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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Jermia Martin Mr. Rease Ap English Literature 2 April 2020 ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Book Review The genre of the novel  The Blind Assassin  by Mar gare t Atwood is Historical fiction. Historical fiction is a story that is made up but is set in the past and sometimes borrow true characteristics of the time period. Iris Chase Griffen is the main protagonist  and narrator of the novel. Iris Griffen wrote the novel withing the novel which was a science fiction novel set on the planet of Zycron, which Iris published as it being her sister Laura Griffen’s book. The main  characters of that novel would be Alex, Iris lover but Laura also loves him, and Iris. The novel features love and heartache. The first conflict was human vs. self “Ten day after the war ended,  my sister Laura drove a car off the bridge,” (pg.1). This makes Iris question herself throughout the novel this makes her wonder if she had an input into why Laura committed suicide. The second conflict was human vs. society. In the me
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Chapter 8 the kite runner

Chapter 8 of The kite runner was mainly about how Amir wished to be punished because of the secret he kept and his thirteenth birthday. To me Amir is really getting what he deserves right now i like the Hassan is not giving in to what Amir wants him to do to him. I’m glad that he’s losing sleep over it and feeling GUILTY. Assef is evil in my eyes how can you make your own parents be frightened to even speak while they are around you like what could possibly be going on in that household. How can some one so evil act so innocent when around people who they know think good about them.
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The kite runner ch. 1-3

The kite runner stared off by a flash back talking to his father friend but turning out to be his sins. Chapter 2 then talks about the narrators friend Hassan who has a cleft lip and is probably poor s due to the description they gave in the book and Ali is Hassans father. Hassan was born in 1964 to whereas Amir(the narrator) was born in 1965 when his mother did due to hemorrhage complications. Amir had his on way of being but the guilt he held over hisself which was he thinks his mother death is his fault and wishes he could please his father. I believe that his father should accept him as he is and not try to push him so hard to what he doesn’t want him to be. Baba(Amir’s father) doesn’t love his son the way he is he wishes he was tougher and meaner basically he wished his son was like Hassan. I think what made Hassan that way was because of his mother which was also his cousin. People talked bad about him due to his mothers reputations and him and his fathers condition which made hi
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Poetry out loud part 1

Today in class some of my classmates presented the poems wrote by Maya Angelou. It was quite interesting to see them come alive. However, some were possibly nervous which made them mess up or forget which is probably how I’m gonna be tomorrow but i will continue to go over my poem until it’s time.
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Mother to son and son to mother

Every son and mother relationships are not the same. Some have very tight bonds some don’t have one at all. In the mother to son poem, the mother talks about all the hardships she went through in her life and telling her son to ever give up. Anytime life gets hard never give up continue to push through it overcome every mountain. The son to mother poem talks about how society are other men are degrading him because they think he is a “mothers boy”. They say that she took away his manhood but he will not tolerate the ignorance that is coming from the holes in their face. He is very confident in his life he even told his mother to sit on his lap not him sit on her lap he wants to embrace his mother in his own arm not hers.
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5 on the board

Today in class we wrote a 2nd paragraph to what we did yesterday. I was still little confused on what i was writing so hopefully by the time it gets to the test i will do well. Then we read some essay that dealt with the same prompt we were doing and we were to score it 5 and up being good and 4 on down bad. We seen some good techniques that we could use for our testing. Then we scored our classmates essays to see what we all needed to work on. There we some that needed help including mines and there were some who did excellent. However, we all have errors that we need to work on it could be the simplest thing but it would be improvement.
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Pejorative Terms *may contain foul language*

Today we talked about what word offended us in certain ways. Words that offend me is Bi*** and ni**** or negro. Those words offend me is because I feel as if you are degrading and stopping me from doing this that i do not like that is what pejorative means. Pejorative means    a  word or grammatical form expressing a negative connotation or a low opinion of someone or something, showing a lack of respect for someone or something. People use certain word should not be in anyone’s everyday vocabulary to degrade you of who you are such as racial slurs when people say certain terms and takes one back to where things were segregated no one like nobody. Words that are said to one another can stick to us for however long we shall live so we should always watch what we say to other people especially concerning their feelings.
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