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In this first section of themes, I have chosen the top ten examples from the book, The Kite Runner, that relate to my theme in different aspects. This include different characters from the book that relates to my theme, memories and the past. All characters from the book have a past, including everyone in the world have memories and past of their own, 1.
Context: In the first chapter of The Kite Runner, Amir the protagonist recalls a memory/event that change his life forever and is part of with him today. This memory/event haunts Amir for a while.
Quote: "I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975" (Hosseini 1).
Analysis: This is Amir looking back at his youth when
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Context: In chapter 12, When Amir is in America and is at an Afghan flee market. Amir goes over to Soraya booth to talk with her while General Taheri is not around. Soraya reveals that her dream is to become a teacher, she tells Amir how she taught her family's servant how to read and write. Amir looks back to where he instead of teaching Hassan how to read, he mocked him instead.
Quote: "I thought of how I had use my literacy to ridicule Hassan. How I teased him about big words he didn't know" (Hosseini 160).
Analysis: Even still in America after years, Amir remembers Hassan. Amir feels guilty since in the past that he had privilege to go to school, instead of helping Hassan read he made fun of him. Unlike Soraya, in the past she used her privilege to go to school to teach her servant how to read 8.
Context: Near the end of chapter 12, Soraya past guilt is described to Amir. She doesn't want any secrets between them when they get married. So, when she was eight-teen she ran away with an afghan man, and lived with them for a month until General Taheri found Soraya and took her home. When she came home she found her mother had a stroke and felt responsible for it. But, she is glad that General Taheri took her back
Betrayal, redemption, and forgiveness are all major themes in The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini. The novel also focuses around the theme of a broken relationship between father and son as well as facing difficult situations from ones past. Amir and Hassan are best friends with two completely different personalities. Each character in the novel faces their own hardships and eventually learns to overcome those difficulties. Beginning with betrayal then the characters have to make their way to gaining redemption and forgiveness from others, as well as their self, is carried on throughout the novel. It is a continuous story of the relationships between Amir and his father Baba and facing their challenges from the past every day of their present.
Although Hassan is his best friend, there are many instances where Amir reveals his jealousy, most notable when Baba sees Hassan as the stronger boy, "self-defense has nothing to do with meanness. You know what always happens when the neighbourhood boys tease him? Hassan steps in and fends them off. I 've seen it with my own eyes…” (Hosseini 24).
The novel tells the story of, Amir. Amir is portrayed as the protagonist; the novel revolves around his recollection of past events 26 years ago as a young boy in Afghanistan. Amir is adventures and brave. Hassan is Amir’s closets friend and servant to his house and is portrayed as a subservient male, often supporting and accepting blame for Amir’s actions. Assef, Wali and Kamal are the “ bad guys” within the novel; Wali and Kamal hold down Hassan and Assef rapes him purely for ethnicity differences, as Hassan is a Hazara. Afghanistan boys are supposed to be athletic and true to Islam .The leaving of Soraya Hassan mother with another man gives the notion that women lack morality leaving behind there children .The Taliban laws are followed closely within Afghanistan and women are treated without any rights, beatings, stoning and execution become the reality for women who violate the laws. Culturally Afghanistan women are portrayed to be subservient to there husband only live and breath to provide children, cook food and clean their
As a result, when Rahim Khan had told Amir that Hassan and him were brothers and that it was Baba that was Hassan real father. It had hurt him especially since Amir is a grown man now and just finding out, it had hurt him because now that he looks at it he pushed away his brother. “How could you hide this from me? From him?” I bellowed.
...h him; another part to this is because he believes Hassan is just a dirty Hazara boy. “I'd chase the car, screaming for it to stop. I'd pull Hassan out of the backseat and tell him I was sorry, so sorry, my tears mixing with rainwater. We'd hug in the downpour (Hosseini 109).” After Amir causes Hassan to leave, he laments about letting, more like making, his best friend leave him. He sees the dirty Hazara boy as his best friend at that moment. In both of these stories, the main character realizes how similar they are to the other social or religious group.
After weeks of secrecy, a brutal fight, and battles with the immigration office, Amir is able to return to America with a bright perspective of his new home albeit broken, beat, and scarred, and a new adopted child, Sohrab. The developed Amir is brought out with his interaction with General Taheri. In the novel, Amir shows his new found ability to stand up for himself with the quote, “‘And one more thing, General Sahib,’ I said. You will never again refer to him as a ‘Hazara boy’ in my presence. He has a name and it’s ‘Sohrab’” (361).
The only reason that Hassan got raped was that he was trying to get a kite for Amir. Now the kite acts a reminder to Hassan of his wrong-doing and it will now begin to haunt him for a long time. Although when in America, Amir does not get reminded about Hassan, deep inside he still feels guilty. Amir immediately begins to feel the most guilt when he goes to Iran when Rahim Khan, Amir’s childhood friend, asks him to come. He feels that Rahim Khan has reminded him of his “past of unatoned sins”(Hosseini 2).
Amir is, to be put bluntly, a coward. He is led by his unstable emotions towards what he thinks will plug his emotional holes and steps over his friends and family in the process. When he sought after Baba’s invisible love, Amir allowed Hassan to be raped in an alleyway just so that the blue kite, his trophy that would win his father’s heart, could be left untouched. In the end, he felt empty and unfulfilled with the weight of his conscience on his shoulders comparable to Atlas’ burden. Unable to get over his fruitless betrayal, he lashes out and throws pomegranates at Hassan before stuffing money and a watch under his loyal friend’s pathetic excuse for a bed, framing Hassan for theft and directly causing the departure of both servants from his household. Even after moving to America, finding a loving wife, and creating a career for himself in writing, he still feels hollow when thinking of his childhood in Afghanistan. Many years later, he is alerted of Hassan’s death and sets out on a frenzied chase to find his friend’s orphaned son. He feels that he can somehow ease his regrets from all of those years ago if he takes in Hassan’s son, Sohrab. He finds Sohrab as a child sex slave for Assef, who coincidentally was the one to rape Hassan all of those years ago. After nearly dying in his attempt to take back Sohrab, he learns that he can take the damaged child back to the states with him. Sadly, Hassan’s son is so
Firstly, Amir's anger from literacy was not normal. At Amir's birthday party Assef gives him something in the shape of a book “I tore the wrapping paper from Assef’s present and titled the book cover in the moonlight. It was a biography of hitler. I threw it in a tangle of weeds” (Hosseini 104). Amir shows some of his anger when he receives the book from Assef. The way he would express his anger would be though literacy which does not help him in his progress to redemption. Amir never thought Hassan would be a mentor to him. Amir was the one that always read to Hassan, and he never clued in that he was a huge mentor to his literacy “Hassan couldn't read a first grade textbook but he'd read me plenty” (Hosseini 66). Amir was clueless that Hassan was offering mentorship. Amir got better as a writer from reading to Hassan. Even if Amir does not think Hassan is a mentor he is. Amir's process to heal took almost the whole book. Amir has been trying to forget his past since living in Afghanistan at the beginning of the book. His healing process began through literacy and went to the end of the book “ school gave me an excuse to stay in my room for long hours” (Hosseini 96). Amir spent a lot of time in his room writing and reading. If Amir did not have literacy it would not be possible for him to overcome those hard times in his
evident when Amir takes the opportunity to ridicule Hassan about his ignorance, possibly because of their disparity in social class, or perhaps because Hassan was a harelip,
Throughout his childhood, Amir conforms to society and treats his Hazara servants poorly, but he questions the morality of such treatment. When Amir’s childhood bully, Assef, confronts him, Amir thinks to himself that Hassan works only as a servant for him, and that they have no friendship. Afterward, he thinks, “Why did I only play with Hassan when no one else was around?” (41). Hosseini uses a series of rhetorical questions to accentuate how Amir questions his beliefs about his relationship with Hassan....
After running away from Hassan’s molestation in the alleyway Amir kept on running away from his problems. He thought redemption was impossible, and that Hassan would never forgive him, but Hassan could not redeem Amir for the betrayal, only Amir could. Only Amir could redeem himself by making things right in his own mind. Redemption can only be found if one is ready for it. At this point in his life, Amir is not yet knowledgeable yet in himself and the way the world works to understand that he needs to delve within himself to achieve what he
In conclusion irony, symbolism, and foreshadowing contribute to the omnipresent theme of redemption throughout The Kite Runner. Khaled Hosseini ties together seemingly unimportant details of the story to create irony, and juxtaposes segments of his book to show redemption.
The movie The Kite Runner is based on the book and it contains both subtle and explicit differences as all books and movies do. Both the book and the movie have very compelling and moralistic themes though at times the movie’s themes seem limited. The themes presented throughout the movie and the book are penance, loyalty, prejudice, religion and growing up. The characterization, overall plot of the movie and the setting of the book seem to be consistent with each other though at times they both may vary both slightly and drastically.
Through the themes on the novels, articles and books we can discover many problems and try to solve it. The author of The Kite Runner illustrates many important themes. He explains how the parents effect on their children. How our culture, beliefs, and religion effect on our personalities and on our way of treat the people around us. Also, he tells us about the importance of our friends and our families because they stay by our side in the hard time. Also, trough his writing he teaches us the importance of love and forgive the people, who we