ASSIGNMENT #4

In the first parts of Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns, Mariam is portrayed as a broken wife who lived unhappily. In chapter 27, Mariam couldn't find it in her to inspire Laila to progress, because she couldn't move forward either. "The girl (Laila) was looking back at Mariam to pass on wisdom, to say something encouraging. But what wisdom did Mariam have to offer? What encouragement?" With the use of textual evidence, explain how Mariam's attitude and persona change from beginning to end.

The Road TEAR

Topic One: Analyze a character from your novel whose mind is pulled in conflicting directions by two compelling desires, ambitions, obligations, or influences.

A. Hedge
Period 06

In Cormac McCarthy's novel, The Road, McCarthy uses heartfelt but gloomy dialouge exchanged between The Man and The Boy to portray the father as being resonsible for his son. Everything the man did was to care for his son, he did the best to provide and set an example of "the good guys" for the boy. While everyone who was still living chose to turn towards cannibalism, The Man showed his son that wasn't the right thing to do. “Just tell me. We wouldn’t ever eat anybody; would we? No. Of course not. Even if we were starving? We’re starving now.” The father sacrificed sleep and food for his son. The father showed his son how to do what's right versus what others were doing to survive in the postapocalyptic world, in turn giving up many opportunities to eat and sleep. Sometimes in order to see a person one cares for succeed in the right manner, survive, or be happy; they may have to set aside they're personal feelings or beliefs.