I was stunned by home much I agreed with Anike’s post and by
how much it coincided with mine. She just like I trace Amir’s feeling of
unworthiness to the death of his mother. Like I said in my post, the death was
not his fault and his failure to see that has led him on a quest of pleasing
his father. The only thing that I did not really agree with that Anike said was
her idea of the reader’s perspective. She noted early on in her post that from
the “reader’s” perspective the competition that Amir constantly creates with
Hasaan is cruel and unfair. The only thing I see wrong with her comment is that
she makes the reader seem like a unified group. In reality not all readers are
going to see it as cruel and unfair, in fact I think a lot of the readers are
going to find this competition natural. Humans are genetically prone and
supposed to compete with each other; the competitive exclusion principle of
biology is not a principle for nothing. Amir’s competition is nothing out of
the ordinary it is instinct and completely fair. He is not really engaging in a
physical completion with Hasaan so I see nothing wrong with it. He is competing
for his father’s love and approval something that even biological siblings do
with one another. Even though Anike said that it was point of view that makes
the reader change their opinion of whether or not the competition Amir makes is
fair I think it is mentality and knowledge of the governing principles of life
that will change how someone views the competition.
-Talia Akerman
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