Dialectical Journal For The Kite Runner

He never stood up for Hassan, always treating Hassan like he is no one important. Here is a quote about how Amir just watched Hassan get raped and did nothing to help him. Never stopped them from doing that to him. “I felt paralyzed. I watched them close in on the boy I’d grown up with, the boy whose harelipped face had been my first memory.” [Amir Pg. 76]. In this scene of the book this is where Hassan is getting raped by Assef. Amir is doing nothing to stop Assef and his friends from raping Hassan in the alley way. This show that Amir was scared to stop Assef from hurting Hassan. It shows that Amir was only thinking of himself and how Hassan desevers it, that he had it coming for him. When Amir and Hassan got home Hassan when straight to his room. A few weeks when by and Ali started to worry about Hassan because after he had made Amir breakfast and iron his clothes for school, Hassan would go back to bed. Ali ask Amir what happened the night of the kite fight tournament. Amir had the chance to tell Ali what happened that night but he kepted it to himself and never told

The novel didn’t really have the best satisfaction between characters, its atmosphere was really awkward, unsettling and funny at times; it is basically a mix of all that. I felt there was no connection between Andy, Connor and Kajsa, and Ethan for the majority of the novel. The three got along well, and Ethan didn’t, which made things awkward in a minute. Ethan wouldn’t help out in setting up tents/putting tents down (“You have to help break camp,” Andy said sternly. “I have to do nothing I don’t want to do,” I replied. “But we’re a team,” Kajsa said. “We’re a team?” I said. “I’m not wearing any uniform. I didn’t join any team” 117; 20-25). Ethan would also play mind games at times, chapter fifteen is an excellent chapter to see how Ethan

In Canada women are treated equally as men. Both genders can go to school, work, and are equally represented in government. In many Muslim countries such as Afghanistan, women aren't treated equally as men. Most women are stripped of their right to an education, career, and a lot of other things. In the novel "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini, women are betrayed two different ways. Soraya Amir's wife, is a educated women with a job. In real life many Muslim men are against women like Soraya to attain an education and job. The author betrays women by respecting their rights to freedom and education. However, Hosseini also betrays women as objects of their fathers. This is proven by Soraya and Amir's wedding.

Emily Benton Ferguson 1st period English IV Honors December 15, 2016 Afghanistan Culture I read the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. It is a novel that includes rape, injustice, social discrimination, betrayal, guilt, redemption, and hope. It is about Amir and Hassan who are growing up as best friends in Afghanistan. They are of different social classes, and after ignoring an unspeakable act of violence, guilt steps in to change the relationship. Years later, the need for redemption sends Amir back to Afghanistan to find peace.

In life, we all come across people in our everyday lives. There are some of those who have had major impacts on us or those who have not at all. Either way, we are affected by them because even the minimum variances between us and other people allows us to gain new perspectives. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, it is set in early 1960s to the early 1980s in Afghanistan. Although it was published 15 years ago, this novel is still read in many english courses due to the valuable knowledge that the novel debriefs about the Afghan people and people’s tendencies in general.

Immediately Amir feels he is a coward for not sticking up for Hassan who was always so loyal to him. His feelings gave me hope that Amir was ‘the good guy’ I thought he was, although I expected Amir to have done what was right from the beginning. His overwhelming feelings of guilt strained their friendship and eventually Amir concocted a plan that made it appear that Hassan stole money and a watch from Amir which left me questioning again if “Amir is actually a decent character?” At times, I enjoyed the authors style how he would one minute portray Amir as selfish and then the next as caring and at others it annoyed me, I wanted everyone to know from an early on that Amir was also a good guy.. Hassan’s loyalty to Amir is overwhelming. He even identifies that he “would never lie to Amir” and that he’d “sooner eat dirt.” Hassan always protects Amir and chases off the neighbourhood bully by “holding the slingshot” to his face. When Hassan was questioned by Baba about the missing money and watch, Hassan told Baba that he was the one that stole the items. Even with the ultimate betrayal; watching Hassan being raped and doing nothing to stop it, Hassan was still was very loyal and would protect Amir at all costs, even if that meant lying for

Amir being at fault for Hassan's rape and the fact that he had the chance to stop it and prove himself not to be coward which he chose not to do that resulted in ruining most of his life and relationship with Baba. The first chapter begins with current events in which Amir is always held back by his memory of Hassan's assault and his own cowardness, and it is this terrible secret that leads Amir to his search for redemption. “I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned ot differently if I had. But I didn’t. I just watched. Paralyzed.” (Hosseini 73). At this point in the novel Amir has decided to watch Hassan get raped and if only he had stopped Assef his future would’ve been totally different. Baba too is haunted by his past sins of infidelity with Ali's ex wife Sanaubar, and his recollections make him be both strict with Amir and very gracious with his work and money. “If I hadn’t seen the doctor pull him out of my wife with my own eyes, I’d never believe he’s my own son.” (Hosseini 23). Because Baba always found something wrong with Amir and put all his guilt on Amir that turned Amir into acting like Baba disrupted their entire relationship. These two quotes are big reasons on why Amir turned out the way he did and how one event led to him destroying his relationship with loved ones. If Amir had owned up to his actions even though he didn’t stop Assef he could’ve made redemption earlier with Hassan.

The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini, is about two young boys living in Afghanistan in the 1960’s. The book is about the life of Amir and the choices he makes in his early life. Amir is an insecure boy that wants to be worshipped by his father, Baba. Baba is a well-known, well respected man that would be considered rich in that part of the world. The importance is this book really relates to the choices in life and how one can regret them if they were not properly chosen.

    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.

The film, The Kite Runner directed by Mark Foster takes place primarily in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the United States. The film starts out with its focus on the friendship between two young boys, one Afghan boy named Amir and the other a Hazara boy named Hassan whose father was Amir’s father servant, named Ali. The boys did not care that they were from different ethnic groups or that Hassan was technically a servant like his father, for Amir’s family. They were best friends, they spend their days in Kabul flying kites, going to the movies and roaming the streets. However, Amir felt as if his father, Baba, loved Hassan more than him because he was tougher.

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

Nothing can beat friendship… Speaking of friendship, Havenistine and Hassan have been best friends since 5th grade. Anything they have done was in a pair. On this sunny morning during the summer, havenistine called hassan saying “I'm coming to pick you up right now and we are going to Lake Michigan”. Hassan told him that he's ready. Havenstein picked him up at 10 and they left. Heaventine told hassan he has a girlfriend that's going meet us there but she's going to be with her parents. Hassan was confused and angry as a bull that he didn't tell him earlier thinking he's going to third wheel the whole time but he told him okay and left it as is. Not knowing who she is he asked him who is your girlfriend. Havenstein stated “all you have to know is that she's as beautiful as an angel.” Hassan laughed sarcastically and ignored him the

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift”. The explosion of the gun going off, then we were off running for the first flag it was the first time I have ever gotten first in a cross country race at Indian Springs cross country. Weeks later we were at conference at west noble that was the second race I've gotten first and I was thirsty for first at state. I was the top JV runner on the team. It was my first time running at state for any sport. I was in eighth grade and the cross country team made it to state. I have been waiting for this moment for a long time.

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, follows the maturation of Amir, a boy from Afghanistan, as he discovers what it means to stand up for what he believes in. His quest to redeem himself after betraying his friend and brother, Hassan, makes up the heart of the novel. When Amir hears that his father’s old business partner, Rahim Khan, is sick and dying, he travels to Pakistan to say his goodbyes. Rahim Khan tells Amir about Hassan’s life and eventual death; the Taliban murdered Hassan while he was living in Amir’s childhood home. As his dying wish, Rahim Khan asks Amir to rescue Hassan’s son, Sohrab, from an orphanage in Afghanistan. Although Amir refuses at first, he thinks about what Rahim Khan had always told him: “There is a way to be

Amir never used to call Hassan to hang out or play with him whenever his other friends came over. No matter their whole childhoods were spent together, there was always a line that separated them. That line was religion. In tha novel, Amir said that, " History isn't easy to overcome, neither is religion. In the end I was a pashtun and he was a hazara. I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was going to change it. Amir used to narrate books and stories to Hassan and he intentionally used to speak difficult words and make fun of his uneducated friend when he asked for their meanings. When Amir narrated his first story to Hassan and he gave him the idea of the plot, Amir got offended and said, " What does he know, that illiterate hazara? He will never be anything but a cook. How dare he criticise