The Kite Runner

Infancy is the rudimentary status of human beings, which the ways for the rest of one’s life is determined. Unforgettable events may generate certain emotions in childhood. Thus, it modifies the nature of that person as an adult. Setting in the 1970s in California, the historical and fictional novel, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, illustrates the main character through his determinations to lengthy life conflicts. The novel outlines Amir’s assorted feelings of love and jealousy towards his best friend, Hassan. Despite their distinctive economic and social classes, they grow up in the same household facing strenuous hardships, resentments, and guilt together. However, the two boys reach a decisive point when the neighborhood bullies Hassan severely. As Amir sees his best friend getting a torture, he tries to provide an assistance. Unfortunately, he gets afraid and watches and does nothing. Amir's guilty, caused by the fear of avoiding his friend’s struggle, eventually leads him to betray his friend. Through the use of irony, foreshadowing, and metaphor, Amir’s childhood experiences harass him into his adulthood.

The utilize of irony in The Kite Runner is predictable yet unlikely. Incapability or rejection to follow-up on some requests, however, outcomes in the blameworthy and the memories of the incidents that appear numerous times in Amir’s life. For instance, when the Russian soldier asks for a woman in the truck, Amir’s father, Baba, addresses to the guy, who knows how to translate in Russian bravely; he says, “Tell him I’ll take a thousand of his bullets before I let this indecency take place,” (116). After hearing what Baba said, Amir feels embarrassed that while his father tries to save someone at the risk of his life, h...

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...ray color. Additionally, when Amir comes back in Afghanistan, he talks to Rahim Khan. They talk for a while and then Rahim Khan brings up how Hassan lives. In shock, Amir says Hassans’s name out loud for the first time in years. Amir thinks to himself as the regrets and memories that come with his name come flooding back, “Those thorny old barbs of guilt bore into me once more, as if speaking his name had broken a spell, set them free to torment me anew” (202). The guilt Amir feels from not helping Hassan when he gets raped, the lying so he would leave, thinking that would make his feeling better, still haunts him and still exists as an enormous part of Amir’s life. No matter how Amir tries to get over with Hassan, Amir always thinks about his best friend. To say Hassan’s name and to talk about him again, his hurtful pain and the guilt torment Amir worse than ever.