Anna’s Blog

The Shakespeare production that I saw outside of class was Romeo and Juliet with Claire Danes and Leo Deo. It was set in modern times in Los Angeles, but still used the original lines from the play. Compared to the ways that Macbeth was reinterpreted in the videos that we watched, this movie […]

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I definately think that the least violent way to settle what is going on in Iraq would be to partition it into three separate nations. There is so much conflict in the Middle East over religion, that it seems it would be best to simply make new countries that only have one religion. That way, […]

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    The different adaptations of the Scottish play we have studied are both similar and different.  The one that is most similar to the real Scottish play written by Shakespeare would be uMBatha.  This is because the plot and characters are still in the same as in the original.  There is the same ending and […]

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It was definately worth reading The Kiterunner. Even though it’s really, really long, it is definately a good book. Because it’s so long, there are a lot of different themes and lessons that can be learned from this novel. A lasting understanding that it left me with is how a person who […]

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The Kiterunner has been really good so far. Even though it’s really, really sad, I think it’s a really great book. It’s sort of depressing because most of the people in the book, aside from the main character Amir, have died.  With some of them, Amir has made peace and repaired their relationship […]

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I like The Kiterunner a lot so far, even though I’m only about a third of the way through.  I don’t really like the main character, however.  He’s always making bad decisions, and it seems like he wants to be ruining his life.  I’ve also realized that the book is very similar to For One […]

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I’ve chosen to read the book The Kiterunner because it’s about different views of what evil is. The main character supposedly does something that they view as something great, a really positive thing to do that will help the world. This same thing is seen as something that is evil, however. I […]

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I agree most with Andrew Delbanco’s point of view on evil. He claims that “But at the same time to pretend that an event like that which took place on Sept. 11 can be explained with the ordinary language of politics or psychology seems to me quite inadequate to what happened. We […]

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Lucy writes:
In my opinion, the KKK are some of the most despicable people alive.
I think it’s very interesting that Lucy considers the KKK to be so horrible. That group was racist against African Americans and would definately be seen as something “evil” today, but back in the early 1900’s, being a part of the KKK seemed like […]

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My definition of evil is something that is viewed by the society as something bad or looked down upon. I also consider any person or event that harms people for no clear reason to be evil. Something like this in the modern world would be September 11th. Any crime done that has […]

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