The Kite Book Report

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

Hassan goes out with Lindsey and her friends, while Colin stays home and works on his theorem. Colin has gotten it to work for every Katherine except the third Katherine, and the nineteenth Katherine. Hassan comes back home, and tells Colin that he kissed Katrina. Colin doesn’t understand why Hassan would go and do that when he's only supposed to kiss a girl he's going to marry. Hassan gets upset when he says this and then they begin to have an argument. The next day after they finish their interviews, Hassan tells Colin that he is upset that he did not support him on the kiss, after he has supported him with all the Katherine’s. They slowly begin to kiss and make up. When they all get back to the house, Hollis is upset that they are back before five thirty. Lindsey confronts her mom about selling the land, but she doesn’t really reply to her. In the meantime Colin works on the theorem, and he finally gets it to work for Katherine nineteen. So now it just leaves the third Katherine to fit in. When Lindsey, Hassan, and Colin go out they go to Taco Hell, and then out to the field to practice shooting. Lindsey teaches Colin how to shoot the gun so he does not look weak.

Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is a fascinating book that through the story it releases a remorse content. Amirs character in the novel centers on Amir struggling throughout his life. When we discover how the winter of 1975 in Kabul makes Amir Jan become guilty of his actions. Amir is a character who Hosseini makes us feel compassion for. Amir has conflicted feelings toward his father, Baba, and especially his best friend servant, Hassan. Amir attempts to avoid his guilt, but it does nothing to help him redeem himself and therefore his guilt remains. That is why every time he hears his friend's name, Hassan, he quivers from the flashbacks he gets. Making us grasp how Amir stops himself from actually moving on and achieving more, proving that a life

Past experiences shape our future and ultimately can influence who we are and how we perceive any situation we are placed in. In the story The Kite Runner, Amir struggles with embracing his life in America while also having to deal with the memories that haunt him from his past. Our past experiences and the effect they have on you will remain with you forever, it is your choice whether or not you turn that into a positive or negative.

Telling the tale of Amir and his dark past, "Kite runner" by Cora Purdue is an adventurous one. Amir, along with others face problems from within themselves to external threats such as the Taliban. amir has done or has not done some things that he is not proud of and regrets these actions. One should live a life without the regret. One should also be able to let go of the past and anchor oneself to the present and the future.

The Kite Runner takes place before and after the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. Amir and Baba escaped from Kabul to San Francisco, California, March of 1981, a little over a year after the Invasion started, on December 24, 1979. The Soviets marched into Afghanistan and took over Kabul and many other cities, leading to a long 9 years of occupation. Amir and Baba were in danger specifically because of their social class. The Soviet Union, and most communist nations, detested people of the upper class. This is expected, considering the tenets of communism. The goal of the Soviet Union, on the other hand, was to have a socialist country along its borders that would be an ally. This upset the Western World, making many Afghan immigrants

The relationship between a father and son is not always to be seen through love, but through hardships and understanding. One of the main themes in The Kite Runner is filled with the agony and struggle within a father-son relationship. In the novel, the characters of Baba and Amir portray this relationship through their contrasting backgrounds and interests as father and son. Amir’s constant notion to impress his father with his writing pulls him through sorrow and regret while Baba’s constant fear of keeping his second Hazaran son in secret leaves him full of guilt. However, their relationship resolves soon after moving to America, the land of which they believe cleans out their guilt and sorrow. Through the characters of Baba and Amir in The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini juxtaposes the lifestyles in the countries of Afghanistan and America in order to depict that social and economic differences based on setting can make changes in a father-son relationship.

Amir wanted to make a difference so he tried to find out who was the officer that put Hassans son in and orphanage. The way he found Sohrab in the officers care was very sad, he had make up on and a silk garment on, which made him look very feminine like they used him as some doll they sexually took advantage of. Come to find out the guard that was holding Sohrab was the person that raped his father when he was younger. Sohrab and Amir end up living in the United States together and at the end of the book it tells that they are kite running together.

Amir is an intelligent boy and gifted storyteller. His desire is to please his father and make him proud. Amir is also a coward because he let his best friend be raped by Assef. Hassan is Amir’s best friend and servant of his father. He is loyal, always defends Amir, and listens to his stories. Hassan is a poor and uneducated boy. Baba is the father of Amir, a wealthy businessman, and biological father of Hassan. Assef is the character that makes Amir feels guilty and lack courage. After Amir wins the kiting completion, Hassan runs to bring the kite back. However, he is raped by Assef in an alleyway and the only witness is Amir Whese cowardice does not let him help his loyal friend. Amir and Baba escape to Pakistan after the Russian invade Afghanistan, and then to California when Amir graduates and meets his wife Soraya. Baba passes away and Hassan is murdered by the Taliban leaving his orphaned son waiting for Amir to get back to Afghanistan. In this novel, the author discusses how characters are products of their environment, and how this affects their lives, regardless at what their backgrounds are. Influences of environment emanate from

Kite discuss the terminology that she use in her class vital to discussing diversity: (1) “Ethnophaulisms or ethnic slurs, (2) Outdated terms, which in today’s language are considered offensive but the speaker is likely unaware of this, and (3) Preferred terms, which reflect the language social group members choose to label their own group, such as Asian-American, blind person or gay” (Kite, 2015, p. 2). She further states that these terms are unlikely to be discussed in the classroom. When these terms are discussed in academic and many other settings, they are often referred to by their capitalized first letter, because of the discomfort many people have about using the full term in any

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, a story of a boy as he unravels his journey throughout his life. The novel consists of multiple themes such as love, friendship, betrayal, guilt, , secrets, loyalty, and redemption. As the main character, Amir recalls his past events, all of these themes start to unravel specific events that occurred in his life. “There is a way to be good again” (Hosseini 2) is where the novel unfolds the deep dark life of Amir’s regret and guilt, Baba’s secret, and Hassan’s devotion. The book is a true masterpiece which keeps the readers glued to the story as it unfolds. One of the reasons, the story attracts many readers is due to The United States recent conflict with Afghanistan. However, the story has a personal

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. He continues to live till this day. His father was a diplomat for the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother was a history teacher in a high school in Kabul. He and his family were relocated to Paris by the foreign ministry in 1976 it was only supposed to be a four year trip. While he was in Paris that is when the Soviet Union invaded afghanistan and the war began.When they were ready to come back they in 1980, by then their homeland had witnessed a communist coup and the invasion of the Soviet Army. His family knew people who were being put in prison,people who were tortured, people who were being beat and killed. Bt then the Hosseini family sought refuge in the United States, and in September 1980 moved

According to the reporter, Aiden would be at the end of the drive way in the morning, waiting for the school bus by himself. Kimberly (mother) is on the run, and the police are looking for her because of a bunch of crimes. Aiden is possibly being cared for by his step-grandmother who always looks like she is on something. The step-grandmother appears to be high as a kite, and would sometime be outside with him. Aiden would be by himself for at least twenty minutes. He would be in the road, and does not listen to authority. Aiden would follow his dog, and the dog is always in the road. People on that road would drive like a "bat out of hell", and the reporter is worried that Aiden is going to get killed. The family has a history of abandoning

On a day to day basis, an individual is faced with an obstacle they must overcome, ultimately defining their morals and values. In the literature perspective, the novel The Kite Runner delivers multiple thematic ideas that portray the struggles of characters in their ordinary lives. Khaled Hosseini, author and physician, released his debut novel The Kite Runner in the year of 2003. This novel is written in the first person narration of Amir, a Pashtun boy that lives with his father whom he addresses as “Baba” in a large estate in Kabul, Afghanistan. Hassan and his father, Ali, are servants that works for Amir’s father

    In “The Kite Runner” written by Khaled Hosseini, the author made many claims and points throughout the novel, but the main one was that one’s decisions can stick with them forever, and affect one’s life in the future. The story is about a young boy, Amir, who is the son of a wealthy, and well renowned man named Baba. Throughout the entire story, Amir tries to prove himself to Baba, but is continuously pushed away “ because the truth of it was, I always felt like Baba hated me a little” (pg.19). They have two servants named Ali, and his son Hassan. These two were Hazaran, the minority in where they lived in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because of this they were not treated as well as the others. Hassan ends up becoming Amir’s best friend, but whenever Hassan gets attention from Baba, Amir becomes jealous of him. Hassan would always stand up and protect Amir in any situation. At one point, three boys named Kamal, Wali, and Assef threatened to beat up Amir because he was playing with a Hazara, but Hassan stood up for him with his slingshot. The story skips to “the winter of 1975”(pg. 55) on the day of the kite tournament. This is when people from around the country would try to cut other’s kite strings with their own, glass made kites, and be the last one standing. Amir ended up winning, and Hassan had to run to get the final kite Amir had cut down. After some time, Amir noticed Hassan hadn’t come back, and went searching for him. He found him in an alleyway