Blooming Flower
This image represents how the past influences the present, specifically the parallelisms that a father and son share in their lives. The characters of Baba and Amir, along with Hassan and Sohrab, represent how the past repeats itself. Just like Baba and Hassan, the crumpled petals alongside the three flowers illustrate the conflict that occurs in their lives. As time goes on, people naturally endure hardships. Baba and Hassan, depicted as the most crumbled flower, represent the oldest of the three. The hardships of life have taken a toll on it, as it loses its petals to the environment. This is the natural cycle of life as the old pass down it’s influences to the hopeful youth. The blooming flower in it’s prime at the bottom illustrate the hope for the next generation. This is especially true for Sohrab as he is viewed as the “good” in the world, Amir believes that he can atone for his past sins through Hassan’s son. The offspring take influence and learn from those before, just like Sohrab takes after his father Hassan. Despite the different conditions of each flower, each possess the same innate likeliness of each other, displaying the similarities that are shared between father and son.
I really like how you show the parallels of Sohrab and Hassan as well as Amir and Baba, and how you talk about one's past influencing their present and future. You could talk about the shadows and how the dark secrets that all four characters hold in their past can influence how they see the light and promise of the future. This could definitely relate back to hope and how darkness can lead to the decline of one's hope towards a better future.
ReplyDeleteI like the way the different flowers are shown as biggest to small to show symbolism of parallelism and hopeful ongoing to the next generation.
ReplyDeleteThe little slivers of sunlight show that there is always hope in a relationship. Even when Hassan is shot and Baba shows no love for Amir, there is still hope for a better future for both Sohrab and Amir.
ReplyDeleteThe little slivers of sunlight show that there is always hope in a relationship. Even when Hassan is shot and Baba shows no love for Amir, there is still hope for a better future for both Sohrab and Amir.
ReplyDeleteI really like the connection you made between the crumbled flower pedals and how overtime, conflict can arise and represents hardships. Then you were able to connect the blooming flowers through Sohrab and a good future.
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