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Kara Hanus Honors English 10 Dayeton Tolle 14 March 2024 The Kite Runner Final Essay “‘Hassan!’ I called. ‘Come back with it!’ He was already turning the street corner, his rubber boots kicking up snow. He stopped, turned and sat down. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ‘For you a thousand times over!’ he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner. The next time I saw him smile unabashedly like that was twenty-six years later, in a faded Polaroid photograph.” (Hosseini 67) Hassan and Amir have grown up together their entire lives. Hassan’s first word was Amir’s name. Ali, Hassan’s father, and Baba, Amir’s father, have been friends for over forty years. In Kabul, there is a kite tournament every winter, until …show more content…

Amir runs away in fear of what might happen to him, and keeps what he saw, a secret. After the guilt weighs too much for Amir, he places money and his new watch under Hassan’s mattress and blames him for stealing them. Hassan and Ali move away, and Baba and Amir go to America. Baba passes away after Amir marries Soraya. Rahim Khan calls Amir to get him to come visit him. Rahim Khan tells Amir that Hassan was killed and he had a son. He also told Amir that Ali wasn’t Hassan’s father, Baba was. The author uses narrative elements to show how Amir has changed how he thought and acted throughout the story. The author uses first person to tell the story from Amir’s perspective. “I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid, overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.” (Hosseini 1) In the Kite Runner, the story is told from Amir’s point of view to show how he changes throughout the …show more content…

I don’t know at what point I started laughing, but I did. It hurt to laugh, hurt my jaws, my ribs, my throat. But I was laughing and laughing. And the harder I laughed, the harder he kicked me, punched me, scratched me.” (Hosseini 288-289) This is an example of how Amir dealt with character vs character conflict. The author uses conflict to expand the details of the story, to make it easier to read, understand, and follow what is happening in the novel. Along with point of view and conflict, the author also uses the narrative element setting. In The Kite Runner, Amir starts telling the novel/story to summarize his life, a foreshadowing for the audience as to what to expect in the novel. “I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years. One day last summer, my friend Rahim Khan called from

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