In all five novels, the main character or characters face adversity in one way or another. Describe how you view the character's challenges in your book, and talk about how your character handles the hardships and struggles. If you were in your main character/characters situation, how would you handle yourself? What would you do?
in my book the night, my character is losing his home and being split up with his family. he really has no choice but to go with the flow, he might try to escape but its going to be hard. honestly i have no idea how i would handle this but i would probably go with the flow as much as i can then find a chance to try to escape.
ReplyDeleteI agree, going with the flow seems to be the best thing to do.
DeleteI agree with this because all malala can do is go with the flow of the current state of her town.
Deletei would have to agree i don't know how he keeps going when he doesn't know if it will ever end
DeleteIn my opinion I would try to find a way to leave as fast as possible then again I would have been probably one of the only ones to listen to Mahshah because I trust my friends and would have believed him.
Deletei agree up to a certain point i mean being in this situation could be bad like if you want to escape thats fine but are the chances of being cought high or low
Deletethis seems like a really rough time, especially around ww2 and being separated by your families?! I would never survive this.
Deletei would probably do what i am told in that situation
DeleteI would not know how to handle that situation.
DeleteMalala has faced many different struggles, the biggest one being that she was shot in the head by a Taliban man on her way home from school on the bus! They did it because she was advocating for women to go to school. She said that she always knew that someone was going to jump her or attack her on her way home, but she was still adamant on spreading her word. After she was shot, she continued to go out and still do everything she was shot for in the first place. If I was her, I don’t think I could be as strong as her. She is not afraid of the Taliban at all.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your comment, I definitely could not be as strong minded as she is.
DeleteIn the book Malala has faced so many hardships from having floods to the start of the Taliban coming into Swat. But she took all of those as a champ because see knew there was light at the end of the tunnel. If i were in her shoes i would be freaking out by now because a very bad group of people are out to get her!
ReplyDeletei probably had been scared too.
DeleteAll of her hardships I feel she takes as a champ!!
DeleteI agree that if i was in Malala's shoes I don't think I would be able to keep it together as well as she does!
DeleteI am Malala. She has a lot of challenges and struggles, one of the huge challenges was when she was shot. Her and a friend got shot for campaigning for female education. This does not stop her even though they would keep targeting her. Personally I think I could not be as strong as she is.
ReplyDeleteIf I was in Malala's situation I definitely would've been scared once I had been hunted down.
DeleteIf I was in her situation I definitely would've been scared after I had been hunted down, Malala is a strong girl.
DeleteI agree i dont think i would continue my campaigning if i was shot in the head and was being hunted.
Deletein my book night the main character has been taking from his home to work in a camp for little to no food and has to give up everything he has in order to stay alive. his mean focus in the book is to stay with his father and not lose the only family he has left I think if I was in his shoes I would have giving up on trying to not get killed.
ReplyDeleteYour character is sorta like Malala because she's currently in a war that might leave her being shot in the head!
Deleteyea malala also has give a lot beacuse of the taliban. like thing she lived to do
DeleteI have the same view as you I probably would not have lasted as long as he did in the situation he was in, the again that is probably because of when I grew up and how as well.
Deletei would probably would give up too
Deletei would try to hold onto the hope of being freed one day and to see the family i was separated from while being stripped from my life.
Deletei agree with caden you have to hold onto hope and think of the things and people that need you
Deleteif i were in that situation i would just listen to my dad because they dont really understand the situation yet
DeleteYour character can relate to Malala because the Taliban is causing mass chaos causing Malala and her family to leave everything they know and love behind in order to be safe.
Deletemalala the main character in the of i am malala she is the main character in the book. she faces adversity in her life by a group of people call taliban. they tried to take away the right of the women of her country by not letting do what ordinary women do here. for example they have to cover their face so they can barely get seen. they can not even go to school. she handle that by starting to get interview by many broadcaster and tellig how she feel about how thing are going and how not right it is. that they should let be going to school which is the main reason she decided to give the interviews. if i would had been in her situation i probably have done nothing because i would have been scared of something.
ReplyDeleteAmir views his struggles with jealousy this is because Amir’s father (Baba) pays more attention to Hassan instead of him this leads to Amir distancing himself from Hassan to a point that Amir make fun of Hassan without Hassan knowing that he is being tricked. But later feels bad for what he (Amir) did. If I was Amir I would walk right up to Baba, ask him flat out what I can do to see me as your son.
ReplyDeleteyea it must be really hard to live there. and to live with a father that doesn't like you?! how much worse can this get?!?
DeleteSounds like he is having a rough time trying to connect with his father and be close to him.
Deleteso in the book Kite Runner, Amir and Hassan re really good friends but sometimes I think that Amir gets pretty jealous with Hassan because even though Hassan is literate, he still knows a whole lot more words than Amir does and he is a lot more adventurous than Amir is and I think that Baba built the orphanage to get rid of Amir and adopt Hassan and i also don't like it at all of how Amir loves to taunt him and bully him all the time. I do think that their relationship is going to come to a end sooner or latter. Now, if I was Amir, I would be patient with Hassan and I would teach him some words and how to read and write.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I don't like when Amir plays tricks on Hassan or taunts him. Amir can be so mean to him and Hassan is so loyal to Amir. I agree with their relationship and how it seems to be quickly coming to an end.
DeleteI think it is because his father gives him more attention then his own son.
DeleteIn Night the main character is a young boy who is going through many concentration camps with his father trying to survive and have an easy time. I say the challenges he faces forces him to grow up, change his mindset from that of a kid to an adult. In the beginning he handles them like any kid would hoping for it to be a dream but later in the book he accepts reality and just tries to survive it with his father. I would probably crumble under the pressure of the situation and go crazy because without even the smallest of things I have today it would be hard to survive. Then again given the option to go with the maid I would have gone with her.
ReplyDeletehe ended up having to grow up and mature really fast
Deletehonestly I would also crumble if not end it all myself
DeleteI feel as much as you would want to give up if i was in his shoes being with my dad i would not want my dad to see me break and he would not want me to see him break either. That being said i would try my hardest to stay strong for my dad and myself and the rest of my family that i was separated from.
Deletei agree they should have listened to her and left when they could have
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I would say anyone in his situation would have a hard because basically he to become an adult the moment step foot in the camps otherwise he would be a dead person walking
Deletei would agree with this because he had to grow up really fast and had to stop being the kid that he was
DeleteThe main character in Night is going through the holocausts so he is being stripped of his humanity and is being put to work by the Nazis. if i was in his situation i would be terrified because he has seen things that no human should see. i don't think there would b a way for me to handle the situation he's in
ReplyDeletei agree i feel if i went through this i would be able to get through it like he does
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Being in his situation sounds horrible and would scare me
DeleteI agree, i couldnt imagine being in his situation with everything he goes through
DeleteYah I don't know if I would be able to hand when he first got there the silence except for the sound of the fire burning and the smell of flesh in the air, I don't know if I would be able to handle that.
DeleteThe main character in a long way gone has to deal with trying to survive against rebels invading their villages and killing people living their. The whole book so far Ishmael and his friends are on the run from these rebels trying to survive. If I were in this situation I'm not sure if I would survive but I would do my best by gathering as much recourses I can and I would stay with people to survive.
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DeleteI agree that I probably would not survive what Ishmael went through because he has been very lucky not to have been shot or killed yet.
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ReplyDeleteIn my book A Long Way Gone Ishmael has faced many challenges in the first 60 pages. He has lost his parents from the rebels, has been held to gun point, has been shot at, lost is brother, and lost his closest friends. Ishmael is traumatized from the rebels and can barley sleep because of seeing dead bodies from a young age. He has also become more isolated from losing everyone he cared about. If I was the main character I would react the same way that Ishmael did because I couldn't imagine all of the things that has happened to him. I would also run away to a save place from the rebels because i would be terrified by them.
In a long way gone Ishmael faces adversity in how other villages look at him as the flees the war. as so many have heard stories of how the rebel army war recruiting boys and sending them to scout out villages. other than that he is constantly starving. only getting food from the wilderness in the form of fruits or the occasional vegetable from the villages who don't run for the hills when he enters town. in some cases he resorts to stealing food. he even stole some ears of corn from a 5 year old boy. and really I don't blame him. he hadn't eaten in days to the point that his ribs were showing. in any case I would have probably done something very similar if not exactly the same.
ReplyDeleteI would do similar things as Ishmael I'm just not sure if I would survive like he is.
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DeleteI agree that I would steal the food too because of starvation and being desperate to survive.
if they can not buy food they would have to steal it they have to eat so i would also steal the food.
DeleteI agree with you not blaming Ishmael for stealing because i would of done the same thing to.
DeleteIn Night the main character Elie has been taken from his home and sent to work in the concentration camp Auschwitz. He has been stripped of all his belongings, his clothing, and even his head has been shaved and he had the number they gave him tattooed into his arm. The way he is dealing with all of this is pretty much the only way you could deal with it, just do whatever is needed to stay alive. I feel if i were in his shoes i would do the same thing he is doing. Do what you're told and stay unnoticed as much as possible.
ReplyDeleteI would have to agree the best chance for anyone to survive would be to try to stay invisible to everyone else by following the rules and not get on someone's bad side
DeleteI agree, he is just doing what he is told and staying out of their attention to remain alive.
DeleteI agree the best way to survive all this is go unnoticed as much as you can and I would try to only care for myself and not others to try and survive.
Deletethe main character in a long way gone has to over war and surviving in a time when that is not easy he is always on the run from the rebels who kill anyone who gets in there way. Ishmael and his friends are always running and contently worried what they will do next. if i was in this situation i would do what they are doing run and keep running till it gets better or they find better. there is not much a teenager can do in this situation.
ReplyDeleteMalala is one tough chick! She is faced with a lot. She was passionate about women's education and voiced her opinion about it. She ended up getting shot on her way home from school because of it and just continued to keep going. I definitely could not have done that, she is not afraid!
ReplyDeleteI am reading The Kite Runner, and the main character in my novel, Amir, is the polar opposite of Malala where courage is concerned. Malala sounds like a tough, strong individual with amazing courage.
DeleteThis sounds like a "I'm coming back stronger then ever" kind of thing
DeleteI totally agree with this, Malala is super tough.
Deletei agree and she definitely is not afraid to speak her mind.
DeleteIn the novel, The Kite Runner, Amir feels insecure about his relationship with his father. Amir feels his father resents him because he is not athletic and likely blames him for his mother's death in childbirth. Amir even feels jealous of Hassan, who receives attention and affection from Baba. Amir also lacks courage. The courage to be a true friend to Hassan, the courage to get help for Hassan when Hassan was being attacked, and the courage to tell anyone what happened to Hassan and seek justice. Amir handles his hardships by avoiding them and trying to live with his guilt. To ease his guilt, he tries to get Hassan in trouble for stealing so that his father might send him away and Amir would no longer have to face Hassan. Again, a coward move. If I was in Amir's position, I would have run for help long before the rape occurred and tried to prevent it from happening. I mean Amir knew Hassan needed help, and he failed him and his own self by not seeking help.
ReplyDeleteIts sad to see that his son feels like he is treated like he is not there.
Deletein night the main character is in a concentration camp and he is just doing his best to hold onto his life and stay with the only family he has left which is his father
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In the kite runner Amir mainly faces with jealousy because his father Baba pays more attention and treats Hassan as if he is his child instead of Amir
ReplyDeleteIn my book, a group of Muslims have this tradition where they have these 5 days of not eating until night time, its called Eidulfitr. They don't eat all day, then at the end of the day they come together and have a big feast. Then, they hang out and talk about how their day went, and they do this throughout 5 days. in my personal opinion i would not do this and that is because i think it is stupid it might not be stupid to them but i have my own personal opinion.
ReplyDeleteThe challenges that Elie comes by are extremely difficult. From being forced to watch hangings to being whipped as punishment and from starving constantly. If I would be in his position I would struggle too, I cant even imagen how it was and how he was able to make it through all this.
ReplyDeleteThe main character in Night, is jewish during the Holocaust, so he has man struggles in his life. He is stripped of his entire life and everything he knows and loves and he is stipped from his rights as a human. He is taken from his home and taken to a concentration camp and seperated from most of his family besides his father. He is doing the most with this situation and doing what he is told so he can have a chance to survive. He is down at times but he always continues to survive.
ReplyDeleteI agree I think that Elie is doing the best he can with the situation he is in t the camp. And he is only 15 and and he is handling it really good for being 15 and being in a work camp.
DeleteThe main character Elie has a lot of struggles in Night. Like being brought to a work camp, to being separated from his mom and sister. But even with all of that I think that Elie actually handles it all pretty well so far throughout he book so far has kind of just stay pretty calm for the things he was dealing with, and just stuck with his dad and did what he was told.
ReplyDeleteI agree that Elie did go through a lot and i also believe he had to go through a lot with being separated from his mother and having to work in the work camps
DeleteMy book along way gone is kind of the same in the sense that he was separated from his family and that there is a lot of killing happening.
DeleteI agree that he is handling everything very good for how rough of a situation he is in.
Deletein my book, night, he is a victim of the halocaust, but doesnt fully understand all thats happening. If i were in his situation i would do exactly what im told much like elie. he really just listens to his father and the nazi officers at the camp
ReplyDeleteI would actually do just about the opposite and i would try to escape and get away from everything and not have to suffer like everyone else did
DeleteI would do the same thing as well. I would be like Elie, and just try to keep calm, and jut listen to whatever I'm told. Because that's really all you can do in a work camp like he in.
Deleteelie reminds me of marium becuase when it came to getting married marium felt like she didnt have an option to say no so she just listened to jalil and his wives and went with it from then on she had to listen to rasheed.
Deletein my book night, it is about a Jew named Elie and his family and what they went through and what the ghettos were like and about how he went to a concentration camp and what it was like in the camp, and it was terrible. If I were in the same situation as him, I would just want to give up or I would try my hardest to escape.
ReplyDeletein your book it seems like your character is put in a hard situation just like mine!
DeleteI would also want to give up but I would try to keep alive
DeleteIn my book along way gone the main character Ishmael has to survive day by day at first it was trying to find food and avoid being killed by the rebels. But now he is a boy soldier and has to face combat for two years straight. Ishmael copes with his situation by taking lots of drugs to calm his nerves. If I was in Ishmaels situation im not really sure how i would act its hard to say, but im sure i would fight the rebels if they were responsible for killing my family.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the fact that I would fight back against the rebels if I was in his situation.
DeleteI wonder if they made him take the drugs or if he asked to to help calm him down.
DeleteIn my book ishmael has to deal with his country being in the middle of a civil war. Some of the hardships are that he sees people get killed. he is also apart of the army to defend themselves against the rebels so is killing a lot of people and deals with the ptsd by doing drugs. I don't think I would because I look down on people that do drugs even though it would be hard to try and deal with seeing war at the age 13.
ReplyDeleteYea, I think it is crazy how desensitized he is to the killings.
DeleteIt sounds terrible to grow up in the middle of a civil war and to participate at such a young age. I could only imagine what that would do to a kid
DeleteWhen you see situations like that very often, it doesn't seem to faze you anymore. I think that it is terrible that Ishmael is that way now when he sees people being killed, especially at such a young age.
DeleteThe main character in my book is Ishmael Beah and he goes through a lot of challenges through out the book. The first big one we learn is he and his brother grew up with out any parents. Also in chapter seven or eight they come to a village where is aunt and uncle live and with out warning the village gets raided by rebels and he gets separated from his brother and all but one friend. He had to endure a lot of hard things he is just shrugs them off like when the village got raided and they burned the priest, he explained it in a quarter of a page.
ReplyDeleteMy book kind of connects with yours! In both of our stories, someone had to face the challenge of not having a parent/parents, that would be tough!
DeleteIshmael reminded me of Laila in a thousand splendid suns because shes moving her life on with no parents and she had many struggles as well like being pregnant and injured from a rocket, thinking her lover is dead, and her parents really were dead.
DeleteIt would be hard to grow up without parents, but I think that they are surviving pretty well on their own, especially with the hardships they are going through.
DeleteThe main character in my book is Mariam. She faces many challenges in the book but one of the main problems she has to overcome is having multiply miscarriages. On top of losing her baby she starts to get mentally and psychically abused by Racheed. Mariam's mom also hung herself. Dealing with her moms dealth was hard for her because she then had to live with her dad. They did not get along due to everything she heard about him from her mother. It would be hard for me to lose my mom also and growing up in a family like she did would make it even harder!
ReplyDeleteI love how strong of a character Mariam has been, and is becoming throughout the book. She gets put through so much, but she pushes on, and keeps going, doing what she has to do.
DeleteThe main character in a thousand splendid suns is marium and she faces alot of hardships like her being a bastard child but the one that changed her life completely was when marium runs off to jalil her fathers house she comes back to her mother hanging from a tree which leads to many other hardships like having to marry rasheed and killing him because of his abuse towards her for not being able to have kids, if i was in mariums shoes i probably wouldve acted very closely to the way she did especially in killing rasheed after the things he did to her.
ReplyDeletewhen her mother hung herself i didnt see that coming in the book at all and when that happened it was a shock to me and then when mariam was forced to get married was very weird how it happened i thought
DeleteIn my book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, I applaud Mariam for how she handles the things she gets put through. No matter what it is, she shows that she is not happy about the situation, then she makes the best of it, or just goes with the flow. For example, her father just went and gave her up for marriage to someone she didn't know. She was very upset about it, but she went. She was upset about having to be with this man, but she cleaned, and she cooked, and made the best out of it.
ReplyDeleteshes been acting tough with what shes been dealing with in the book so far
Deletei think for her having brave face is one way for her to get through things. if she shows no fear then maybe she can try to escape it, by making everything the best she can.
DeleteI think she is brave for putting up with all of this and going through all that she has. Not many people can do that
Deletemariam is facing her new husband and is deeply scared that he will turn into the other men in her country and she discribed it as them being rude, mean, and that he keeps teasing her. then she is so thankful that they are sleeping in different bedrooms but i thinking that mariam just shrugs most of it off and just worries about how hes gonna act towards her. if i was in this position id probably have to do the same thing because it seems like she can only do what shes told by her husband
ReplyDeleteI agree that them having separate rooms would bring her comfort its almost like a safe place for her. I also think that she does what shes told out of her fears
DeleteThat is a major concern, and i would be pretty scared if i was in her situation as well. I could never live having another man tell me what i can and cannot do.
DeleteThe main character in night got taken from his house and got sent to a camp in Auschwitz. He is forced to work all day for little to no food. They aren't even allowed to sleep laying down. If I was him I would have done about everything he did and listen to orders so that I don't die.
ReplyDeleteSounds like it would be the best choice in a situation like that when you are choosing between life and death.
DeleteThats what i would do because theres always that chance that someone could come save them.
Deletejust baring with the situation would be the best idea because of others coming in maybe to save them from the Nazis
Deletein the book A Thousand Splendid suns the main character Mariam experiences many hardships. the first one i would say is the way her mom treated her. then she finds out her dad isnt who she though he was he didnt actually care for her and he left her to sleep outside. when she returns home her mother had hung herself and she had to see it. this made her rush into a marriage with a man who was abusive. i dont know what i would do if i was in her shoes it would be incredibly hard to deal with especially on your own. i would have probably tried to have a fresh start maybe somewhere away from the people she knows.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this I would say this was probably the worst hardship she had to go through so far
DeleteMalala's biggest thing in my opinion that she has overcame would have to be getting shot in the head, the reason the Taliban man shot her was because she was advocating for women to go to school. I think this is absolutely insane and personally I could not overcome this, but i'm glad Malala did.
ReplyDeletethe main character in the book night he is taking form his house and they can only that what they can carry then they get on a train and go to Auschwitz and if I was the main character I would rather die then stay there
ReplyDeleteI agree like most of the people that went there because they were all hoping bombs fell on them and killed them
DeleteIn my book The Kite Runner he has trouble with his father he pays more attention to his his servant then his own son. But he finally won a kite tournament and kind of got some of his fathers approval. It was not easy for him he was down about it for awhile. If I was in his shoes I would have had a sit down with his dad and told him how I felt.
ReplyDeleteunfortunately I don't think his father cares enough to have a sit down talk. His father expects a prodigy but offers no support he cant build himself up without his fathers support.
DeleteI agree that Amir could have solved alot of his problems if he just talked to them
DeleteI am reading Kite Runner and in this novel there are many challenges that the main character Amir faces. One of them is the competition to win his father over from Hassan. Amir's father acts more like a father to Hassan than Amir. To fix this problem and win Amir got both Hassan and his father (both servants to Amir and his father) kicked off the premises and left homeless. I would have tried to take interest into my fathers interests and hobbies to spend more time with him.
ReplyDeletei agree the reason there relationship fails is because there is no effort being out forth and its sad, hopefully they can get closer for more than one reason.
DeleteI agree that Amir could have tried harder to do more things his father liked to do.
DeleteThe challenges the characters face in the book kite runner are much similar but are also kind of different in there own specific way but what is different is how people act afterwords. This book offers some very uncomfortable settings and is weird to read at sometimes. the characters in our book are avoidant and really don't retaliate when necessary. They isolate to fix problems but i cant really blame them.
ReplyDeleteIn my book The Kite Runner he has trouble with his father and how his father treats him. His father never really gives him attention or really even sees him as his son. He finally won the kite tournament and won his fathers approval but in doing so he ran into another problem with Hassan. If i was in Amirs shoes i would talk to people more and tell them how i feel. All of his problems can be fixed with a conversation.
ReplyDeleteIn Night, the main character faces the challenge of being in a concentration camp. If I was in this situation, Theres not much i could do because its not like i could escape or stand up to the guards because they would just kill me.
ReplyDeleteI think that this is very true about how the Jews are treated during this time.
DeleteIn the novel A Long Way Gone, Ishmael and his friends are running from the rebels who keep raiding the villages. He is going through a lot of challenges. He even gets separated from is brothers and friends. I think he is handling the situation very well because I wouldn't be able to handle the same situation. He also is starving, so he steals corn from a little kid. I would have probably done the same thing because none of the villagers would sell them any food, so he did it to survive.
ReplyDeleteThe main character in the thousand splendid suns is Mariam. Mariam goes through a lot including having her mom treat her the way she did and then coming home and seeing her mom hanging, now she will have that vision in her head. Then she married a abusive man who she is not happy with. Idk what I would do if I was in her shoes but I would try to get out of there or try going somewhere else if I could.
ReplyDeleteThe main character in I Am Malala is Malala and i beleive she is a strong and determined girl who doesn't let much stop her. In a part of the book the Taliban were leaving dead bodies in the town square for all to see and it was to show the civilians how much power they have. This caused her people to feel helpless and terrified, but this didn't stop Malala to continue her journey to raise awareness of the failed education system for all girls schools that were now being closed by the Taliban. If i was in her shoes, I would be terrified and I do not think could go out knowing the amount of terror being caused by the Taliban.
ReplyDeleteThe main character in my book Eli is a Jew in the holocausts and is faced with many hardships including staying alive and staying together.
ReplyDeleteThe main character in my book Eli is a Jew in the holocausts and is faced with many hardships including staying alive and staying together. Also not to mention how he is setparated from half of his family and it is just him and his father. they are tested to see if they are phycialy able to work and they his father failed the test the first time not knowing if anything would happen to them or not.
ReplyDeleteThat kind of sounds like Malala because the hardships she's facing isn't because of color of her hair or eyes its because of her beliefs in women's rights and she got shot because of it
DeleteMalala faces adversity through her wanting to support women's rights and education and in the book she gets shot because of it and she handles it by coming back stronger when she gets knocked down and if I was in Malala's shoes of constantly being worried of getting shot 247 i would not be as strong of trying to push for what she doing.
ReplyDeleteIn the book I am Malala, Malala is challenged with how ladies are not allowed to leave their homes unless they are with a male figure. If i were in this situation i would probably fight it, and fight for what is right,, rather than just following what your told.
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