The Examination of Complicated Relationships between The Flying Troutmans and The Kite Runner

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.

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

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.

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,

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

Amir betrays Hassan in The Kite Runner by pretending to being Hassan’s friend. Throughout the story the reader can tell that Hassan’s love for Amir is selfless and Amir’s love for hassan is selfish. That is proved when Amir asks Hassan if he would ever lie to him and Hassan replies with ‘I’d sooner eat dirt’(54). Amir continues to to tease him after that asking if he would really eat dirt for him when in reality Hassan figuratively ate dirt for Amir for most of his childhood. He took the blame for shooting the neighbor dog with his slingshot, when Amir pressured him into doing it in the first place. Hassan also stood up for and saved Amir in the first altercation with Assef. In return, Amir does not help Hassan when he is in need of it, he chooses to watch and save himself from the horror of rape that Hassan has to endure. Amir’s twelve year old mind does not know how to treat this hazara boy. At Baba’s residence it is safe for them to play games, laugh together, and be the brothers they truly are, but

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.

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

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.

Throughout the “The Kite Runner”, many ways of redemption arise in this novel for past wrongdoings. Amir, the protagonist shows ways in which he redeems himself, especially towards Hassan. Amir and Hassan were inseparable at the beginning of their friendship. His need for redemption stems from his younger days where his actions got Haasan in trouble and blamed him for everything. Amir travels back to Afghanistan to get Hassan's son, Sohrab out of an orphanage. Then he faces the “bully”, Assef who raped Hassan. Amir's final act of redemptions comes when he leaves behind money for Farid's family, a childhood friend whose family now live in a war torn, poverty stricken Afghanistan.These acts of redemption lead to Amir's father, Baba showing

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.

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.

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

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

Observed in many coming of age novels, the protagonist often has a realization following a difficult event that forces them to grow up quickly. In The Kite Runner, Amir is forced to mature following his father’s diagnosis of cancer. No longer able to run away from hardship or rely on Baba to make decisions for him, Amir evaluates everything that he has taken for granted. Baba’s passing marks a crucial moment in Amir’s development by evoking a deep sense of unity and family, as well as awakening him from his cowardice that defined him.