Looking at the master list, see if you can identify any of them in your ME novel. Comment on this post by Wednesday of next week.
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14 comments:
The Kite Runner:
p. 291:
"The slingshot made a thwiiiiit sound when Sohrab released the cup. Then Assef was screaming. He put his hand where his left eye had been just a moment ago. Blood oozed between his fingers. Blood and something else, something white and gel-like."
When Sohrab defends Amir by shooting the brass ball with the slingshot at Assef's eye, this is an allusion to the Biblical story of David and Goliath. The mighty Goliath, Assef, was taken down by the power of the seemingly weaker opponent, David/Sohrab.
In "The Bookseller of Kabul," Seierstad describes the sad working life Leila has a servant to her brother, saying "She is like Cinderella, except there is no prince in Leila's world" (page 177).
This alludes to the European folktale "Cinderella," which is most simply about a servant girl that ends up with a prince.
Reading Lolita in Tehran:
P. 201:
"I think of this particular brand as semi-tragic sometimes comic and sometimes pathetic, or both. Don Quixote comes to mind, but this character is essentially modern, born and created at a time when failure itself was obliquely celebrated."
Don Quixote was a book where the stories were very much comical but it hinted at an underlying theme of a pathetic feeling.
Reading Lolita in Tehran
p. 24
"But outside, underneath the window that deceptively showcased only the mountains and the trees outside our house, was the other world, where the bad witches and furies were waiting to transform us into the hooded creatures of the first."
Yet again, the furies are mentioned a novel. Furies are half-bird, half-women spirits that defend justice and vengeance. They are also known as "the angry ones" because of their short temper and residence in the underworld.
The Kite Runner
The entire relationship between Amir and Hassan alludes to Cain and Abel. Amir, like Cain, was the first son. However, neither of them were able to gain favor with their father. (Baba alludes to God.) Eventually, resentment built up until Amir couldn't take it anymore. Much like Cain killed Abel, Amir framed Hassan for stealing; this was done in an attempt to gain favor but lead to Cain's godless wandering and Amir's self hatred and guilt.
Didn't find anything. Can't wait to find 10 rhetorical strategies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Kite Runner:
p. 105: Amir states that he is the snake in the grass, an allusion to the snake that causes the first sinning in the bible.
p. 328: I felt like Jean Valjean sitting across from Javert. (Allusion to Les Miserables)
Christin Williams:
I could not find any allusions in Kabul Beauty School.
I'm not completely sure if this one is on the list, but it's the first one I found.
"McCowan invited him to a special dinner given by the American Himalayan Foundation to honor Sir Edmund Hillary, who, along with Tenzing Norgay, had been part of the first team to climb Mount Everest."
As said in the quote Sir Hillary was one of the first two people to climb Mt. Everest.
Reading Lolita in Tehran:
Nafisi references the novel Babbit by Sinclair Lewis in Part 2: Gatsby when she discusses her thesis work from University in America.
pg 42 "Not a trace of modesty, Humbert confides,did I percieve in this beautiful badly formed young girl whom modern co-education, juvenile mores, the campfire racket and so forth had utterly and hopelessly depraved." This is a reference to the sick level of eroticism Humbert finds in Lolita.
In chapter 9 on page 105.
Amir had put his watch and money under Hassan's bed and says "I loved him in that moment, love him more than I'd loved anyone and I wanted to tell them that I was the snake in the grass." This alludes to the snake in the grass in the Garden of Eden, who decieved Eve into eating the forbidden fruit. In this book, Amir decieves his father into believing that hassan took the watch. So he lied and deceived. I took this as a biblical allusion.
"Rostam and Sohrab sizing each other up" (Hosseini 67).
"I wanted to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass..." (Hosseini 105).
The first refers to The "Tragedy of Rostam and Sohrab", which is a Persian epic written in the 10th century. The second refers to the biblical story of Adam and Eve.
The Kite Runner
When Amir recalls Hassan's rape, he describes him as the price of the blue kite that Amir wanted from Baba. As Amir describes Hassan, he says that he is the lamb that must be slain, which alludes to the death of Jesus. Jesus was God's lamb and he paid the ultimate price
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