Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Blog Response #6
In all five novels, the main character or characters face adversity in one way or another. Describe how you view the character's challenges in your book, and talk about how your character handles the hardships and struggles. If you were in your main character/characters situation, how would you handle yourself? What would you do?
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So i am reading Night. The main character is a jewish boy living in the time of Nazi Germany. So he is being hunted down and hes watched people he knows die. He has watched them throw babies up and shoot them or throw them into a fire. He has had to deal with being severely under fed and malnourished. He has had to deal with working all day and getting no reward for his hard work. He has also had to deal with his faith and how hes been questioning it a lot more. Honestly if i was in this position i dont know what id do.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how he could watch them do that. I would have to go some where else so I wouldn't see it happen or I would try to stop what they were about to do.
DeleteThis book sounds very interesting.Do you think hes gonna stand up and try to fight back or just stay low?
DeleteHaving faith has been one of the biggest conflicts for Elie so far, because he says that they are now, not scared of death and that it is better than the conditions there living in now.
Deletei agree when the only thing you have is faith and you give that up you have nothing to live for what keep you moving forward
DeleteI also agree it must be very hard for them to have doubts about their God and Religion espicially because the reason they are in the concentration camps to begin with is because of there religion.
DeleteTo say we could even understand what would it would be like to be in a position like that is impossible, but for us pampered american id say most of us would curl into a ball and suffer a total loss of sanity.
Deletei am reading the book a long way gone and in the story there is a lot of conflict with the characters they are constantly running and hiding from the rebels and there is a lot of war going on. they are all losing each other. some are dying or get captured. if i was in the situation i would keep running and go as far away as i could from anywhere near the villages. i am excited to see how the story plays out.
ReplyDeleteIn Kite Runner, they have to flee from the conflict in Afghanistan. People are died on their journey to America, but they finally got to their destination. I agree with you on the fact that I would behave very similar to the characters if I were in their shoes.
DeleteI am reading the book Night and it is kind of like your book where there is a war going on and the main character struggles with being involved but in my book they are in a concentration camp and not on the run.
DeleteSo i am read Kite Runner The main character is Amir he lives in California with his wife that cant have kids. He is an Afghanistan Boy and his Dad is Baba his dad dies from cancer and his friend is very ill back in his home place
ReplyDeleteI could see that being rough on a kid that would really suck your dad died and now your friend is sick.
Deletethis book sounds very instering i would like to hear more.
DeletePfab, I am very proud of you becasue you have half an idea of whats going on the book. Very good!!!
DeleteHow would you handle that situation if you were in his shoes? How would you feel about your friend and dad and wife?
DeleteHow does Amir handle the situation , and how does it impact his everyday life ?
Deleteit would suck to lose your dad to cancer. hopefully the rest of the story for amir plays out good and it has a happy ending.
Deletei am reading the book night and the main character is a young boy that is a jew and he has been throw these concentration camps with his dad and watched people die for now reason at all he is feed very little he is really trying to question his faith and if it even existed because the fact that they were treated so bad and the only thing they had was faith but there starting to give up
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a good book. It really sounds like you really gotta be smart for others and around you to survive and not get killed or captured.
DeleteI agree that Elie has been through a lot, and has suffered more than most, by being whipped and tortured for the smallest mistakes.
Deletesounds like a good book that would be emoshenal
Deletei argree with danny because i dont think i can go through this,
DeleteIts interesting that she is questioning her faith and if it exists or not. It seems like a really good book.
Deletesounds like a very good book and good read.
DeleteIts very scary to think that something has happened like that within the last hundred years, but we as a people right now can do nothing about it. People suffered so terribly in those times, and now we could not fathom suffering as they felt. I bet i can understand why they're questioning their faith, i would be too.
DeleteThe main character of The Kite Runner is from a rich family and does not face much real adversity of his own. All of the adversity happens with his life-long friend and servant Hassan. Hassan is of a different religion than Amir (the main character), and gets abused and bullied because of it. The only real adversity that Amir encounters is whether he should help his servant and consider him his friend or just leave Hassan to deal with everything himself. Later in the book, he also has to try to get his father to assimilate to American culture after they move from Afghanistan. If I was in Amir's shoes, I would stand up for Hassan, because he would do anything for me, so I would do the same to him. As for trying to get my father to assimilate, I have no idea what I would do. Trying to get someone who has authority over you to do something is very hard, seemingly impossible.
ReplyDeleteYou are right about about how it is almost in impossible for Amir to assimilate his dad to American culture. Another reason it would be hard is all that Baba knows is his culture from Afghanistan. Baba is a stubborn man to began with.
DeleteAt first I thought that Amir had the most adversity in The Kite Runner but after reading your entry I would agree that Hassan. Is the person that has the most, Amir's adversity is just because of the things that happened to Hassan.
DeleteI am reading the book A Long Way Gone and the main charter is named Ishmael his is from Sierra Leone. HE faces many challenges such as being attacked by rebels, his friend saidu died, he hasnt ate in a while, he has been caught twice and he doesnt know if his family is dead or alive. He handles all of this in a very good manner by keeping calm and just doing what he can to stay alive. if i was in his shoes i would not be able to handle it near as well as he is doing. i would be freaking out and just probably wait and hide.
ReplyDeleteI am reading The Kite Runner which also takes place in the Middle east. When things start to go crazy Amir is extremely well off so he does not go on the run for very long. Some people leave or die, and it hurts him a lot, but nothing really destroys him, and he still stays the same person. If I was in his shoes, I would act similarly to how they do in the book.
DeleteI am reading A Thousand Splendid Suns and in this book Mariam and Laila face many challenges. For instance Mariam had to deal with her mothers emotional abuse, her mothers suicide, getting married at 15 to an abusive husband, and her fathers abandonment. Even though this is a lot of stuff Mariam handles it amazingly well, she does this by keeping her hand down and she does what she is supposed too. If I was her i wouldnt take any of it i probably would of ran away and i definitely would not of married that 40 year old man. Laila faces many challenges too like, having to be the parent because her mom is very depressed, dealing with her friends murder, and missing Tariq. She deals with this by accepting the fact that she cant change anything especially when shes only 6 years old. If I was her I would not be the parent i would make my mom get out of bed and force her to do something.
ReplyDeleteIn my book i have 2 main characters. The first character is Marium, she has gone through so many challenges and struggles. First thing Marium's mom died when she was very young, after her mothers passing her dad (who does love her but his 3 wives hate her because she is a "bastard child" and dont want Marium to stay) ships her off to get married to a man who is 30 years older than her (Marium 15, Rasheed 45 ish) Marium does not want to go with Rasheed but does because she knows that is her only option. Marium tries her hardest to make the best of her situations. The other main character in this book is Laila (Rasheed's Neighbors daughter) Laila has grown up basically with just her father. Her mother is not really a mother to her because her mom is depressed and doesnt ever do anything. Laila is in love with Tariq (her neighbor) and Tariq and his family just left the country because of the war. And laila does her best to deal with her struggles by being there for her mother and trying to help her in any way possible.
ReplyDeleteWhat would you do in those situations? Would you stick up for yourself or would you just let things be? i personally would never be able to deal with it
DeleteI know that I would not be okay with that, I would leave and hope for the best because I think it is awful the way they treat women.
DeleteI am reading I Am Malala and The main character Malala has gone through a lot of adversity . Malala was targeted and shot by the Taliban on her school bus on her way to school because she advocated for girls getting an education . I cant imagine being shot for wanting to get an education . Its hard to say how you think you would react to something like that but I hope if I were in that situation I would handle it like malala . After her recovery Malala Continued to get her education in England were she now lives and continues to speak out about the importance of girls getting an education despite almost losing her life . I think how Malala handled what she went through makes her a great role model of perseverance for anyone especially young women and girls .
ReplyDeleteDo you like this book? What else is this book about?
DeleteI am reading the book A Long Way Gone. So far the main character has had to run all over to different villages to stay away from rebels. At the start of the book he would talk about people that had been attacked by rebels coming to his town. Some wold stay but most would keep walking because they knew that someday the rebels wold attack there town. Barley any of them would talk and a lot of them where wounded. Now that his town has been attacked and hes seen so many people die including one of his friends he is doing the same thing. At one point in the book he got separated from his brother and all of his friends except for one. Him and his friend found a family and they were safe but for some reason he decided to leave so it was just him walking in the forest. If I was in that situation I would have stayed with the family and my friend.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, I feel like staying with your family and friends would be a better idea than going off alone and being by yourself at times.
DeleteI am reading The Kite Runner, and someone that has too go through adversity pretty much his whole life was Amir. Obviously a very big obstacle in his life was watching his best friend get raped, and do absolutely nothing about it. That is something very big to live with the rest of your life. Also never telling anyone one about it ever would be another very heavy burden. I don't know if I could live with myself if I saw my best friend get raped I honestly have no idea how I would react. I don't think I could keep that in my entire life and never tell anyone.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't be able to live with myself either knowing that my best friend was rapped and i saw it and did nothing to stop it or help the situation.
Deletei also would have no clue how i would react but it is a very big deal. seeing a person that you have known forever, after something like that would be very rough. it would be hard to even talk to them.
DeleteIn the book A Thousand Splendid Suns one of the main characters Mariam has a pretty rough life. She had her mom telling her one thing and her dad telling her a different thing. Mariam's mother was a mean lady to others, so Mariam had more respect towards her dad. Which was way she went to go live with her dad and when she went back to her mom's house, she found her mom hanging from a tree. Then after this happen, she was forced to marry a forty-year-old man even though she is only fifteen. When Mariam couldn't give her husband what he wanted he became abusive towards her. Mariam handles these situations very calmly she just lets it happen and then she gets over it. If I was Mariam and the time frame was now, I would have left and never came back. I wouldn't put up with that crap because that's not right. No one should be in an abusive relationship or be force into doing something you don't want to do.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on the leaving, but where would she go? She wasn't able to go to a lot of places and she doesn't know anyone well enough in the new city.
DeleteWhy do you think she just gets over it and keeps trying instead of running away?
DeleteI agree with everything you said, if i was Mariam i would run away but where would i go? Mariam has no friends or family that wants her along with no money.
DeleteI'm reading A Thousand Splendid Suns and the character Mariam has to deal with a lot growing up. Her mom always called her a bastard and was very rude to her. Her mother also hung herself and Mariam had to see it. She got an arranged marriage and had to marry and 40-45 year old man named Rasheed who is a lousy, pathetic husband. He made her eat rocks to show her how her rice tasted and she broke her teeth. If i were Mariam i would probably feel as lost in her. She has no choice in her situation. I would hate to live in Afghanistan.
ReplyDeleteWhy cant she run away? Find another village?
DeleteI am reading the book Night and so far Elie the main character and the one writing the story has faced many challenges, and has been dodging life and death situations from the start of the book. He seems to be handling the situations fairly decent, because he has been through hell so far and it's only going to get worse.
ReplyDeleteMy book is kind of the same way but my character doesnt go through concentration camp. Amir faces alot of chalenges.
DeleteWhat are some examples for the many challenges he has been trough? And how would you act if you would be in his situation?
Deletethis book has a lot of hard ships and they just keep on pushing and there are people here that have food on the table clothes on there back and they think they have it ruff
Deletei would have liked to read this book how has it interested you so far?
DeleteI'm reading the book kite Runner and the main character Amir faces adversity when he best friend Hassan gets raped while Amir watches from aground the corner. I think Amir doesn't handle the situation very well. If Amir was a true friend to Hassan, he would have stepped in and hopefully helped Hassan. AFter the rapping, Amir shut Hassan out of his life. I don't agree with how Amir is handled things. He didn't tell anyone! Amir didn't ever confront Hassan about what happened even though both of them knew what happened. Hassan Knew that Amir knew about the rapping. Instead of Amir being a good friend, things got way worst between them. If I was Amir, I would have at least stepped in to try to save Hassan and I would for sure NOT shut Hassan out of my life because he sacrificed so much for Amir for just a kite and even more. Hassan is the loyal and true friend.
ReplyDeletefrom what it sounds amir was being an ahole to hassan and in my opinion i could never do that to a friend. i dont understand why he shut him out of his life because of that.
DeleteWe both agree on that, just letting your best friend get rapped is pretty messed up. Then having to live with that for the rest of your life that would be a pretty big hardship and never telling anyone about it would be super tough.
DeleteI am reading I Am Malala and challenges she faces are with the Talibans kind of changing the people in the villages lives. Malala handles it but not getting to involved so she wont get killed by the Talibans so she follows the Talibns rules so she wont get in trouble. If I was Malala I would also follow the Talibans rules and be quiet around the village.
ReplyDeleteWhat are some of the things that the Talibans are doing to change their lives? Are they forcing them to do things that they don't want to do?
DeleteI totally agree with you I would follow the rules and be quite and try not to get hurt.
DeleteI disagree with you on staying quiet and following the Taliban's rules but I see where you're coming from. I don't think I could follow somebody and their rules when I don't support and agree with them.
DeleteAmir faces adversity in both Afganistan and in the United states. In
ReplyDeleteAfgahnistan he had it made his dad was very wealthy and he had no worries besides Hassan. The only adversity he faced when he was home was what food he was gonna eat. When he arrived in America he started facing descrimination becasue he was a different race. They all stuck together in neighborhoods. they had their own bars and swap meets. that is how they adapted to the discrimination.
i am reading the same book and it is weird when hassan gets raped
Deletei am reading the book night and everything about the book is good there are a lot of difficult times and every one handles situation differently
ReplyDeleteBea takes the camp vary hard and he losses hop and its hard to imagine going throw something like that for a young kid to go throw and his dad takes it a little better but they end up finding hop it would be a bad deal to have to live in a time like this no one should ever be treated like how the camp prisoners where treated
Im reading the book Night and Elie is the main chracter. My character struggles alot. He struggles by he is losing his home family and freinds. He is a very strong character and dont give up.
ReplyDeleteSo how would you handle the situation if you were him?
DeleteWhy is he losing his friends, family and home? How would you act if you would be in the same situation?
DeleteWho is this character it sounds like u arn't reading the book you don't have much info
DeleteI am reading the book A Thousand Splendid Suns and in the book, Maraim, the main character, takes on many problems. She has to deal with the mental/emotional abuse from her mother always putting her down, loosing her mother due to suicide, getting forced to marry a 40 year old abusive man, and having several miscarriages. She handles all these problems very well. Even though all this stuff is happening to Mariam, she still keeps trying and trying to make her husband happy. If this stuff happened to me I would have been gone along time ago. I would not have stayed around and put with that stuff. No one should be treated like that or get forced to do something they have no say in.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the same book, what would you do if you were in Marium's shoes, I personally would leave Rasheed because of the awful way he is treating her!!
DeleteIm reading the book I am Malala. This girl has been shot through the head and is still living today. She got shot because she wanted the best for the women. The guys still very disagreed because theyd lose power over them. Its unfair how the women get tretaed there. They have no rights and have to listen to the men or else theyll get hit and abused.
ReplyDeleteSo how would you cope with this if you were shot in her head and lets say you were trying to make the mans rights better, what would you do?
DeleteHow did she survive getting shot in the head and does she get treated differently because shes standing up for herself. It sounds like a good book.
Deletewhat would you do if you got shot in the head would you stop trying to get rights or would that push you to get more rights?
DeleteI am reading the book A Thousand Splendid Suns, in this book the main character, Mariam, is going through a lot of challenges. Her challenges began when her mom killed herself because she told Mariam not to go to town but she did anyways and that made her mother kill herself. After that she only had her father left, but then he made her marry a man much older than her, she did not approve and she did not want. She is continuing to go through a lot, such as the loss of babies, her mother, and her father sending her off so he never has to see her again. Even with all of this bad stuff going on with Mariam, she is willing to push through it all, love herself and others. She loves her husband no matter what and she doesn’t let anyone see the pain that she is going through. If I were in this characters situation I wouldn’t be able to handle it all as good as she does but I know I would be able to try my best and I would honestly use the chores and go outside more as my coping device.
ReplyDeleteHow did she handle her mothers death? I cant imagine going through something like that let alone the fact that she had to deal with the loss of her babies.
DeleteWhy did her father have her marry a man she didn't want to if he was only going to send her away so he didn't have to see her?
DeleteIshmael seems to take a lot of risks to basically do anything for food. Looting villages, climbing trees he doesn't know how to climb, and eating potentially poisonous fruit. It doesn't help that people won't help him out because they're scared that he could be a child soldier. His country seems to be in Survival of the Fittest mode, where people try to do anything and everything for themselves, which is completely understandable in a time of Civil War. I would probably not do too well in the survival aspect or I would be really unlucky and be the first one shot.
ReplyDeleteI have never thought about it like that about them not wanting to help him because they thought he was a child soldier. i always thought there was just no one to help him. I would also would not do good in this situation.
Deletei agree with you he does take a lot of risks to battle for his survival and the people around him. he needs to keep moving to stay alive. i think he will find his mom at the end do you think he will?
Deleteits crazy how the world changes just like that. it would be very hard to be living life normally then have to go out on your own with nothing and try to survive.
DeleteIn my opinion the main character in the book “The Kite Runner” written by Khaled Hosseini is Amir. Amir is an intelligent young son of a successful businessman in Kabul. His best friend is Hassan. I would say their relationship is very complicated, because Amir changes his attitude from acting like a loyal friend back to attacking Hassan. Amir is a very ambitious kid, who needs and also wants all the attention from his father. He wants to make him proud. But his father doesn't always give it to him, but to Hassan. Therefore it’s predictable that they start a fight sooner or later.
ReplyDeletewhy do you think Amir changes from being loyal to attacking Hassan ? What kind of problems does this start ?
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book night and its about a boys journey from living a normal life to being in concentration camps dealing with losing family and friends. I think itd be hard for anyone to deal with what the people in the book are dealing with but i think they do the best they can to stay posative and believe that there going to be free soon. They did stop believing in God because they thought if there was a God why would he ever allow anything like this to happen. If i were in there positions i feel like i wouldnt be able to handle myself as well as them.
ReplyDeleteI agree Conner I think that if i was put into a concentration camp back then would be scary, I dont think I would be able to handle it either, I feel that id probaly lose hope.
Deleteim reading the book a long way gone. in the book right now theres a lot going on with the characters they always seem to be running and hiding from the rebels, there are a lot of people at war right now.everyone is just trying to get away and they get lost and cant find eachother, wondering if their family and friends are dead or just lost like them. if i was in this situation i would get the hell out of there run as far and as fast as i can until i find another town that has not been over run. i am also very excited to see how the rest of the story goes.
ReplyDeleteI am reading I Am Malala the problem she faces is the Taliban they impact every one in the villages. and if you do not follow the rules of the Taliban you get hurt. Malala also goes to school witch is not conman for a girl to get a education in her village. if I was malala i would keep quite around the village and trust no one
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book the Kite Runner, the main character amir faces adversity a lot. One problem he faces is the group of boys who bully him and his friend, another problem is he gets bullied for being friends with hassan who is a different race.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading the book I Am Malala and Malala and her family face a lot of challenges one main one being the Taliban. The Taliban are controlling everything and are punishing many people if they break their rules. Another challenge she faces is the fact that girls aren't suppose to go to school and not only does she go to school but she enjoys it and talks about how she wants to be free all of the time. The way that Malala handles it is by speaking up and doing interviews talking about what's happening in her country. If I was in her position I would probably handle it similar to how she is. I would speak up and give interviews about everything that goes on but I would ask to be anonymous for the safety of my family and I.
ReplyDeleteHow are they punishing the people?
DeleteI am reading A Long Way Gone and the main character Ishmael is always having to work out a problem that he and his group is facing. He is always running and hiding from the rebels that are hunting the innocent civilians. He has to witness the rebels killing and torturing people and kill children. If i was Ishmael i wouldn't trust anyone while I was running from the rebels. I would stay in the forest and eat what fruits,meats i could get. I would avoid wandering into any village they looked empty.
ReplyDeleteIn the book Kite Runner Hassan faces the most adversity. Some challenges he has faced was he is Amir's best friend but is also his servant. Hassan also got raped and his best friend Amir just watched and didn't do anything about it, he wouldn't even talk to Hassan.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book Night.The main character lives during WWII when him and his family are taken by the Germans and taken to a concentration camp and forced to work in factories under horrific conditions. many times he is pushed beyond the limit. If I was in his shoes I would not survive.
ReplyDeleteIn my book I am Malala, the young protagonist is living in a very restrictive country in which women are allotted very few rights. If i was in her situation, i do not know what my reaction would be. She was raised and taught this way of life her entire life, and i cannot understand how she began to think outside the box and come to the conclusion that what they do in their country is wrong.
ReplyDeleteHello my book was I am Malala. I stopped reading this book cause i don't like it at all most these books we read are not as impact as they make it out to be because I've never heard of Malala til now and i'm 18 years old if she did something amazing i feel i would have heard of her before but i never have. so i stopped reading it cause i cant read things that give me no interest it just hurts my will to wanna read another book.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to add that I listened to an audio book and my little sister told me who this girl was and the stuff she did from what I've learned from those two sources was that it wasn't best for me to keep reading it cause it has little impact from my point of view and I'd like to say if your interested in this part of the world and strong female leaders this would be a good book and should give it a read. with that said thank you this was a interesting experience that will further my education.
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