Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Amir's Relationship Insecurities
This picture represents Amir's insecurities when it comes to his relationship with Baba. Baba is represented by the tree, and Amir is the trash can next to it. Amir feels inadequate next to his father. Baba, like the tree, is tall and strong, and adds to the environment. People appreciate him and he takes the spotlight. This is seen in the picture as the tree taking up a lot of the frame, and the trashcan being secondary and slightly behind it. Amir isn't similar to Baba, feeling like a different person from his father, like how a trash can and a tree are so different. They are also distant, as seen by the separation by the concrete walling. Amir also feels like he will never be as good and that people won't see him being as great as his father, seen in Amir being a trashcan, an object many find unpleasing or disgusting. But Amir is useful and helps the world in his own way, just like how a trashcan holds trash and keeps everything clean. Though Amir isn't a strong and powerful tree, he can still do good works and be a good person despite not being like his father. Amir begins to realize this at the end of the book.
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I like your connection to Amir and the trashcan. I think that this image could also represent Amir and Baba in America, how Amir is growing and becoming an adult and how Baba is withering away.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE this overall metaphor, especially the fact that Baba is appreciated by the environment, and Amir is too but still considers himself trash :). This image could also represent Amir and Hassan's relationship, in that Hassan is bold and strong and will protect Amir from harm, but Amir will do hardly anything to help Hassan and feels like trash when faced with his loyalty.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed how you were able to explain how the connection of a tree and a trash can were related to Amir and Baba. I believe that this image could also be used to show the relationship between Hassan and Amir in the sense that Amir always believed that he was not as valuable as Hassan especially in the eyes of Baba, so compared to a mighty tree he felt like trash.
ReplyDeleteI really like the connection you made at the end of the paragraph saying that despite Amir not being as showy, he can still do good in the world. You could have even expanded that further, explaining that trash cans serve a purpose and are extremely important to this world, even though most people don't view them as such.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great metaphor. It hadn't really occurred to me that trash cans can still be very important because we normally just see the trash that we put into it instead of the container. I think this is a good reminder that while Amir did this terrible thing to Hassan, there is still good in him when he helps Sohrab.
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