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anotheradmirer
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Location: P.O.Box29 (Twenty-nine) Chiang Mai University Amphur Maung Chiang Mai 50202 Thailand
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I’m still reading “The Kite Runner.” I hope to finish it tonight and share some of my points of view with you all tomorrow. So far, the story has been heart clenching, even tearful sometimes. There are symbols and foreshadowing. (Well, Amir’s first word is Baba and Hassan’s is Amir. How clear can you get!) I like the vivid image narrated. I see colorful kites soaring in the sky and the brown pants on the pile of newspaper. It’s a horror picture but in the sense of literary technique, it’s what brings us into the story and feel with the characters more.
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| I like analyzing characters in my own way - just reckoning on them as individual human beings - I don't like to be restricted by being told what you're supposed to think about and what you're not supposed to think about. |
WildCityWoman,
I also read the way you do, “in my own way.” In college, my classmates were obsessed about symbols, trying to interpret every single object in the stories until the lecturers had to tell them to relax. The point is they tried to find the “right” interpretation, which is not what we were meant to do. There is nothing such the right interpretation, except you resurrect the dead writer and ask what (s)he had in mind when writing the story and what the symbols mean. We were supposed to exercise our thinking and share what we thought and discuss it together, not copying what’s on the internet and pretending it’s your own idea.
Have a nice day!
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anotheradmirer
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Sadly, I haven't finished the novel. 80 pages to go.  |
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