Published Book Review Cyber-Assignment
Bring in a published book review for your book Wednesday, March 23, to share with your group. The cyber-assignment will be to post a summary here, after class. If anyone wants to post the assignment early, this is fine as well. If the review or interview with an author is on NPR, they transcribe their broadcast interviews.
Bring in a published book review for your book Wednesday, March 23, to share with your group. The cyber-assignment will be to post a summary here, after class. If anyone wants to post the assignment early, this is fine as well. If the review or interview with an author is on NPR, they transcribe their broadcast interviews.
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Ashante Washington
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A, 9-950a
28 March 2011
Book Review Summary: The Kite Runner
NPR Interview: ‘The Kite Runner’ by Liane Hansen - Weekend Edition Sunday, July 27, 2003
Author Liane Hansen speaks with the author of The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini and correlates his life with the one of the main character of the novel, Amir. Hosseini is able to go into a deeper depth of his personal childhood, actual kite running in Afghanistan and the ethnic background differences between the two main characters: Pashtun and Hazara. Hansen and Hosseini are able to cover the three main relationships that occur in the novel: friendship, the challenges between sons and their fathers and betrayal.
Hansen describes the closeness of the two main characters: Amir and Hassan by pulling lines from the book referring to how they both were motherless, fed from the same breast, and were the same age. She shares that Amir has a hard time with his father because he feels that his father treats Hassan more like a son than he. Hosseini explains that with a mother and their son, love will always be given, but with a father and his son, that same love must be earned and Amir has a very hard time with that. Hansen describes how Amir betrays Hassan, how the guilt from the situation leads Amir to disrupt their families and the two boys separating from each other.
The interview closes with Hosseini’s description of his experience of first coming to America and his return to Afghanistan. He said some of the situations that he encountered in his personal life were included in the novel.
Khaled Hosseini’s hope for readers when they read his novel is that they do not forget Afghanistan.
Alex Peña
Professor Wanda
English 1A
31 March 2011
Published Book Review Cyber-Assignment
I read the published book review for “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini. I liked the review but it really didn’t talk about the story. It was mostly like a little review that tried to encourage you to read the book. It did say that the book was about two boys that grew up together and raised together in different social classes but breast feed by the same women. It did talk about the main idea of the book but it didn’t really talk about the true story. But over all it was a quick insightful review.
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