Complicated Kindness and The Kite runner

You must respond to three prompts in each of the three response journal entries that you write for one novel. But that’s not all: by the end of the three response journals for one novel you need to have used all six prompts at least once each. That way you aren’t talking only about the same three prompts all the time.
In terms of the structure and style of your reader response journal entries, use these guidelines:
•    Use paragraphs to group your ideas, as you would in any type of school writing.
•    Do not use formal essay structure; the structure can be more informal since it is a personal journal response.
•    Use the first person pronoun “I” because the goal is to show your personal opinions and thoughts.
•    Be specific in explaining and supporting your ideas. Refer to specific moments in the novel and use quotations when applicable, though a Works Cited page is not necessary.
•    Go back to any annotations you made while reading to get ideas.

books:

1.   Six reader response journal entries; three for each novel
2.   Two character development charts
You must respond to three prompts in each of the three response journal entries that you write for one novel. But that’s not all: by the end of the three response journals for one novel you need to have used all six prompts at least once each. That way you aren’t talking only about the same three prompts all the time.
In terms of the structure and style of your reader response journal entries, use these guidelines:
•   Use paragraphs to group your ideas, as you would in any type of school writing.
•   Do not use formal essay structure; the structure can be more informal since it is a personal journal response.
•   Use the first person pronoun “I” because the goal is to show your personal opinions and thoughts.
•   Be specific in explaining and supporting your ideas. Refer to specific moments in the novel and use quotations when applicable, though a Works Cited page is not necessary.
•   Go back to any annotations you made while reading to get ideas.

This document answers questions about the writing style used in the novel (A Complicated Kindness and The Kite Runner), bias I share with the characters in the novel, my reactions to the characters and the events that go on in the story as well as my perception of the characters.
A Complicated Kindness
One writing style used in ‘A Complicated Kindness’ is point of view. The story is told from the first person point of view. It is the viewpoint of Naomi Nickel. She is a sixteen-year old Mennonite girl. The story she shares is that of her own family’s destruction. This is based on her limited understanding and experience of what happened to her family and two siblings. The first person narrative point of view used is very effective as it lets the reader to get to see the effects of the strict restrictions of being a Mennonite on the Mennonite family members as well as the narrator; Naomi Nickel. What stands out about the author’s writing style is her ability to make a conversation between the characters in the novel easy to follow and understand without confusing the reader or even using speech marks.
The Mouth is bias. From the story narrated by Nomi Nickel, we get to see that the Mennonites in East Village, Manitoba, are pretenders. They restrict each other to traditional Mennonite practices while engaging the same in the privacy of their own homes. This includes the mouth as a Mennonite who lives in East Village in Manitoba. Ray Nickel is also bias. He makes himself look like a perfect Mennonite while letting his daughter listen to Led Zeppelin, which is against the Mennonite culture. I share this bias with Ray Nickel. I am all for letting people do what they want with their lives irrespective of cultural restriction since this is what freedom entails.
Among the literary devices used is symbolism. Irony is also used. It is ironical that Nomi’s dream is to live in New York’s East Village while in real sense she was living in a small god-fearing Canadian community called East Village. There is also irony in the story in how the Mennonites were unhappy doing all the forbidden activities such as drinking and everyone pretended to be a good Mennonite, all while secretly drinking, smoking as well as having casual fun. Also, the Mennonites did all the forbidden activities secretly away from other Mennonites who were also secretly drinking, smoking and having casual fun.
Due to the fact that I live in a modern world; one in which I am allowed to listen to whatever music I please, go wherever I please and even have casual fun, I feel pitiful towards the Mennonite teenagers who are prohibited from watching movies, smoking, having sex for fun, going to cities and even staying up past nine O’clock! This also surprises me. Nomi as a character also surprises me. In the beginning, she does not not seem like an individual capable of rebellion, but later on, I get to see that she and her father have their strange ways of dealing with the loss of their mother and beautiful sister. She even rebels and engages in substance abuse as well as listening to Led Zeppelin. This was forbidden. Her rebellious acts disappoint me as well as they motivate me. I find her rebellious deeds motivating since from them, I get to see the importance of getting to do that which I feel is right in spite of there being stringent rules put in place to restrict such. Her father Ray disappoints me. This is because he finds it easier to go along with the demands of the Mennonites than stand up and defend his family and whatever he believes in to be true or even right. Nomi is likeable to me. His father Ray is not likeable.
Nomi’s thoughts on the stuff that they as Mennonites are forbidden to do made me think about the activities I am forbidden from doing in my life. An examples of these includes the consumption of alcohol and drugs; I associate these with fun and leisure.
The characters can be categorized as conformists and non-conformists. The conformists include Nomi’s father Ray. In spite the fact that he is bewildered by his daughter Natasha and wife Trudy’s lack of obedience to the Mennonite ways, Ray Nickel tows the line and tries to be a perfect citizen in East Village, Manitoba. The non-conformists include Natasha Dawn Nickel and her boyfriend Ian. Natasha is a non-conformist because she rejected the East Village community along with its values. Not only is she not bothered by anybody’s disapproval, but she also doesn’t mind being openly-contemptuous. Together with her boyfriend Ian, Natasha Nickel leaves East Village, Manitoba for California in Ian’s Econoline van.
What I would really love to know about the story is how Natasha Nickel and her boyfriend Ian are coping with life outside of East village, Manitoba; away from the restrictive laws that guide the Mennonite people. Are they finding it as fun and liberating as they had once hoped it to be? Are they happier now than they were before?
The Kite Runner
In The Kite Runner, the writing style used is bare. There is barely anything that stands out about the writers’ style of writing. Among the literary devices used in the story include irony and symbolism. Irony is evident when Amir remembers that Baba once made a remark that “in the hour of need, believe me that there is no one you’d rather have at your side than a Pashtun.” Amir, a Pashtun, failed to even attempt to help Hassan in his greatest hour of need. The irony is in the fact that Hassan, not a Pashtun but a Hazara, stood up for Amir at the very opportunity he found and would give his life for Amir when asked. The narrative point of view used is the first person point of view. This is when a character in the story shares his or her thoughts and feelings as well as his or her opinion on what is happening.
Baba, Amir’s father, had more affection towards his servant boy Hassan more than he does to his very own son Amir. This is bias. He blames him for the death of his wife as she dies while giving birth to Amir. This however is a bias I do not share with the character. Amir’s perspective is limited. He only narrates from his personal point of view. He does not put into consideration the other characters’ point of view.
Amir annoys me when he looks down on Hassan who belongs to the Hazara, a lower ethnic division in Afghanistan. This is because I firmly believe that all human beings are equal irrespective of race or ethnicity. Amir saddens me. Hassan motivates me as he stands up for Amir whenever he is needed to in spite of the fact that Amir looks down on him for being a Hazara and getting the love and attention of his father Baba. It is very stupid of Amir to look down on Hassan the way he does. All human beings are equal. Hassan and Baba are likeable to me, Amir on the other hand, is not.
In Afghanistan, people fly kites as well as they fight them. This involves long kite strings coated in tar and glass so as to allow them to cut the strings of the other kites. When Amir and Hassan set off to the tournament to win the annual winter kite-fighting tournament, Amir wins after some strategy and luck. This makes me think about the challenges I am facing in my life and the challenges later to come. This inspires me to be aggressive and getting over them strategically and through critically-thinking.

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