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Name ____________________________Score ______________________The Kite RunnerChapters One and Two Activity Guide QuestionsDirections: After reading Chapters One and Two, answer the questions below in complete sentences.KNOWLEDGE 37223705778500What is the date of Chapter One? How old is the narrator in Chapter One? Where is the narrator currently living? Who is the first person that Amir mentions in Chapter Two?Baba and his friends frequently talked about which three subjects? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________APPLICATIONWhat does Amir think about after Rahim Khan’s phone call?What does Amir’s statement reveal about his relationship with Hassan: “Hassan never wanted to, but if I asked, really asked, he wouldn’t deny me. Hassan never denied me anything”?What does the stress on the word always suggest about Amir’s relationship with his father: “He’d close the door, leave me to wonder why it was always grown-ups’ time with him”?On page 5 Amir describes his home, and specifically, the pictures. Describe each photograph:Photograph 1: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Photograph 2: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Photograph 3: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________What was Hassan’s first word?_______________________ What was Amir’s first word? _______________________Write the last sentence of Chapter Two: Write the first sentence from Chapter One: Based on your answers above, what do you think Amir means by the last statement in Chapter Two? 50018955077460Symbolism (Greek, `to throw together') - symbols-like metaphors, similes, personification, and allusions-are a type of figurative language. Symbols must be something material or visible such as colors, objects, animals, people, and places, while the idea it symbolizes must be something abstract or universal.00Symbolism (Greek, `to throw together') - symbols-like metaphors, similes, personification, and allusions-are a type of figurative language. Symbols must be something material or visible such as colors, objects, animals, people, and places, while the idea it symbolizes must be something abstract or universal.ANALYSIS/SYNTHESISSymbolism and DictionAccording to the scholar Joseph Campbell, winter symbolizes “cold, despair, loneliness, emptiness.” For the hero, this season symbolizes his or her literal or symbolic death. This is a time of introversion and contemplation. List all the key adjectives from the first paragraph of Chapter One:50044356558915Diction is the author’s choice and use of words.00Diction is the author’s choice and use of words.“I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, 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. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.”What does the symbolism of winter and Amir’s diction suggest about the event that the narrator is recalling from his past? Paragraph two references another season. According to the scholar Joseph Campbell, summer symbolizes “warmth, joviality, joy, ease, fullness.” For the hero, this season symbolizes the peak of his or her power. This is a time to be outwardly expressive.By setting the scene at the end of summer, what is the author suggesting about the main character’s current situation compared to the Winter of 1975? 49999902214245Symbolism (Greek, `to throw together') - symbols-like metaphors, similes, personification, and allusions-are a type of figurative language. Symbols must be something material or visible such as colors, objects, animals, people, and places, while the idea it symbolizes must be something abstract or universal.00Symbolism (Greek, `to throw together') - symbols-like metaphors, similes, personification, and allusions-are a type of figurative language. Symbols must be something material or visible such as colors, objects, animals, people, and places, while the idea it symbolizes must be something abstract or universal.Symbolism and ObjectsMirrors symbolize “imagination, consciousness, self-contemplation, reflection of the universe, mythic door; the soul frees itself by ‘passing’ to the other side.” A distorted image or mirror used in a destructive way symbolizes “self-deception.” Read the passage and examine how the mirror is used in this passage:When we were children, Hassan and I used to climb the poplar trees in the driveway of my father’s house and annoy our neighbors by reflecting sunlight into their homes with a shard of mirror. We would sit across from each other on a pair of high branches, our naked feet dangling, our trouser pockets filled with dried mulberries and walnuts. We took turns with the mirror as we ate mulberries, pelted each other with them, giggling, laughing. … Sometimes up in those trees, I talked Hassan into firing walnuts with his slingshot at the neighbor’s one-eyed German Shepherd. Hassan never wanted to, but if I asked, really asked, he wouldn’t deny me. Hassan never denied me anything…He [Ali] would take the mirror and tell us what his mother had told him, that the devil shone mirrors too, shone them to distract Muslims during prayer.”Based on the symbolism of the mirror and the context in which it is used, what is being inferred about Amir and Hassan’s relationship? 50025306558915Personification is a type of figurative language. The use of personification is when an inanimate object is given the characteristics as being a living person or animal.00Personification is a type of figurative language. The use of personification is when an inanimate object is given the characteristics as being a living person or animal.Personification and DictionThere are many examples of figurative language in the novel. When an author uses figurative language, the diction can be just as important. Examine the passage below:50025307591425Diction is the author’s choice and use of words.00Diction is the author’s choice and use of words.“That was a long time ago 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.” Which inanimate object is being personified in this passage, and how is this figurative device used to show how the narrator feels about his past? How does diction enhance the meaning of Amir’s feelings?UNIVERSAL THEMEThere are many subjects in this novel. One subject that is frequently explored is the importance of family, and specifically brotherhood. Although Hassan and Ali are Baba’s servants, there is obviously a close relationship between Amir and Hassan. How do Hassan and Amir act like brothers? What message is the author trying to convey through their close relationship?READER-RESPONSE/PERSONAL CONNECTION Directions: Read the response questions below, choose one, and write one paragraph in the space provided.What can one do to be “good again”? Amir’s mother died while giving birth to him. Do you think that Amir carries the guilt and burden of her death?1905217170____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________00____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ................
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