What is the summary for Chapter 6 of The Kite Runner?

During the icy winter months, the schools of Kabul are closed. Kites and kite flying are  popular recreations which keep the school children busy during this holiday season. Kite flying  is the chief interest that Amir shares with Baba. Kabul holds many kite-fighting tournaments during this season that are greatly anticipated by everyone in Kabul.

The aim of the kite flying contest is to cut down your opponent's kite with your kite's string. In order to do this, the kite strings are coated with glue and powdered glass so that the opponent's kite string can be cut down easily during the  kite fight. Initially, Amir and Hassan would themselves make the 'tar' -the glass coated string, but later they realised that they were better kite flyers than kite makers. So,Baba would take the boys to Saifo, an almost blind shoe repairman and the city’s most famous kite maker and buy them both equally priced kites. Once a kite is cut the kite runners chase them until they land. The runner who grabs the fallen kite gets to keep it. However the grand prize is the last cut kite.

Hassan was the greatest kite runner who had collected many a fallen kite. He seems to have a sixth sense about where the kite will land and often doesn’t follow it with his eyes, but with his ears and his feel for the wind. Once, Hassan just stopped and told Amir to sit down and wait, and that the kite would come. Amir thinks he is lying, but then, before his very eyes the Hazara boy stands up and the kite that they had been waiting for literally drops into his open arms.

In the winter of 1975, Amir sees Hassan run for a kite for the last time.This was the biggest tournament ever and Amir is very keen on winning it to impress  Baba  so that he would could call him affectionately as 'Amir Jan.'

Amir promises to buy Hassan a television and Hassan says he will put it on the table with his drawings. Hassan tells Amir that he is content to live forever in the mud hut behind Baba's house.

In Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," provide an example of Romeo's display of love, lust, depression, & frustration?

Well, of what I understood, Romeo shows love pretty much all through the play, since the point when he first meets Juliet. Lust, in my opinion comes after the meeting (you know, like durin the period of time when hes waiting for her maridge proposal), also when hes banished from Verona. Depression is obvious before he meets her, while hes going on about how Rosaline doesant like him, and how he cant find love, also, after, when he kills Tybalt, theres a mixture of frustration and depression, because he killed his wifes cousin, and he lost a best friend (Marcutio) on th same day. frustration, I think is also presant when he first finds out hes Banished from Verona, and he says he much rather be sentenced to death, showing actually both depression and frusteration.

o yeah, depression also is in the play when he finds out Juliet is dead, and yeah, love could alos be put in that oart, because he is willing to kill himself to stay with her etermnally

How does Pip's narration of Great Expectations show the gradual increase of wisdom and the value of hindsight?Just like the above question states.

Perhaps because "Great Expectations" was serialized, Dickens often has his narrator, Pip, end sections with almost jounal-like reflections.  For example, at the end of Pip's first visit to meet Miss Havisham and Estella, Pip reflects,

That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me.  But it is the same with any life.  Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been...[This day was] the formation of the first link...

At the end of the First Stage, Pip records his feelings  regarding his parting from Joe and Biddy to London:

I walked away at a good pace, thinking it was easier to go than I had supposed it would be.  The village was very peaceful and quiet, and all beyond was so unknown and great that in a moment with a strong heave and sob I broke into tears.  I was better after I had cried than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle....And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

From this world "spread" before him, Pip learns to forgive Miss Havisham for having made Estella so heartless:  "I want forgiveness and direction far too much to be bitter with you."  From Magwitch Pip learns that goodness can come from the wretched of the world.  In gratitude Pip tells the Magwitch, "I will never stir from your side...I will be as true to you as you have been to me." Pip's gratitude extends to Herbert:

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry...that I often wondered how I had conceived that old ideas of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened...that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

And, of course, Pip returns to the forge to give Joe his "penitent remonstrance.

Is Book 1 of "The Odyssey" mainly about Odysseus?

If by part you mean Book, then you are partially correct. Odyseus is mentioned, certainly (an allusion by the goddess Athena), but the main characters are the goddess and Odyseus's son, Telemachus.

Telemachus is at home when Athena comes to him and gives him information about his father being alive. She doesn't say in so many words, Odyseus being still out of favor with several gods after the Fall of Troy and his persecution at the hands of Neptune:

The rest, all those who had perdition ’scaped
By war or on the Deep, dwelt now at home;
Him only, of his country and his wife
Alike desirous, in her hollow grots
Calypso, Goddess beautiful, detained
Wooing him to her arms. But when, at length,
(Many a long year elapsed) the year arrived
Of his return (by the decree of heav’n)
To Ithaca, not even then had he,
Although surrounded by his people, reach’d
The period of his suff’rings and his toils.
Yet all the Gods, with pity moved, beheld
His woes, save Neptune; He alone with wrath
Unceasing and implacable pursued
Godlike Ulysses to his native shores.

(Taken from William Cowper's translation)

Book I focuses mainly on the homefront since the end of the Trojan War and Odyseus's attempts to come home.

Explain Cris's difficulty in being free to love or marry Ann in "All My Sons".

There are several conflicts for Chris Keller that stand in the way of an open relationship with Ann.  First, Ann was his brother, Larry's girl, she was always going to marry Larry, it was just the way it was.  This is illustrated by Kate Keller, who refuses to think of Ann as being an individual who should be allowed to move beyond her attachment to Larry.  Kate would rather memorialize Ann's life by referring to her as "Larry's Girl."

Kate Keller is fiercely opposed to Ann and Chris getting together or getting married.   She resists accepting the possibility of Ann and Chris together, because if they get together, it means Larry is really dead. 

The other conflict that plays a major role in Chris being unable to love Ann openly is the revelation that his father framed her father for the faulty airplane parts being shipped to the military.  Steve Deever is currently serving prison time, while Joe Keller is free based on the lie he told to the court.  

Once Ann discovers that Steve has been languishing in jail, ignored by his family, rejected by his daughter for something that he had no control over, following Joe Keller's orders, she could never love or marry Chris Keller.

Chris, when he finds out that his father was responsible for the death of several pilots, and his brother's suicide, as a principled person, he is emotionally crushed, completely numbed and disgusted by the idea.   

What is the summary of "The False Gems" by Maupassant?In 50 words

In the story, Monsieur Lantin meets a young lady and falls in love with her. The lady was seen as a very virtuous woman but poor. She was beautiful, modest and honest and people agreed that the man who won her love would be the luckiest man. Monsieur Lantin was not a wealthy man and earned a meager salary. In spite of his financial situation he still proposed and was accepted by the lady. His life changed afterwards; he was unable to understand how they managed to live like wealthy people while still on his little pay. His wife was able to manage their home and ensured everything was in order and that they could even afford some luxury. Unfortunately the lady passed on leaving behind some jewelry that he considered fake and which he disliked. After her passing the husband was unable to manage the finances and grew poor, finally deciding to sell the jewelry. While at the jewelers he found out that the pieces were costly and in turn earned him a life changing sum of money. He nevertheless questioned how the wife acquired the pieces of jewelry. He later remarries but this second wife brings much sorrow to his life.

What were some of the entertainments forbidden by the Puritans in 1692 in Salem?

Top Answer

The Puritans forbade dancing, theater, and almost any entertainment that did not promote hard work an prayer. When Abigail and the rest of the girls are caught dancing, they could have been whipped for disobeying the law.

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