Symbolism In The Kite Runner

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

One major theme that is evident in The Kite Runner is that scars are reminders of life’s pain and regret, and, though you can ease the regret and the scars will fade, neither will completely go away. We all have regrets and always will, but though it will be a long hard process we can lessen them through redemption. The majority of The Kite Runner is about the narrator and protagonist, Amir. Almost all of the characters in The Kite Runner have scars, whether they are physical or emotional. Baba has scars all down his back from fighting a bear, but he also has emotional scars from not being able to admit that Hassan was also his son. Hassan is born with a cleft lip, but for his birthday Baba pays for it to be fixed, which left a small scar above his mouth. Hassan also has emotional scars from being raped. The reader is probably shown the emotional scars of Amir the most. Amir has emotional scars because he feels that he killed his mother, and also because his father emotionally neglects him. In the end of the novel, Amir receives many physical scars from getting beaten up by Assef, when rescuing Sohrab. Though scars will never go away and are a reminder of the past, not all scars are bad.

In Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, Hassan is practically Amir’s brother as their raised together, motherless, even feeding off the same breast milk (10). There, however, is where their similarities end. In the first thirteen chapters of the novel, Hassan’s character experiences dynamic character development. Moreover, Hassan’s moral code can be described as obedient, loyal, and pure, which is evident through Hosseini's employment the symbol of kite flying.

Essay topic: Analyse how one or more symbols were used to convey an idea in the novel.

In the novel the Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini, the author, often uses symbolism throughout the book. There are many, many items or things that signifies something, or means something different than what is shown. For example, things like the kite, the pomegranate tree, Amir’s scar, the slingshot, the reference of the lamb, and Hassan’s cleft lip. Analyzing symbolism in this book could go far, there are many things to be said about the symbolism in this novel. The reason for using symbolism is because it's an important tool to use to create meaning and imagery. And symbolism shows that literature goes beyond more than what is just simply said.

I feel that Chapters 9-14 are windows into The Kite Runner. As I read pages 129-131, I found out that there are similarities between Baba when he and Amir enter America to other immigrants entering America. First Baba getting into a horrendous incident with his new neighbors is similar to how other immigrants have a tendency to get into activities that are against the law. Second, Baba not taking food stamps because of not wanting to be seen using “charitable money” is the same as how those from other countries who bring with them a ruler-like pride. With these, The Kite Runner is surely a window and I understand more about what immigrants go through in new continents by seeing the trouble and struggle that Baba goes

In this quote the author brings back the symbolism of the kite. The author shows how the kite brought joy and happiness to Hassan and his son, even in times of trouble. When readers see that Sohrab also loved the kites it shows that Hassan did let what happened in the winter of 1975 affect his love of kite running. Hassan did not let his past affect him, instead he passed and his his love of the kites with his son. In this quote we also see that Amir’s past is coming back once again, the mentioning of Amir remembering, “what a good kite runner Hassan was”, because the last time that Amir had flown a kite with Hassan was the winter day in 1975 where it all changed. The author uses the retelling of the past to change the line of the plot. This quote also re enforces the idea that Hassan was a key component that shaped Amir’s entire life.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a multithreaded novel in which story of a young boy Amir and people from his surroundings stands for a background of a complex analysis of Afghan society, history and culture. It is also a story of how every person is able to change their life and redeem themselves. One of the numerous themes of the novel is the war in Afghanistan after the invasion of the Soviet Union. The outcome of the attack was tragic for all who experienced it. The war brought about terrible changes and ravished the beautiful land beyond recognition(Shahira Banu, M.A, Phil, 2016).

Comparison of symbolism of kites in the Kite Runner and Master Harold and the boys

Could the story of the novel exist without the class difference between Amir and Hassan? Make a case, using specific plot points and historical facts to ground your argument.

In discussing the experimental treatment of conceptual relevance in our experimental film, ‘Runner’, I must first establish the conceptual relevance of the film itself. There is a general conceptual relevance to our film which relates to our audience through its relevance to their culture. There are two main conceptually relevant themes running throughout the film, the first being security and strategy, and the second being relationships (specifically related to friendship). It could be argued that one of the goals of the Fluxus movement was to make art culturally and conceptually relevant for a large number of people by bringing art to the streets, as opposed to limiting it to concert halls and art galleries, which were seen as exclusive

In his realistic fiction work, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini effectively incorporates the long and complicated historical aspects of Kabul, which he connects to shape the behavior of the characters in the story. The history of Kabul, as presented in the novel, revolves predominantly around the Islamic society, therefore, it interrelates the social and cultural impacts, in turn shaping the psychological elements of the plot.The Kite Runner approaches Afghanistan over the course of approximately 30 years, from the 1970s to 2002, and showcases the drastic transformation of the landscape in Kabul as well as it's overall societal values. The narrator begins with a flashback of the cosmopolitan Kabul of 1970. In context, Afghanistan is an Islamic

In the beginning Hassan and Amir were the best of friends. The boys would often play games together. They would shoot rocks in a sling shot at the neighbor’s dog just for fun. They would get into all kinds of mischief together. Before the tournament they had a plan to beat Baba record of cutting kites by working together in teamwork. Then after the competition when Hassan went to run the kite down for Amir he was cornered by assef and his friends ordering Hassan to hand him the kite, then they would leave him alone. When Hassan refused to give assef the kite he raped him. During that event Amir was standing there watching them do that to Hassan. They he decided to run away, not even bother to defend the one person who has been there his entire

Growing up, Amir’s privileged life shielded him from the hardships of the real Afghanistan of which he was unaware. When he travels back to Afghanistan for Rahim Khan, Amir sees discarded toys, broken mud houses and huts and children dressed in rags. Comparing this image to his childhood, Amir tells Farid that he feels like a tourist even though he grew up in Afghanistan. Farid, however, snickers and surmises that Amir “lived in a big two- or three-story house with a nice backyard that [his] gardener filled with flowers and fruit trees” (Hosseini 251). This image differs drastically compared to the surrounding images of the broken houses and huts. It goes to show that Amir lived the privileged life to begin with and never had to fight the

“The tree was ours” (27). Symbols in literature can represent a multitude ideas and there is no shortage of important symbols in The Kite Runner. However, in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, one important reoccurring symbol is the pomegranate tree which drives the theme of love and relationships and is a physical symbol of progression throughout the novel.