Inception: The Kite Runner

Inception shocked the world upon its release in 2010. Christopher Nolan created a movie that questioned the capabilities that mankind had over the dream world. The movie is about a group of people that are tasked with entering a man's dream and subconsciously planting a idea in his mind. Christopher Nolan uses the (what if?) to engage the audience, he uses the setting to enroll the viewers in the story, and his movie had an awe-inspiring impact on society. The movie is full of twists and turns that are bound to leave the mind wondering what just happened.

A story of friendship, rape, betrayal and redemption, but there is one question that persists… is it true? The book, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, is about an Afghan boy named Amir and his servant Hassan. Hassan comes from an ethnic group known as the Hazara that is, according to the book, generally mistreated and at a disadvantage from birth. Hassan is always a loyal friend to Amir, while Amir only hangs out with Hassan when nobody else is around. Amir realizes this when Assef, a bully that hates the Hazara, threatens to beat Amir up for being friends with a Hazara and Amir’s response is almost to reject him to save himself. Amir later allows Assef to rape Hassan so he could impress his father with a prize kite that Hassan had caught

In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the readers start off following Amir in 1970s Afghanistan. Amir is a rich child who lives with his father and their servants. Their servants are Ali and his son Hassan. Hassan and Amir are best friends. One day, the two boys run into the town bully Assef. Assef threatens them because Hassan is a Hazara which is basically a second class citizen. Hassan then threatens Assef with a slingshot pointed at his eye and he escapes with Amir. Amir has a inadequate relationship with his father, Baba. Baba and Amir do not share the same interests. For instance, Amir writes a story and tries to show it to his father. Instead of reading the story, Baba’s friend Rahim Khan reads it and praises Aamir

The desire to feel loved and wanted by your parents can drive a person to go to extreme limits to get that love. One boy that goes to these extreme limits is Amir. All Amir wants is to have a good, strong relationship with his father. He feels the death of his mother was his fault, and he needed to make it up to his father. In doing so, Amir let’s horrible things happen to his friend Hassan. Many many years later, after fleeing to America, Amir returns to Afghanistan in search of redemption of his actions all those years ago. The theme of The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini is redemption. Through Amir’s life, that’s what he’s been doing to himself, trying to redeem himself from his acts that have brought pain

My overall reaction to the movie was that it was a very well done movie and very

"Hassan!” I called. “Come back with it!” He was already turning the street corner, his rubber boots kicking up snow. He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. “For you, a thousand times over!” he said.

The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, beautifully takes readers in depth into the life of two boys; one who is conflicted and emotionally unsure, and the other who is pure, loyal, and portrays goodness and integrity. After deeply analizying the text, I came to a realization on how the story displayed a central human theme. The manner in which we are raised will determine the way that we will react when making a critical decision in society, as seen in the story where Amir and Hassan have significant differences in their decisions and values in their lives. Amir, who is raised in a wealthy household by his father Baba, is well educated and behaved, but lacks the ability to stand up for a something he believes in, or in a few cases that the readers saw, a friend. Hassan, the Hazara

Hard work is the key to success, but the worst thing you can do is allow yourself to be comfortable. Every successful person in the world has had to work for what they got. They did not get to where they are with only 50% effort. Good Will Hunting shows how allowing yourself to become stagnant can affect those around you. The kite runner exhibits the power of working hard for what you want.

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.

Amir decided to study English and major in it.  Baba considers it petty and not an actual job.

Khaled Hosseini’s novel “The Kite Runner” expressed vast amount of love, secrets, and betrayal among parallel bonds of friendship. The story has created a great contrast of characters involving friendly relationships and the tragedies that keep them intervened. As the novel progresses, the chemistry between friendship of Amir and Hassan gets stronger, while gradually unraveling the long forgotten friendship between Baba and Ali. Friendship requires sacrifices and compromise because the natural bonds of friendship can never be broken apart by distance, or circumstances. Fate actually keeps them together.

Khaled Hosseini once said: “there are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.” Rape in Afghanistan is said to be an “epidemic,” but according to the Oxford Dictionary, the definition of the term is “a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.” Rape in this country is viewed as something that is inevitable and cannot be stopped. Usually, rape also involves domestic violence, hence the reason they’re paired together. Contrary to common misconception, men are raped as well as women, especially children of both genders. In the Kite Runner, rape is a topic that is prevalent in and throughout the book. Bacha Bazi is even a part of the Kite Runner.

Directors immerse viewers into the world of their film in a variety of innovative ways, with popular mainstream directors often trying to break conventions enabling audiences to become disorientated and often leading to the result of an emotional response. Director Christopher Nolan utilises this technique in ‘Inception’. Nolan leaves audiences perplexed from the very beginning of the film, with the sound of non-diegetic waves crashing and a close-up intimate shot of the protagonist lay in the water, eye-level with children he appears to be watching. Through this shot, audiences are immediately introduced into the action and dark sub-plot of the film without being told of its relevancy to the narrative, leaving them distorted. This feeling

Jack and Alex walked out of the theater, pondering their thoughts on the film they’d just seen. The Kite Runner, a film about a boy not standing up for his best friend, trying to forget his guilt and eventually embarking on a dangerous journey to try to redeem himself.

The love story between two different teenagers that come from completely different worlds is the most remarkable. The Notebook is about two young teenagers who fell head over heels with each other. They got separated by Allie’s upper-class parents who insist that Noah isn’t right for her. But that obstacle didn’t stop these two young lovers from being together even if it took years. This beautiful tale has a special meaning to an older gentleman who regularly reads the timeless love story to his aging wife to help her remember what they went through and that the story that he’s reading to her was their love story. The story he reads follows two young