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The first time Sohrab looks at Amir is when their parents are brought to the subject. Sohrab asks if Amir misses his parents and "[rests] his cheek on [Amir's] knee, looking up at [him]." Then he continues to grow closer to Amir when he "[looks] straight at [him]..." and later "he let [Amir] draw him to [his side] and rested his head on [Amir's] chest" while he sobbed." Amir says, "he was looking at me, really looking at me, for the very first time...his hand squeezed mine back." This is very important to the story because it shows how strong of a bond these two will have eventually. They have the same emotional drain because of Hassan's death and are chiseled into each other's lives by family relation. All they have now  to save that connection to each other (Hassan) is one another.

When Amir is in the hospital and decides to pray he asks a nurse "which way is west" and when the police officer points him in the right direction, he "[throws his] makeshift jai-namaz, prayer rug, on the floor and [he gets] on [his] knees, [lowers his] forehead to the ground, [his] tears soaking thought the sheet. [He] bows to the west." The reason he bows to the west is because that's, more than likely, where Mecca is  Muslims always bow facing the Black Box which is inside the Mosque in Mecca (one of the holiest places in Islam).

The sheets that Soraya picks out for Sohrab's bed foreshadows the kites at the end of the story. "The sheets showed brightly colored kites flying in indigo blue skies...Soraya pulled on my sleeve. 'Amir look!' She was pointing to the sky. A half-dozen kites were flying high, speckles of bright yellow, red, and green against the gray sky." Then when Amir runs the kite for Sohrab and says "For you, a thousand times over." He is made good again. He is pure once again and he becomes like Hassan with just those simple words. He is also like Hassan because he ran. "I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But I didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the Valley of Panjsher on my lips. I ran." He if finally free!

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Hosseini uses vivid diction to describe how wrecked the memorable "Pashtunistan Square" has become.A kabob restaurant that Baba used to take Amir to when he has younger "...was still standing, but its doors were padlocked, the windows shattered, and the letters K and R missing from it's name. [He] saw a dead body near the restaurant...the clothes he'd worn on the last day of his life shredded, bloody. Hardly anyone seemed to notice him...The front steps had crumbled. Like so much else in Kabul, [Amir's] father's house was the picture of fallen splendor."

On page 164, Amir has to see one more thing and finds the old cemetery and pomagranite tree are still on the hill he and Hassan would run up. "The carving [on the tree] had dulled, almost faded altogether, but it was still there." This symbolizes Amir's chance of becoming good again. The time he has is depleting and his chances are getting slim, but it is still possible. 

When Assif comes back into the story at the ball game, he tells the crowd that "We (talibans) are here today because of the will of Allah...We (Afghans) listen to what God says and we obey because we are nothing but humble, powerless creatures before God's greatness." Hosseini describes Assif as "The tall man" whose garments sparkled in the afternoon sun. "his arms spread like those of Jesus on the cross...he was wearing dark round sunglasses like the ones John Lennon wore." The reader also finds out in the next chapter that Assif has "..a prayer rug...nailed to one of the walls." So it is probably unused. This portrayed Assif as the biggest hypocrite of the time. He said he was doing the will of God but he wasn't dying for the people on the "cross" he apparently seemed to be on; Assif was having other people, sinners, die for him. He was wearing sparkling white garments and had the suns rays displaying them clearly so he could easily be mistaken as pure and "holy" but it is obvious, by his actions, that he is the opposite. This would make Assif the Anti-Christ figure.

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 After Amir was told that him and Hassan had the same father, he didn't feel he knew who he really was. "Did Hassan know? [He] said through lips that didn't feel like [his] own...(Amir) I felt like a man who awakens in his own house and finds all the furniture rearranged, so that ever familiar nook and cranny looks foreign now. Disoriented, he has to reevaluate his surroundings, reorient himself." This created a change in the whole reason Amir had to make things right. Knowing this pushed more pressure on his guilt and "[he] had to leave as soon as possible. [He] was afraid [he'd] change [his] mind."

In chapter 19, Amir and Farid leave Wahid's house and the reader soon learns that Amir had placed a handful of cash under the bed's mattress. The first time Amir had done this was when he set up a trap for Hassan. The change is Amir's reasons behind placing money under the mattress proves he's had a change of character and he's growing and starting to be good again.

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There is repetition on page 168 emphasizing Baba's statement of Amir being his only child. We know that Hassan is also Baba's son so maybe he's finally seeing the wrong in what he did and accepting Amir more and Hassan less. Although Baba makes a point of Amir being his only child, Amir "[remembers] with Rahim Khan [was].."at his wedding. When Amir was a child Rahim Khan was more of a father than Baba so even though Amir does his best to forget the past, he still hasn't been able to yet.

After Rahim Khan calls Amir, Amir later goes for a walk in the park and notices "a pair of kites, red with long blue tails." The long blue tail relates these kites to Hassan and his blue kite, but instead these kites' main color is red like blood, foreshadowing Hassan's death.

In the "small village just outside Bamiyan" where Hassan lived Hosseini description of the land is: "sunbaked bushes, gnarled, spiny tree trunks, and dried grass like pale straw. [Amir] passes a dead donkey rotting on the side of the road...that barren land [with]...mountains like jagged teeth." However, "the people in Bamiyan...told Amir [he] would find [Hassan] easily- he lived in the only house...that had a walled garden." This shows that Hassan in life in a barren land or light in darkness like Jesus was referred to.

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Hassan proves to be a christ figure once more by being "one last sacrifice for [Amir]...He knew [he] betrayed him and yet he was rescuing [Amir] once again, maybe for the last time."

It "rained the afternoon Baba took Ali and Hassan to the bus station.." sybolizing a new beginning. Not necessarily for Hassan because i think what's done is done for him, but for Amir and Baba. They will be the only  company for eachother now and in the next chapter we descover they are making their way to America to start a new way of life, to make a new beginning because "America was different." Amir describes America as "a river, roaring along unmindful of the past. [He] could wade into this river, let [his] sins drown to the bottom...Some place with no ghosts, nomemories, and no sins." So even though Amir's past still haunted him he planned to forget his memories and move

Hassan isn't the only one taking the blame for Amir any more! Amir has become fond of a girl named Soraya and when he thinks about the gossipers staring their way as the talked he became aware that "she would bear the brunt of that poison, not [him]." The poison referring to the dirty looks.

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Amir notices two different faces that Hassan seems to have; one is the smiling face he shares everyday and the other would appear for "a fraction of a moment, long enough to leave [Amir] with an unsettling feeling that maybe [he'd] seen it some place before." Hosseini seems to be implying that Amir knows someone else with this face that Hassan seems to have a similarity to and a reasonable explanation would be that their "brotherhood" is an actual brotherhood! Hassan and Amir are related! Dang father.

I discovered by re-reading some notes that I jotted down from the first section we were assigned to that Hassan sacrificing himself for Amir and Amir sacrificing Hassan for Baba was foreshadowed on page 11! Amir is saying "Hassan and I fed from the same breast. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name." He even tells the reader "I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975-and all that followed- was already laid in those first words."

On the day that Hassan was raped, Amir described the streets as "[glistening] with fresh snow and the sky was blameless blue." The snow represents Hassan's purity and innocence along with the "blameless blue" kite because Hassan always take the blame for Amir.

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The first chapter introduces Amir, his servant/friend Hassan, and their fathers who we discover later on in the reading are opposites of each other. When Amir's not in school him and Hassan cause trouble, like every boy does, and Hassan always seems to be the scapegoat. "Hassan never denied [Amir] anything..[but once] Hassan's father Ali [caught them, Hassan] never told that [it] was always [Amir's] idea." Hassan seems to sacrifice himself just to make sure Amir is happy. Could that make him a Christ figure?

Also the reader finds out that both Hassan and Amir's mother died so they fed from the same breast of a Hazarian woman and "there [is] a brotherhood between people who [feed] from the same breast, a kinship that not even time [can] break." This foreshadows the mistake that Amir made in the winter of 1975 that he has to return to Afghanistan to fix. I think this proves they will become friends once again and live happily ever after.

On page 5 in the top line of the first paragraph Hosseini uses Asyndeton while describing Baba's favorite things: "politics, business, soccer."

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Darnay is shown as the "sinner" figure once again because "His mind was so full of others, that he never once thought of Carton." Being as Carton is the Christ figure Darnay seems like a typical person to me in today's society. Most people don’t acknowledge God until they’re in dire need of a miracle. But since Carton doesn’t even come across Darnay’s mind it shows he needs more than a miracle.

My hypothesis of a foreshadow was actually accurate!! YAY! In one of my previous blogs I foreshadowed a change in Mr. Cruncher. Of him in general and also his look on Christianity or Mrs. Cruncher’s prayers. Mr. Cruncher asks Ms. Pross of she’d “take notice o’ two promises…to record…” )probably just in-case he died trying to escape). First he vowed to never participate in grave digging; “Never, no more!” And second, he would never “interfere with Mrs. Cruncher’s flopping [(praying)], never no more!” Cruncher stated “that wot my opinions respectin’ flopping has undergone a change, and that wot I only hope with all my heart as Mrs. Cruncher may be a flopping at the present time.”

The scene when Ms. Pross and Madame Defarge are “[speaking] in [their] own language; neither [understanding] the other’s words…” is seen as a comic relief to me. Picturing two women from different countries screaming criticizing remarks at each other is pointless if they can’t understand the language! But never-the-less, their point was made by “[deducing] from look and manner, what the unintelligible words [meant].”

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Dickens uses humor in the scene where Miss Pross and her long-lost brother, or so we think, are reunited. Miss Pross "uttered a scream, and clapped her hands" while her " no means affectionate" brother told her to "hold [her] meddlesome tongue." Miss Pross always talks about her brother being away for so many years and never visiting but Solomon was "not surprised [to see his sister and] knew [she] was [there]." So it makes me wonder if he's always kept an eye out for her or known about her whereabouts. Dickens also uses humor when Carton has brought Solomon to Mr. Lorry "playing cards" with him. "He saw the spy was fearful of his drinking himself into a fir state for the immediate denunciation of him. Seeing it, [Sydney] poured out and drank another glassful."

Once again Carton begins to show characteristics of a Christ figure. He wears an all white riding coat and begins to devise a plan to save Darnay and referring to the morning as "death's dominion" the reader can assume Carton's not only thinking about Darnay's threatened death but his own as well. "It was the settled manner of a tired man [Sydney], who had wandered and struggled and got lost, but who at length struck into his road and saw its end."

The setting around Carton while he walks through the town the night before the final trial reminds me of the night in the Garden of Eden when Jesus is taken to be cruicified. "...among the heavy shadows, with the moon and the clouds sailing on high above him." Then Carton says to himself, "I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live..." Carton has foreshadowed his death in order to save Darnay's life and the life of the others he loves dearly.

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Madame Defarge "[stopped her] work for the first time, and [pointed] her knitting-needle at little lucie as if it were the finger of Fate...The shadow attendant on Madame Defarge...seemed to fall so threatening and dark on the child..." This foreshadows darkness falling on the child and danger coming after her life. But then "...her mother instincrively kneeled on the ground beside her, and held her to her breast. The shadow...seemed then to fall, threatening and dark, on both the mother and the child." Once again Lucie comes to the rescue to someone she loves greatly and, once again, is put into the darkness because of it. This foreshadows both mother and daughter being put into danger and it never once describes the golden ligh tof Lucie's hair so it makes me wonder if she'll be strong enough to save both their lives. But I'm still waiting to see where Sydney Carton comes in to die for the sake of their lives and change their fate.

In chapter 4 of book three, La Guillotine is described as "one hideous figure [that] grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world...It superseded the Cross. Models...were worn on breasts from which the Cross was discarded, and it was bowed down to and believed in where teh Coss was denied.It sheared off heads so many...like a toy puzzle for a yound devil." This shows that the poor citizens that are rebelling are so inspired by the evil of La Guillotine that they are forgetting their religion, sanity, respect for themselves, and are worshiping this insane and gruesome woman that loves anything with spilling blood. I see a brighter future for Mr. Cruncher though because "he had worn all his rust off long ago, but nothing would file his spiky head down...[and] in an access of loyalty, growlingly repeated the words after Miss Pross, like somebody from church." In the talk of all the demons and evil I think this foreshadows his safety. Also because of the beatings he would give his wife just for thinking she would pray against him, he repeated what Miss Pross said "like somebody from church". Maybe that foreshadows him being saved or more leanient to the idea of Christianity.

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There is more foreshadowing about the up-coming rebellion of the citizens in chapter 21, describing it as "somthing coming in the echoes, something light, afar off...there would arise the sound of foorsteps at [Lucie's] early grave." Lucie also foreshadows her death here but I believe that this whole revolution is going to be an 'adventure' and her assumed outcome will be altered by the christ figure, Sydney Carton. Just as Jesus said "let the children come to me" "...children had a strange sympathy with him...[and] Carton was the first stranger to whom little Lucie held out her chubby arms..."

In the beginning of the book when there was foreshadowing by spilt whine we see the outcome that was predicted when "people...set themselves with bleedding hands...round Defarge's wine-shop, and every human...had the tendancy to be sucked towards the vortex.."

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Foreshadowing occurs in chapter 13 on page 137 when Sydney Carton is pacing the streets. "His feet became animated by and intention..." just like Dr. Mannette's feet when he paces his office with Lucie after she catches him making shoes again. The doctor's need for pacing shows he was in a state of darkness so when Carton "...vaguely and unhappily..." wanders the dark streets for "many a night" it symbolises darkness coming into or exsisting in his life and foreshadows his dowfall. Also, just like Dr. Mannete's sanity is wholely based on his and Lucie's relationship, Carton is also in a dark depression because of the type of relationship he'll never have with Lucie and he goes to her for "comfort" to tell her his feelings so they die with him.

Carton also foreshadows his death in the same chapter on page 139. He says he is "...nothing, doing no service, idly burning away...Let me carry through the rest of my misdirected life, the remembrance that I opened my heart to you, last of all the world...I draw fast to an end...my last avowal of myself was made to you"

More symbolism and foreshadowing is displayed why Young Jerry discovers that his father is a Resurrection-Man. He was "...so terrified...that he made off, with his hair as stiff as his father's."Then, the next day when they're both heading off to work fro the bank Young Jerry exclaimed that he "...should so like to be a Resurrection-Man when [he's] quite growed up."

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Doctor Manette has begun to recieve patients "as his old reputation" and has recovered his "scientific knowledge, and his vigilance and skill in conductin gingenious experiments." Also, "in a corner [of his room], stood the disused shoemaker's bench and tray of tools." This shows the doctor's improvement back into having a normal life. Except the nightmares he has certain nights and the unnerving pacing that he does late at night. But, like always, his daughter is there to give him the comfort he needs to calm down, proving my forshadow from my last blog is still liable.

There is foreshadowing in the sixth paragraph on page 89. It states "that as Mr. Lorry stood at the open window, looking for the father and daughter whose steps he heard, he fancied they would never approach. Not only would the echoes die away, as though the stops had gone...However, father and daughter did at last appear..." It seems that the doctor is comfortable with his life right now; he's gotten through the roughest pieces of getting used to a normal lifestyle again, but may that's just an illusion both he and Dickens gives the reader. His nightmares prove there is still something going wrong in his head and he hasn't settled yet. So this passage could foreshadow an even greater darkness "the father and daughter" are heading into and it seems as if they wont make it out alive, but in the end they survive.

More foreshadowing on page 93 when the group in the doctor's house is talking about the echoing footsteps but the window when it begins to rain. Miss Manette is describing how she will "[sit] alone [there]...listening, until [she has] made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the foorsteps that are coming by-and-by into [thier] lives." She is talking about the rabelion that is soon to come from all the "poor" societies and the other characters in the book that they will come in contact with eventually. Then Mr. Darney responds by saying "There is a great crowd coming one day into out lives.." He says it sarcastically ("in his moody way") but it still accompanies the foreshadow that Lucie just described.

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The "LARGE cask of whine" having been broken on the street sent the poor citizens scrambling for the taste of it. The whine left stains of their face, hands, and feet and was described to look like "blood". This scene could foreshadow all the peoples' secrets being exposed and them feeding off of eachother, not very literally. Or it could foreshadow the poorer citizen's revolt against the more wealthy. Then when the whine store keeper, Mr. Defarge, returns to his store he has a conversation with three other men and they all greeted eachother with the same name, Jacques. That name has to have some sort of hidden meaning that only that group of people understand.

Mr. Manette's name is no longer his own; instead it is his prison cell number and location, On Hundred Five North Tower. After 18 years of being imprisoned I can understand why he would eventually go by that name. Think of the situation like someone being adopted after already being named, but the new parents call you something else so, of course, after 18 years of being called by that name you would prefer it over your first name. Like in Mr. Manette's situation, the person may even forget their first name.

In the tower cell where Mr. Manette is kept for his own comfort, there is one thing that he's kept locked up in his mind and hasn't forgotten. "...he laid down his work, put his hand to his neck, and took off a blackened string with a scarp of folded rag attached to it. He opened this, carefully, on his knee, and it contained a very little quantity of hair: not more than one of two long golden hairs..." These strands of hair perfectly matched those of his daughter's. Another thing that might be meant for Miss Manette is the shoe her father is working on. He says "It is a lady's shoe. It is a young lady's walking-shoe." Maybe he was thinking of his wife or daughter when he bagan making this pair.

"She nestled down with him, that his head might lie upon her arm; and her hair drooping over him curtained him from the light...The darkness deepened and deepened, as they both lay quiet, until a light gleamed through the chinks in the wall." This foreshadows the experience that the father and daughter will encounter together. Ms. Manette is going to walk patiently by her father's side and gradually lead him to the light but in order to begin she has to build from the ground up. So she starts with where he is now, in the darkness. Ms. Manette lowers herself down to the cold, cement ground where her father is lying and eventually "...light [will gleam] through the...wall" Mr. Manette has built up. Maybe he'll begin to remember his past once again!