Blogging Around

I first commented on Graicey's post who wrote about a connection between Kite Runner and a book called the Most Dangerous Game. She was fascinated by one of the book's symbols; how easily humans can adjust to their environment, and how dangerously they can do that. Here is my comment:

Graicey,
I loved your viewpoint in this blog! This blog made me think about what you said; the length humans go to, in order to control or feel comfortable in their environment. While, most of us look upon this as extreme and proposterous, we should realize that people are doing this not just for sport or for game, but rather for the will to live and survive.
I connected this post to Life of Pi, when Pi had to do very un-higenic and just gross things. While reading most of the book that's how I saw his actions: un-higenic, gross, and nasty. But then we started discussing, and I realized that Pi had to do it for survival. Pi had to do these things so he could adapt or at least survive in the environment he was placed.
In a similar way, the charater in the Most Dangerous Game, had to do very unthinkable things so he, too, could adapt to an environment.
Great job Graicey!

My next comment was on Connor's blog. He talked about the best of the week being when Mr. Allen brought up how characters and authors can have struggles within the bok. And also how the author is most often the one pushing the character to face their fear. Here is my comment:

Connor,
I'm really glad that you brought this up, because I was thinking about the same thing when Mr. Allen said this!
I too, found it very fascinating to learn, that a book could have a level of depth, and even ability, to portray a feud between a character and the author.
I liked when you said that you’ve noticed this in many books you have previously read. That is, in most stories, the main character is forced to leave their perfect, happy lives, and face something they do not feel comfortable with. And perhaps, this is similar to the character-author battle we see The Kite Runner.
Your post made me look at Amir's real struggle in the story in a different way. I thought about how while other characters, helped Amir reach redemption, so many outside sources helped him too, literally. Maybe Husseini was the one that pushed Amir the most, out of all the other characters, to reach redemption. It's ironic though, because in a sense, Husseini had to be somewhere in Amir. He was the force in Amir that made Amir want to gain redemption.
Great job Connor!