Literary Analysis Of 'The Kite Runner' By Hosseini

When you were a child, do you remember ever making a promise to be loyal to a friend? Maybe you exchanged cute heart necklaces or pendants or carved your names into a tree. In Khaled Hosseini 's The Kite Runner, two kids, Amir, and Hassan seem to have a strong friendship, represented in their names carved into a pomegranate tree. However, Amir reveals weakness in their friendship when he betrays Hassan by not intervening when the town bully, Assef, sexually assaults Hassan. In Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Carol S. Dweck describes two types of mindsets. One is the fixed mindset, which is the belief that a person has a fixed amount of intelligence, and one cannot see growth in error, and a growth mindset, which is the belief that

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.

Amir and Hassan spent their time watching movies together, flying kites and listening to Amir’s stories. Hassan did not feel as smart at Amir, but he knew how to stand up for himself. He carried a slingshot with him as a weapon and made threats to kids to leave him and Amir alone. Hassan’s other talents included chasing kites that got cut by another, and by following the shadow. Hassan had won Baba’s heart because he was actually Baba’s son. Something that Amir never knew until he was an adult. At one of the kite flying events, Hassan put himself in a terrible position and was raped. This event triggered Amir to feel guilty. He watched his friend get treated like a wild animal in control by three boys. Amir could see the fear in Hassan’s eyes but Amir did not react. Even at this low moment in Hassan’s life, he still went out of this to make sure his friend Amir had the losing kite to take home to his father. He was always putting Amir first because he was loyal. This was a

In many works of literature the author manipulates a character’s relationship with the past to contribute to the work as a whole. Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, executes this through his main protagonist, Amir. Majority of the novel dwells on Amir struggling with inner demons that haunt him because of things that took place when he was a child, for instance Hassan’s rape by Assef. Rahim Khan cleverly uses his mysterious knowledge of Amir’s past to string together the plot. By using Amir’s guilt of the past Rahim Khan is able to get Amir to return to a war torn Afghanistan to be cleansed of his past transgressions.

The guilt that Amir feels due to his destroyed relationship with Hassan haunts him throughout his entire life. First, Hosseini uses the scene of Hassan’s rape as a haunting source of

Hosseini shows that it is Amirs immense guilt that drives him to want to make things right and to earn redemption. We learn the basis Amir's guilt through his memories. It is caused by a lack of response at a time when his loyal servant and close friend Hassan is in trouble. Amir makes a conscious decision to hide in the distance and just watch, not because he was afraid. He sacrifices Hassan in order to earn his fathers attention and affection. This decision results in Hassan suffering though a traumatic experience and is the root of Amir's lasting regret.

In the novel The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini tells a notable coming-of-age story portraying the actions and thoughts of Amir, a penitent adult living in the United States and his reminiscence of his affluent childhood in the unstable political environment of Afghanistan. Throughout the novel Khaled Hosseini uses character description to display his thoughts on sin and redemption.

Miguel Anguel Ruiz once said, “People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies” (Ruiz). Many conflicts are faced by the protagonists in Khaled Hosseini’s writing of The Kite Runner, where the protagonists: Amir and Hassan must survive an ever changing cultural landscape; where corrupt governments and deceit are commonplace. Throughout the progression of the plot, the audience views a very different side of Amir, from a boy immersed in a world of affluence and privilege to a young gentleman; who returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to redeem his family’s reputation. The youth, adolescence and adulthood of Amir Khan clearly demonstrate conflict in a world so different from ours. Afghanistan from the 1970s to the year 2001 was a very trying time in the life of the Afghanistan culture; with the overthrowing of the government and where the the Taliban became the power figure. Amir’s actions in failing to support his friend, his longing for love from his father and how his father lacked affection, how Baba was secretive towards his love towards both boys and Amir’s feeling of inadequacy when he received Hassan’s gift demonstrates conflict among the protagonists and antagonists in The Kite Runner.

In the work Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini it portrays a boy named Amir and how he grows up in Afghanistan as it descends into war. The book deals with some dark themes as presented in his childhood that follow him into adulthood haunting him. It is these dark events of his childhood that shape the book into its meaning. The message of that you can’t escape your past. The representation of childhood shapes the books meaning through betrayal, loyalty, and family.

In the Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, recounts a time where Hassan and Amir meet at a pomegranate tree; after Hassan was raped. Hence the reason why Hassan and Amir had tension and their friendship fell in pieces. In this passage, Hosseini uses symbolism and conflict, to portray the theme that nothing will last forever. While sitting near the tree, Amir says, “What would you do if I hit you with this,”(Hosseini, 92). This just seems like a little joke that Amir would say to be funny, but no this is all the anger building up in Amir. Amir’s conflict is with himself because he cannot stand the burden of not helping Hassan. In addition, the pomegranates symbolize Amir’s guilt of leaving Hassan alone in the alley way when Hassan needed him the

In The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini creates a portrait of the beauties and horrors of his hometown Kabul, Afghanistan based on real-life events. Hosseini depicts racial, religious and class issues in Kabul. The setting and social milieu drastically changed from the early 1970’s when the country was a secular regime (people were living their lives as they chose to) to the late 1970’s when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and violence and instability began. The result of violence increased the inequalities between social class and religion. Hosseini shows how the novel’s setting and social milieu in Kabul directly influences and shapes the relationship between two young boys, Amir, an upper class Pashtun, and Hassan, Amir’s servant who is a lower class Hazara.

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.

Humans differ from other species in that they are constantly asking questions; in particular, Shakespeare’s famous “to be or not to be?” enters the mind. In the case of The Kite Runner, readers examine a similar question: to betray or not to betray? In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, different characters choose to either engage in or avoid betrayal due to personal motives, subsequently influencing their future.

In the award winning book by Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, the author relays many ideas that relate to trust, betrayal, and friendship. Amir's desire is to become a writer and express himself through literature, but his father differs, as he wants his son to become an athlete and manlier. Outside of the house, Hassan and Amir develop a strong friendship with their clashing backgrounds and tough community. Hosseini uses characterization to showcase Hassan as a supportive companion in the book to represent the faithfulness to Amir despite their differences, in order to propose that friendship can transcend social structure and racial stereotypes despite what other view and say.

The cold air breezing by as I run fast against the wind, the sun glaring in my eyes as I look up to locate my kite. I hear the horde cheer as I sprint in the other direction. I feel the sand and gravel hit my legs as I try to catch up to my opponents. I catch a quick glance of my kite before it disappeared in the sun again. Kite running developed into one of Afghanistan’s most favored activities played by peoples of all ages. Annually in the winter, when the students have no school,(appositive) there is a kite flying competition that accumulates high competition. In the story “The Kite Runner” written by Khaled Hosseini (preposition) the two main characters, Amir and Hassan participate every year in the tournament together, but this year Amir goes through mental conflicts that affect his relationship with Hassan (preposition). Relationships are a major concept in this story and do not always get noticed by the reader. In the narrative, the author utilizes syntax manipulation to draw attention towards specific sentences the author wants to emphasize and uses symbolic figures that incorporates kites, war, and winter to represent conflicts and character development.