Week 2 Post A: The Kite Runner

VOCAB

Beneficent (74): Doing or producing goods
Guileless (78): Innocent, naive

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

"I felt as empty as this unkempt pool..." (85). This is a simile because it uses as to compare Amir's feelings to that of the pool- Empty after all he's seen.

"By the following summer, it was only a faint scar" (47). As Amir points out, this is ironic, because just as Amir is able to smile, he stops. As much as this is irony, it also means much, more more.

"I stepped back and all I saw was the rain through windowpanes that looked like melting silver" (109). This is a simile because it uses like to compare the rain Amir sees through the window to melting silver.

QUOTE

"'What am I going to do with you?' But by the time the tears dried up and I trudged down the hill, I knew the answer to that question" (93). This is a turning point for Amir- He's so fed up with the fact that he could have saved his friend Hassan and yet still hasn't told anyone, he decides that he has to make the next move- get rid of Hassan. Not a good call, but a huge turning point.

THEME

Pressure changes people, because as good of friends as Hassan and Amir were, it didn't help much in the end.