Analysis Of The Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini

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.

A voice heard in the wilderness “Repent” “Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turn to God” (3:8 Matthew) Prophet John the Baptist is preparing people for redemption. If anyone return from their evil ways, there will be a redemption and peace rest of their live. A story took place in late 70’s in city of Kabul Afghanistan. The Kite Runner, tells the story of a friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Though raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazera which is minority Muslim. Amir as protagonist has many complexes and struggle with

The Kite Runner is a novel that is filled with betrayal, guilt, and redemption. Khaled Hosseini uses past events to show how they can affect a character in both a negative and positive way. Due to past events, Hassan and Amirs' relationship is almost completely destroyed, and Amir is constantly overwhelmed with guilt. The past events both, positively and negatively, affect Amir where he must contend with the aspects of the past. Amir must make amends with his past where it served to benefit and hinder him because he struggles to get over the guilt of his betrayal, and tries to atone for his sins by going to Kabul.

According to dictionary.com, Forgive means to cease to feel resentment against. This one word is what many people struggle with. People have a hard time forgiving other people but more often themselves. Amir knows just how hard it is to forgive yourself in The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. When Amir makes the decision to not speak up about Hassan he felt so much guilt that he wanted Hassan and Ali to leave, he regretted it instantly. Years later, Rahim khan called Amir and asked him to come back to Afghanistan where he found out Hassan was his half-brother. Amir finally forgave himself when he found a way to make up for his mistakes. Hosseini portrays Amir as a morally ambiguous character by his guilt and inability to forgive himself for what he did to Hassan.

The main protagonist in, The Kite Runner, Amir, goes through a drastic change of character from adolescence to adulthood. The story of The Kite Runner takes place in the 1970s, and goes on to the early 2000s. Amir’s life starts in the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul. Where much of his childhood revolves around the actions of his father Baba, and his friend Hassan. He later moves to the U.S. seeking a better life, and also to try and escape the immoral acts he had committed in Kabul. The latter of the story is set in the US. Throughout the novel we can see the growth of Amir from being a pampered, envious, and cowardice child, to being a man of empathy and love with a burning desire to do right, to such a degree that he would fly back to a now violence ridden world, in order to make things right.

Humans differ from other species in that they are constantly asking questions; in particular, Shakespeare’s famous “to be or not to be?” enters the mind. In the case of The Kite Runner, readers examine a similar question: to betray or not to betray? In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, different characters choose to either engage in or avoid betrayal due to personal motives, subsequently influencing their future.

Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner In the Kite Runner, the author explores the ties that bind sons to fathers and childhood friends to one another and of the forces that tear them apart. Throughout the novel, Khaled Hosseini uses many literary devices such as parallelisms, and characterization, and symbolism. The main message is “there is a way to be good again.”

The ability to witness your wishes seized as demands, when you observe your wishes moulding into realities. When, you hold the darkest secrets, and yet be known with respect and honour. The capacity for a being to stand tall and proud inspite of him having committed sins. The time when you could do all that you desire, and let your actions be shunned for others to be unaware. When, you could call yourself the superior one, just because of the unfortunate misinterpretation of the society of power, as greatness. That is when one realizes that the abuse of power has ensued. Several instances in the novel, ‘The Kite Runner’, by Khaled Hosseini, occur where authority has been mistaken for enormity. Baba 's expectations out of Amir and his tactics of dominance towards making Amir into someone he desires, is the power, mistook as magnitude. Also, the element that baba was sexually convoluted with Ali 's wife, but had the capacity to keep it concealed and buried for long, is the power, of power. Furthermore, how Amir takes advantage of him being superior in terms of society 's perception, over Hassan 's generous and compassionate behavior exhibits Hassan’s innocence on his translation of Amir’s power to his greatness.

In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, several major themes arise. One of the most pronounced theme is the idea of redemption for ones past wrongdoings. The protagonist, a wealthy envious Afghan boy named Amir, retells the traumatic story of his childhood. Once readers learn of his past, they realize the issues he experienced and the events that came into play in the forming of the plots format, from one meaningful quote Hassan says “ for you a thousand times over”. Amir seeks redemption for his betrayal of his childhood best friend, Hassan a brave destitute. Due to Amir’s cowardice during Hassan’s rape, his betrayal of Hassan after the incident, and of his comitting to the dishonoring sin in Afghani culture. Amir must depart on a long and deteriorating journey for the long awaited goal of complete redemption, that will take him back to his violent and war-torn homeland decades later.

In Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, father son relationships, specifically that of Amir and Baba, contribute to the development of the plot as well as the development of the characters involved. It is evident throughout the novel that Amir’s sole desire is to obtain Baba’s love and acceptance. However, this desire ultimately motivates him to enact rash decisions that will haunt him in the future. What Amir does not know is that Baba is also secretly the father of Hassan, Amir’s best friend, which is partially the reason Baba remains so distantly incompassionate. Amir also has not reached the desired expectations Baba has for him causing a strain on their relationship. Complementary to the relationship between Baba and Amir, brothers Salim and Jamal in the movie Slumdog Millionaire have a strained relationship due to decisions carried out in their childhood. Through many difficult trials within their lives, Salim is forced to become a father figure for Jamal; however, he allows his superiority to corrupt him in many circumstances. Superficial readers may overlook the effect prideful desires have on Amir and Baba’s relationship and lives; however, in actuality their individual desires are what leads to the debilitated relationship between father and son as well as redemption.

The book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a fictional story that follows Amir, a Afgani refugee who fled during the revolution of the early 1980 's. Amir and his family 's servant Hassan would play together as kids, innocent to the world. Ignorant of any differences between them, neither socially nor ethnically. As 1974 approaches, war breaks out, and the reality these differences that they are so ignorant of begins to reveal itself. Their lives begin to change rapidly after the onset of war due to their ethnicities. The Kite Runner is a story about standing up for what is right, even if it cost much and the ability for redemption.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is the story of a boy named Amir who lives in Kabul with his best friend Hassan. The pair of boys are inseparable until one day Hassan get raped by a gang of boys and Amir does not help Hassan out of fear. Afghanistan is split mainly into two ethnic groups, the Pashtun and the Hazaras. The Pashtuns make up the majority of Afghan population while the Hazaras are the minorities. In the Kite Runner friendship is a common thread that plays an essential role throughout the book. The friendships between Amir and Hassan, and Baba and Ali are shown to be disconnected, due to their racial differences.

Amir’s merciless encounter with his childhood enemy Assef and Hassan’s rape relates to the violence of the islamic revolution and chaos of Afghanistan, which illustrates the importance of the past, the feeling of guilt and the redemption for one’s past sins.

In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini focused on the point of view of Amir and the guilt he has for not doing anything when Hassan was getting raped and he carries the guilt with him even when hes older. The situation reminds me of The novel The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Lindsey Susies younger sister reminds me of Amir and Hassan. They both tried to avoid the situation until they came face to face with it.

When we think about how we have grown up into who we are today, there are many different aspects that have shaped us. It could be our cultural backgrounds with family, childhood experiences, or just how we think as individuals. Author of The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini, is no exception to this as he reveals his fragile transformation of who he has become, growing up as a boy in 1965’s Kabul, Afghanistan. In this novel, the author captivates the true Afghan culture beyond the single story and gives us genuine insight into what has shaped him into the man he has become today. Khaled Hosseini uses these intimate relationships built between his family, culture, and himself, to show this transformation as a person throughout the novel.