Author of many children’s books, Karen Mueller Coombs has illustrated that, “often the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hardest path is the one that will make you grow as a human being” (“Karen Mueller Coombs”, 2013). This statement explains how regardless of what circumstances or experiences a person goes through in life, an individual’s character will grow and evolve. This concept is demonstrated in The Kite Runner and The Flying Troutmans. Both main characters display that despite being brought up in different situations, their past choices evolve their characters. Their family complications are decreased and their family foundation becomes stronger. In The Kite Runner, Amir is a young Pashtun boy …show more content…
Even though Hattie has always felt unwelcomed by her sister since birth, she continues to try to rebuild their relationship. This is evident at the hospital when Hattie leaves Paris to comfort her niece and nephew while her sister is ill. Hattie demonstrates selflessness by putting her own life on the back burner to take her niece and nephew on a road trip to find their father. “You, me, Thebie, we’re going on a road trip, I said. We’re gonna look for Cherkis” (The Flying Troutmans, pg.52). These examples demonstrate Hattie’s devotion to strengthen the relationship in her family. Both novels provide notable progression of characters becoming more selfless and caring towards others. Both Amir and Hattie have many of the same characteristics, one being selflessness. Like Hattie, Amir also experienced moments of selflessness as a child. This is evident when Amir included his Hazara slave, Hassan, to participate with him in the kite running tournament. Amir considered Hassan as an equal, despite the cultural differences and the potential of social backlash. Assef said, “…you’re bothering me more than this Hazara here. How can you talk to him, play with him, let him touch you?” (The Kite Runner, pg. 44). Like Hattie as an adult, in order to strengthen the relationship with his newfound nephew, Amir sacrifices his newly adjusted life in America to adopt Sohrab from the atrocious conditions in Afghanistan. Amir
Amir has several intrapersonal conflicts throughout The Kite Runner. Amir has mixed feelings in his relationship with Hassan, due to Hassan’s lesser social status as a Hazara. He likes Hassan because they get along very well and they know each other better than anyone else does. Assef points out the first social conflict when he asks Amir how he can call Hassan his friend and Amir thinks, “But he’s not my friend! I almost blurted. He’s my servant!” (41). The response that Assef evoked from him highlights the inner dispute Amir has in his childhood. Hassan also played a role in Amir’s development since he always looked out for Amir. Amir did not need to stand up for himself because Hassan always did it for him such as when Assef was about to beat both of them up. This likely contributed to Amir’s cowardice throughout his life of not standing up for Hassan and leaving his problems behind him and choosing not to tell Soraya of his past earlier. In addition to his problems with Hassan, Baba’s unrealistic expectations of Amir challenges him greatly. From the time Amir was little, he always expressed less masculine traits. He did not enjoy watching soccer as most other boys would, and he enjoyed reading and learning from his mother’s old books. This created
A man is insensible to appreciate prosperity until he has tasted adversity. Adverse situations shape an individual’s identity and play a significant role in one’s life by shaping personal values, determining one’s own potential and self worth. Khaled Hosseini conveys how hardships shape individuals identities through the characters of Amir, Baba, Hassan and Ali in his novel The Kite Runner. Like every individual they go through a series of incidents and hardships that shape who they become and how well they deal with struggles in
Amir and Hassan both love each other in the book, “The Kite Runner”, even though they have two different personalities and physical characteristics. Amir is not athletic, nor does he possess the physical characteristics of his half brother, Hassan. Amir loves reading the Koran to Hassan and writing his own stories. On the other hand, Hassan is very athletic and is a servant to Amir and Baba. Hassan is illiterate during his childhood because he was never taught how to read or write, eventually that changes during his adulthood, when he writes a letter to Amir. Amir is a Pashtun or Sunni Muslim,
While creating an adaptation of The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews, I wanted to keep her themes, literary devices, tone and interactions intact. This notion led to my choice to create the adaptation on the first five chapters of the novel because of its heavy focus on character development and appeals to pathos to get the reader attached emotionally to the characters. As an adaptation, it is important to be fairly faithful in regards to the messages the original author intended to deliver to the reader while being able to put a different perspective on it. Due to this, there was a lot of time dedicated to how I could keep her used literary devices intact as I visually represent the novel through this different medium. Though I chose a more
The Kite Runner is a powerful book contrasting selfishness and selflessness. The book follows the life of Amir, a character who experiences guilt and tragedy throughout his life. While growing up in Kabul, Amir witnesses the imperfect and prejudice society in his country. Within an imperfect society, there are many who are self-invested, and among those, there are those who are selfless. Characters Amir and Hassan possess selfish and selfless traits. The traits that these characters possess are influenced by fear, victimization, and loyalty, ultimately leading them to inaction and action.
In the novel, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, Amir’s relationship with his servant, Hassan, is a result of the class division between the Pashtuns and Hazaras. In Afghanistan during this time, the Hazaras were thought of as the lower-class people whose sole reason to live in life was to serve the Pashtuns; Hassan was Amir’s Hazara servant. Societies views on the Hazaras impacted Amir because in Afghanistan it is unacceptable to be seen hanging around with a servant, so although Amir spends quality time with Hassan in his house, he can not in the outside world. When a bully begins to make fun of Hassan for being a Hazara, Amir feels like he is supposed to defend his friend, yet does not. He thinks to himself, “But he’s not my friend!...He’s
In the novel The Kite Runner, the protagonist, Amir, is a young boy growing up in a well off family in Kabul, Afghanistan. Amir’s closest friend is Hassan, the son of his family’s beloved servant. Amir’s self image at the beginning of the novel is one in which he views himself as a coward, worthless and selfish.
Friendship: There are two major relationships in the novel Kite Runner. One is of Amir and his father Baba. Amir constantly strives for his father's acceptance leading to some bad choices due to jealousy. The second major relationship is between Hassan and Amir. Although Hassan is Amir’s best friend, he is a hazara which are a group of people that are often discriminated against. This allows Amir to harm Hassan without feeling bad, because “he’s just a hazara anyway”. Striving for his father’s acceptance and having not helped Hassan during the rape scene eventually makes Amir drive Hassan away for good.
In the novel The Kite Runner the text explores many different ways the relationships and people surrounding a person can shape one's self, this is most prevalent in Amir. During Amir's childhood, he is constantly vying for Baba's attention and affection. Amir's cowardice is seen through many different examples in the novel, mainly Assef and his violent actions bring forth his cowardice in many forms. Hassan is Amir's best friend in the beginning of the novel, he is also a role model to Amir.
Amir and Assef's feeling of superiority causes ethnic discrimination in The Kite Runner. Amir feels superior to his Hazara servant Hassan, causing ethnic discrimination. When Amir shows Hassan his first story of the man who cries pearls Hassan points out a plot hole which Amir does not realize. Amir begins to question Hassan's intelligence. “The Plot Hole.
Friendship is about trusting each other, helping each other and loving one another. In the novel the Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini describes Amir as a wealthy, Pashtun servant who lives in a very rich house. He also describes Hassan as the Hazara boy and the servant of Amir. In the society, Hazaras are look down and this influence how Amir treats Hassan, especially in public. Their uncommon bond splits when Amir abandons his friend due to their political and social differences, and his jealousy over him.
Chimamanda Adichie once said, “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there”. In the Novel The Kite Runner it shows a journey through hardship and difficult times of a young boy named Amir. Being born rich he Is made to be stuck up and a person to only care for himself. Specifically, he does multiple things that not only impact his character harshly but also as he changes the fate of his best friend Hassan. On the other hand, he has positives especially for a kid named Sohrab. The Kite Runner has the greatest impact on me because of the way he fought through adversity, obstacles, and finding his true self.
Never experienced the poverty of modern Kabul much of his childhood. Similar to Cosette, Amir's mother was absent, Amir only had his father Baba and his close friend Hassan and some close family friends. With wealth comes thieves, many times in The Kite Runner theft is committed.“There is only one sin, only one.” And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life you steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness, there is no act more wretched than stealing.”pg.18. Baba took Hassan's right to a father, Amir stole Hassan's ability to tell the truth, Assef stole Hassan's innocence. Once these characters are robbed you can become poor, these characters are now living in poverty, Amirs happiness was stolen, as well as his love for Hassan. Unconsciously Amir looked for love in many other aspects of his life, a love like Hassan's could never be found. Even when he continued to look for it after Hassan had
In the book The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, the main character, Amir, has a rough and bumpy past that catches up with him later in his life. Amir is from Kabul, Afghanistan, and is the only child of his rich family. He lives in a above middle class house with two slaves, Ali, and his son Hassan. Almost everywhere that Hassan is able to go to, is because he is with Amir. Hassan is Amir’s protector when the neighborhood bullies come around.
Set in Afghanistan within the late twentieth century, The Kite Runner describes the struggles that Amir had faced while he was growing up. Amir is a child, whose closest companion,Hassan his child servant was bound to serve under the respected high society members. At the beginning of the novel, it started out friendly with the introduction of the children's days that were filled with story telling, making trips to the market, and having fun through kite battling, a well loved Afghan side interest. Soon enough the book progressed with its true means where Amir wanted to secure the adoration and appreciation of his dad, Baba. Before long, be that as it may, it was displayed of violent changes that helped further change Amir's life into one of