Persuasive Essay On The Kite Runner

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Dear Mr. Moe: Researches have proven that reading expands one’s vocabulary, and knowledge. It also helps improve one’s focus and concentration, as well as their writing skills. By having a Laurel Reads city-wide program all these effects will be put into play, and the primary beneficiary of all this would be our youth. But of course, other members of the city will also benefit from this. A Laurel Reads city-wide program will ultimately maximize every citizen’s intellect. This does not only benefit the citizens, but the city as well. A book like The Kite Runner would successfully accomplish this goal by entertaining our citizens. Although The Kite Runner is a fiction, it also serves as a historical

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