The Kite Runner

Always be kind to others and they will show kindness back. "The Kite Runner" expresses that vividly throughout the story when two kids growing up in a small village in Afghanistan encounter changes and challenges in life. The author details every sentence with emotions and imagination to the climax and goes beyond, ending with sorrow, happiness, a little confusion, and finally some imagination to help conclude what might happen at the end.

In " The Kite Runner", Amir, a young son of a wealthy and well respected man in the village befriends his servant, Hassan, a Hazaar who is loyal to his master and best friend to the very end. While competing in the annual kite tournament, Amir and Hassan encounter challenge that only one overcomes and one brushes it away to hit him later in life even harder than it did to begin with. Soon after Amir and Hassan lose their friendship and part ways when Amir and his father flee Afghanistan to America to live a better life. There, in America Amir faces his destiny and must relive everything he left behind.

The style of this read is a variety of different sentences and complex imagination. One who reads " The Kite Runner" will feel every emotion thrown out by the author and will have sympathy for what those who live their daily lives in Afghanistan. The theme expresses commitment to being a friend and to hold up to that status.

To conclude, "The Kite Runner" is an amazing book that shows what goes on in third - world countries and how things are delt with over there. I highly advise anyone to read this book to understand if the priorities in their lives are worth any good meaning to them.

Give a Boy a Gun

Have you ever wanted something to happen so bad, you risk your life and others to make sure it occurs? In the book "Give a Boy a Gun", two boys who are picked on for their appearance, their personality, and their decisions take drastic measures to prove a point. During their tenth grade year at a school dance, they take over with guns in hands and bullets blazing. Their names are Brendan and Gary.

The author of "Give a Boy a Gun" expressed every detail and put total commitment to this story by gathering information on friends, family, teachers, and students about the two troubled teenagers and what went down that night at the school dance. Each chapter grows more and more in suspense and questions when they will crack. Right down to the very end, the theme is quite out there in which bullying is prohibited and saying that you should always be kind to others, otherwise you will recieve the same treatment later in life whether it be while you're still alive or in the afterlife.

In resolution, "Give a Boy a Gun" is spiritually and emotionally uplifting in how we should deal with kids who are troubled and how to stop school shootings before they ever start. Anyone who reads this book, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did and pass it on to spread the word.

For the Gold

Everyone in their life wants the best for themselves and for their close ones whether it would be family, a girlfriend, maybe even a husband or a wife. Do you have one too? Of course you do, and it's your job to secure and make that dream a reality. My dream is to become one of the best physical therapists out there. I want to treat my patients with the up most respect and care. I'll do anything just like my dad has to keep his kids safe and worry free.

Civil Wars

Almost everyone, male or female, black or white, have conflicts! It is in the nature of human beings to carry flaws such as fighting over who gets to go first in line or trying to raise taxes on a country. We take them for granted, dropping them carelessly into wind, never to be seen again until someone stirs up trouble.

"To Bully "or not "to Bully"

As children get into elementary school, kids begin to change in their attitudes. Some turn to be great and nice when it comes to dealing with others. Then, there are other children who pick on others just to get a grin or a laugh every once and awhile. Bullying is wrong and should be taken care of where it usually starts. Even to this day, kids in high school pick on other students because of how they look or who they hang out with. To me, those kids are immature and do not deserve to have people to care for them since they do not care for others. All they think about is themselves and how they act. When they finally realize what they do is a horrible thing to do, then it's the time to accept them and care for them as well. Do what you would unto others as you would yourself.

Reasons for the Season

1. Family time
2. You get to eat a lot!
3. Peace between early colonial pilgrims and Native Americans
4. Fun holiday
5. Keeps everyone inside
6. Spend time with relatives
7. Tell stories of life between relatives
8. Give thanks to the Lord
9. Giving thanks to people outside your family
10. Making people happy

Speak book review

IT was ruining her life. There was nothing she could do about it, until she found hope. Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak showed me what it was like to to suffer through a traumatic ordeal. Every year, there are countless teenagers who are raped, but they usually never tell about it to authorities or their parents. Many of the cases never reach higher than a whisper in the victim's head. In contrast, there are a few that "speak" their mind and confront their darkest enemy.



In the book, Speak, Melinda Sordino is the average school girl entering high school. Inside she has a dark secret she couldnt tell anyone. Before entering Merrywether High, there was an awesome end-of-summer party. The outcome of it was cops infiltrating the place and crashed it all because of Melinda. Of course, everyone knows who crashed the party, its what happened before that no one but Melinda knows. All throughout the year, she is trashed and humiliated because of what she did. Her old friends hate her now, and she is left with a new girl who desperately wants to fit in, Heather.



Considering the style of Laurie Halse Anderson, she developed a real life experiance that was made into a fiction. I like the book itself for only a few reasons; it shows what can happen to teenage girls who are victims of rape, and it shows how strong a person can become if they overcome their greatest fear. Speak is a great book in how it shows the emotions of a teenager and what they can go through during their high school years.

In conclusion, this book, Speak is a book I would recommend to others to read. Everyone should get a chance to read this book. Boy or girl, both could learn something from this book as I have and share it with someone who is close to them so they could understand how fragile a teen's life can become.