Find a short passage which you think illustrates the author's writing style. Quote it and explain why it caught your attention and perhaps stayed with you.

The author writes in a Narrative way. He writes about the main character waking up to the twin towers falling. It caught my attention because I remember waking up that morning and hearing my parents talking about it on the TV. I remember watching it on the news and all the commotion it had caused. A lot of people i knew were leaving school because parents were scared for their children. No one knew why it had happened they just all knew something had to be done.

"I looked down at Sohrab. One corner of his mouth had curled up just so. A smile. Lopsided. Hardly there. But there." This passage caught my attention because it describes Sohrab's first smile in America. Also, it has stayed with me because it was like a closing on the story. The writer tells you exactly how the smile looks. He gives the readers some closure but not much, and that I like about a book because it keeps the readers on edge. Emily H.

"With me as the glaring exception, my father molded the world around him to his liking. The problem, of course, was that Baba saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too." Maybe even hating him a little. I think the writer shows alot passion an emotion. He shows exactly how Amir feels inside. A scared child who wants to be loved. B.G