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| The lockers themselves represents nostalgia. They are a key symbol of high school. They would remind any past graduates of their student years when one day stumbled upon while walking through the hallways of Los Altos. Nostalgia is incorporated between Amir and Soraya because to Amir, Soraya shows similar traits of courage, kindness, and loyalty that he had known Hassan for. For that, he finds love, and happiness in their relationship. It nurtures him through the hardships he goes through throughout the years, by filling in a sentimental longing for affection that he'd once shared with Hassan. The individual lockers have identical structures with the same color and dimension measurements. Each locker is apart of a structure that aligns, and stacks two rows of other individual lockers together. The two lockers in the photo represents Soraya's and Amir's marriage. The lockers are identical and apart of one structure, just as Amir and Soraya are apart of one commitment, one sacred bond. A marriage. Even so, Soraya is an open locker. She has revealed her past to Amir. A past which requires honesty, and trust. Amir on the other is a locked locker. He doesn't wish to reveal his past about Hassan to Soraya. He's uncomfortable with speaking about the wrong he's done to Hassan, causing him to lock up feelings of guilt and shame. What differentiates the individual lockers are their own locks. Although the silver, metal locks are similar in structure as well, they have different their own individual codes. Soraya and Amir have their own locks, or in other words opportunities to redemption. In Amir and Soraya's case, redemption would be revealing a shameful past. Like, Soraya, in order to reach redemption one would have to use their own "lock code", or in reality courage and honesty to open up feelings of guilt and shame. |
Monday, April 4, 2016
Amir and Soraya
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I really liked how you described the open locker to symbolize Soraya's open nature towards her past unlike Amir who has tried to lock away all his mistakes.
ReplyDeleteThis is really interesting how you found lockers to represent the relationship between Soraya and Amir. It's very creative. Also, now that Soraya has confessed, she is "empty" and free of guilt, while Amir, presumably, still has things in his locker, so he is carrying the weight of his guilt with him still.
ReplyDeleteA very interesting metaphor involving locks and "redemption codes." I like how you managed to compare Amir locking away his feelings of guilt and shame to a physical locker. However, I do have to disagree with the idea that Amir loves Soraya because he feels nostalgia for his relationship with Hassan. After all, since Amir has "locked away" all his feelings with Hassan, it seems that that is the last thing that he would want to constantly relive in his marriage. Instead, I think Amir loves Soraya because humans in general need "courage, kindness, and loyalty." That's a part of why he was friends with Hassan too.
ReplyDeletePerhaps there is also a message about breaking free from guilt. Lockers are meant to lock things in, so what if the lockers are a representation of Amir's struggle to alleviate his guilt? Perhaps the open locker represents how Soraya has broken free of her guilt after telling Amir of her past, but Amir is still locked inside the locker, not yet having achieved redemption for himself.
ReplyDeleteI really like how you were able to symbolize Amir and Soraya's marriage with the lockers. It really allows us to see that Soraya was open with Amir while he truly kpet his secrets locked away.
ReplyDeleteThis is really interesting, I like how simple it is. I also think it can apply to Baba and Amir opening/uncovering his past.
ReplyDeleteThis is really interesting, I like how simple it is. I also think it can apply to Baba and Amir opening/uncovering his past.
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