The Kite Runner, is the first novel written by Khaled Hosseini. The Kite Runner is set in Afghanistan before the war in the city of Kabul, and then eventually in America. The novel relays the struggles of Amir (A young Shi’ boy), Hassan (a young Hazera servant boy) and Baba (Amir’s father) as they are growing up in an ever-changing Afghanistan. The young boys face difficult challenges most adults will never have to experience. Amir, Hassan, and even Baba must overcome cruelty in every aspect of their lives. The gentleman will have to decide between running from their choices or standing up and righting a wrong. The Kite Runner is a moving book that not only brings the reader to tears, but gives incite to the cruelty of humanity and what people must do to overcome it.
One of the underlining problems of the novel is Baba’s mistake of bedding one of his
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"Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood." He made a sweeping, grandiose gesture with his hands. "Afghanistan for Pashtuns, I say. That's my vision." (40)
Assef rapes Hassan went they are children and later Hassan’s son Sohrab. He also stones people to death for fun and people see him as a hero for it. He thinks that he is doing his duty for Afghanistan.
Assef's brow twitched. "Like pride in your people, your customs, your language. Afghanistan is like a beautiful mansion littered with garbage, and someone has to take out the garbage.” “That's what you were doing in Mazar, going door-to-door? Taking out the garbage?” “Precisely.” “In the west, they have an expression for that," I said. "They call it ethnic cleansing.” (284)
This book teaches the reader that cruel people will get what is coming to them eventually. Assef gets punishes for his wrong doings even though it was later on his terrible
Redemption: The novel begins with an adult Amir looking back on the events of his childhood. He is trying desperately to ignore his unatoned sins, but realizes that “it’s wrong what they say about the past…about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out”(Hosseini 1). Even after Amir and his father flee to America to one afternoon from decades ago still haunts him. Amir’s inaction that day impacts the rest of his life and leads to lies, betrayal, and guilt. He desires to be forgiven for his sin and does everything he can to find redemption. Amir is hopeful that “there is a way to be good again”(Hosseini 2).
Throughout the thought provoking and eye opening narrative, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini provides a vivid and in depth story told through the eyes of a privileged young narrator who is forced to come of age in the capital of Afghanistan. As a story told from a different cultural perspective,culture and morals in this society are different from foreign beliefs. A reader will not fully comprehend The Kite Runner without discerning the differences between social classes and understanding the importance of honor in the Afghanistan culture.
Actions made in a moment of pain, anger or simple immaturity can take anyone to make mistakes that can change their lives completely. Everyone has something in the past that is shameful, embarrassing and regrettable that is kept present daily. Whether this event happened during childhood, adolescence or early adulthood, this event could haunt and have shaped that person’s life into what he or she is today. In a similar way, the book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is shaped by a tragic and eventful past that has shaped Amir’s, Baba’s, and Hassan’s lives. The four literary elements that will be used in this essay that Hosseini strategically uses in this book are: irony, simile, metaphor, and personification.
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, is a story about a young boy named Amir that begins in 1975 in Kabul, Afghanistan. As a child, he mistreats his servant, Hassan, who is like a brother to him. After failing to intervene in Hassan 's rape, Amir lives with guilt until his late thirties when he is presented with a chance at redemption. Amir 's father’s old friend, Rahim Khan, called from Pakistan to summon Amir to him. Upon his arrival, Amir learns that Hassan is his illegitimate half-brother. Hassan had been killed and his son had become an orphan. Amir then goes to drastic lengths to find and retrieve Hassan 's son, Sohrab. During this time Amir faces the guilt of his past and finds peace with himself while saving Sohrab
It is difficult to face anything in the world when you cannot even face your own reality. In his book The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini uses kites to bring out the major themes of the novel in order to create a truly captivating story of a young boy’s quest to redeem his past mistakes. Amir is the narrator and protagonist of the story and throughout the entire novel, he faces enormous guilt following the horrible incident that happened to his closest friend, Hassan. This incident grows on Amir and fuels his quest for redemption, struggling to do whatever it takes to make up for his mistakes. In Hosseini’s novel, kites highlight aspects of Afghanistan’s ethnic caste system and emphasizes the story’s major themes of guilt, redemption and freedom.
The Kite Runner is a book about a young boy, Amir, who faces many struggles as he grows up in Kabul and later moves to America to flee from the Taliban. His best friend and brother , Hassan, was a big part of his life, but also a big part of guilt he held onto for many years. The book describes Amir’s attempt to make up for the past and resolve his sins so he can clear his conscious. Amir is worthy of forgiveness because although he was selfish, he was very brave and faced his past.
The world-renowned novel, The Kite Runner was written by Afghanistan born American novelist Khaled Hosseini. Hosseini was born into a Shia Muslim family in Kabul that later in life decided to move to Paris. Hosseini was unable to return to Kabul due to the Taliban take over, this cause the Hosseini family to seek political asylum in America. The actions that Hosseini witnessed of his beloved home country influenced his novel with the themes of guilt and redemption. “The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.” – Victor Hugo. In The Kite Runner the theme of guilt and redemption is shown through the character development of the protagonist Amir. Hosseini used Amir’s guilt of his past to grow the impression that with regret lies a hope for redemption.
Quote: “ I compared life in Afghanistan as I remember it to the life I saw all around me I saw in Germany, and I thought, This is better. I want to have a life like this- getting educated, working, supporting myself, making my own choices” (68 Ahmedi).
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Kite Runner depicts the story of Amir, a boy living in Afghanistan, and his journey throughout life. He experiences periods of happiness, sorrow, and confusion as he matures. Amir is shocked by atrocities and blessed by beneficial relationships both in his homeland and the United States. Reviewers have chosen sides and waged a war of words against one another over the notoriety of the book. Many critics of Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, argue that the novel would not have reached a lofty level of success if the U.S. had not had recent dealings with the Middle East, yet other critics accurately relate the novel’s success to its internal aspects.
Amir later refers to Hassan as "the face of Afghanistan," and that it was "a face perpetually lit by a harelipped smile" (Hosseini, 2003, p. 31). The importance of this is
The Kite Runner was a creative tale with many life lessons including the ups and downs of great friendships. The story of Amir and Hassan’s friendship is truly original and emotional even though it did not end happily. The rape of Hassan was the breaking point for Amir and Hassan’s relationship as it is when the guilt of Amir begins to grow, the trust between them was lost and their communication declined. The rape incident was a very scarring moment for both Hassan and Amir, especially at such a young age, they could not find it in themselves to share their emotions.
The novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is about the life the main character, Amir, is living. In the novel, it shows readers the hardships Amir faces with his culturally different best friend, Hassan. Amir and Hassan face problems regarding their own friendship which leads to Hassan and his dad leaving the family, and later on in the book, Amir and Baba leaving to America. After going through the changes that America had to offer, Amir gets settled but receives a call from Rahim Khan telling him to get Sohrab, Hassan’s son, and bring him back to America which he does. The reason that makes the novel an important piece of literature and highly recommended is because of how he uses his vision for the book by the use of symbolism, history, and culture.
The film adaptation of The Kite Runner does diminish the complexity of the story. But, the crucial theme of “sacrifice,” however, remains largely intact, and unshorn – for without it, the theme being so crucial to the story at almost every important, and relevant level, without it, there would simply be no story. The relationship between Amir and Hassan features much sacrifice, especially on Hassan's part, who does anything and everything in his power to keep Amir comfortable and safe. 1.]
The Kite Runner was published in 2003 by Riverhead books. It is the first novel by author Kahled Hoseini. The story of The Kite Runner begins in Kabul in the 1960. The novel is about an all-male family consisting of the father Baba, his son Amir, the servant Alivant, and his son Hassan. Amir, being from the upper class, has access to a better education than his friend, Hassan, but they both suffer from similar problems.