The Kite Runner Final Paragraph preparation

 

The Kite Runner Final Paragraph Preparation

HA English 9

OReilly

 

Explore and discuss ONE of the following topics in a tasty paragraph of at least eight sentences. You may write more than eight sentences, but do not write more than a page and a half. Please double space.

 

Kites and Afghan Kite Flying

Discrimination

Literacy and the Written Word

Family ties

Violence

Homeland and Nationality

redemption

secrecy, loyalty, coincidence, or fate

Integrating Quotes:  Avoid PQ, Plunked Quote

This is a plunked quote:

Hamlet is contemplating suicide: "To be or or to be/ Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer; The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ..."(II.i.36).

This is not a plunked quote. It is gracefully inserted and, at the same time, explained:

When Hamlet states that he is pondering whether "to be or not to be," it is clear that he is suicidal and not sure if he wants to continue living and bear "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune (II.i.36).

How many problems can you find in the excerpt below paragraph below? Circle and label them with the correct glossary acronym.

The "Kite Runner"

    The "Kite Runner" is a great book, and there are a lot of themes in it, but one is very prominent. That is the theme of discrimination. You can see a lot of discrimination in the novel. For one thing, Amir is  terrible friend to Hassan. I think he is a terrible friend because in Afghanistan you can't be friends with a Pashtun if you are a Hazara: "I watched them rape him, and I did nothing because he was a just a dirty Hazara" (p. 82). Also with the kite flying. Hassan cannot fly the kite, and instead must run the kite for Amir, because he is a Hazara: "Hassan the hair-lipped Pashtun kite runner" (page 32). 

PQ, 2PV, +TB, SW. VPR, 1PV, format, NC, ET, CFB

Re-write two of the sentences above so that the quotes are integrated and explained in the sentence rather than plunked.

Example of a better paragraph

 In the text, To Kill a Mockingbird,  the treatment of certain symbols mirrors the theme of the text that the destruction of innocent beings is essentially evil and that the murder of evil is morally justifiable. The titular symbol, the mockingbird, is used as an object lesson for Scout when his father warms Jem not to shoot a mockingbird because it is an innocent being that only seeks to "sing its heart out and bring beauty and pleasure to the world" (88). The blue jay, on the other hand, is a destructive bird, so Atticus admits that such a murder "is more justified" (89).  Later in the text, Scout gets another lesson from Jem when she wishes to squash a bug: "leave it alone," Jem admonishes her. "It ain't bothering you. S'wrong to smash it" he says (106), and once again, Scout is reminded that it is wrong, a sin of sorts, to kill an innocent being. Atticus's killing of the rabid dog symbolizes the justifiable murder. The dog is dangerous and must be disposed of. Atticus is not happy about being the one to do it, but, as Maude points out,   "no one else can do it" (189). Just as Atticus is the only one who can kill the dog, he is the only one who can try Ewell. Atticus alone has the skills necessary to stop evil, the evil of racism. Three symbols, the mockingbird, the insect, and the rabid dog mirror the larger theme in the text: that racism is evil because it leads to the death of innocent beings, and, furthermore, to kill an evil, dangerous being is justified.