The Kite Runner Analysis

The first way Amir’s maturity can be seen in result of Hassan’s rape is the way that he sees the world and the people in it, changes over the course of the book. In the beginning of the book Amir has very particular ideas about people and their social status. At the time of Hassan's rape, he sees Hazara's as subservient to the Pashtuns. Even though he and Hassan had been raised together and have a special relationship, he does not view him as his friend, and even admits to not seeing him as one. One day while Hassan and Amir are playing together, Assef and some other boys come and begin to taunt the two boys. Assef asks, “ "How can you call him your friend?" ” Refering to Hassan, Amir replies, “ "But he's not my friend! … He's my servant." ” (Hosseini

When Khaled Hosseini wrote The Kite Runner, he made several important choices involving narration. He chose to write the story in first person from a limited point of view. This is a very fitting decision because, writing in the first person adds a sense of intimacy that is crucial to this story; writing from a limited perspective allows the reader to make their own conclusions about what the characters are thinking. The way Hosseini writes The Kite Runner makes it very intimate, and feels like a person telling their life story. If The Kite Runner had been written in third person, or omnisciently, the story would not have impacted readers as much, and would have been too cold and impersonal to create emotional connections with the reader.

The Kite Runner is a novel that is considered to be a fictional memoir throughout the life of the main character, Amir. Starting in 1975 Afghanistan, the sentiments between the Hazaras and the Pashtuns were very negative and violent. Afghanistan as a country was experiencing a lot of hardships as the two main races and religions that resided in the country began to fight, eventually leading to the war that is still going on today. As a nation, Afghanistan has a long and interesting history. The Kite Runner itself is written by an Afghan man, Khaled Hosseini, who himself lived in Afghanistan throughout these years. Growing up in Kabul, Hosseini grew up in an area later to be considered as more fortunate and more wealthy than those who lived elsewhere in the country. Khaled’s father worked as a diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul, and his mother worked as a persian language teacher at a high school for girls. Later on, after his father got a job in Paris, France. Hosseini’s family moved to France and were unable to return to Afghanistan due to the saur revolution, the initial segment leading to the Afghan civil war. The Kite Runner was written in California as Hosseini was studying in medical school, in order to become a doctor. The book itself is fictional, however much of the occurences in the novel are influenced based upon real-life scenarios and situations that occur during parts of the war. Specifically, this is portrayed via the arguments between the

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

Both of these characters are similar regarding the trait of forgiveness. Although Amir never really apologized to Hassan for all of the evil things he did to him, Amir forgave himself and truly attempted to makeup for the mistakes he had made in his childhood, by making a new life for Hassan's son, Sohrab in his adulthood. One of the attempts Amir did to makeup for the betrayal of Hassan is to take a beating from Assef. When getting beat up by Assef, Amir feels good that he is standing up for himself and Sohrab, just like Hassan stood up for him in the alleyway. Amir also redeems himself from the guilt he had felt toward Hassan. An example of Amir feeling as though he stood up for Sohrab and redeems himself from the guilt or jealousy toward Hassan is when he says,” "He got mad and hit me harder and the harder he kicked me, the harder I laughed" (Hoseini,297). Hassan forgives Amir for betraying him in the alleyway by not bringing it up to Amir and throwing it away like nothing happened. In the end, both characters found a way to forgive one another for the main conflict within story, The Kite

Amir tells endless stories of playing with Hassan as boys. He says many times that he and Hassan are like brothers and later finds out that they actually are brothers. Amir and Hassan are nearly inseparable when they are young as they do nearly everything together. They grow up together bonding through watching films, winter days with the tradition of playing cards and finally, Hassan being Amir’s devoted kite runner. A bully well-known amongst the kids named Assef will regularly torment the two of them and Hassan will always stick up for Amir, no matter how afraid he is. Though in many of the stories Amir tells that he is often rude and unfair to Hassan, Hassan has always been unconditionally kind and caring toward Amir. Hassan is devoted to Amir, no matter how much Amir pushes him away. As Hassan once tells Amir, “For you, a thousand times over” (Hosseini

No matter what, Hassan bravely stands up for Amir. However, when the roles are reversed, Amir cannot do the same due to Hassan’s social class lurking in Amir’s mind. When Assef started to harass Hassan while simultaneously trying to evoke a response in Amir, it almost gets Amir to look beyond Hassan's social class. “Assef narrowed his eyes. Shook his head. When he spoke again, he sounded as baffled as he looked. ‘How can you call him your ‘friend?’’ But he is not my friend...he’s my servant!” (41) Amir thought, showcasing the opinion he created about Hassan. Working for Baba and Amir as servants, Hassan and his father are put below their bosses on the social hierarchy.

Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, follows the psychological declination and inclination of a guilty man. Hosseini uses characterization and setting in order to better convey the dynamic change of the protagonist, Amir, among other characters. The setting and characterization of The Kite Runner correlate to hint to the reader how the main characters are feeling.

Hassan has been loyal to Amir for his whole life, even his first spoken word was Amir. Hassan was Amir’s closest friend and he treated Amir as a king. We could see this when he stood up for Amir against Assef, ran the kite for Amir’s victory, sacrificed his body for Amir’s redemption from Baba, and covered for Amir’s happiness. Hassan probably picked the characteristics of loyalty and devotion from his father, Ali. We see these characters from Ali when he leaves Baba after finding out that his son was a thief regardless of Baba begging for them back. This scene also demonstrates the selfishness of Amir because he is breaking his friendship in order to feel better about

Social conditions are what shape a country. Over the years, people, not only in Afghanistan, but around the world create norms that define people’s roles in life, their future, and how they should be treated based on their gender and beliefs. Khaled Hosseini’s first novel, The Kite Runner, comments on the social conditions of Afghanistan through telling a story about the lives of two Muslim boys; a privileged Sunni Pashtun, Amir, and his long-time friend and servant, Hassan, a loyal but disadvantaged Shia Hazara. Hosseini expresses Amir’s uncertain feelings toward Hassan which form the decisions he makes throughout the book. These choices result in Amir destroying his relationship with Hassan. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini is a commentary on the social conditions in Afghanistan as shown through the roles of women and men in society and the ideals of Afghan culture. Unfortunately, these problems are still active in most of Afghanistan.

In the Kite Runner when Amir finds Hassan in the alley and he sees that he is being bullied and violated he does nothing to help hassan he can't work up. The courage to try to help him save him But it is like he is frozen. He can't move he wants to help but he can't what he does is he runs away from what he saw. Amir can't face the fact that what happened to Hassan was his fault that he would not. Have crossed paths with assef if he was not so devoted to Amir he wanted to find that kite for him his beloved friend . I believe that Amir feels guilty because his want to prove to his father that he was worth something . Costed him a friend but he doesn't see that

Friendship is the best relationship you could have, it should be cherished by the people who share this kind of relationship and hold onto it forever. However, in the book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the character Amir did not hold onto this special relationship with Hassan and took it for granted by betraying, neglecting, and being disloyal. Through Amir's relationships, The Kite Runner shows the true responsibility of a friend to show us even though it didn’t only ruin a friendship but ultimately ruin a life as well. A central issue in the novel is how friendship is experienced and how the social opposites get along when they have been brought together by Baba (Baba’s servants Ali and Hassan). Throughout the novel, Amir constantly reflects on his and Hassan’s friendship. Amir is constantly questioned about his friendship with Hassan by Assef and Amir always replies with a no and then comments on their difference of ethnicities and says how superior his ethnicity is (Pashtun) and compares it to Hassan's (Hazara). Hassan admires Amir as his friend and shows it by his loyalty which is displayed in the book by him standing up for Amir against bullies like Assef. Amir's unloyal personality is brought out when Hassan is getting raped and Amir continues to do nothing which leads to the fading away of their childhood friendship.

The ending of a novel either completes or ruins the running plot. It could leave an ungodly cliffhanger, bring it to a right ending or just leave the readers guessing. Khaled Hossenini's The Kite Runner is one of those novels that correctly ends the novel by ending at the necessary time while having a underlining feeling of hope for the characters. The main character Amir is clearly seen as a guilt-heavy man who does not smile often and struggles to deal with the rough mistakes he had created. The story itself follows the same mood-very dreary and realistic to how harsh the world can be.

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.

The main protagonists in the novels A Complicated Kindness and The Kite Runner convey that identities are socially constructed. The following factors shape identity: parenting, conflict, culture, gender, and genetics. These factors all intertwine and are the primary influencers for developing the protagonist's identity. Furthermore, this is formed by the people that surround a person from their cultural stereotypes, how they teach others, and how a person learns. This essay will discuss how these factors affect the protagonist’s identity and why they are important.