Deadline: March 12, 2007

Kendall Campus students are invited to submit an original essay about Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, the spring 2007 selection of the

A Good Read! initiative.

The essay must be three to five pages and must be responsive

to the prompt described below.

First prize: $100.00 cash

Second prize: $ 75.00 cash

Third prize: $ 50.00 cash

Winning essays will be posted on the A Good Read! website.

The prompt: Isabel Allende says The Kite Runner “is one of those unforgettable stories that stay with you for years. All the great themes of literature and of life are the fabric of this extraordinary novel: love, honor,

guilt, fear, redemption. . . .”

Choose one such theme from The Kite Runner, develop a thesis, and

then support it with textual evidence. And you may, if you choose, relate it to an understanding, a truth, a discovery, a lesson that your life experiences, including the reading of this novel, have revealed to you.

Contest details:

Type the essay in 12-point Times New Roman font, double space it, and set the margins for one inch.

Submit the essay through the Turnitin.com web site created for the Kite Runner essays.

Go to http://www.Turnitin.com. Click on NEW USER. Select STUDENT. Enter ID 1812343 and passcode kiterunner. Enter your email address. Create a password. Answer secret question. Enter your name. Click on I agree- create profile. Click on end wizard and log in. Click on enter class. Click on Kite Runner Essay Contest. Click submit button for the assignment. Enter submission title (your title). Browse and attach file. Click yes, submit. You should get a paper ID number.

Winners will be announced March 20.