Kite Runner

In both Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress and Kite Runner, there are cases of the main characters involved in storytelling. Luo and Amir both possess a skill for writing and telling stories. Luo can perform the stories, whereas Amir creates them. Luo’s storytelling abilities are greater than Amir’s ability to write them. Luo has a greater cultural advantage and has more benefits in his time period and surroundings than Amir has.

Luo’s ability to perform stories benefits him greater than Amir’s ability to write them. Storytelling is not just limited to stories. Luo lies and helps him and the narrator of his story get out of sticky situations. Such as the time when they went before a group full of leaders and their village people to try to convince them that a violin was not just a toy, but a great music making instrument. When asked to play a piece, the narrator is at a dead end to make up a name for the piece that is banned. Luo chimes in saying, “Mozart...,” I muttered. / “Mozart what?” / “Mozart is thinking of Chairman Mao,” Luo broke in. (Sijie 6). The headman believed it, “He crinkled up his eyes in a wide, beatific smile.” / “Mozart thinks of Mao all the time,” he said. (Sijie 6). He has the ability to make up a story and help his friend not get caught by the tide of the Cultural Revolution that was taking place at the time. His real storytelling abilities are not completely useless. There are some powerful figures that appreciate this ability of his, “The only man in the world who truly appreciated his gift, to the point of rewarding him generously was the headman of our village, the last of the lordly devotees of narrative eloquence.” (Sijie 18). Luo and the narrator were allowed to leave their dreadful jobs once a ...

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...4). Amir realizes the flaw in his story and is shocked. Later on, after he grew up and left Afghanistan, he meets a woman named Soraya and she finds out that he writes stories and wants to hear one. He thought it might’ve just been out of kindness. However, to his pleasant surprise, he gives it to her and she says, “Oh, you remembered,” she said, actually beaming.” (Hosseini 152). They later get married. He writes and sells books, and is actually doing well for himself.

Luo was set up for success inside of his time period and surroundings. He is benefited more with getting out of work, getting a girlfriend, and having the honor of a very wealthy man stay at his house. Amir is successful, but not as much as Luo. He does get married and has a successful career, but only two people would listen to his stories while he grew up. Luo was a better storyteller than Amir.