, 2020 16:03:17 GMT
"Baba, sit down please, i said, tugging at his sleeve i think he really means to shoot you. Baba slapped my hand away. Haven't i taught you anything? He snapped." (Hosseini 116) This is an example of fathers and sons. Baba's son is clearly very worried for his father to be shot, even when he would risk being an embarrassment for his father he still asks his father to sit down. Amir would go against what his father have told him to try and save him from being shot and being an embarrassment in front of his father. The relationship between Amir and his father is very strong throughout the book and Amir would do anything to try and help his father, even if it were to embarrass him.
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Post by Bryce Wylie on Apr 2, 2020 16:04:57 GMT
¨He knew I had betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once more again, maybe for the last time. I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I ever loved anyone, and wanted to tell them all that I wasn't worthy of this sacrifice.¨ -Hosseini (105)
This is an example of the guilt motif. It shows how Amir knew he had done something wrong, and he didn't think Hassan would ever do anything for him again. But there he was defending Amir again, and this makes Amir feel extra guilty.
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Post by Ezekiel Miller on Apr 2, 2020 16:12:14 GMT
"Baba came right out and asked. "Did you steal that money? Did you steal Amir's watch Hassan"
I would say that this is an example of redemption, since it seems as if Hassan is trying to save himself from Amir by taking responsibility for Amir's actions. But is also friendship due to this being Hassan's final "sacrifice" for Amir.
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Post by Dj Simental on Apr 2, 2020 16:22:41 GMT
"Baba never said so, but I knew he saw my car sickness as yet another of my array of weakness''
this is a example of guilt and redemption because its showing how baba was showing how he was feeling after seeing the car
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Post by Alivia mckernan on Apr 2, 2020 16:28:06 GMT
“I tossed it on the pile“I tossed it on the pile of toys in the corner. The only gift I didn’t toss on that mound was Rahim Khan’s leather-bound notebook. That was the only one that didn’t feel like blood money.”
This is an example of guilt. Amir relates to the notebook because of his connection to Rahim, and wants to devote his feelings into writing, which in turn would give him a chance to forgive himself. He also feels guilty accepting all the other gifts.
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Post by Binit Pradhan on Apr 2, 2020 16:31:14 GMT
"Baba came right out and asked. "Did you steal that money? Did you steal Amir's watch Hassan?" Hassan's reply was a single word, delivered in a thin, raspy voice: "Yes."(Hosseini105) This is an example of Friendship because even tho he didn't steal it, he is helping his friend out and protecting him.
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Post by Jesus Ballesteros on Apr 2, 2020 16:33:41 GMT
"Think of something good," Baba said in my ear. "Something happy."... A breeze stirs the grass and Hassan lets the spool roll. The kite spins, dips, steadies. Our twin shadows dance on the rippling grass."
As baba and Amir are traveling to Pakistan, Baba tells Amir to think of something happy to get him through the trip, so Amir thinks of his childhood with Hassan. This shows the friendship/brotherhood the boys have despite their past struggles. Amir didn't think about Baba, despite what baba wanted, he thought abut his best friend.
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