Q3-Q4 outside reading blog #5

For my research I think that I will focus primarily on intent.  My research inquiry will be along the lines of: what is Hosseini’s intent in both selections and why? I already have my own ideas about this inquiry and I have read some criticism that is similar to my ideas about the author’s intent. I also feel that there are quite a few quotes from the text that I could use.  Also the author’s life also plays a large role in the intent in his writing.  The topic of his intent has many angles. First of all he was born in Afghanistan and thus has experience of his country that is very different than the media’s depiction. A plausible intent that could easily be interpreted is that he uses his writing to show how his countrymen are not all like the extremists that have ruled for so long. Another intent is to show the devastation that the Taliban have wreaked. In both selections he shows the atrocities that have become a sad part of everyday life. For example the Taliban’s treatment of women, the man selling his fake leg to feed his family, the hunger, the new severe laws and the contrasting descriptions of Kabul.  Other intents are: the ethnic problems in Afghanistan, the treatment of women, occupation of countries and the importance of education. My research will explore the authors intent, the way that intent is expressed and the authors personal motives for having that intent.