I would like to establish a city-wide reading program for Laurel called “Laurel Reads.” Most children and teens today spend so much time on computer and phones, that we’ve lost sense about reading books. One book in particular that Laurel as a city should read is “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini. This book is a good choice because of our relationship with Afghanistan; As Americans we know little about them, and stereotype them as “terrorists.” First, the story does an immaculate job of teaching friendship and loyalty. Hassan, who is Amir’s servant, will do anything for Amir. Hassan would eat dirt, protect him, and even lie for Amir. Even though Hassan was loyal and a great friend to Amir, Amir wasn’t a friend back. Amir watched Hassan get raped and didn’t help, didn’t see him as a friend, and betrayed Hassan altogether. The author states that "The curious thing was, I never thought of Hassan and me as friends either”. But towards the end of the book, Amir searches for Hassan’s son and cares for him. The guilt that haunted Amir for all those years was gone once he found Sohrab. Amir gained his sense of loyalty and friendship by looking after Hassan’s son once he passed. …show more content…
Americans know little about this war, because it’s not taught about in standard history classes. During this war, the republics of Iran and Iraq were at “armed conflict.” In “The Kite Runner,” Baba and Amir leave their hometown, Kabul, because the war moved in. Later in the story once Amir comes back to search for Sohrab, the Taliban have taken over as opposed to the Soviets that used to. Since we know little about the Afghanistan’s, this book does a great job of showing us their actions and
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.
Growing up in the late 1990s and the early 2000s, I do not remember a time when there was not turmoil in Iran or Iraq or Afghanistan. It seemed like every time we turned on the news, there was another report about a refugees and military advances. But Khaled Hosseini's book, The Kite Runner, takes us back to a time of peace. Narrated by Amir looking back on his past, the book starts off with Amir talking about when his life changed. Then the book shifts and is narrated by Amir during 1975, when he and Hassan were both still living in Afghanistan. During this section, Hosseini uses simple language and sentence structure in order for his reader to focus more on the content of the book and to further give the impression that the narrator is an eleven year old boy.
Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, Amir was the son of a wealthy social worker. He was brought up with the son of his servant, and perhaps his only best friend, Hassan. Amir had a rocky relation with his father. At times, it seemed as his father loved him but those moments didn’t lasted forever. He thinks Baba (his father) wishes Amir were more like him, and that Baba holds him responsible for killing his mother, who died during his birth. Despite being best friends, Amir thinks that Hassan is beneath him because he belonged to an inferior cast. He used to mock him jokingly or tried to outsmart him. In all fairness, it was Amir’s cowardly nature that
The Kite Runner is a film based on the first novel of Khaled Hosseini, which was published in 2003 and became a bestseller, thus was translated to many different languages and spread around the world, becoming a discussion topic for quite a while. One of the reasons why this book is so rich and attractive is the variety of characters, which are all born in Afghanistan and spent at least most of their childhood there, but at the same time have different views, virtues and experience. And those characters, depending on the generation they belong to, are shaped by particular circumstances, political and historical events.
“There is a way to be good again” (2). This is the line that rolls through Amir's mind over and over throughout Khaled Hosseini's novel, The Kite Runner. This is the story of a mans struggle to find redemption. The author illustrates with the story of Amir that it is not possible to make wrongs completely right again because its too late to change past. In this novel Hosseini is telling us that redemption is obtainable, and by allowing us to see Amirs thought process throughout the novel, Hosseini shows us that it guilt is the primary motivation for someone who seeks redemption. Hosseini also uses not only the main character, but other secondary characters to show how big of a part that guilt plays in the desire for redemption. In this
I propose that the city of Laurel should have a Laurel Reads program. The purpose of this program is allow community members to select a novel of their choice, read the novel, and gather to discuss the relationship between the novel and the real-world. If this program is a success, I suggest that our first read be The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. My reason for choosing this novel is based on the fact that it will educate the community on how to deal with social difficulties like bullying, personal issues like self-redemption, and family problems including trying to build a strong parent-child relationship.
Lonely, desperate, and distraught. I felt these emotions everyday as a child, because I was the weird kid, the odd one out. I let people walk all over me just so they would accept me into their clique. I abided to all of my peers demands, even if I did not want to, just so that I could have someone to invite to my birthday party. In the novel, The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, there is a similar situation between two of the main characters: Amir and Hassan.
The Kite Runner literary analysis “For you a thousand times over”(Hosseini, page 305). This is one quote in The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini that is a theme that symbolizes love and freindship. In the story Amir, who is a man living in San Francisco at the time, flashes back to twenty-six years before when he was a young boy living in Afghanistan. At the time of his flashback he is living in a nice home in Kabul with his father Baba and two servants, Ali and his son Hassan. When the Afghan king is eventually overthrown things all change in Kabul.
In the book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Amir grows up a lot of his life, not knowing the truth about himself and his family. Being close to someone and finding out what tragedy has happened to that person before and also after he went to the United States put him in a trench and knowing what has happened to everyone in his life was devastating. Amir did not like what happened to his home country when he returned from not being present in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, Amir and Baba thought that they weren’t safe.
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.
Though Hassan was his best friend, Amir feelt that Hassan, a Hazara servant, was beneath him. He passively attacked Hassan by mocking and taunting him. Amir never learned how to affirm himself against anyone because Hassan always defended him. All of these factors lead to Amir not being able to stand up for Hassan when he needed him most.
Since the September 11th attacks in 2001, the United States has been at war with Afghanistan. Their goals were to remove the Taliban, track down those in charge of the attacks, and destroy Al-Qaeda.
"The Kite Runner" tells the story of two children growing up in the 1970s in Afghanistan. Amir-the protagonist is a young son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul. Hassan, son of his poor servant Ali, is his partner. The two boys are inseparable, even in an ethnically divided Afghanistan,
Since the beginning of time, women have had to fight rigorously for basic human rights. In the western stratosphere, those human rights were achieved in the early 20th century, but in a lot of eastern countries the battle for the women is just beginning, or worse hasn't even started. Women in Afghanistan have been subject to heinous circumstances, even though their religion, Islam "demanded that men and women be equal before God,"(Qazi). Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner offers a very insightful view of the governing politics of Afghanistan pre-Taliban regime and during the Taliban regime, and the differing situation of women in both those eras. Based on the book and outside research, it is evident that the situation of women in
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a historical fiction novel set mostly in Kabul, Afghanistan and Fremont, California. The novel spans the time periods before, during, and after the reign of the Russians (1979-1989) and the Taliban’s takeover (1996) of Afghanistan. It is told through the first person perspective of Amir alongside his father, Baba, his half-brother, Hassan, and Baba’s companions Ali and Rahim Khan. Growing up, Amir and Hassan are practically inseparable, as they are always playing games, reading poetry, or simply spending time together. Hassan’s mother, Sanaubar, is never present during the children’s youthful years, but they both have Baba as a shared father figure in their lives. The themes of betrayal and redemption