Analysis Of A Chapter From 'The Kite Runner'

Hosseini utilises Structure, Symbolism and Dialogue throughout chapter 6 to explore the characters and their relationships along with the central ideas of truthfulness and Afghanistan Culture.

When Khaled Hosseini wrote The Kite Runner, he made several important choices involving narration. He chose to write the story in first person from a limited point of view. This is a very fitting decision because, writing in the first person adds a sense of intimacy that is crucial to this story; writing from a limited perspective allows the reader to make their own conclusions about what the characters are thinking. The way Hosseini writes The Kite Runner makes it very intimate, and feels like a person telling their life story. If The Kite Runner had been written in third person, or omnisciently, the story would not have impacted readers as much, and would have been too cold and impersonal to create emotional connections with the reader.

In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the reader experiences two different methods of tradition. Baba shows the readers a new way of tradition while General Taheri expresses old tradition. Baba and General Taheri see life through a different lens than one another. They convey their beliefs of tradition through how they lead as prominent social figures, carry out their lives, and through their unique relationships with their children.

Religion tends to be followed by many citizens but may be interrupted differently amongst many people in societies. The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, illustrates how individuals may hurt other with their own personal choices and beliefs. The book portrayed how the characters were divided into two major sects in Afghanistan, Hazara’s and Pashtun’s. The culture classified the nation into two groups which elucidated the society. When distinguishing between the two major casts, being a Pashtun meant that their respect and pride is valued and is kept with them. However, being a Hazara meant the society is lower class who are treated with hate and are unaccepted by their standard way of living. Although the two sectors follow the same

People are viewed differently throughout their lives. In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini portrayed Baba as a great man. Baba didn’t tell Amir his son that he had a half brother that was his best friend growing up in Hassan. Baba only tells one man named Rahim Khan who has to tell Amir the news after he had passed away. Baba is the most morally ambiguous he’s shown as a great man but does all of his great deeds to make up for his past sins.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a novel about life in Afghanistan that follows a boy named Amir, his father Baba, and their two servants Hassan and Ali. Amir and Baba are wealthy Pashtuns, and Baba is well respected. Hassan and Ali, on the other hand, are Hazara, an ethnic minority in Afghanistan. The Hazara people are oppressed and seen as inferior to the Pashtun people. Baba, however, doesn’t treat them as inferior:this way, he shows kindness towards Hassan, instead ofunlike Amir. Throughout Amir’s childhood, he is constantly ignored by Baba because he does not fit Baba’s idea of the son he wants. Baba’s general disapproval and disinterest in Amir shows that he is a bad father to Amir, especially because he shows the opposite emotions to Hassan.

As I read pages 105 and 106, I was able to see myself in Amir’s position once again, and I was able to learn something from his experiences as well. In this excerpt, Amir tells a lie that changed everything forever: he lied that Hassan stole his watch in order to get rid of him and his father because of he couldn’t stand his own guilt. Amir even admitted that he “[became] capable of causing…pain” due to his lie. Truthfully, I’ve done that same before. When I was younger, I was quite envious of my nephew when he was a toddler since he received so much attention and praise. As a result, it began to feel like everyone had forgotten about me, therefore I began to make up lies regarding my nephew; I would blame him for things that he had never

In one’s life, a person will most likely experience the death of someone close to them in their life. I normal and natural emotion to a loss is grief. Normally, the person being grieved has left a good impression on the person expressing grief. When grieving a death, a person is overcomed by deep sorrow and sadness. The novel written by Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, is about a young boy who is faced with the tough actions of growing up and having to make tough decisions. Amir is the son of a wealthy father whose wife passed away giving birth to Amir. After the death of his wife, Amir’s father, Baba, made a mistake one night and 9 months later, his servants wife gave birth to a boy named Hassan. Ashamed of his actions, Baba kept the secret of his second kid and had his servant, Ali, take responsibility for Hassan. Amir and Hassan grew up together almost like brothers. Which is ironic because they were actual half-brothers. The two brother’s friendship ended when Amir turned and ran when Hassan needed him most. But Amir would make things right later on when Hassan is dead and his son, Sohrab, is now an orphan in need of Amir’s help. Amir grieves the death of these 3 family members in different ways. He aches for his mother's love, is left in the dark from his father, and has the blood of his brother on his hands and promises to make things right. The song “Memorized,” written by Josh Woodward, expresses and further proves the process of grief and the feelings that come with it. The novel The Kite Runner and the song “Memorized express the themes of grief and guilt.

In Chapter 17, Amir takes the time to think things through. He realizes that the signs were there all along. He realizes all the things Baba did for Hassan was because he was his son too. At the tea stall, it was interesting how Amir thought process changed to what could have been different. What could of have happened if Ali and Hassan stayed? How Hassan’s life could of have been different? I also found how he remembered Baba’s lesson on theft. Yet, Baba stole his brother from him. He finally realized that he has to stand up for himself. He is old enough to fight his own battles. This time his battle is entering a Taliban territory to find the boy. At the end of the chapter, Amir agrees to visit Kabul to find Sohrab. At last, he made a decent

Many times, an internal struggle precedes making a choice. Other times, the only solution is accepting the situation and realizing that it is not in our hands to make a change. In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, Amir, the protagonist, has no doubt that he has done something to cause a separation between himself and his father which causes him to struggle to try to fix it. However, this is not within his control, and it eventually leads to other struggles and conflicts.

1.Write down a passage that appeals to you and describe why? Does it make more of an impact on your understanding of the book or does it make more of a personal impact? What significance does the passage have in the book?

In Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, we (the readers) are given a first hand look at the marginalization and discrimination of a group of people in Afghanistan through the characters of Hassan and his father Ali. Hassan and Ali are Hazaras (the minority ethnic group), and also Shi'a Muslims (the minority religion). For centuries, Hazaras have been discriminated against and oppressed in Afghanistan. Hassan and Ali experience this marginalization and discrimination in their hometown of Kabul. In Chapter 2, Amir describes how the Pashtun children in the town would ridicule Ali and explains how the Hazara ethnic group was marginalized, excluded, and silenced in Afghanistan.

Social conditions are what shape a country. Over the years, people, not only in Afghanistan, but around the world create norms that define people’s roles in life, their future, and how they should be treated based on their gender and beliefs. Khaled Hosseini’s first novel, The Kite Runner, comments on the social conditions of Afghanistan through telling a story about the lives of two Muslim boys; a privileged Sunni Pashtun, Amir, and his long-time friend and servant, Hassan, a loyal but disadvantaged Shia Hazara. Hosseini expresses Amir’s uncertain feelings toward Hassan which form the decisions he makes throughout the book. These choices result in Amir destroying his relationship with Hassan. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini is a commentary on the social conditions in Afghanistan as shown through the roles of women and men in society and the ideals of Afghan culture. Unfortunately, these problems are still active in most of Afghanistan.

Out of all the chapters I read in this book, chapter twelve stood out for me the most. That chapter had the most detail things I have ever read. Chapter eleven also stood to me because that’s when everything got started. Something was telling me in my mind that Mr. Freeman was going to do something bad to Maya. Mr. Freeman always kept touching her inappropriately. Then in chapter twelve he basically raped her. I felted really bad for Maya because she did not have to go thought that. If I was her I would have done something about it. It would not let him touch me or sleep in a different bed. Even though he threatens her, I would have told somebody. To be honest I’m happy that he got what he deserves. He did not even serve a day in prison. Even

One major theme that is evident in The Kite Runner is that scars are reminders of life’s pain and regret, and, though you can ease the regret and the scars will fade, neither will completely go away. We all have regrets and always will, but though it will be a long hard process we can lessen them through redemption. The majority of The Kite Runner is about the narrator and protagonist, Amir. Almost all of the characters in The Kite Runner have scars, whether they are physical or emotional. Baba has scars all down his back from fighting a bear, but he also has emotional scars from not being able to admit that Hassan was also his son. Hassan is born with a cleft lip, but for his birthday Baba pays for it to be fixed, which left a small scar above his mouth. Hassan also has emotional scars from being raped. The reader is probably shown the emotional scars of Amir the most. Amir has emotional scars because he feels that he killed his mother, and also because his father emotionally neglects him. In the end of the novel, Amir receives many physical scars from getting beaten up by Assef, when rescuing Sohrab. Though scars will never go away and are a reminder of the past, not all scars are bad.