Psychiatric Disorders in The Kite Runner

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.

In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, he depicts the oppression the Hazara people face in Afghanistan through his main characters, Ali and Hassan. His vivid illustration of the demeaning behavior towards the Hazara people (Ali) set the underlying tone of this novel.

The relationship that grows between Sohrab and Amir reveals a method for Amir to diminish his guilt from his childhood because of how much of Hassan he sees in Sohrab. For starters, their physical characteristics are intensely similar. Amir notices that “the resemblance was breathtaking,” (279) during his first-time meeting Sohrab when he is trying to free Sohrab from Assef’s control. Being able to actually see Hassan, Amir’s childhood best friend, in this boy allows for Amir to feel as if he’s

“And the harder I laughed, the harder he kicked me, punched me, scratched me... For the first time since the winter of 1975, I felt at peace. I laughed because I saw that, in some hidden nook in a corner of my mind, I’d even been looking forward to this” (Hosseini 289). From the young age of 12, Amir Agha has been letting his guilt get the best of him. For years Amir tries to run away from his past, believing that it will make everything better. Amir soon comes to terms that projecting his guilt in a negative way only creates more problems. Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, teaches the reader that guilt can either destroy a person mentally or make that person stronger through Amir, as he tries to get rid of Hassan to make himself feel better and Amir going back to Afghanistan to get Hassan’s son, Sohrab, and bring him to safety.

​In the novel, “The Kite Runner”, written by Khaled Hosseini, was taken place in Afghanistan during the 1970’s to the year of 2002. Many historical events happened during this time period and Hosseini portrayed it into his novel. Kabul, the capitol of Afghanistan, was a free, living area for many Afghanistan families to enjoy the life they were given. Until one day, Afghanistan was then taken over and attacked. In the novel, Amir, the protagonist, must redeem himself and the history behind his actions because of his past decisions and make himself good again for the Afghanistan people.

Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, takes place in Afghanistan during two different wars. The first war takes place from the nineteen seventies until nineteen eighty-eight, but a part of it has rolled into present day, two thousand fourteen. This war originally involved Afghanistan and the Soviet Union, but is now a civil war in Afghanistan (“The Afghan War”). In 1978, “Afghanistan changed forever,” (Hosseini 34). The power in Afghanistan was overthrown and handed to Marxist-Leninist political parties until the invasion of Afghanistan by Soviet troops in 1979 (“The Afghan War”). The Soviet War with Afghanistan was responsible for ripping apart families and the country of Afghanistan. During this time, 4.3 million Afghan citizens

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The beginning of chapter five of Khaled Hosseini’s, The Kite Runner, marks “The end, the official end” (Hosseini 36). The authors descriptive first lines introduce the reader to the harsh night Amir, Hassan, and Ali are about to undergo. Hosseini uses the literary devices, imagery, alliteration, and onomatopoeia to build a lasting picture of the soon to be changed lives all afghans. Terror is developed in ones mind when Hosseini, uses the line, “A white light flashed, lit the sky in silver…followed by the rapid staccato of gunfire.” (35).

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.

In the novel, Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, the protagonist, Amir, is torn between two truths as he lived associated with different kinds of religious groups in Afghan society: Pashtuns and Hazaras. Each identity played a unique part in Amir’s life. Whether they had a positive or negative effect, both changed his values and beliefs. Individuals also shaped Amir’s character. Baba, Assef, and Hassan were major influences upon Amir’s growth throughout the book; their differences shaped Amir into the man he later became as all three represented a different side of Afghan society.

incomprehensible extent. In Afghanistan, Hazaras–the ethnic minority–have experienced ethnic discrimination by Pashtuns–the ethnic majority–because of a revolt dating back to the 18th century.Another form of discrimination in Afghanistan arises from the distinct religious groups–Shi’ite and Sunni Muslims. Shi’ite Muslims correspond with the Hazara ethnic group, but the Sunni Muslims correspond with the Pashtun ethnic group. This discrimination affects every age group in Afghanistan, and affects each of those individuals, “mental and physical health” (Pascoe). In his 2003 novel The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini exposes and discusses the ethnic and religious discrimination found in past and present day Afghanistan. By creating tense situations that originate, whether consciously or subconsciously within the characters, the author uses these conflicts to illustrate the impacts that stem from the masculine stereotypes associated with Afghan culture, the dire need for a father’s approval, and the on­going effects of a child’s jealousy. In The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini uses these intense conflicts to develop characters’ relationships and forces the reader to consider how the main character’s loss of innocence stems from a need of approval and ethnic and religious discrimination.

A person’s surroundings have a strong influence on the course of their lives and their character. This is shown in the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. The main character in the story, Amir, lives in Kabul, Afghanistan with his successful and respected father, Baba, and their two servants Ali and Hassan. Amir and Hassan grow up together as very close friends, but their friendship often suffers from the tension of Amir's insecurities, as well as their society's negative view on Hassan's Hazara ethnicity. The final thread holding their friendship together is broken when Amir fails to protect Hassan from being raped from the terrorizing Assef. After Hassan leaves Amir's life, political events cause Amir and his father to flee to America, where they take on the challenge of adjusting to a new country. Amir spends years building a life in America, a family and a career, until an old friend calls him back home to offer a chance of redeeming his wrong-doings in his youth. On returning to a very different Afghanistan from the one he used to call home, Amir learns Hassan is his illegitimate brother, faces his past, and finds relief in atoning for his sins by rescuing Hassan’s son from Assef. Hosseini uses layered settings: a traditional Kabul, an Afghan community in America, and a Taliban ruled Afghanistan, that intertwine with Amir’s life to create a unique novel.

“His people have been struggling to triumph over the forces of violence-forces that continue to threaten them even today” (Hower). Khaled Hosseini’s novels have brought many of his readers a different perspective of Afghanistan. Many people after reading Hosseini’s books start to notice this place more and have sympathy feelings rather negative views about it. Usually people believe the media’s information that conveys about Afghanistan as a poverty place but does not specify why they live in this conditions and how those states affect their everyday life. In the two novels The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, the author Khaled Hosseini wrote the political events that happen in Afghanistan and show how those events affected

Ever been on a unique roller coaster consisting of jealousy, rape, a dwindling friendship, escaping a overtaken country, unexpected love, and suicide? In the early 1970’s, Afghanistan was constantly overtaken by any and all who sought for power. For a decade, the locals were terrorized, by the Soviets, fearing that any moment would be their last. As tragic as the book is, Khaled Hosseini gives a glimpse to his many readers, the life of an Afghanistan back in the 1970’s. Both books, A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner, portray real emotion as they connect to the author on a personal level. Hosseini came to America as a 15 year-old Afghan-born American, seeking refuge. He is now a New York Times best-selling author with more than 10 million copies sold. Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, showcases Baba Jan, rape, and Hassan’s son, as symbols to justify the theme of betrayal and redemption.

A brief analysis outlining several major themes employed in the story, including the contradiction between contrasting social classes, redemption of sins, uncovering of lies, the sufferance in war zone, family, love, betrayal, guilt, fear and redemption.