Kite Runner Quiz Chapters 1-5 1. The novel begins with a flashback. What do you think is its purpose? What do you learn about the narrator? 2. Who is Hassan? Describe him physically. 3. What was Hassan’s first word? Why is that important? 4. How did Hassan come into Amir's life? What contrast is made between Amir and Hassan? 5. What does it mean to be Hazara, Shi’a Muslim, Afghanistan’s minority group? Who, in the story thus far, is Hazara? 6. What does it mean to be Pashtun, Sunni Muslim, Afghanistan’s majority group? Who, in the story thus far, is Pashtun? 7. Who is Sanaubar? How is she contrasted to Amir's mother? 8. Who is Ali? What do the neighborhood children call him? What does it mean? Why do they call him this? 9. How does Amir feel about his father in these chapters? 10. Who is the king’s cousin? What did he do and why? 11. Who is Baba? Describe him. What are his values? How does he relate to extremely religious leaders? 12. What does Baba give Hassan for his birthday? 13. Who is Assef? What is his ancestry? 14. What is Assef famous for? 15. What is his political vision? 16. Who are Wali and Kamal? 17. What happens between Assef/Wali/Kamal and Amir/Hassan? 18. What does Amir want to tell Assef about Hassan when Assef bullies them about being friends? 19. What does Assef threaten (foreshadow)? 20. Hassan has plastic surgery to be able to smile "normally" by the following winter. Why does Amir think that is ironic?

compare & contrast informative essay/speech

when speaking or writing for the sole purpose of providing information in order to give audience members a good basis for making a decision, you would present an informative speech or essay.   because you wouldn’t want to be persuading the audience by arguing for one type of exercise over the other, you wouldn’t choose a persuasive/argumentative technique.   to fairly, and without bias, present information about the pros and cons of each type exercise, a compare/contrast, informative speech/essay would be the best bet.

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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explanation:

to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.