Mount Aspiring College Department of English
The aim of this course is to understand more about other people and cultures, and look at how different storytellers reflect their influences and environments, as well as methods of narration – techniques people use to tell their stories with a unique voice.
Choose your topic. Underline the key words in the question. Brainstorm ideas Organise ideas Write draft Edit and publish good copy. QUESTION: Analyse how language features were used to capture the reader’s imagination. Amir’s …
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Explain the importance of the setting and its influence on how the narrator tells his story. The setting of Kabul, Afghanistan is hugely socially, politically and culturally important in the novel The Kite Runner. The …
“For me, America was a place to bury my memories. For Baba, a place to mourn his.” Baba was a well-respected man in Kabul society, when he went to America he had and was nothing …
The Kite Runner chronicles the lives of specifically two boys, Amir and Hassan within the politically, socially and culturally charged landscape that is Afghanistan. Hassan, a Hazara, is Amir’s servant, best friend, half-brother and a …
Forgive? But theft was the one unforgivable sin, the common denominator of all sins. When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children …
Amir witnesses the brutalisation of Hassan and does nothing to stop it. Shortly afterwards he says: “It shouldn’t have felt this way. Baba and I were finally friends….Except now that I had it, I felt …
