ITS SNOWING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
24.11.10
Today we played this game where everyone described someone using questions like 'what season would ....be?' and then we did the same for the character of Hassan in The Kite Runner. We also looked at the poem 'You're' by Sylvia Plath and then used what we had each decided Hassan would be e.g. I chose that he would be the colour yellow, and we had to put it in a poem in the style of 'You're'. I'm not putting it on here because mine was super rubbish and a bit rambly and strange. I found this quite useful in exploring the character of Hassan, because it reminds me of hotseating, which we did last year in english (and also in drama) to explore the character of Eddie from 'AView From The Bridge'. I think it really helps my understanding of the novel if I can understand one of the main characters and explore what I think about them.
26.11.10
Today we looked at 'Definitions of Personality Disorder' which included the requirements for an antisocial personality, psychopathy, borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality and sociopathy. There was a list that had these requirements on it, and we were asked to put a tick next to the ones that we thought were like Assef, like 'Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger', like when Assef beats up Amir when he comes to collect Sohrab, which would be in the category of borderline personality disorder.
I liked this activity, because it makes you realise just how much Hosseini put into creating an unstable character like Assef, because on the sheet there are 60 traits, and I have ticked 45 of them that could be used to describe Assef.
I've written the quotes about how Assef is an evil character rather than blogging them.
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