Alan Gratz Code Of Honor

The book opens with a squad of soldiers running a tactical control point just outside of a village called Yusufiyah. They are approached when a man Abu Muhammad had found his cousins family brutally murdered not too far off. Sgt. Tony Yribe and 3 others went to go investigate it. Although it was a terrible scene Sgt. Yribe had just assumed that it was like most other situations in Iraq in that the family was a victim of Iraqis attacking other Iraqis. The one thing that bothered him was that there was a shotgun shell and Iraqis do not normally use shotguns.

In the book Code Of Honor by Alan Gratz Micky Hagan, the person who believed in Kamran (the main character) the whole time. Towards the ending of the book Mickey gives advice to Kamran that explains the theme of ignoring the haters. The first quote is him saying to not let your old friends off the hook so they know they hurt you, he also says to not push them away so you will have people until you leave for college.

The novel begins in Afghanistan, the home country of Amir, a Pashtun boy. Growing up in a beautiful house in the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, Afghanistan, Amir lives a lavish life. Unlike other Afghan boys, Amir has a privileged life as his father Baba is a wealthy and well-respected business man that does his best to provide the best life for his son. In Afghanistan, the ideal stereotypical boy considered of becoming a good man is one who plays sports and is of a stronger build. Amir, on the other hand, is a thinned-framed intelligent boy that loves reading and writing stories over playing sports. “But I was pathetic, a blundering liability to my own team, always in the way of an opportune pass or unwittingly blocking an open lane. I shambled about the field on scraggly legs, squalled for passes that never came my way. And the harder I tried, waving my arms over my head frantically and screeching, "I'm open! I'm open!" the more I went

In this book a boy named Haroon and a boy named Jay get a point of view. Jay is white, kind of a jock, and on the football team. Haroon is brown, smart and on the Reach for the Top team(which is like a team that answers trivia and competes with other schools). It all starts off when the school goes on a lockdown where police are rushing in the school with dogs and bombarding the hallways. Jay and his friends Kevin and Steve go on the rooftop of the school thinking it is just a regular drill, but then they look down and see a bunch of police cars and they see police that look like swat teams. They see down that the police has taken 2 brown kids with handcuffs. When they go back down the principal makes an announcement telling all students to leave the building immediately.

The first problem in this book is that the main character Scott has just moved to a new school and he’s one of hose kids who has the brains, but then he also wants to play football but he skills are not up to speed with the other player on his new schools team. That leads up to the first problem he is struggling to find new friends in the new school. He’s a smaller kid to so everyone likes to pick on him and he’s just struggling to find friends when he wants to be two different people at the same time. He’s gnarled between the two people he can choose to be. During school he wants to be a kid that

Set during the tragic days of the Vietnam War, the novel The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt explores the life of Holling Hoodhood as he learns that there is more to life than just what he sees in his own world. Holling Hoodhood is a young boy beginning seventh grade in a small suburb on Long Island. War may be raging in Vietnam, but Holling has his own battles to fight-battles that could define his character for ever. He begins to struggle with his perfectionist father and really starts to think deeply about the future his father has outlined for him. But throughout the plot of the novel, Holling discovers more about his individuality and the importance of being himself. The protagonist, Holling Hoodhood, does nothing at the start of

This book is going to be about a boy. Who use to live in New York state where its cold. Then moved to hot and sunny Houston,Tx with a family of four. Just trying to adjust a new life in Houston Texas. This boy had to leave all of his family and family in New York. It wasn't that hard for him to make new friends where he lived at. He's just had simple life in school until his senior year. Always made A’s in all his classes. He was an outstanding student. Now when high school came along that's where it all change.High school has it ups and downs .He didn't have a lot of friends as an underclassman. His junior year he was tired of being shy and quiet. High school was the time for his voice to be heard by other people.That's when the friends

A policy created by school institutions is the honor-code, which prevents students from plagiarizing and cheating off one another. Among scholars, there’s a debate on whether this policy is still in appropriate use today. Acknowledging the issue is Susan Greenberg, a journalism instructor and writer for The Washington Post, and Lynn Morton, an English professor at Queens University of Charlotte. Through examination of the two authors, both provide insightful background about honor-code practices on college campuses. However, their evidence presents opposing points-of-view on the subject.

Friendship, and particularly loyalty among friends, is extremely important at Culver Creek. The Colonel emphasizes to Miles that under no circumstances should he tell on a fellow student, and Alaska suffers emotionally for having done so to her roommate, Marya. This code of loyalty, while strict, encourages the students to forgive one another, or at least not to hold grudges. Friends are willing to take the fall for other friends if necessary, and when Alaska does this for Miles, she does not hold her punishment against him. Further, most students are willing to forgive one another even if they have been disloyal. For example, once Kevin has played a prank on Miles, he asks the Colonel for a truce because he feels the Colonel has been adequately punished for telling on Marya (which, of course, he did not in fact do).

A teenage spy going on deadly missions because of the death of a family member, this is the beginning of two books titled Joshua Files by M.G Harris and Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz. Both books have similarities between them, especially the main characters. In the book Joshua Files there is a teenager named Joshua, his dad dies. In Stormbreaker the main character named Alex RIder, is also a teenager and his uncle dies. An example is when Alex Rider was living his normal life with his uncle and a friend named Jackie until he was told by the police that his uncle died. ”Driving home, his car had been hit by a truck at Old Street roundabout and he had been killed almost instantly.”(3) This changes his life, as the death of Joshua’s father

Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is a remarkable coming-of-age novel describing and revealing the thoughts and actions of Amir, a compunctious adult in the United States and his memories of his affluent childhood in the unstable political environment of Afghanistan. The novel showcases the simplistic yet powerful ability of guilt to influence decisions and cause conflict which arises between Amir’s childhood friend and half-brother, Hassan; Amir’s father, Baba; and importantly, himself. Difference in class The quest to become “good again” causes a reflection in Amir to atone for his sins and transform into the person of which he chooses to be.

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, follows the maturation of Amir, a boy from Afghanistan, as he discovers what it means to stand up for what he believes in. His quest to redeem himself after betraying his friend and brother, Hassan, makes up the heart of the novel. When Amir hears that his father’s old business partner, Rahim Khan, is sick and dying, he travels to Pakistan to say his goodbyes. Rahim Khan tells Amir about Hassan’s life and eventual death; the Taliban murdered Hassan while he was living in Amir’s childhood home. As his dying wish, Rahim Khan asks Amir to rescue Hassan’s son, Sohrab, from an orphanage in Afghanistan. Although Amir refuses at first, he thinks about what Rahim Khan had always told him: “There is a way to be

Having traveled for the entirety of my life has given me the title of an international student. Thriough this I have come to see the different ways the 'code of chivalry' is respected and followed in certain countries depending on their religious beliefs and ideals. There are many factors that remain the same. I beleive that I follow a mixture of conducts that all fit into one. I don't particularly see my self as Mexican or any other nationality because I dont like the idea of labeling myself to once specif ethnicity with specific morals. I see myself as more of a third culture kid, no labels or definements. Through this I am able to follow and experiment with different code of conducts. Through out my life I have seen that respect and individuality

I am doing a an Ttruman report on Code of Honor. This is a very touching story. It starts out with a an so called betrayal. Kamran Smith, a popular high schooler, finds out that his brother has betrayed the military and is working with a group that plans to cause widespread terror across the US. He is taken in by the US government who ask questions about his brother. They so him some tapes and he discovers a secret code hide in his brothers terror messages. Mickey Hagan works with him to discover the meaning behind these messages. It is all going very well until he finds out Mickey has supposedly betrayed him. It turns out that Mickey had actual planned his escape and was hoping to help free his brother. Who Kamran is determined to be in the United States. They head out tracked by the US government to his supposed capture place. There are many fights along the way but they eventually reach his brother. He tells them about how they planned to blow up the stadium at the football game. They think that they plan to hide the bomb in concession stands and confront them but that turns out to be a ruse. The real bomb is hidden hide in the float and they try to get people to safety. Then in one of the biggest betrayals of all Kamran’s favorite sport report turns out to be a terrorist. She is stopped though and the two of them become major heros and return to their regular life. Darius also gets to go back to the military where he feels he

Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother is an excellent novel that combines technology and rebellion all into one book. A group of teenagers living in San Francisco become “prisoners” of a terrorist attack investigation when they are arrested and brought to an island by the Department of Homeland Security. They are treated awfully despite not having committed a single crime. The main character, Marcus, deems it is in his hands to take down the DHS and get revenge for what they’ve done. The Bay Bridge bombing and terrorist attack, the awful treatment of the characters by the DHS, and Marcus’ good efforts to seek revenge, all have an impact on human nature. Doctorow’s novel shows how acts of conflict can expose the cruelty of human nature as they can inflict tremendous pain on the vulnerable, but sometimes they can even cause a positive outcome.