The kite runner Chapter 11 Evidence for Metaphor: "America was different. America was a river, roaring along"... (111).

1. How might this fresh start help Amir considering his past?

2. What aspects of a river could Amir admire?

3. What effect does using this reference have on the reader?

Read the excerpt from "broken chain." alfonso studied the magazine pictures of rock stars for a hairstyle. he liked the way prince looked—and the bass player from los lobos. alfonso thought he would look cool with his hair razored into a v in the back and streaked purple. but he knew his mother wouldn’t go for it. and his father, who was puro mexicano, would sit in his chair after work, sullen as a toad, and call him "sissy.” what details from the passage would best support a paragraph about conflict between characters?

How does the yellow fever altered history

What about the sentence structure in this passage build suspense