Convoluted Idea of Karma
Ethan, Carsten, Carolyn
This circle represents karma and how "what goes around comes around". Baba is the circle in the middle while karma surrounds him. An instance of karma is when Amir tells Baba that he has cancer when they have a picnic, and Baba dismisses this comment and tells Amir to get a soda from the trunk. Years later, Baba is diagnosed with cancer. Hosseini shows how your actions will somehow come back and impact your life later. People's legacies are the trees while people are the leaves. People come and go and their actions affect those who surround them, but their legacies remain in the memories of others. Baba passes away, leaving Amir with his complex, convoluted legacy.
Interesting, I forgot about Amir's cancer comment and I really like the connection you drew there.
ReplyDeleteOops I hit post button too soon but I also wanted to say that you could talk about how all the trees in the background are different but Amir feels like he has to maintain Baba's legacy and/or mimic him rather than pursue his own path.
ReplyDeleteAgreeing with Daphne here, I think you could talk more about the difference between in the trees in the background. I liked all your metaphors and their connections, very well written, just seems like there could be more explanation about it all.
ReplyDelete我不喜欢你。。。Thanks Peter thats true we ran out of time though
Delete不要打擾他... he can say what he wants but that is true that we did run out of time
DeleteI like how you used the seemingly innocuous exchange at the beginning of the story to show how the future is affected with respect to that exchange. I think that the comparison feels a little forced, and the metaphor seems to represent a general idea in the novel rather than a specific connection.
ReplyDeleteI like your connection with the cancer comment and Baba getting cancer later on. I also like how this picture was taken of a natural structure with no human interference whatsoever. Also maybe you could have had some more karma related analysis.
ReplyDeleteI like how you touched on the cyclical nature of Baba's cancer. Throughout the novel, Hosseini makes very many deliberate parallels that play out in the plot, and Baba and cancer is only one of them. It would have been really interesting if you touched on more of these cycles that are seen in the book.
ReplyDeleteGood job noticing the parallels and foreshadowing between Amir's comment to when Baba was given cancer. I like how you use a circle to represent the karma about how everything comes to a full circle.
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