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Chapters 1-6

"I'd sooner eat dirt," he said with a look of indignation.

"Really? You'd do that?" He threw me a puzzled look.

"Do what?"

Eat dirt if I told you to," I said." pg 57

Shanahmeh

Plot-

Amir, who is the main character receives a phone call from a man named Rahim Khan. Rahim's call brings up the past Amir tried so hard to forget.

Chapters 2-6 summarizes Amir and Hassan's childhood together and shows their friendship and separation.

The Shanahmeh is known as The Book of Kings in English. The Shanahmeh is the 10th century epic of ancient Persain hero's. The Shanahmeh was Hassan's favorite book. Rostam and Sohrab was Hassan favorite story in the book.

Rostam and Sohrab was the story of the great warrior Rostam and his fleet-footed horse, Rakhsh. Rostam mortally wounds his valiant nemesis, Sohrab, in battle, only to discover that Sohrab is his long lost son.

Themes

- There is always a way for redemption.

- Being to loyal will betray you.

Setting-

-Kabul, Afghanistan

-San Francisco, America.

-Amirs house

-Hassans mud hut

-Amirs backyard.

Characters

Amir

Hassan

Ali

Baba

Assef

Rahim khan

"For you, a thousand over." pg 2

" That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms." pg.33

Conflict

There is a conflict between the Pashtun and Hazara.

Connections

Text to World- Social gap between the rich and poor.

Text to Text- A long way gone by Ishmael Beah

connections to the book

Afghan Jokes

Credits

We found that Afghan folk tales are very similar to the stories that Amir reads to Hassan when they were kids. The short story that Amir had written had the same kind of idea as many of the folk tales that we found. Most of the stories teach a lesson and use irony to portray their main messages.

http://www.storiestogrowby.com/stories/silver.html

http://www.everyculture.com/wc/Afghanistan-to-Bosnia-Herzegovina/Hazaras.html

Q: "Why aren't there any Wal-Mart's in Afghanistan?

http://www.everyculture.com/wc/Afghanistan-to-Bosnia-Herzegovina/Hazaras.html

PASHTUN

Q: "Why did the Afghan cross the road?"

http://afghanliterature.blogspot.ca/2009/12/sweeter-than-salt.html

Because there's a 'TARGET'on every corner."

  • thoughts like these are reasons why Afghan people are mis-represented all over the world

I thought to myself as I began to run

TEEHEEE

HAZARAS

http://www.storiestogrowby.com/stories/silver.html

DUCK

the start

  • fueled by ignorant individuals who don't fully understand the culture, religion, and the people

Q: What's the national animal in Afghanistan?"

folk tales

Hazaras;

Hazaras believe in superstitions such as ghosts and the evil eye.

The Hazara like to share the stories of their ancestors and history.

real talks now

Pashtun:

The Pashtun mainly just have traditional folk tales in Persian and it their own language (Pashtu).

Pashtun folk tales mainly involve those of wealth.

What we noticed as we were researching Afghan jokes is that jokes told about Afghanistan people by the western society was racist and offensive. While it was seems to be impossible to find a racist joke written by an Afghan person.Many afghan jokes are clever and witty.

Q: What do you call an evil Afghani?

A neighbor who Nasruddin didn't like very much came over to his compound one day. The neighbor asked Nasruddin if he could borrow his donkey. Nasruddin not wanting to lend his donkey to the neighbor he didn't like told him, "I would love to loan you my donkey but only yesterday my brother came from the next town to use it to carry his wheat to the mill to be grounded. The donkey sadly is not here."

The neighbor was disappointed. But he thanked Nasruddin and began to walk away.

Just as he got a few steps away, Mullah Nasruddin's donkey, which was in the back of his compound all the time, let out a big bray.

The neighbor turned to Nasruddin and said, "Mullah Sahib, I thought you told me that your donkey was not here.

Mullah Nasruddin turned to the neighbor and said, "My friend, who are you going to believe? Me or the donkey?

One day Mullah Nasruddin went to market to buy new clothes. First he tested a pair of trousers. He didn't like the trousers and he gave back them to the shopkeeper. Then he tried a robe which had same price as the trousers. Mullah Nasruddin was pleased with the robe and he left the shop. Before he climbed on the donkey to ride home he was stopped by the shopkeeper and the shop-assistant.

- You didn't pay for the robe, said the shopkeeper.

- But I gave you the trousers instead of the robe, isn't it? replied Mullah Nasruddin .

- Yes, but you didn't pay for the trousers, either! said the shopkeeper.

- But I didn't buy the trousers, replied Mullah Nasruddin. I am not so stupid to pay for something which I never bought.

Mu-ha-ha-ha-mud

Afghan Jokes and Folktales

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