The Kite Runner Essay

Since its publication in 2003, The Kite Runner has rapidly swept the weatern world and received highly eulogy by critics. The Chinese version of The Kite Runner named Zhui Feng Zheng De Ren, translated by Li Jihong, was published and attracked numerous readers in China.

In the past dozen years, readers get increased exponentially, but studies on the novel can be numbered. Foreign scholars prefers to reseach classic aspects, including religious confrontation, ethnic discrimination, diverse images, character analysis, betrayal and redemption, etc. By comparison, domestic scholars prefer to interpret The Kite Runner in a literary way, so that to dissect various images and analyze different themes. By and large, there are three aspects mainly:

The author tells the story from the view of first person, the protagonist Amir, representing the overall growth process from young and innocent to mature. The bright side and the dark side of human nature tangle and conflict each other stimulate Amir to seek a way to redeem and turn over a new leaf. Therefore, this thesis uses the U-Shaped narrative structure to analyze and combine the archetypal character to further understand the in-depth connotation behind, such as humanity, religion and Christian culture, is meaningful. Moreover, it is also thought-provoking and

In this book, Frey is committed to discussing the relation between The Bible and western literature. This book not only expounds The Bible from a literary angle, but also provides a new interpretation from the standpoint of The Bible. Through years of hardworking, Frye finds and summarizes a U-Shaped narrative structure in The Bible. Namely, human’s betrayal deprives people themselves of peace and fall into mess. However, the sufferings in the depth of disaster and misery wake them up, then, they repent and atone so as to return to a peaceful state. The beginning falling process, the lowest point and the ending rising process constitute a shape of U which Frye calls The U-Shaped narrative