English 12 AP 9/25/2012 “…but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.” –Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner) Respond in a paragraph: Do you agree or disagree with the protagonist Amir? Explain. Relate to a life experience and/or a literary work that you have read.

English 12AP9/26/2012 “What does he know, that illiterate Hazara? He’ll never be anything but a cook. How dare he criticize you?” –Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner) Respond in a quote: -Who is the voice that utters this quote? -Why is this quote uttered? -What does the quote elucidate regarding the relationship between Pushuns and Hazaras? -What does this quote foreshadow?

English 12 AP 9/27/2012 “By the following winter, it was only a faint scar. Which was ironic. Because that was the winter that Hassan stopped smiling.” -Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner) Respond in a paragraph: To what is the narrator Amir referring? What does Amir mean by it “was ironic”? Of what is the scar a symbol? What event is Amir foreshadowing?

English 12AP 10/01/12 “Salvation. Redemption. If Baba was wrong and there was a God like they said in school, then He’d let me win.” –Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner) Respond in a paragraph: Explain the quote’s significance as well as the irony in Amir’s statement.

English 12AP 10/4/2012 “Come. There is a way to be good again, Rahim Khand had said on the phone just before hanging up… A way to be good again.” –Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner) Respond in paragraph: Provide the quote’s context. Explain the quote’s significance. Relate the quote to past events in the novel. Relate the quote to the motif of self-redemption.

English 12AP10/09/12 Record the following: Theme: a) a declarative statement (sentence) b) written in third person c) that relates to the universal human experience Example: Love is NOT a theme. The theme is what the author says about love. “Love in its lustful form is all-consuming.” Another example: Guilt is NOT a theme. The theme is what the author says about guilt. “When overwhelmed with guilt, forgiveness from the one harmed is insufficient. One must find self-redemption.”

English 12AP 10/10/12 “I felt like a man sliding down a steep cliff, clutching at shrubs and tangles of brambles and coming up empty-handed. The room was swooping up and down, swaying side to side.” (The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini) Respond in a paragraph: Provide the quote’s context and significance to the overall plot and theme of the novel.

English 12AP 10/11/12 “A sadness came over me. Returning to Kabul was like running into an old forgotten friend and seeing that life hadn’t been good to him” (Hosseini 246). Respond in a paragraph: 1. Provide the quote’s context. 2. Explain both the truth and the irony in the quote.

English 12AP 10/15/2012 “The moment felt surreal– no, not surreal, absurd– it had knocked the breath out of me, brought the world around me to a standstill” (Hosseini 281). Respond in a paragraph: Provide the quote’s context. Explain how the use of hyperbole (or overstatement) elucidates the quote’s significance to the novel’s plot.

English 12AP 10/16/2012 “If America taught me anything, it’s that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts’ lemonade jar” (Hosseini 338). Respond in a paragraph: Provide the quote’s context. Explain the metaphor. Discuss the significance of the quote in relation to the novel’s plot and a potential theme.