At a normal walking pace, it would take around 20 minutes to walk around the 27-acre square field. If the 27 acres are in any shape more rectangular or irregular than a square, it will take longer to walk around.
Hosseni wrote The Kite Runner to show the world the way that common issues of identity, assimilation and power are carried out in his culture in Afghanistan. He spends a great deal of time developing Amir and showing how he comes to a self-identity by the end of the book.
Introduction to Thanatopsis. William Cullen Bryant was a poet who lived and wrote during what is known as the era of Romanticism. Romanticism involved nature, individualism, emotions, and the imagination. Bryant wrote this poem in the early 1800s, most likely in 1813 or shortly thereafter, when there was a great deal of poetry being written about mortality (the poets writing such works were known as Graveyard Poets).