The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, could be described as a “political allegory for global ethics” (Jefferess, 392). The Kite Runner speaks out against religious power and ethnic discrimination through the eyes of an Afghan boy as he struggles with guilt, betrayal, acceptance, and redemption. Opposed to writing another novel about coming of age or the hardships of being an immigrant, Hosseini develops a story enveloping both concepts while also incorporating spectacle, a story of salvation and Afghan culture (Jefferess, 389). While the ideas of Afghan culture may be completely foreign to Western readers, Hosseini connects with them through Amir’s journey of guilt to redemption, allowing the reader, regardless of circumstance, location,

The Kite Runner is a film based on the first novel of Khaled Hosseini, which was published in 2003 and became a bestseller, thus was translated to many different languages and spread around the world, becoming a discussion topic for quite a while. One of the reasons why this book is so rich and attractive is the variety of characters, which are all born in Afghanistan and spent at least most of their childhood there, but at the same time have different views, virtues and experience. And those characters, depending on the generation they belong to, are shaped by particular circumstances, political and historical events.

In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, he depicts the oppression the Hazara people face in Afghanistan through his main characters, Ali and Hassan. His vivid illustration of the demeaning behavior towards the Hazara people (Ali) set the underlying tone of this novel.

The desire to feel loved and wanted by your parents can drive a person to go to extreme limits to get that love. One boy that goes to these extreme limits is Amir. All Amir wants is to have a good, strong relationship with his father. He feels the death of his mother was his fault, and he needed to make it up to his father. In doing so, Amir let’s horrible things happen to his friend Hassan. Many many years later, after fleeing to America, Amir returns to Afghanistan in search of redemption of his actions all those years ago. The theme of The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini is redemption. Through Amir’s life, that’s what he’s been doing to himself, trying to redeem himself from his acts that have brought pain

Khaled Hosseini’s uses of metaphor, juxtaposition, and parallelism in The Kite Runner help exude a variety of motifs, such as redemption and regret, along with one of the book’s central themes: in order to truly live life, one has to stop dwelling on the events of the past and move forward. If not for these stylistic choices of the author, much of The Kite Runner’s meaning would be lost entirely because of their importance in developing both the story’s characters and plot, as well as the emotional impact of the scenarios various characters are placed in. In particular, the character arc of Amir, the main protagonist of the book, would be stripped of an immense amount of significance. Other than the aforementioned reasons, these literary devices

This summer, just like any other summer, I was enslaved in my own home, enforced to read a book. This time, it was The Kite Runner, which I also had to watch the movie. The book, The Kite Runner, is about a man named Amir, a Muslim, who struggles to find a reason behind his placement in this world because of a series of traumatic experiences in his childhood. The novel begins with an adult-version of Amir with an unclear reference with one of his traumatic events, where the novel then sends the reader to Amir's childhood in Afghanistan. In addition to everyday childhood experiences, Amir longs a closer relationship with his father, Baba, by trying to determine his nature around the Muslim servant, Hassan, which eventually causes pre-adolescent decisions that have lasting repercussions. Throughout the story, the readers are able to experience growing up in Afghanistan with one parent, in a tight situation that contains remarkable similarities to contemporary households.

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.

The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, beautifully takes readers in depth into the life of two boys; one who is conflicted and emotionally unsure, and the other who is pure, loyal, and portrays goodness and integrity. After deeply analizying the text, I came to a realization on how the story displayed a central human theme. The manner in which we are raised will determine the way that we will react when making a critical decision in society, as seen in the story where Amir and Hassan have significant differences in their decisions and values in their lives. Amir, who is raised in a wealthy household by his father Baba, is well educated and behaved, but lacks the ability to stand up for a something he believes in, or in a few cases that the readers saw, a friend. Hassan, the Hazara

The kite runner will show you how violence affects more than just the one whose being hurt. In the novel The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini purposely utilizes setting to play a pivotal role in writing a post 9/11 Afghan and American novel. The author’s incorporation of Afghan and American settings over a time frame successfully illustrates the differences and similarities between Eastern and Western culture, as well as highlighting

The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, was such an inspiring and powerful book that it was turned into an extraordinary movie. Both the book and movie was able to capture the storyboard of these two young boys, Amir and Hassan, growing up in Afghanistan, one Pakistan and one Hazara, that are friends until they were separated because of jealously. The Pakistan boy, Amir, moved to America due to the war and came back to Afghanistan for a Hazara boy. This allowed him to evolve as a person, different from his childish self in the past. However, there are instances where there are differences between the film and novel that loses some unforgettable scenes and feelings that readers felt in the book.

The moving and inspirational book, The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, depicts the interesting and emotional journey of Amir and his father as they escape the volatile geopolitical state in Afghanistan during the 1980s and move to the United States to remove any entanglement with the indecency of the people in Afghanistan, who were willing to give up lives in exchange for money. To complete this transition in their lives, they move to Fremont, California. This experience was truly eye-opening to not only Amir but also Baba, as he now has to adjust to the American culture that in some cases is the polar opposite of the Afghani culture that he is accustomed to. One of the overarching moral conflicts was the role of women in society in

Hosseini has expressed copious essential values and ideas in his novel The Kite Runner (TKR) including Loyalty, Culture, Gender and Ethnicity and Atonement. Hosseini has expressed these through the combination of style, structure, characterisation, themes and setting.

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

The story is based on the life and journey undertaken by Amir, the protagonist. Hosseini expresses essential ideas in his novel through the themes of redemption/atonement, the relationship between father and son and lastly, the theme of degradation/discrimination. The author expresses these themes through the setting and characterization. Hosseini presents characters from different social status in Afghanistan and how this affected their childhood. Amir despite coming from a privileged class had to work hard for his atonement by going back to Afghanistan to face his demons as well as to mend his relationship with his father who had rejected him since his birth. On the other hand, Hassan, from the minority class suffered because of his social status after he was abused and mistreated by those in power. The Kite Runner is a story about two boys who grew up in different worlds because of the presence of various social classes in

Set mostly in Afghanistan in the regime of Taliban, the book Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini has won many hearts from its reader. The book that first published in 2003 really deserves a title as The National Bestseller. Bringing the theme of friendship, betrayal, guilt, redemption and the uneasy love between fathers and sons this novel had me thrilled and moved, both at the same time. Hosseini successfully portrays the feeling of the characters and also the situational at that time, about social issues such as ethnic prejudice, gender politics and adolescent bullying.