Entry 2

The feeling of this book is flowing to sadness because
Amir saw his friend (Hassan) getting raped by his fellow
friends like Assef, Kamal, and Wali. He couldn't do
anything because he was scared, and now they don't talk
to each other and don't even play with each other.
After sadness it turned to this mood about love, it was
when Amir saw his love Soraya. Soraya is the daughter
of this General, and is very well known in his country.
When the mood turned from sadness to 'love' it made me
keep on reading because it made me curious about what
was going to happen to the young love.

As I keep on reading the theme of the book changes.

- Help others

- Don't take all the pain by yourself

- Don't be selfish

- Share



As I flip the pages I find knew connections between
me and Amir jan. Amir wants all of his attention
from his father but he sometimes doesn’t get it.
That's the same for me because I have an older
brother and my dad just sometimes only cares
about him. That's what I think, but when I ask
my mom she tells me that he likes both of us
equally. The part of the book when Amir gets
attracted to this pretty girl "Soraya,” made a
connection with me because I sometimes get
attracted to pretty girls.

The Kite Runner - Entry1

I am reading the book "The Kite Runner" and it's written by Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseni was born in Kabulm Afghanistan, in 1965.

His father was a diplomat with the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother tuaght Farsi and History at the large hight school in Kabul. The Afgahn Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to paris, when they were going to return Afghanistand had already witnessed a bloody communist coup and thje invasion of the Soviet army. So in September of 1980 the Hosseinis moved to the states San Jose, California. After he was practicing internists between 1996 and 2004 from the hospital in Los Angeles, while in medical practice he began writing his first novel, The Kite Runner in March of 2001 and was published in 2003.

I read until chapter 8 page 86.

I think the author likes to reveal to the readers what is going to happen before it actually happens. I think I have some common things with Amir. Amir lives in this beautiful house with his father, Hassan, and Ali. When I used to live in Nigeria I also lived with my Mom, Dad, Brother, 3 maids, 2 drivers, and 5 security guards. I was friends with everyone because I was young and I always used to play outside. The part where I feel the connection is when I played with one of the maids’ son, and I still remember his name "Jack".

FREE WRITING

“Animal Farm”, this book gives me a lot of impression. So I look over myself again about what the friendship and trust are between me and my friends. As a teenager friendship is a very important part of my life. As I live throughout my life I must be able to make some friends to trust and some not to, because we don’t always have the same purpose. This book must have changed a lot of people because the book explains very well about the universal human experience. From now on I must try to be a person who is sincere and honest, because that will add up not only my own humanity but also my future credit.

　

Boys, trust your friends.

MOOD

In my perspective, the mood of “Animal Farm” is sort of disguised. Sometimes the mood is very happy because they take over the farm from Mr. Jones. But if you take your time to read it more closely, the mood is sort of dark when Napoleon kicks out Snowball by using his nine trained dogs. The mood of the story really doesn’t sadden me, because there really isn’t anything to be sad about. The problem that saddens me is when Snowball gets betrayed by his fellow friend Napoleon, and when Boxer killed a human with his iron shoes. I felt sad when the human got killed by Boxer because the guy who died was just helping Mr. Jones trying to get his farm back.

MEMORABLE PASSAGE

Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholwes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing form side to side he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.


This is my favorite passage from the novel. This passage was very meaningful to me because I knew the feeling of wanting to go to bed very badly. Like you just want to go home, take off your shoes, and lie down on your bed and go to sleep. Also, this passage was very interesting because the author even included that he made mistakes. As you know well, people make a lot of mistakes especially when they are tired and exhausted.

CLIMAX

In the book "Animal Farm", the farm started with two pigs, Snowball and Napoleon as both leaders. The climax of this book was when Napoleon drove his friend Snowball out of the farm by using his nine trained dogs. Napoleon drove Snowball out of the farm because he was interfering with his plans. Since Napoleon drove the brain of the farm Snowball out of the farm he was the one who became the new leader as the new brain of the farm who now made the decisions. That was the reason why I chose this part as the climax because this was the time the animals in the farm lost their destiny to freedom and when they started making the wrong decisions.

The event when Napoleon drove Snowball out of the farm made me feel very sad for Snowball. The only thing Snowball wanted to do for them was to give them the freedom away from the humans. However his drea was scattered because his fellow comrades betrayed him.

★ What a pitty it is! ★

CHARACTERS

“Animal Farm” it is my second novel. There are two main characters, Snowball and Napoleon.

Snowball he is a very intelligent, persuasive, and passionate pig. Snowball gives the comrades a very good impression about what he’s trying to say through his speech. However, Snowball is too nice and weak to become a strong leader like Napoleon. Napoleon is a very greedy, strong, and harsh leader. Snowball is my favorite character through the novel because he is a very wise and caring leader for his comrades in the farm, and he is the brain of the farm. He is the one that first gives the impression of taking over the farm from Mr. Jones to the animals.

Napoleon’s characteristics are hateful to me. First of all, Napoleon betrays his friend Snowball to become the new leader of the animal farm which makes him greedy. So, I don’t like Napoleon because, power is more important for him than friendship and in my case friendship is the most important thing in my life after family. Second, takes advantages over his comrades even though they have the same rights. I don’t like someone giving orders to others even though they have the same identity and the rights.

In this novel they reveal about the universal human society. You can see the animal farm as a very good business company. Snowball and Napoleon can be seen as friends and high ranks in the company. Snowball represents “kindness”. Even though Napoleon takes over his place he doesn’t really say anything and lets him become the new leader. Napoleon represents “greed”, because he does anything to succeed his plan even he has to betray a very good old friend. These two characters represent a really good characteristic of human society nowadays.

★ Whom do you think you represnet, Snowball or Napoleon? ★

THEME

The mismangement of power is the main theme of "Animal Farm." The background of the book “Animal Farm” was that the animals took over their farm and they were living there without any humans. There were two leaders, Snowball and Napoleon, at first but Snowball was kicked out by the other leader Napoleon. Napoleon first acted as if he wanted to help these animals from the humans. But after he became the leader of that farm he made the animals do all the work for him. It was not like he adopted to the rules but the rules changes to fit his comfort. But still Napoleon didn't notice that he became like one of the humans, giving orders for their own goods, and not thinking for the animals in the farm.

Mismanagement of power, is very closely related to our society and to the teenagers living in the year 2008. Mismanagement of power in the farm is like bullying kids in the school. The farm can be seen as the school, humans as in teachers, and animals as in normal students, and Napoleon as in a bully. People don’t really think that bullying is a real problem nowadays. Bullying may lead to death for that person who is always bullied by the school bully. Before you make a dicision by using your powers on someone, you must be, wise and think what may happen after.

Greek God Zeus

Zeus is one of the 12 gods in Mt. Olympus. Cronus was the new king instead of his old father Uranus. He was supposed to save his siblings trapped underground but he didn’t so his mother Gaia put a curse on him. She said “As you took your father’s power one of your children will take you over and take your power.” So Cronus got scared and swallowed all five of the babies and Rhea was really ashamed so the 6th baby she asked her mother to take care of him and the 6th baby was Zeus. Rhea gave a rock rapped with a quilt to Cronus to swallow and he did. Zeus lived with the nymph’s in the mountain until he fell in love with Metis. They both got married and Metis helped Zeus rescue his siblings. Metis made this drink out of a magical grass which makes you vomit I guess; because right after Cronus drank this drink he vomited Hades, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, and Hestia. Zeus gave his brothers and sisters weapons and overthrew their father Cronus. After Cronus ran away Zeus becomes the king of the sky and land. Poseidon becomes the king of the ocean, and Hades becomes the king of the dead.

　　　　　

Zeus and Hercules are both great strong characters. They both have great strength. Hercules has the strongest power and Zeus can throw thunderbolts at someone or something. Hercules was popular to girls because he killed a lot of Greek monsters. Zeus was very popular because he was the king of the sky and land and had great power. The difference in their characteristics is that Hercules only loved one girl, but Zeus liked more than one girl. Zeus is short-tempered, wise, and serious. But on the other hand Hercules is responsible, humorous, and pleasant.

What qualities would you like to have as a god?

I would first name myself Alexeus and be the God of relationships. I would first have a little angel that shoots arrows at people. Whoever got shot by the arrows would feel anger, love, hate, and any other feelings that humans can feel. I would like to ride on a magic carpet like Aladdin because I envied a lot because he got to ride on a magic carpet. I would be a really buff God with my hair short and rainbow colored because all Gods are buff and strong looking. I would carry around a microphone so I can sing for people whenever they are sad, and need a friend. I would be a loving and caring God for people those who worships me and sacrifices animals for me in my temple. I wish I could keep my eyes, be about 185cm tall, and be handsome.