Amir's Atonement

Amir got to the point where he seeks for an atonement that wants to amend and become good again without having his conscience telling him about how he didn't help his friend when he needed.   He envied Soraya for letting her secret come out, for her courage and all this because he'd betrayed Hassan, lied, driven him out, and destroyed a forty-year relationship between his Baba and Ali.  He had to live with this horrible feeling and having in mind the picture when he stopped and watched, turned away from the ally.  Knowing that he a change to make a decision the final opportunity to stood up for Hassan as he did many times for him in the past.  But at the end he ran. Ran because he was a coward, he was afraid of Assef and what he would do to him. Afraid of getting hurt.  That was Amir's price that he had to pay the lamb he had to slay, to win his Baba.  He knew it wasn't fair and it floated in his conscious mind before he could thwart it, he just thought about how Hassan was just a Hazara.  

Atonement...

ATONEMENT: Satisfaction or reparation for a wrong or injury; amends.

I think atonement could be possible for some sins or mistakes in the past, but for some cases won't help you because there is situations where you are not able to repair what you have done, and the only thing is left is to regretted.  But if you are lucky you can do something about it and atonement it.

Mistakes

Many times in our lives, we got to the point where we all commit many mistakes; and in many of those we just can not go back and repair it, there is mistakes that can affect you for the rest of you live and you must live along with it, because you can't make it disappear.  There is times when thanks to a mistake you got something that you never though that could happen to you and can benefit you.  There are mistakes that I had and i regretted a hundred times and there wasn't a solution to resolve but had to learn how to deal with it and let it go, learn from it.  By mistakes that can mark your life you are able to learn and do it again.  I know many of us would love to erase those dark times in our lives.  But all of life's experiences bad and good, make who you are. Erasing any of the life's mistakes would be a great mistake!!!.

Book Preview

PREVIEW TO A BOOk

The Front Cover

v Title: The Bean Trees

Author: Barbara Kingsolver

v Picture: An Idian Kid behind of the tree.

Words: none

v What do you think the book is about?

I think is about an Indian Kid who grew up poor in a rural kentucky with the

goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away.

Topic/Big Picture? It does not have a big picture.

v Jot down 2 questions you have.

Who does she grew up with?

Why does Taylor decides to take this Indian girl?

The Back Cover

v Synopsis or Plot Preview?

v Review/Praise/Acclaim? Overall what is your impression.

v Does the back cover reveal anything about the story (time period, characters, setting, etc.)? If so, jot down some notes.

Tucson Arizona

Taylor Greer

Indian Girl named Turtle

Inside the Book

v Copyright by Barbara Kingsolver

Publication date?

v Is there a dedication?

v Table of Contents? Chapter Titles? #’s?

v Other titles listed by the author? Jot a few down.

HOMELAND

ANIMAL DREAMS

v Open to a random page and read a few paragraphs. What is the author’s writing style?

1ST PERSON

OVERALL IMPRESSION

Based on your preview of the book, what do you think it may be about? What types of characters, issues, themes, etc… do you think you will encounter? What sort of background information (already known or researched) do you think you will need to understand the story? Write down 3 questions you hope to have answered by the end of the story.

WHY DID TAYL0R DECIDES TO LEAVE KENTTUCKY?

WHAT HAPPENS TO THE CHILD?

DOES TYLOR REPOR THE CHILD TO THE POLICE OR WHAT DOES SHE DOES WITH HER?

My Story...

Every day in my life i dream that  i could live in a place where i can found peace, where i listen the birds sing instead of bombs and guns, where I don't have to fight for my life in order to survive I have to do things that I don't want to do but i have so I can be able to protect a place that i don't own but at least serving and protecting many lifes of my people.  Day by day I have to walk away from the people that I love, from the things that I love to do.  My heart is tearing with ever step i take.  Every day in my life Im sorry for what did to someone , sorry for the pain i have caused, i know my actions caused your heart to break like many of you have done with many of mine but you should know something my heart broke long before i broke yours.  The darkness consumes me every single night feeling my heart cold, my soul numb and my being became ice.  I am wishing that the next day there will be a light to guide my way.  Crying,  screaming, talking, repeating everything over and over again is driving me crazy.

Quote

I agree with this quote because if the evil has triumph thanks to  the bad or ignorant people, I think it will have a big success if all the people including the goods one do nothing.  That is exactly what the evil wants... the people to do nothing.  But sometimes no matter what even when good people do something the evil can find they way to got in it; for example if a good person had made a bad decision.

Decisions, decisions...

Every day in our lives we make new and different decisions that could impact you in any way or any body else around you.  There is many factors that affect people and their choices could be small or big decisions that can decide part of your future.  All of us always have to deal with different situations in our lives and those decisions could be for good as well for bad.  For example making a decision for college, once you start high school you start making decisions if you work and do what you supposed to do, to get in the college that you wanna go; if you work hard during your 4 years of high school you can be sure that you are going to the college.  If during those 4 years you have been making poor  decisions you will have a big impact at the time of applying to the college.  I think one of my best decisions that i had was when i decide to stay over USA and attend high school here, because whenever i go back to Costa Rica i know that with the little English that i have been learning little by little will help to get in a good college and get a good job for being bilingual.

Afghanistan

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

To create your own Afghanistan you will need the following ingredients:

• your main ingredient Capital- Kabul
• Population- 3,120,963
• Official languages - Pashto, Dari (persa), and uzbeko
• Goverment- Islamic Republic
• President- Hamid Karzai
• A container with a total of area of 647,500 km2
  
• GDP per capita- $350.

1. You need to located in the center of Asia (bordered by Pakistan in the south and east, Iran in the south and west, Turkmenitan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the far northeast).
2. Shake the population of 3,120,963 very well notice that some people will get stuck in the capital Kabul.
3. Be carefully at the time of mixing the borders specially with Pakistan because there is where AlQaeda takes place to set the terrorism, (like the one with USA in 2001 at the world trade Center).
4. Make sure to add the 34 states.

Spring Break

During my spring break I did plenty of different things.  To start on Monday I woke up late; I had lunch with my best friends from school, but at 5 p.m i had to work.  On Tuesday I just chilled at home, downloading music.  On Thursday i had to work and after it i went to the movies with my friends from work to see the movie "Fast and Furious 4" I think the movie was great lot of action, adventures and little of comedy there was my favorite actor Paul Walker and one of my favorite Spanish singer Don Omar. Well my Spring break was great...