The document discusses the form, structure, language, and symbols used in The Kite Runner. It analyzes how the novel fits the bildungsroman genre through its focus on Amir's coming of age. Key symbols like kites, the pomegranate tree, and dreams are described. The structure uses flashbacks and foreshadowing. Descriptive language including metaphors and personification are discussed. Overall, the summary analyzes how the author tells the story through literary elements to explore themes of redemption, identity, and the past.
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In the last few years we've witnessed a boom in Young Adult literature both in the marketing of books and its readership. YA literature includes many firsts such as: first crush, first kiss, first love, first moral dilemma. The birth of New Adult literature takes it one step further. As the YA readers age out publishers are seeing New Adult as the next, new step. But what does New Adult literature mean for editors, publishing companies and librarians? A few years ago, editors at St. Martin's Press held a contest. The results helped them to coin the term New Adult Fiction. What were they thinking when they came up with the term? And who did they think the readership would be? How did Indie authors impact the market? And where do you place these works of fiction in your collection? In this presentation we will: define New Adult Fiction and explore its history, identify books and publishers, and analyze its fast-paced success. At the end of the session, participants will: understand the significance of New Adult Fiction, identify motivated readers, and consider innovative ways to promote and integrate New Adult Fiction into their collections.
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In the last few years we've witnessed a boom in Young Adult literature both in the marketing of books and its readership. YA literature includes many firsts such as: first crush, first kiss, first love, first moral dilemma. The birth of New Adult literature takes it one step further. As the YA readers age out publishers are seeing New Adult as the next, new step. But what does New Adult literature mean for editors, publishing companies and librarians? A few years ago, editors at St. Martin's Press held a contest. The results helped them to coin the term New Adult Fiction. What were they thinking when they came up with the term? And who did they think the readership would be? How did Indie authors impact the market? And where do you place these works of fiction in your collection? In this presentation we will: define New Adult Fiction and explore its history, identify books and publishers, and analyze its fast-paced success. At the end of the session, participants will: understand the significance of New Adult Fiction, identify motivated readers, and consider innovative ways to promote and integrate New Adult Fiction into their collections.
Presenter: Ann Matzke, former Children's Director, Wilson Public Library, Cozad, NE.
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The
Joy
of
Reading
and
Writing:
Superman
and
Me
by
Sherman
Alexie
Los
Angeles
Times,
April
19
1998
I learned to read with a Superman comic book. Simple enough, I suppose. I cannot recall which
particular Superman comic book I read, nor can I remember which villain he fought in that issue. I
cannot remember the plot, nor the means by which I obtained the comic book. What I can remember
is this: I was 3 years old, a Spokane Indian boy living with his family on the Spokane Indian
Reservation in eastern Washington state. We were poor by most standards, but one of my parents
usually managed to find some minimum-wage job or another, which made us middle-class by
reservation standards. I had a brother and three sisters. We lived on a combination of irregular
paychecks, hope, fear and government surplus food.
My father, who is one of the few Indians who went to Catholic school on purpose, was an avid
reader of westerns, spy thrillers, murder mysteries, gangster epics, basketball player biographies and
anything else he could find. He bought his books by the pound at Dutch's Pawn Shop, Goodwill,
Salvation Army and Value Village. When he had extra money, he bought new novels at
supermarkets, convenience stores and hospital gift shops. Our house was filled with books. They
were stacked in crazy piles in the bathroom, bedrooms and living room. In a fit of unemployment-
inspired creative energy, my father built a set of bookshelves and soon filled them with a random
assortment of books about the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, the Vietnam War and the entire
23-book series of the Apache westerns. My father loved books, and since I loved my father with an
aching devotion, I decided to love books as well.
I can remember picking up my father's books before I could read. The words themselves were
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the purpose of a paragraph. I didn't have the vocabulary to say "paragraph," but I realized that a
paragraph was a fence that held words. The words inside a paragraph worked together for a
common purpose. They had some specific reason for being inside the same fence. This knowledge
delighted me. I began to think of everything in terms of paragraphs. Our reservation was a small
paragraph within the United States. My family's house was a paragraph, distinct from the other
paragraphs of the LeBrets to the north, the Fords to our south and the Tribal School to the west.
Inside our house, each family member existed as a separate paragraph but still had genetics and
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The Joy of Reading and Writing Superman .docxchristalgrieg
The
Joy
of
Reading
and
Writing:
Superman
and
Me
by
Sherman
Alexie
Los
Angeles
Times,
April
19
1998
I learned to read with a Superman comic book. Simple enough, I suppose. I cannot recall which
particular Superman comic book I read, nor can I remember which villain he fought in that issue. I
cannot remember the plot, nor the means by which I obtained the comic book. What I can remember
is this: I was 3 years old, a Spokane Indian boy living with his family on the Spokane Indian
Reservation in eastern Washington state. We were poor by most standards, but one of my parents
usually managed to find some minimum-wage job or another, which made us middle-class by
reservation standards. I had a brother and three sisters. We lived on a combination of irregular
paychecks, hope, fear and government surplus food.
My father, who is one of the few Indians who went to Catholic school on purpose, was an avid
reader of westerns, spy thrillers, murder mysteries, gangster epics, basketball player biographies and
anything else he could find. He bought his books by the pound at Dutch's Pawn Shop, Goodwill,
Salvation Army and Value Village. When he had extra money, he bought new novels at
supermarkets, convenience stores and hospital gift shops. Our house was filled with books. They
were stacked in crazy piles in the bathroom, bedrooms and living room. In a fit of unemployment-
inspired creative energy, my father built a set of bookshelves and soon filled them with a random
assortment of books about the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, the Vietnam War and the entire
23-book series of the Apache westerns. My father loved books, and since I loved my father with an
aching devotion, I decided to love books as well.
I can remember picking up my father's books before I could read. The words themselves were
mostly foreign, but I still remember the exact moment when I first understood, with a sudden clarity,
the purpose of a paragraph. I didn't have the vocabulary to say "paragraph," but I realized that a
paragraph was a fence that held words. The words inside a paragraph worked together for a
common purpose. They had some specific reason for being inside the same fence. This knowledge
delighted me. I began to think of everything in terms of paragraphs. Our reservation was a small
paragraph within the United States. My family's house was a paragraph, distinct from the other
paragraphs of the LeBrets to the north, the Fords to our south and the Tribal School to the west.
Inside our house, each family member existed as a separate paragraph but still had genetics and
common experiences to link us. Now, using this logic, I can see my changed family as an essay of
seven paragraphs: mother, father, older brother, the deceased sister, my younger twin sisters and
our adopted little brother.
At the same time I was seeing the world in paragraphs, I also picked up that Supe ...
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3. What is Form?
In a novel-elements that show the
text fits into a particular genre.
e.g.What shows the Kite Runner
as a bildungsroman novel?
What other genres does the Kite
Runner fit into?
4. What is
Structure?
Anything that
links different
chapters together
or different parts
of the story.
• Foreshadowing
• Analepsis
• Symbols that are repeated.
• Mirroring.
• Language/phrases that are
repeated.
• Signs that a character has
developed.
5. What is
Language?
Imagery and figurative language-
similes/metaphors/personification.
The Lexis used and connotations of the
lexis.
Semantic Fields.
Use of declaratives/imperatives.
8. Form
Structure
Language
How is the story told through these
devices?
What are the effects on the story through
form/structure/language.
Link to Aspects of Narrative:
1. Characterisation
2. Settings
3. Time
4. Voices
12. Evidence
WillowTree-symbolises new
beginnings and redemption.
First Person Intradiegetic narrator
Rahim Khan:There is a way to be good
again.
Metaphor:The past claws it’s way out.
Everyday meaningful events: Then I saw a
pair of kites
Retrospective: I became what I am today at
the age of 12.
13. KeyThemes
1. Forgiveness and Redemption: Rahim Khan “There is a way to
be good again”.
2. Identity: “I became what I am today at the age of twelve”.
Link to characterisation.
3. Religion and Spirituality: “The devil shone mirrors too, shone
them to distract muslims during prayer (Ali).” Link to ideology.
“Every other sin is a variation of theft”.
5. Family: “He’d close the door, leave me to wonder why it was
always grown-ups time with him. Link to characterisation.
6. Violence: “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a
man who can’t stand up to anything”.
7. Sacrifice
“was it a fair price?”
14. KeyThemes
8. Storytelling/books
An entire chapter dedicated to Hassan’s people.That was how I
escaped my father’s aloofness, in my dead mother’s books…I
started spending my allowance on books.
9. Past
I became what I am today at the age of 12….
10.Rape
The droplets of blood staining the snow dark red, almost black.
Tell him I’ll take a thousand of his bullets before I let this
indecency take place.
11. Courage/cowardliness
Baba sit down please…Haven’t I taught you anything? He
snapped.Tell me he’d better kill me good with that first shot.
Because if I don’t go down, I’m tearing him to pieces, goddamn
his father!
A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t
stand up to anything.
16. Kites
Kites feature in the opening of the novel and in the
denouement.
Do you want me to run that kite for you?
Kites also showed the rivalry, status and relationship in
Afghanistan
In Kabul fighting kites was a little like going to war.
The Kite symbolises Baba’s Love.
He was also the city’s most famous kite maker..
Show him once and for all that his son was worthy.
…the chill between Baba and me thawed a little. And the
reason for that was the kites. Baba and I lived in the same
house but in different spheres of existence. Kites were the one
paper thin slice of intersection between those spheres.
17. Kites
The kite symbolises (symbolised) joy:
Winter was every kid’s favourite season in
Kabul…Winter was the start of …building
snowmen. And Kites of course. Flying kites. And
running them.
The Kite reveals that Hassan was attuned to
nature-reveals his innocence:
He always got to the spot the kite would land
before the kite did, as if he had some sort of
inner compass.
Kites represent freedom in Afghanistan
But you won’t find kites or kite shops on Jadeh
Maywand or anywhere else in Kabul.
18. Kites
Form and structure:The fact that the
Kite’s meaning and symbolism to Amir
changes through the novel illustrates the
novel as a bildungsroman novel.
Also Amir becomes the kite runner which
also shows that he doesn’t care about
status and he has matured and learnt
from his past mistakes-links to
redemption.
Language- Kites are used as a metaphor
for exploring the relationship between
Baba and Amir.
19. Pomegranate
Tree.
1. There was a pomegranate tree near the entrance to
the cemetery. One summer day, I used one of Ali’s
kitchen knives to carve our names on it: “Amir and
Hassan, the sultans of Kabul…Hassan and I climbed its
branches and snatched its blood-red pomegranates”.
2. We sat under our pomegranate trees and I knew I’d
made a mistake…The words I’d carved…I couldn’t
stand looking at them now.
3. Rahim Khan: we buried her in the cemetery on the hill,
the one by the pomegranate tree, and I said a prayer
for her too.
4. The droughts have dried the hill and the tree hasn’t
borne fruit in years but Sohrab and I still sit under its
shade…
5. The carving had dulled, almost faded altogether but it
was still there:Amir and Hassan.The sultans of
Kabul”.
20. Dreams
1. Lore has it my father once wrestled a black bear in Baluchistan….And in those
dreams I can never tell Baba from the bear.
2. Hasan told me he had a dream: But no-one was swimming because they said a
monster had come to the lake…there’s no monster you say I’ll show you all..They
see now.There is no monster just water.
3. I was that monster
4. I am lost in a snowstorm…A familiar shape materialises…I take the hand and
suddenly the snow is gone…We’re standing in a field of apple green grass..I look
up and see the clear sky is filled with kites…They shimmer in the afternoon light
(65).
5. And dreamed of Hassan running in the snow…for you a thousand times over.
6. I dreamed Assef was standing in the doorway of my hospital room, brass ball still
in his eye socket. “We’re the same you and I” he was saying. “you nursed with
him but you’re my twin”.
21. Stories
1. Sohrab and Rostam.
2. Amir loves stories.
3. Hassan also loves stories but Amir makes fun of him.
1. “when it comes to words, Hassan is an imbecile”.
2. “I read him poems and stories, sometimes riddles…though
I stopped reading those when I saw he was far better at
solving them than I was.”
4. Hassan learns to read later. He names his son, Sohrab.
5. Sohrab and Rostam is a story about betrayal between fathers
and sons.
6. Hassan is unaware of the irony. Amir realises the irony.
7. Is Hassan forgiving Amir-Is he offering a sign of redemption?
8. Amir’s mother loves reading. Is Baba unhappy because Amir
reads-think about this from a feminist point of view.
22. Slingshot
I turned and came face to face with
Hassan’s slingshot…Hassan held the
slingshot pointed directly as Assef’s
face…If you make a move, they’ll have to
change your nickname from Assef ‘the
ear eater’ to ‘one-eyedAssef because I
have this rock pointed at your left
eye…Hassan was trying to tuck the
slingshot in his waist with a pair of
trembling hands”.
23. Slingshot
1. Where is your slingshot Hazara?
…That was clever. Really clever.
Then again, it’s easy to be clever
when you’re holding a loaded
weapon.”
2. Sohrab had the slingshot pointed
to Assef’s face…The slingshot
made a thwitt sound when
Sohrab released the cup…He put
his hand where his left eye had
been just a moment ago
24. Harelip
1. Hassan the harelipped Kite Runner.
2. A boy with a chinese doll face
perpetually lit by a harelipped smile.
3. But this present will last you
forever…
4. Hassan hadn’t done anything to earn
Baba’s affections; he’d just been
born with that stupid harelip.
5. Because that was the winter that
Hassan stopped smiling.
25. Rahim Khan
1) There is a way to be good again
2) I’m in his arms but it’s Rahim Khan’s pinky my fingersare
curled around.
3) I heard the story through Rahim Khan.
4) You know, sometimes you are the most self-centred
man I know…As usual you’re over-simplifying.
5) Look, I know there’s a fondness between you and
him and I’m happy about that, Envious but
happy…He needs someone who, understands him.
6) My family would have never accepted her as an
equal.You don’t order someone to polish your shoes
one day and call them ‘sister’ the next…I almost
forgot. Happy Birthday. It was a brown leather-
bound notebook.
26. The Lamb
1. It was the look of the lamb.
2. Tomorrow is the tenth day of dhul-hijjah…a day to
celebrate how the prophet Ibrahim almost
sacrificed his own son for God…I see the sheep’s
eyes. It is a look that will haunt my dreams for
week…I imagine the animal sees that its imminent
demise is for a higher purpose.This is the look.
3. Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb
I had to slay to win Baba. Was it a fair price?The
answer floated my conscious mind before I could
thwart it; He was just a hazara wasn’t he? I ran
back the way I’d come.
27. Language
1. Anthropomorphism: Because the past claws
it’s way out.
2. Metaphor: I have been peeking into that
deserted alley for the past 26 years.
3. Use of simple sentences: “Because the past
claws it’s way out… One day last summer my
friend Rahim Khan called from Pakistan…It
was my past of unatoned sins.
4. Minor Sentences: “Ali. Kabul.”
5. Simile: “Like a pair of eyes looking down on
San Francisco the place I now called home.”
6. Repetition of “thought”.
7. Connotations of frigid.
8. Semantic Field of the park-associations with
the park (setting).
28. • I realize I
have been
peeking into
that
deserted
alley…
• Hasan
• His Conscience
• Soraya
• His father
• There is a
way to be
good again
• Unreliable?
• Pathetic
Fallacy.
• Adult
First
Person
Rahim
Khan
Bildungs
roman
Novel
Who is
Amir
addressing
29. IsAmirmanipulating
the reader?
It is this honesty from Amir right from the start
that allows real emotional connection with the
reader which keeps them interested-narrative
voice/characterisation.
When he talks about remembering ‘the precise
moment’ the foreshadowing makes the reader
want to continue to find out the event that is
the catalyst for the novel-narrative voice.
30. Other
Considerations
Settings:The Kite Runner is about
Afghanistan but is opens in San Francisco.
Shifts inTime-links to chapter 2. Amir begins
narrating his childhood.
Is Chapter 1 the exposition?
Characterisation of Rahim Khan: He is the
catalyst to makeAmir proactive. Suggests he
is wise.
Characterisation of Amir: Rich, educated and
reflective.
Hasan-precious and vulnerable.
Amir as villain/anti-hero