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Soraya's Role In The Kite Runner

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In the middle of the twentieth century the women of Iceland took a day off. They stopped working, they stopped cooking, and they stopped taking care of their kids. Just for one day, and the country went berserk. Men, who never attended to their children for more than a few hours a day, had to suddenly find a way to keep them entertained for a day. Men, who never needed to cook for a family, suddenly had to find a way to fill bellies. Things got so grave, that the entire country of Iceland ran out of sausages, because cooking it was effortless, men flocked to stores to buy as much of it as possible. Stores were shut down, and women fought in the streets for their rights. For one day in Iceland, decades ago, women showed that if they stopped working, everything around them stopped working as well. If this logic was applied to Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, if women were taken out of the story, The Kite Runner would too stop working. Meaning, the …show more content…

Khala Jamila and Soraya Taheri entered Amir’s life at the same time, so it is adequate to assume that they both play a key role in Amir becoming a man. Soraya helped Amir grow, while Khala Jamila helped their relationship blossom, “I actually liked it when Khanum Taheri was there, and not just because of her amiable ways; Soraya was more relaxed, more talkative with her mother around” (Hosseini 150). Their paired presence helped Amir flourish. Soraya also helped Amir and Baba’s relationship grow at the end of Baba’s life. With the two finally married, Baba’s only task left was to be killed by his cancer. Soraya added on to the task list by getting Baba to finally read Amir’s work. On the last night of his life, Baba spent it around Soraya, her family, and Amir. He never felt anymore pain after the start of that party, “‘Not tonight,’ he said. ‘There is no pain tonight’” (Hosseini 173). Soraya plays a key part in their father-son

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