Annotated Bibliography Of 'The Kite Runner'

3. Hazaras are servants. They don’t get educated and usually spend most of their lives serving the wealthy. Ali and Hassan, who are Shi’a Muslims, have been the only Hazaras introduced so far.

In Afghanistan, there is a divide between the Pashtuns and the Hazaras; the Pashtuns are upper class citizens who are treated with respect while the Hazaras are lower class, minority citizens who are treated poorly. Because of the contrasting history of the two groups, their responses to the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul were complete opposites. The Pashtuns “danced on [the] street,” (Hosseini 200) while the Hazaras cried “God help the Hazaras now” (Hosseini 213). The conflict between the Pashtuns and Hazaras in “The Kite Runner” directly reflects the real life issues in Afghanistan starting in the late 70’s and continuing on past 2001.

The Kite Runner is about Amir and Hassan in the story where it shows Amir’s life. They similarly go through some fun and rough times. It makes the reader more interested and knows the general idea of what the character or hero is doing step by step. The Kite Runner is a hybrid, meaning it's an epic and a tragedy because it has a “fatal error” and it follows Foster’s five steps to a journey.

In the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Rahim Khan kept a deep secret from Amir for many years. He revealed that Hassan, Amir’s servant and “friend” from when he was a child, was his half-brother from his father’s side. Amir is left dumbfounded, and realizes that his whole life has been a lie. This major revelation raises questions and drastically changes the plot, as it introduces new conflicts and events.

One of the controversial issues in the story is the diffident opinions between Rahim Khan and Amir about should Amir’s father admit Hassan’s identity. Amir’s father and his friend Rahim Khan decided to hide the truth that Hassan, the boy Amir always considers a servant, is actually Amir’s brother. When Rahim persuades Amir to save Hassan’s son by telling him that Hassan is also his father’s son, Amir strongly resists his father’s decision and cannot believe that the father he always admires cheats on him for all his life time. In my opinion, Amir’s father did wrong on hiding the truth and I supports Amir’s point of view that a father should not hide the truth but face the problem, carry the responsibility and establish a role model to his children. Rahim Khan tries to convince Amir that they

Furthermore, it's winter season and that's the start of the kite battle royal. The contestants seal the cords of the kite in glass to visually perceive who can dissect the cord of the opponent. Whoever's kite is destroyed first is declared as the loser and the losing combatant has to run after their kite and catch it this is considered to be kite running. Hassan has decided to use the losing kite after Amir wins the battle royal. Amir probes for him and finds Hassan trapped at the terminus of an alley. The three kids abducted him. Amir absquatulates, and when Hassan appears with the kite, Amir pretends he doesn’t ken what transpired. In addition, the brothers diverted, Amir had two choices to choose from and he took it very rigorous. He stuffs

In the book the Kite Runner, it opens the story in Afghanistan where two different tribes reside: the Pashtun-Sunni Muslims and the Hazara-Shia Muslims. It is mostly about two boys that were very close to each other and shared a very strong friendship bond with each other when they were young. The boy named Amir is the son of Baba and they are the Pashtuns, which is the wealthy tribe. The other boy, Hassan, is the son of Ali and they are Hazaras and the servants of Baba and Amir. The two boys were very close to each other and spent time playing outside and did things with each other that brothers would usually do.

Social and ethnic tensions: The Kite Runner allows us a look at Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion and then after.

    In 2001, 16 year old Dawn runs away from her foster parents’ unhappy home in California to NYC to meet her real mom.  After the 9/11 bombings kill so many innocent Americans, Dawn starts to realize that she loves her foster mom.

Thomas has no memories beyond the lift that delivers him to a maze filled with boys who’ve made camp at its centre. Called the Glade the camp offers the only refuge from the Grievers, half-machine/half-animal creatures that hunt the boys in the maze as they search for the way out. Thomas is shown around this new world by the motor-mouthed Chuck who describes the different jobs available to Greenbeans (boys new to the maze) - including Slopper, Builder, Map-maker, Med-jacks etc. Thomas somehow knows that he’s meant to be a Runner and find a way out of the Maze but persuading the others is difficult until one day the lift delivers a girl to the Glade ...

Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, follows the psychological declination and inclination of a guilty man. Hosseini uses characterization and setting in order to better convey the dynamic change of the protagonist, Amir, among other characters. The setting and characterization of The Kite Runner correlate to hint to the reader how the main characters are feeling.

“I didn’t hear the blast. I was just knocked over. My mouth filled with dust. I tried to stand up but couldn’t. I looked down and my leg was cut off at the bone. My hand was cut off.” (Rasmussen) Imagine living under fear for your whole life. Imagine living in a war, hearing bombs everywhere and not knowing when they’ll hit you. Imagine being discriminated and even executed by something that is unchangeable about you. Imagine having basic human rights taken away from you for no reason. Imagine waking up one day and realizing that your hands and legs were cut off and being the only alive member in your village. However,Hazaras living in Afghanistan are living a life that is much worse. In the novel “The Kite Runner” written by Khaled

‘The Kite Runner’, by Khaled Hosseini is a work of fiction relaying a myriad of experiences and tragedy presented through literary techniques that reflect Aristotle’s dramatic theory, through concepts such as catharsis (purification) and peripeteia (turning point), which is in turn triggered through tragedy. The author skillfully weaves all of this and administers what he sees as the political issues plaguing his native country of Afghanistan. The story is mirrored through the book’s main character’s narrative of events which carries the reader through the three types of government that ruled Afghanistan up till the U.S. invasion in 2001, although it focuses more on the quasi-state that was set up by the Taliban prior to the invasion. It also

Today when I was reading to Hassan, I kinda started to tell my own story. Surprisingly he loved it and he inspired me to actually write a story. I thought it was pretty good. I wrote a story for Baba, I was so excited when handing the paper to him our eyes locked. I saw the disappointment in my own father's eyes. The word slipping out of his mouth meant nothing his eyes told me everything. What should I do to make him happy with me? I guess nothing can work science I killed my mother, his wife. In these countless seconds I began to feel my eyes tear up, Rahim offered to read it. His eyes radiant with love put a smile back on my face. I should be happy someone read my story but I really want Baba want him to be proud of me. Earlier today

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, is a story about the life of Amir, a young, wealthy boy that lives in Afghanistan, later to become a middle class man living in America. The Kite Runner describes many characteristics of life in Afghanistan. Such as, the tensions between the Pashtuns and Hazara, and the large role of religion in their culture. By reading this book, the reader can get an inside look into the culture of Afghanistan, this provides a new outlook at this otherwise exotic country.