Analysis Of Khaled Hosseini's ' The Kite Runner '

When you were a child, do you remember ever making a promise to be loyal to a friend? Maybe you exchanged cute heart necklaces or pendants or carved your names into a tree. In Khaled Hosseini 's The Kite Runner, two kids, Amir, and Hassan seem to have a strong friendship, represented in their names carved into a pomegranate tree. However, Amir reveals weakness in their friendship when he betrays Hassan by not intervening when the town bully, Assef, sexually assaults Hassan. In Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Carol S. Dweck describes two types of mindsets. One is the fixed mindset, which is the belief that a person has a fixed amount of intelligence, and one cannot see growth in error, and a growth mindset, which is the belief that

This research project is focused on understanding a book, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. In addition, the project objective is to understand choices, actions, and processes of characters and what factors led them to arrive to such consequences.

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.

The Kite runner is the first novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini, published in 2003 by Riverhead Books . It takes place before Afghanistan’s revolution and its invasion by Russian forces. The kite runner is a vivid and engaging story that gives a picture of how long Afghanis struggled to triumph over the forces of violence, forces that threaten them even today. In this novel , four themes have been introduced, first of all Redemption is a way to make up sins committed , secondly, Adversities contribute to a person’s personality , thirdly , Fear can lead to severe mistakes and long term consequences, before last, After pain and struggles come survival and lastly, Friendship is the essence of a bond that seek the best mutually.

The Kite Runner is the first novel of Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. It tells the story of Amir, a boy from Kabul, Afghanistan, whose closest friend is Hassan, a young Hazara servant. Novel turns around these two characters and Baba, Amir’s father, by telling their tragic stories, guilt and redemption that are woven throughout the novel. Even in the difficult moments, characters build up to their guilt and later on to their redemption. Their sins and faults alter the lives of innocent people. First, Amir and Baba fail to take action on the path to justice for Ali and Hassan. Moreover, Amir and Baba continue to build up their guilt due to their decisions and actions. Although Amir builds up more guilt than Baba throughout the novel, he eventually succeeds in the road to redemption unlike his father. After all, Amir and Baba have many chances to fix their atonements but Baba chooses not to and Amir does. Baba uses his wealth to cover up his sins but never atone himself while Amir decides to stand up and save Sohrab and finally finds peace. Amir and Baba’s reaction to sins essentially indicate their peace of mind and how they react to guilt and injustice.

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.

In the novel The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini tells a notable coming-of-age story portraying the actions and thoughts of Amir, a penitent adult living in the United States and his reminiscence of his affluent childhood in the unstable political environment of Afghanistan. Throughout the novel Khaled Hosseini uses character description to display his thoughts on sin and redemption.

Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is a remarkable coming-of-age novel describing and revealing the thoughts and actions of Amir, a compunctious adult in the United States and his memories of his affluent childhood in the unstable political environment of Afghanistan. The novel showcases the simplistic yet powerful ability of guilt to influence decisions and cause conflict which arises between Amir’s childhood friend and half-brother, Hassan; Amir’s father, Baba; and importantly, himself. Difference in class The quest to become “good again” causes a reflection in Amir to atone for his sins and transform into the person of which he chooses to be.

Khaled Hosseini, the author of The Kite Runner, has a writing style unique to him in a way that the majority of his sentences are short and non-complex. Although there are numerous words in Farsi, most are explained right away to limit confusion. “‘You look khoshteep’, Baba said. Handsome” ( Hosseini 166). Hosseini incorporates an abundance of figurative language in his book, an example of this is repetition. The line, “There is a way to be good again” is said several times throughout the book to show its significance in the novel (Hosseini 2). Figurative language is extremely important because it adds a meaning and value that is much stronger than saying it differently.

Sometimes people who everyone thought would never change, can surprise others by redeeming themselves. In the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, two young boys grow up together and face many hardships of life with each other. One of the boy’s mother left him as a newborn and it shapes who he is more than anyone may have thought. Sanaubar was morally ambiguous because after leaving her baby (being selfish) , she is able to come back into his life and redeem herself.

The Kite Runner is based in Afghanistan where Baba and Amir his son live with also Ali and Hasaan who are like brothers to both Baba and Amir. They are living a wonderful life until Amir encounters an image he can never forget, seeing his best friend Hasaan being brutally raped. Amir fails to confront this distraught action with others and he lives with guilt and tries to cope. Still this unforgettable guilt follows him to America, where he and his father had to go due to the revolution. Amir still trying to cope and resolve his guilt, he helps Hassan’s son get back in Afghanistan.

Similar to how the ripples in a pond oscillate when a stone is dropped into it, the actions of one person can alter and influence not only themselves, but those who are closely connected to them. Khaled Hosseini, in his historical fiction novel The Kite Runner, depicts the charmed life of a young boy named Amir and the decisions he makes during his adolescence in Afghanistan, which affect him as an adult in America. At the beginning of the novel, Amir lives an opulent yet simplistic lifestyle with his father Baba and his servants Ali and Hassan. This quickly changes when an eventful confrontation during the annual kite-fighting tournament causes Amir to betray Hassan’s loyalty and to forsake their relationship permanently. This incident considerably burdens Amir’s conscience during his adulthood and is the sole reason why he returns to Afghanistan, to make amends for his actions. Amir’s journey of atonement as he walks a path towards redemption demonstrates how one’s actions can impact themselves and many others significantly, conveying the importance of betrayal and redemption originating from personal decisions.

Life shouldn't be lived to regret. I this story many mistakes were done and characters lived to regret for a very long time. Amir did not stand up for his loyal servant and friend Hassan when he was getting raped by Assef after all the times Hassan stood up to him all those times. Amir lived to regret that his whole life and never apologized to Hassan then after all those years Hassan passed away and Amir never got a chance to apologize. Amir made a big mistake just like his father. Baba grew up with a Hazara servant that was like his brother. That Hazara was named Ali. Ali got married and had a child with one of his cousins. When his child was born, they named him Hassan. Hassan was abandoned by their mother shortly after birth. As the story went with the truth was revealed. The truth was that Hassan was not Ali's son, but he was baba's son so that made him Amir's Half brother. In this novel character made bad decisions, but they knew it was never too late to change. Amir tried to correct his wrong by facing his fears and caring for Sohrab so he could make it up to Hassan after all he did to him. Baba treated Hassan better and he opened an orphanage to correct what he had done to Ali. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, teaches the reader that it is never too late to take the right way through Baba taking ali's wife, but built an orphanage in exchange and Amir is caring for Sohrab after all he did to Hassan.

“There is only one sin. And that is theft … When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth”(Hosseini 225). Throughout this book Amir and Hassan have always been split up as Pashtun and Hazara. Amir’s Baba hid the truth from Amir and Hassan his whole life, it was that they are half- brothers. If they knew this truth when they were younger their lives could have turned out different from how it actually was. Amir could have been more of a friend to Hassan than he was and less obsessed with Baba’s opinion. Maybe Hassan wouldn’t have been sexually harassed, maybe he could of went to school and raised as a Pashtun, or he could’ve still been alive and brought to the U.S. Not knowing the truth affected their lives in different ways. Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, teaches the reader that telling the truth can change a person’s life through Amir always thinking of Baba’s opinion, Amir being mean to Hassan because they were “friends” and Amir finding Sohrab in Afghanistan.

Life is a wonderful gift and it can be taken away at any moment in many different situations. In the first three chapters of the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the main character, Amir, struggles with the fact of losing his mom while she was giving birth to him. Baba, Amir’s father, has a servant who is also a single father because his wife left him after their son was born. Because of this, Baba also takes care of his servant’s son Hassan like he does his own son since Hassan is very poor. Amir and Hassan do almost everything together as a result and are basically like brothers. The first three chapters of the novel show the many negative emotions of guilt, jealousy, and frustration and how these arise when a mother is not in the picture of a child’s life.