Lit about Society Final Exam review- 2015
Review your reading guides, quizzes and tests for Kite Runner and Maus I and II
-Know the plot points for Kite Runner and Maus I and II
-Review the important quotes below and know what they mean. There will be questions on some of them.
- “Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
- “For you, a thousand times over!”
- “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.”
- “Your father, like you, was a tortured soul, Amir jan.” (Rahim Khan to Amir)
- “More I don’t need to tell you. We were both very happy, and lived Happy, Happy Ever After.”
- “One reason I became an artist was that [Vladek] thought it was impractical—just a waste of time…it was an area where I wouldn’t have to compete with him.”
- “Maybe Auschwitz made him like that.”
- “That’s outrageous! How can you, of all people, be such a racist! You talk about blacks the way the Nazis talked about the Jews!” “I thought really you are more smart than this… It’s not even to compare, the shvartsers and the Jews!”
-You should be able to discuss, in depth, any of the following topics and connect them to the textsthat you read this year. You will be able to bring in notes for this section but not pre-written responses.
- Family/Family relationships: How are they important to the major characters? How do their relationships shape their lives? Do the relationships change over time? For the positive or negative? What has contributed to that change?
- Class systems/racial relationships: How do class systems affect people/the characters? Is it advantageous to have class systems? Explain why or why not. Are the class systems based on race? If so, what has this produced and how has it affected the characters? What does discrimination do to the characters- those who experience it and those who practice it?
- Courage/Fear: Can people overcome fear? Do the characters? How? When do they show courage? What are the circumstances that they need to overcome their fear? How does it affect their lives?
- Loyalty/friendship and betrayal: When do the characters show loyalty and/or betrayal? What happens to those they betray and to themselves? Does this change the characters? How?
- Guilt and Redemption: When and why do the characters experience guilt? What are the circumstances and how does it affect them? Do they find redemption? How and what effect does it have on them?
- Social/personal responsibility: Doing the right thing- are other people our responsibility? Where is this seen in the texts? Under what circumstances? How does it affect the characters- whether they do the right thing or they don’t do the right thing? Is there any coming back from not taking responsibility for ones actions?