The Kite Runner Analysis

As some friendships pass, others hold a strong bond due to honesty and integrity, which can make a relationship last a lifetime. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, he portrays a strong theme of loyalty through his characters Hassan and Amir using examples of these acts which were never easy. While the boys grow up together and form a friendship, a life changing event splits them apart, only to take Amir twenty-six years to discover the truth of their past, their fathers, and their lives.

The Kite Runner, a book by Khaled Hosseini, is the story told by an Afghanistan-born man named Amir, who tells tales of his childhood with his friend Hassan; all leading up to an event that leaves Amir guilt-ridden and sets him on a course to not only redeem his conscience, but also to, in a roundabout way, return all the kindness Hassan had given him as a child that he had never appreciated. The Kite Runner showcases a family theme through many of these childhood stories that Amir tells. Baba, Amir’s father, plays an essential role in understanding how family can be defined in many ways with his contrasting views of Amir and Hassan. It is demonstrated that family doesn’t necessarily mean blood-related when we meet Baba’s close family friend and Amir’s ali, Rahim Khan. When Amir finds redemption for how he mistreated Hassan and takes in his son, Sorhab, is yet another unique form of how there is a clear family theme throughout the book. In the novel, Hosseini demonstrates his

Hassan and Amir spend a lot of time together, especially in the winter when they participate in the kite-fighting tournament. Amir won the tournament, and Hassan goes to get the kite. Hassan was raped by Assef when he went to find the kite, and Amir saw, but pretended that he didn’t. They grow apart after that event.

The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, tells a story of an Afghani man’s lifetime and all of the troubles that he has experienced. Amir’s childhood takes place in Kabul, Afghanistan alongside his Hazara servant and half-brother, Hassan. The two grow up as best friends until one day when Amir does nothing to help Hassan out of a life changing incident with the town bully. Their friendship is severely affected for the rest of their lives, that is until Amir meets Sohrab, Hassan’s son. After finding out Hassan has passed away, Amir is sent off to retrieve Sohrab and bring him to a better place than the Taliban-ruled Kabul. The connection between the two new acquaintances is like a new beginning for many aspects in Amir’s life. Sohrab and Amir’s relationship acts as a way for Amir to rid himself of guilt from his childhood and provides his wife with a child, supporting the theme of redemption in The Kite Runner.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini beautifully articulates Amir’s journey to adulthood and his trials and tribulations along the way. Amir rebels in a nontraditional way by breaking the customary way of thinking and acting. He plows his path in life and sometimes emerges with deep seated guilt. The structure of friendship is based on trust, love, and compassion. In the case of Hassan and Amir, the pillars of friendship are somewhat skewed. Amir seeks the respect of his father throughout his life. He attempts to emulate the powerful presence that his father develops in Kabul. However, Amir chooses to disregard individual elements of the path to success. Instead of forming trusting relationships, building for the future and admiring tradition like his father, he haphazardly fulfills his responsibilities and backs away from challenges. His disregard for tradition and common etiquette lead him to rebel against his friendship with Hassan, his culture, and his father. In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Amir depicts how the lust for power and accolades may not be worth the sacrificial rebellion that is necessary as a catalyst for success.

In the book, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a heartbreaking story between a rich Pashtun boy named Amir and his Hazara servant boy named Hassan. The book took place in a time where Afghanistan was in the process of being destroyed. Amir was twelve years old when he witnessed his best friend getting raped by his childhood bully, Assef, and did nothing to rescue Hassan. That event had caused Amir to kept that guilt to himself for years without telling anyone. When the war was reaching to his town, Amir and his father flew away to America hoping to escape. Twenty years later, Amir got a call from Afghanistan and was told “There is a way to be good again”. With that given chance to seek for redemption, Amir flew back to Afghanistan to achieve it.

Within every country there are thousands of people. Thousands of people facing issues and hard times. In the US. there's homeless people, people facing death and even people suffering from mistakes they’ve made. Making mistakes leads to forgetting who you are and potentially ruining relationships with loved ones. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner many characters are trying to find themselves again, due to mistakes and relationships they’ve ruined along the way. In a way, moving to America helps Amir mend his relationship with Baba and helps him face his internal conflict of guilt by fixing his sins of the past; Hosseini reveals this through the motifs of duality and rebirth.

A simple reading of the Kite Runner is that it is a novel about Rape, Murder, War and Fighting which , leads to Amir’s regret and has not only haunted him but has shape his life. Rape is the most important scene of violence in the novel and many occurrences of rape were mentioned. Rape is important for so many reasons; it is not just a physical violent but also affect the victims emotional state of mind. “Rape in this sense represents complete physical and mental denomination of those who do not have power by those who do.”

The Kite Runner is a something that causes arguments between people story novel written by Khaled Horseeini - an author of the Afghan-American history. The story revolves around the life of Amir is set throughout such events like the fall of the (rule by a king or queen) in Afghanistan, the military action that helps a bad situation .This story is known for its family-related settings and clearly expressed father-son relationships, as well as for raising the themes of guilt, redemption and apologize. The story itself enables the reader to get a thorough understanding of the daily life of the Afghani people and into their culture. Even though it is not the main theme of the novel, religion is always there, and its influence on the lives of the characters is colorful. Author approached the topic of religion from two sides - from the point of view of religious characters and from the point of view of those, who have their own understanding of religion, and, as a result, he was able to show/represent the process of Amir's finding his own religion among these two sides.

The Kite Runner is about a boy named Amir, who grows up in the more privileged side of Kabul, Afghanistan. He lives with his father Baba, his mother died when Amir was born, and his servants Ali and his son Hassan whose mother had ran off as soon as he was born. The story starts out with Amir and Hassan, who are childhood friends who fed from the same mother when they were little because they had both lost their moms, this made them even closer. Hassan is a Hazara, a minority typically looked down on in Afghanistan, this leads to lots of harassment from other kids. One kid in particular who doesn’t like Hassan and Amir hanging out is Assef. At one point he threatens Amir for hanging out with a Hazara, Hassan then threatens him with a slingshot to the eye and shuts the whole thing down. During all this the political side of life starts to change. The king of Afghanistan is overthrown, which starts the inevitable war ahead of them. Next in the novel is the Kite Fighting Tournament, it’s when kids join from all across Afghanistan with paper kites. The string is covered in glass so you can cut other strings, the last kite standing wins. Hassan and Amir are very skilled in this tournament, but Hassan is especially good at going after the kites that get cut. During this tournament they win, Amir cuts the last kite and Hassan goes after it. Hassan, as he finds the kite is faced with Assef, who wants the kite. Hassan refuses to give it to him, as he promised Amir he’d get that kite

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, begins in the present day following the main character, Amir. After this brief one-and-a-half-page introduction, Hosseini jumps right into the main flashback structure of the novel. The reader lives in Kabul, Afghanistan, the capital, through Amir’s memories. This first section is fast-paced. The narration doesn’t jump back and forth between past and present, and no time is lost to create a frame story structure. Flashbacks are utilized more effectively by Hosseini. Flashbacks from Amir of the past occasionally happen in moments were the situation seems hopeless or futile. For example, when Amir and Baba, Amir’s father, must ride in the lightless tank of a fuel truck from Jalalabad, Afghanistan to Peshawar, Pakistan Amir remembers him and Hassan outside in the bright, fresh air standing in an open grass field. Hosseini uses them to convey how times were happier in the past. They project the antithesis of the current situation. Amir recounts his past from a self-deprecating point of view, reflecting on what happened regarding the friends, family, and foes in his life, and how his life seemingly deteriorated. Further into the first third of the book, the reader learns that Rahim Khan, the man who calls Amir from Pakistan in the introduction, was a friend of Baba. This initial detail poses multiple questions. Why didn’t Rahim Khan just contact Baba? What does Rahim Khan want from Amir? Why are Afghans congregating in Pakistan? Why did

“’There is a way to be good again,’ Rahim Khan said on the phone just before hanging up” (68) to Amir. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, the main character Amir sees this as his call to action to pay back his respects to his late childhood friend Hassan, which Amir felt he owed to Hassan his whole life due to the incident that tore them apart when they were younger. Out of all the things that have changed in Amir's life, the moral obligation that bound Hassan and himself have always stayed the same. But when Amir finally has the chance “to be good again” by saving Hassan's son Sohrab, they both find themselves having adopted their father's qualities, which allows both of them to pick up a relationship that Amir had abandoned years earlier.

In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the reader experiences two different methods of tradition. Baba shows the readers a new way of tradition while General Taheri expresses old tradition. Baba and General Taheri see life through a different lens than one another. They convey their beliefs of tradition through how they lead as prominent social figures, carry out their lives, and through their unique relationships with their children.

In many cultures, there is a celebration when a person reaches a certain age; Spaniards have a Quinceanera, people of Jewish faith recognize Bat Mitzvahs, and Northern culture throws “Sweet 16” parties. However grand these events may be, they do not necessarily mean that a person has reached the maturity of adulthood. In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the characters of Hassan and Amir reach this pivotal point at different times in their life. The novel emphasises that coming of age is more than the sum of a person's years.

The novel The Kite Runner is set in the Afghan City of Kabul in the early 1970s. As the son of a wealthy merchant, Amir’s best friend is Hassan, the son of Ali, Amir’s father’s servant. During the Kite fighting tournament, Amir tells Hassan to run and get the last cut kite. When he sent Hassan to get his kite after the famous kite fight, Hassan encounters Assef in an alleyway. After refusing to give up the kite, Assef severely beats and rapes him. After witnessing Hassan get sexually assaulted, Amir distances himself from Hassan because his guilt prevents him from being able to interact with him. Amir frames Hassan for thievery and Hassan and Ali get kicked out of the house.