It is Winter, the British city is bustling. People wander the cold, paved streets. The forest of concrete that is the city centre serves as a means for people to get from one place to the next. They show no interest in looking past the repetition of their day to day lives to find greater […]

You reach the red gate. You sit in your car on the english country side road while you wait for the gate to slowly open. To your left is a long road crowded by vivid, green oak trees with summers sunlight filtering through the leaves. To your right the oak trees stop and sprawling hills […]

I have felt the need to tell this story for a while. It was a cold Friday afternoon, just after school, and me and the boys wanted to have some fun; as any 17 year olds would. And you know what, we had fun. Beers for all, loud music the whole shebang; any late teens […]

The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, is a book about the life of Afghan boy named Amir who lives in the town of Kabul where most people live humble, simple lives. But for Amir, his father, Baba, is very wealthy and so he lives a sheltered life in a nice house with nice cars. […]

Amir feels healed from the fight with Assef as it has lifted a great burden off of his chest. From the start of the book Amir treated Hassan like his follower or lower than him. He used to beat him around and Hassan was the one who would always stick up for him. When Hassan […]

The novel, The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini follows the life of an Afghan boy called Amir. The novel starts with Amir in the present day in San Francisco reflecting back on his life. He sees two kites flying in the sky and this reminds him of his childhood in Afghanistan and all of […]

Amir seems to be an independent child who is far from his father in personality though he still looks up to him. He follows the lessons Baba has told him and doesn’t seem to be rebellious. In some ways, though, Amir is scared of his father and looks up to him as a strong, frightening […]

Hello, my name is Alfie. I am 16 and my birthday is in May. I don’t really have many interests if any which is quite sad; I just like hanging out with my friends. Generally speaking, English has never been one of my favourite subjects but that doesn’t mean I won’t put my hardest into […]

There is seemingly a beginning and end to everything. When something or someone comes to an end we describe it as turning to dust. This notion can then go on to infer that dust is what everything is made out of. Using this idea that dust is the makeup of everything we can then use […]