The Kite Runner Analysis

The Kite Runner is the first novel of Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. It tells the story of Amir, a boy from Kabul, Afghanistan, whose closest friend is Hassan, a young Hazara servant. Novel turns around these two characters and Baba, Amir’s father, by telling their tragic stories, guilt and redemption that are woven throughout the novel. Even in the difficult moments, characters build up to their guilt and later on to their redemption. Their sins and faults alter the lives of innocent people. First, Amir and Baba fail to take action on the path to justice for Ali and Hassan. Moreover, Amir and Baba continue to build up their guilt due to their decisions and actions. Although Amir builds up more guilt than Baba throughout the novel, he eventually succeeds in the road to redemption unlike his father. After all, Amir and Baba have many chances to fix their atonements but Baba chooses not to and Amir does. Baba uses his wealth to cover up his sins but never atone himself while Amir decides to stand up and save Sohrab and finally finds peace. Amir and Baba’s reaction to sins essentially indicate their peace of mind and how they react to guilt and injustice.

In his critically acclaimed first novel, The Kite Runner, author Khaled Hosseini tells the story of a 12-year-old Afghan boy named Amir, who seeks his father’s love but is hindered by his own cowardice. Both Amir’s cowardice and his father’s lack of attention are compounded by the people and events surrounding Amir, until they feed into each other in a vicious, never-ending cycle.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a novel about life in Afghanistan that follows a boy named Amir, his father Baba, and their two servants Hassan and Ali. Amir and Baba are wealthy Pashtuns, and Baba is well respected. Hassan and Ali, on the other hand, are Hazara, an ethnic minority in Afghanistan. The Hazara people are oppressed and seen as inferior to the Pashtun people. Baba, however, doesn’t treat them as inferior:this way, he shows kindness towards Hassan, instead ofunlike Amir. Throughout Amir’s childhood, he is constantly ignored by Baba because he does not fit Baba’s idea of the son he wants. Baba’s general disapproval and disinterest in Amir shows that he is a bad father to Amir, especially because he shows the opposite emotions to Hassan.

The Kite Runner is a historical fiction book written by an Afghan-born American, Khaled Hosseini. Hosseini, the son of an Afghani diplomat, was born and raised in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he lived until the age of eleven. In his novel, The Kite Runner, Hosseini shows the path from guilt to redemption for Amir, the son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul. It shows Amir’s struggles and successes in finding and staying true to himself. Hosseini changes setting many times throughout the course of the book. He uses this element extraordinarily well to help the reader understand how life changed for Amir, to help the reader understand the emotions of the characters, and to help the reader relate to some of the circumstances that Amir encountered.

In the novel The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini tells a notable coming-of-age story portraying the actions and thoughts of Amir, a penitent adult living in the United States and his reminiscence of his affluent childhood in the unstable political environment of Afghanistan. Throughout the novel Khaled Hosseini uses character description to display his thoughts on sin and redemption.

In the novel, Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, the protagonist, Amir, is torn between two truths as he lived associated with different kinds of religious groups in Afghan society: Pashtuns and Hazaras. Each identity played a unique part in Amir’s life. Whether they had a positive or negative effect, both changed his values and beliefs. Individuals also shaped Amir’s character. Baba, Assef, and Hassan were major influences upon Amir’s growth throughout the book; their differences shaped Amir into the man he later became as all three represented a different side of Afghan society.

In The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini creates an awareness and humanization of Afghanistan as a nation and as a culture. Through a postcolonial perspective, the main character, Amir resembles the internal conflicts and external tribulations that a country and its citizens’ face when living in a war-torn region.

Fatherhood in this novel is seen by different shade of colour, not knowing what the true shade really is. There are many turning points which show various stages in being a true father. Therefore, being a father is very difficult, having to overcome obstacles and being strong for each other. A well-known saying “like father, like son” is evident in this novel by the different ties of relationship each character had. In the novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini proves that there is need of a fatherly figure when growing up. Having a father-son bond helps the child differentiate right from wrong. The relationship which demonstrates the need of a father figure is depicted by Baba and Amir, Hassan and Sohrab as well as Amir and Sohrab.

In the book The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini uses both simple and complex sentences, along with intriguing dialogue, to create a thought-provoking story. “My body was broken—just how badly I wouldn’t find out until later—but I felt healed” (Hosseini 289). A very simple, yet meaningful sentence, that displays an underlying irony. From the moment Amir witnesses Hassan’s rape, he is riddled with a guilt-he cannot escape. Finally, when he is brutally beaten by Assef, Amir starts to feel a sense of healing. This punishment is something he was somewhat looking forward to, because he felt that he deserved it.

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 story ‘The Kite Runner’ by Khaled Hosseini an Afghani Citizen creates a character named Amir. In the story, Amir tells us of the Afghani culture and way of life from his perspective. The author describes to us his own point of view through Amir. The setting takes place in two countries but for the essay I will be talking about the one setting taking place in Kabul the capital of Afghanistan.

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.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, an Afghan-American author, is about a man, Amir, talking about his life as an Afghan in both Afghanistan and the United States. The book begins in the 1970’s when Amir lives in Afghanistan until he moves to the United States by 1980, and throughout his life in America, Amir persists to talk about his life in Afghanistan until he returns there in 2001 to visit an old family friend. Since Hosseini is an Afghan-American, he uses his own experiences to develop the novel with a character with similar experiences and persona as well as a completely accurate history of Afghanistan from the 1970’s to 2002. Though sad-hearted, the book is very compelling and intriguing while readers experience Amir’s journey with

In great literature, the violent scenes contribute to the overall meaning of the work. The book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is about a boy named Amir that moved to America from Kabul, Afghanistan after war broke out, and Afghanistan was taken over by Russian forces. Back in Kabul, Amir and his father, Baba, had two servants, Ali, and his son, Hassan. Amir and Hassan were some of the closest friends until Ali and Hassan quit their jobs and moved away, and Amir and Baba moved to California. In the book The Kite Runner, the scenes of violence contribute to the overall meaning of the book.

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.