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Orphanage Recasting Commentary
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Imagine Zaman is writing a journal at the end of the day, describing his
thoughts about the visitors that day
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In this recasting, I wanted to portray how Zaman feels both hopeful and hopeless
about the orphanage’s situation
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​Additionally, the phrase ​“suicidal flies” h
​ ints at how Zaman is suffering
mentally with the burden of looking after the traumatised children - many of whom
are disabled or suffering from exposure, hence the ​“flies” ​indicating the spread of
disease from the ​“gray rats” ​which frighten Amir
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gaunt” c​ hildren who - as noted in the
base text - have ​“lost their childhood”
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This devotion is reflected in my recasting, as Zaman
confesses that ​“I had not quite lost hope that the boy would become something
amazing” ​such as a ​“sling-shot champion”
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As a devout Muslim, Zaman ​“leaves the judging to Allah”
and has spent his savings on the orphanage, showing his strong, but conflicted,
moral compass
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For example, I utilised a simile of ​“like a fire
flooding the body with heat” ​to describe the intense and uncontrollable shame that
Zaman feels for selling Sohrab
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I wrote how the fire was
metaphorically ​“extinguished”, ​because of Farid’s shocking use of force as a fellow,
non-violent Muslim
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However, despite their own shortcomings, I wanted to portray the animosity
towards Afghans who abandon their homeland - a query raised by Assef and Farid to
Amir throughout the novel
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​Although Zaman is frustrated and
wants the men ​“to go now”,​ I used the stative verb ​“despise” ​in a parallel phrase to
reinforce his impossible dilemma
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