TKR chapter 12

1) Soraya writes sad stories while amir writes happy ones *not sure about this one*

2)The time when many new things startes to happen during Baba's case, giving him insecurity.

3)He'd rather not get an operation and treatment. He wanted to "be the last moment of his life with a Pashtun".

4)She had more courage to tell the truth, while he lied about Hassan and broke Ali's and Baba's friendship.

Discussion WIP

Man: I want to do this, we can afford it and its pretty secure. I want a balanced family, I wouldn't take the risk of having another girl.

Woman: Honey, I just don't like the idea, it is unnatural to do this. I wouldn't feel this child like mine. I don't want my baby to be in a test tube.

Man: There is nothing to fear about babe, with all the technology there is nowadays our kid would grow healthy and strong. Invitro fertilization is a secure process, many people have opted for this and had worked out perfectly. There is nothing to be afraid of.

Woman: I don't know, it feels wrong, we can't pretend to be god, life is not a game, I don't want my baby in the hands of technology and human progress.

Man: This is not only progress, it’s the future of human raze, in 20 years
the cloning of humans would be normal, only this way we can have our ideal
baby, think about it.


Women: There is the problem, I don’t want the ideal baby genetically
modified, if I had another kid it would be from a natural way, like it
should be.


Man: Well, then we can always make it not perfect but modify his gender.


 Women: I think you are not getting my idea, I don’t want my baby to be in
a laboratory or inside a test tube.


Women: I know but it just doesn’t feels right to do this to my own kid, I
don’t like doctor  and you think I would like to have my baby in a
laboratory full of them, looking at him and testing on him ¿what if he die?


Man: you are being paranoid that would never happen, that’s why we pay that
sum of money for this treatment, is 100% viable. Man: but is only while hi
is getting ready, it’s not like he is going to be different anyways.


Women: Pleas try to understand me, I would not let you do this, it is
inappropriate, unethical, unnatural and inhuman. I refuse to the IVF. Also
I think we would broke some governmental policy’s, and I don’t want to have
more troubles.


Man: O.K Honey I understand you, we will not take the IVF, if that baby we
would have him from the only correct way to do it, the way we were bring to
the earth.

100 word reflection

1.4 If you were a doctor developing the technology to clone humans, how would you answer the following questions?

a Where would you conduct your cloning of humans?

b What kinds of people would you clone?

c What is more important: cloning the first human ever, or creating a healthy cloned child?

d Would you want the world to know about your experiments, or would you want to keep them a secret?

Since we don't know what will happen when cloning a human, we should get some information about it, and how clones react, then see how it improves onwards. In terms on who I would clone then that would pretty much resemble who would want to be cloned, you can  always get test subjects for what you want.

I don't really know what's better to be honest. But I think if creating a healthy cloned child can be more secure then that can give us information on how to clone a human adult correctly. I would give out the information obtained.

TKR Test Fix

27, January 1975.
 Dear Diary:

Today was a splendid day, my son finally proved me wrong and demonstrated not only to me, but to all Kabul what he's capable of.
Finally, the day came, and the Kite tournament was about to begin, people were getting ready and there were OVER A HUNDRED KITES! It was beautiful, I was already feeling my son was one of the good ones in the Cattle. We, and by we I mean Rahim Kahn and myself, talked about our predictions and came to the conclusion that Amir was going to get easily into the top 20. The tournament started and and after a few minutes, many kites were already on the ground, I was continuosly following Amir's, impressed by the way he controlled his kite, it was as if he could feel it like another part of his body, at that moment I had a strong feeling he was going to win and the term "Kite Master" came into my mind. The moment finally came and Amir had cut the last kite, I was (and am) so proud of him! He's shown and proven how good he can be. I saw Hassan running the last kite while Amir kept staring at me, I caught this glance as an "I hope I did fine"; for some strange reason I didn't see Hassan until several hours later but I believe Amir took good care.

In the end I truly see my son different now, it is like a different feeling, a feeling of worthiness and proudness combined, something I'll never forgive.