Reading Skills- The Kite Runner

As I read this book I have made a few predictions that involve most what will happen in the plot. For example, I think that Amir will go and search for Hassan's son since he thinks that it is the only to make up for all the things he has done in the past. Because he is an author, I feel like whatever he has experience in his trip back to his home town in Kabul, he will use to write a book to convey his message and pour out his feelings through his writing, which he may not have done otherwise.

A few questions that I might ask the author:
1) Is any part of this part based on your life?
2) What did you want the reader to get after reading this book?
3) Why did you choose the characters in this way, and shape the plot to create such surprise moments?
4) Did your environment inspire the one in this book?
5) What was your purpose of crafting the characters in a way that made all of them different, yet they were able to connect?

Text to World:  The text to world connection I can make is the war/dispute to the Afghan war in the 1970s. This book is based around the time in the 1950-1980s where there was a war going on in the Afghanistan so you can connect the events in the book to what really happened during the war. Some similarities were the trashing of towns, illegal kidnapping of small children and selling them, and killing people who tried to rebel against the government.

Text to Self: Amir was put into certain situations where he has to make a decision and similarity I can relate to that because I have made choices that impacted me in many ways especially to shape the person who I am today.

Text to Text: Because this book is based on the foundation of decisions, an autobiography written by former President George W. Bush, called Decision Points.   The book focused on the types of things he had to do in order to win the election and then prepare for his presidency. He talks about making decisions early on that let him to be in the position he was today. Therefore it can be connected to Amir because what he did early on, affected him later on.