The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner was written by Khaled Hosseini, an Afghan.It tells the story of Amir, a well-to-do Pashtun boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who was haunted by the guilt of betraying his childhood friend Hassan, the son of his father's Hazara servant.

Twelve year old Amir was desperate to win the approval of his father, one of the richest and most respected merchants in Kabul. He had failed to do so through academia, but the one area where they connected was the annual kite fighting tournament. Amir was determined not just to win the competition but to run the last kite and brought it home successfully, to prove to his father that he had the ability of a man. His loyal friend Hassan was the best kite runner that Amir had ever seen, and he promised to help him - for Hassan always helped Amir out of trouble. But Hassan was a Shi'a Muslim and this was 1970s Afghanistan. Hassan was taunted and jeered at by Amir's school friends; he was merely a servant living in a shack at the back of Amir's house.

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What I Learned From the Scarlet Letter

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Abstract: this paper is to talk the female character in the scarlet letter. It

describes the whole story at the first section, then the character analysis. And it explains the symbol of the letter “A” which appears all the time. Well it finishes with the standpoint of its author, which refers to me. Wish you be delighted reading my essay. Thank you!

In an eternal semester’s Anglo-American movie classes, I’ve appreciated many classical novels. What impressed me most is the first movie we watch called the scarlet letter.

First, the story begins in seventeenth-century Boston, and that is in a

Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl in her arms and the scarlet letter “A” on her breast. Hester’s husband, a scholar much older than she is, sent her ahead to America, but he never arrived in Boston. The consensus is that he has been lost at sea. While waiting for her husband, Hester has apparently had an affair, as she has given birth to a child. She will not reveal her lover’s identity. Several years pass. Hester supports herself by working as a seamstress, and Pearl grows into a willful, impish child. When Dimmesdale acknowledge Hester’s child publicly the other day, a meteor marks a dull red “A” in the night sky.

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The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea is one of the best known novels by the famous American fiction writer Ernest Miller Hemingway, is also the author 's last published novel.

The book tells a story about an old fisherman Santiago who lives alone in sea fishing. Santiago was outstanding and strong when he was young. But now he is suffering from hunger and weeks of ill luck.In the first forty days a boy, who loves the old man very much, has been with him .But after many weeks of returning home to his small village, day after day with nothing in his boat, Santiago is forced to accept the other villager's small charities.

Santiago decides to sail far out to sea in search of a catch that will regain his self-confidence. Early the next morning says good-bye to his friend, the small boy, and the safety of the beach. Fortunately his luck turns and he hooks the giant marlin. For two days and two nights his adversary pulls him further out to sea. Finally the marlin was stabbed and tied to the bow. However , it is unfortunate that the marlin is eaten up by sharks after the battle between the old man and sharks. Finally the old man drag home with fishbone of the marlin. And he is appreciated by others. What a great story it is!The story gives me a deep impressionand I enjoy it very much. After reading, I think thatSantiagois a very brave person.When the battle begins, not just with the fish, but with himself as

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Recently I read a book which is called “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”.It is one of the best known novels by the famous American writerMark Twain. It is a story of a clever boy called Tom Saywer.

Tom Sayweris a naughty boy, he does not like study in the school or get up in the morning. Which he likes are fishing, swimming and having adventures with friends. His adventures are interesting but dangerous.

I think it is Tom Saywerthat made the book become a classic work. Tom is a naughty boy, and he is a brave boy, too. He always encourages his friends when they are in trouble. And he always tries his best to help other people. He is a hero in some degree. Form this story, I realized that we are supposed to be kind and we should help our friends. Or we will be punished by God ,just like InjunJoe, who starves to death in the cave.

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The Old Man and the Sea is one of the most famous fictions of Hemingway. It created a dauntless man whose name was Santiago. He had fished on the sea and, after 48 days without any harvest , Santiago eventually caught a vast marlin which the old man had never seen like this (longer than his junk) in his life. No doubt, the strong fish struggled and tried to flee, it had dragged that junk for two days. Santiago had experience a test that he tried to tame this marlin and he consumed all of his strength in killing this fish, suffered from pain. Finally, he did it. However, while Santiago bolted the fish onto the prow, several sharks attacked him and stole two thirds of the fish. When he arrived the jetty, what he had gained was only a marlin’s skeleton. What made me surprised was the defective end. At the beginning, I thought this story would probably like this: Santiago had fished on the sea and had pained a lot, finally he came back with a big fish. But how could this make Hemingway the owner of The Nobel Prize in literature of 1954？ I think just the end attracts readers. Santiagohad said “A man can get destroyed but is so not defedinedd” Even though Santiago didn’t bring the whole fish , but only skeleton. However, this is no more important, this old man had once paid lots of effort to catch his dream, offered his blood, toil, sweat. Never mind who is the winner, the value of Santiago’s life has totally been seen when he tried to tame the fish. Perhaps, this is what Hemingway aimed to. Everyone has his own shortcoming, not to surrender, but to strive. Whatever how the end is, no pain no gain.

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Morning, ladies and gentleman! First, Let me show you a sentence. Kindness, the foundation of life. This is what I said. Maybe someone is opposed to this view. But I want to share you a story, oliver twist.

The story tells us the tragic experience of an orphan,Oliver ,born into a life of poverty and misfortune in a workhouse. He spends the first eight years of his life at a farm. Along with other orphans, Oliver is brought up with little food. One day, he receives the cruel treatment by Mr. Bumblejust because of asking for more porridge. Hunger and humiliation force him to escape and incidentally arrives London.

Unluckily, when he got to London,he is cheated by a gang of thieves including Fagin and Sikes. The infamous criminal,Fagin tries every means to make Oliver a burglar.BUT he refuses.By one incident, he is taken to Mr. Brownlow’s and enjoyed a short period of real happy life. However, he was caught by Fagin and Sikes,going through endless hardships again. In the end, With the assistance of Rose who is the aunt of Oliver, Mr.Brownlow who is Oliver’s father’s good friend and other kind people, Oliver eventuallyin herits the half of the remaining money his father left for him, leading a life that is truly blessed.

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Gone with the wind

Having read the novel Gone with the wind written by America writer Margaret Mitchell, I was deeply shocked .The novel ,which Margaret Mitchell spent about ten years on, not only created a myth, but also show her own personal opinion to the world. The novel’s background is based on the civil war, which happened in the United States. According to the changes of the civil war stars the circumstances, so it has divided the macro history into micro history of personal experience. We can realize that the thinking of Margaret through characters changes of people.

GONE WIITH THE WIND is a famous story, which main character is Scarlett who is the oldest daughter of a reach man. Scarlett grew in a soft and sweet environment .Her childhood is full of happiness and freedom, but at the age of sixteen, the world of her life began to change. At the bottom of her heart, she loved Ashley very much! Then news came that Ashley would be married with Melanie, she felt surprised and even couldn’t accept the fact. With the psychology of revenging Ashley, Scarlett married to Melanie’s brother before the day Ashley wedding. With the development of the war, many young man died，including Scarlett’s husband. Scarlett can’t stand the boring life as a widow. At the same time Ashley also joined the army, so his wife Melanie invited Scarlett to the home of Charles’s aunt. Without more consideration, Scarlett left for Atlanta with her little son. For the change of environment, Scarlett felt a little better. Much to her happiness, Charles left a large amount of heritage, for the more and more relationship between the north and south, women in Atlanta were mobilized to support the war. One time the hospital holds a party to collect contributions. In the party, Scarlett met a strange person, whose name was Rhett. And Scarlett still remembered that he was just the person who had known her love to Ashley. Rhett invited Scarlett to have a dancing though she was criticized by all the women around her, she still accepted the invitation. After the case, Scarlett became more and more open to things around her. The war was terrible, but it also gives Scarlett a chance to fight with the old custom. Ashley came back from the battlefield for one week. Scarlett made up her mind to tell Ashley her true feeling, but rejected by Ashley 1

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