Kite Runner Literary Devices

Thesis: Betrayal leads to feeling of guilt which forces the person in search of redemption either directly or through indirect actions and gestures.

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.

Afghanistan was a peaceful and civilized country. However, within a century it became a disastrous mess, but the question is how? The Kite Runner follows an Afghani boy’s life, from childhood to adulthood. Within his life, he experiences Afghanistan in peace under their own government rule, and Afghanistan in chaos under either USSR or Taliban rule. With differing relations between countries at the time, The Kite Runner provides a creative approach to the retelling of those. Throughout The Kite Runner, Hosseini thoroughly criticizes improper foreign policy worldwide. He depicts this through: symbolism, relationships between the characters, and a main overarching conflict.

The expression "riddled with guilt" is a good way to describe the main character's life, Amir, in the book The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini. The Kite Runner is a story about an Afghan boy, Amir, who has many hardships throughout his life as he grows from a boy living in war-torn Afghanistan, to a successful writer living in America. Amir experiences many events that caused him to carry a great amount of guilt throughout his life. So much guilt that it even turned him into an insomniac. He needed to find a way to make amends which would allow him to forgive himself and hopefully, one day, be able to sleep soundly again.

The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, could be described as a “political allegory for global ethics” (Jefferess, 392). The Kite Runner speaks out against religious power and ethnic discrimination through the eyes of an Afghan boy as he struggles with guilt, betrayal, acceptance, and redemption. Opposed to writing another novel about coming of age or the hardships of being an immigrant, Hosseini develops a story enveloping both concepts while also incorporating spectacle, a story of salvation and Afghan culture (Jefferess, 389). While the ideas of Afghan culture may be completely foreign to Western readers, Hosseini connects with them through Amir’s journey of guilt to redemption, allowing the reader, regardless of circumstance, location,

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.

I jumped, trying to impress all my mom’s friends. The tree branch was so high, but with my false confidence and the power of the trampoline, I was sure I could reach it, and I did! But the excitement was short lived, because I had neither the strength or the grip to hold on to it, and I flew like tarzan. I closed my eyes and hoped for the best, but it didn’t work out. When I opened my eyes I had an arm the shape of a rainbow, with blood dripping down my arm, I sat there in pain, staining the upholstery of the minivan seat on the way to the hospital. The book The Kite Runner, By Khaled Hosseini, has many motifs in it. Motifs such as green, blue, lamb, but I am focusing on red. Red is used in the book

Literary devices are tools that authors use to create emotional mood, an attitude, setting, and characterizations. This quote is a flashback which states, “ Looking back now, I realize i have been peeking into the deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.” This quote started by Amir is a hint of what the future of Amir was like. When it states “deserted alley” it means that he was alone with his guilt and that the last twenty-six years was how long he has had the guilt which he can only heal or confess to someone about the past. Next, this text from the book is foreshadowing with reads, “Afghanistan is the land of the Pashtuns. It will always be. We are the true afghans, the pure afghans, not this flat- nose here. His people pollute our

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.

The novel The Kite Runner by xyz is a story about an Afghan boy named Amir and his journey from his youth in Afghanistan to his adult life in the United States. Throughout this novel the symbolism in his childhood is important to how the main character lives his life. One of the most important symbols and title of the book is the kite runner and their relationship with the kite flier.

The Kite Runner is an Afghan American fiction novel written by Khaled Hosseini. In the text readers are told the story of a young boy, named Amir’s, life. In continuation, a reader of the novel may get the impression, at the beginning of the book, that Amir is just an ungrateful child that gets everything he wants, but in reality that is not the case. Throughout his life he dealt with various hardships that inflicted drastic alterations on it. As readers take a journey down memory lane with Amir many themes are presented through the challenges that Amir faces. Ultimately, the obstacles that people face in life help mold them into who they are.

The big idea of this poem is emphasizing how great of a kite runner Hassan is. Amir spoke many times of how great of a kite running Hassan was and Hassan never let Amir down when it came to catching the kite. I used the simile “skies as blue as the ocean” to create imagery in this poem. Imagery is a very important part of the poem because it makes it more interesting and exciting to read when you can picture what is going on in the poem in your mind. Also, I used personification when I wrote, “confidence sitting on my shoulder.”

By using the metaphor of the doorways and the keys, Amir is able to better explain to the reader what words and literature means to him. Compared to his friend, Hassan, who obviously is illiterate, words have play a much larger role in his life. The first metaphor better explains how Hassan felt with not being able read.

According the “How to Read LIterature Like a Professor,” the 5 aspects of the hero's quest are the quester, the place to go, the stated reason to go there, the challenges during the trip, and the actual reason to go there. In “KIte Runner” the quester is the main character Amir. The place he is going is Pakistan. The stated reason he is going there is to “be good again.” The challenges he faces along the way include Amir getting sick on the truck, the conflict with the Russian soldiers, the truck that they need to switch to being broken, and the conflict with Kamal and his father and Kamal’s father killing himself. The real reason for the quest is to eventually save Sohrab, redeeming himself for his mistakes and helping him to be released of the burden of the guilt he has had to carry.

Khaled Hosseini grew up during a time of turmoil in Afghanistan- The Taliban began to take over, and racial and class tension was high as a result. Housseni’s novel reflects these issues through following the interactions between two boys: Amir, a wealthy Pashtun, and Hassan, his Hazara servant. Their relationship is defined by the class and economic distance between them. From the very beginning of the novel, it is made clear that Hazaras are ultimately “below” the Pashtuns in every way possible. The Kite Runner effectively examines the social and racial tensions present in Afghanistan in order to create a Marxist criticism of the power struggles that are present.