rationale

The novel is about the life, or lets rather say, the most significant parts of the life of Amir, a character pretty much based on Khaled Hosseini's own life as an Afghan kid before and after the Communist invasion with all of his adventures, and much more important all of his misfortunes, and the way he had to deal with them along his life.

Amir is a Pashtun, a sort of "raze" inside the mid-western culture, but most importantly, the one that rules over the "Hazara" another raze considered inferior by them, rised to serve the Pashtuns. While his best friend, rised as his brother, is a Hazara, this meaning to be his servant, Hassan. Who was even fed by the same breasts Amir was. My task will be about Hassan writing a letter to Rahim Khan, a most deared family friend who, while everyone had fled to america or countries close to Afghanistan thanks to the russian invasion, decided to keep his friend's house safe until they could come back.

My aim, or goal, I want to achieve by creating this task is to go deeper into a relationship that it is not clearly developed in the book, but that still, has a lot of literary potential due to the personalities these two characters posses.

I wanted to write a letter because it was the text type that better allowed me to make a dialogue-like text, and because it was the easiest way to make a character tell a story to another

IVF Dialogue

Eager: It is fare and appropriate for parents to select the gender of their child, specially in cases when family balancing has an important role, like for example families with three or four children of th same gender, wich is not only unhealthy for the parents, but also a poor example for the children about what the world is really about.

Reluctant: But it is inappropriate to have IVF for sex selection, because it is an unnatural way to make a child, it would be like buying something, it feels wrong. If somebody wants to have a child and know the sex, perfect, go to an orphanage where abandonned kids have no parents and adopt one

Eager: And why is it unnatural when I decide the gender of my child? when everybody else eats and drinks genetically modified food? why is it so inappropriate when even you also do it? what if I want a child with my own blood?

Reluctant: It is unnatural because you would build a life, it is highly unethical to manipulate a life, it's true, most of food we eat has been genetically modified, but the food, is it good for our health? some of this kind of food is very dangerous, producing cancers. If you want a child with your own blood, you can have sex with your partner and have one

Blog entry: A

What is it to be a New Zealander? I've actually gave a lot of thought into this question, so I didn't had to force myself into an answer, but after all of this time, I finally think I've got it.

To be a New Zealander means to wake up at 7 o'clock during the week to go to work, and at 6 o'clock on the weekends to go running or just for a walk downtown, it is to breakfast the same thing everyday and be able to love it, I think it's in the "simplicity" of a regular kiwi life, with less pressure, just letting things be in a society that forces you to "let things be", and this applies for almost everything, starting by children witch you need to leave home alone once they get back from school for at least 4 hours, on witch they might easily go out to take drugs and alcohol with irresponsible adults and motorcycle gangs, to be a new zealander, to be a kiwi, means you have to trust, and the beautiful thing of it is. That you can

Blog entry: B

The first, and most noticeable difference is the almost complete lack of  TV's, I think this represents the way not only the country, but the difference in the way people thinks, and the global point of view they have, they don't waste their time inside the living room watching an empty brain destroying machine, they go out and do something.

but this difference is settled by something else, something bigger than just them being better or more evolved than us, an apparent fact that I deny to accept, it is a thing of the way they rise their children, the most significant difference is in the schools, on wich, all school days end not only at the same hour, but at 3:30 in the afternoon, this is a MAJOR difference in comparison with our school sistem on wich we have to stay at school at least up to 4:05 PM, some days even up to 5:30 PM, two hours later than them, What is the difference? first of all, independence, I really doubt there could be any 30 year old man still leaving with his parents after all of the time he spent home alone during his childhood, and second, and most importantly all of the things you can do in that time, on wich you can not only do the yons of homework they send home, but you can also do... well, basically anything you want, for example my own host-brother had a jogging and a high-speed bycicle club, with that much time, virtually anything is possible.

"THE KITE RUNNER" COMIC PROJECT

PART #1
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PART #2
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News "speech" draft

Good morning studio, just a couple of hours ago, two specially strange drug dealers were caught, two colombian marine armed forces were caught with around 254 pounds of high quality cocaine, the drug was going to be transported on "Sebastian Elcano" school vessel, on witch the two privates would be sailing with destination no new york, and several other cities in canada, with the very pourpose of enhancing the relationships with this two nations.

The vessel, who's journey began at Cartagena De Indias port, didn't showed out it's precious cargo until it founded at bueu, pontevedra, right after a training exercise, Alvaro Uribe, president of colombia, said he would rather watch the ship to rot on port, than to continue demolishing the country's reputation.

Thank you very much, this was Gaspar Martine directly from colombia

  

letter to a friend assignment

Dear Deer,

How have you been pal? I hope better than I am, just a couple of weeks ago, I was piloting a plain that  said "mahoma stinks" on its beneath, it wasn't quite a good idea to do it over a middle-east war zone cus' they took my plain down .

After the crash I was untouched, but within 10 steps I activated a landmine that blew my whole legs, after that, I was found by an Iraqi platoon that, thinking I was american, pretended to charge rescue money, because americans pay for that, when they figured out I was not american they just left me alone, in time I got to be friend to a guy called "hussein" or something like that, apparently, he is the chief, and decided to treat my wounds.

As I had no internal organ damage, they finished some stitches, put bandages on me, and even got me  wheel chair until my wooden legs are ready.

Anyway, it doesn't look like I'm returning home any soon, so try not to miss me so much.
Gaspar