Theme Of Deceit In The Kite Runner

This research project is focused on understanding a book, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. In addition, the project objective is to understand choices, actions, and processes of characters and what factors led them to arrive to such consequences.

Khaled Hosseini’s, “The Kite Runner”, uses an abundance of diction and tone, to convey a centralized motif. Hosseini, uses three specific symbols throughout the story, the cleft lip; kites; the lamb. The central symbols, tie into what the overall theme is of the story, the search of redemption, tension and love between father and son. Hosseini expressed his centralized motif of irony and regressing in time by using symbolism and figurative language to make his point more clear “I actually aspired to cowardice, because the alternative, the real reason I was running, was that Assef was right: Nothing was free in this world. Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba.”

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.

In the Kite Runner, deception is one of the main plot points that improve the story and characters. Deception is used to progress the book so that Amir, the main character, travels back to Afghanistan after being in America and is where the most memorable things happen in the book. In the book the deception make the main plot points of the story, is the driving force for why everything is happening, and is what made Kite Runner good.

Guilt has the incredible power to change an individual’s perspective and affect them for the rest of their life. The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, is a world-renowned novel published in 2003 that tells the story of a young boy named Amir who grows up with the guilt of having failed to fight the group of boys who raped his closest friend. One of the main themes Hosseini emphasizes in the novel, is the powerful affect of guilt on one’s self. Different characters such as Amir, Sanubar and Baba use the guilt that exists in every one of them as a motive to their actions to further develop the plot. Amir, the narrator of the novel, witnesses his closest friend, Hassan, get bullied by an older boy named Aseef and decides not to

Honesty and respect are among many qualities that deep relationships carry, especially loyalty. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, he uses two young boys to convey his theme, “loyalty is not freely given, it is learned.” This theme is portrayed as Hosseini uses examples of devotion from his character, Hassan, to teach Amir what defines loyalty. While these two 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 is a powerful book contrasting selfishness and selflessness. The book follows the life of Amir, a character who experiences guilt and tragedy throughout his life. While growing up in Kabul, Amir witnesses the imperfect and prejudice society in his country. Within an imperfect society, there are many who are self-invested, and among those, there are those who are selfless. Characters Amir and Hassan possess selfish and selfless traits. The traits that these characters possess are influenced by fear, victimization, and loyalty, ultimately leading them to inaction and action.

The consequences of the past are inescapable and the choices a person makes can influence the rest of his life. There is no way to change the past, so once important choices are made it is impossible to reverse time and change those decisions. Khaled Hosseini explores this idea of having to live with past decisions in his compelling novel The Kite Runner. To enforce the message of how inescapable the past truly is, the main character of Hosseini’s book, Amir, betrays his closest friend and struggles to cope with the haunting consequences of this betrayal. Through Amir’s complex character development and The Kite Runner’s distinctive plot structure, those who read the novel gain a deeper understanding of Amir’s decisions as a result of his past mistakes via Hosseini’s use of foreshadowing and flashbacks. By creating a unique relationship between the past and present in the novel, Hosseini urges readers to ponder the consequences of mistakes and reflect on their own past.

Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is an award-winning novel and considered one of today’s most popular, contemporary classics. The story is one of familiar themes such as loyalty, forgiveness, betrayal, love, and redemption. It follows the tale of Amir and how he must atone for his sins and find a way to “be good again” (Hosseini 2). The quintessential message of this book relies on the idea of second chances. Themes of redemption, betrayal, loyalty, and forgiveness are not only shown without doubt through this book, but are also common among many literary works and religions. Hosseini is successful in showing the significance of these themes throughout the novel.

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.

Secrets are things that are suppose to be kept hidden from society. While some may hide them well, they not only take a toll on the person holding them, but the people around them too. In the book Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the main character Amir has his life turned upside down when one of the biggest secrets in the book get out. As we look at Freud’s Theory, it is clear that people in this book keep secrets because of their egos. While many characters are affected by these secrets, if shows the most through Amir. He has to live with the guilt from past decisions and feels the need to redeem himself throughout the book.

How does Hosseini use symbolism in ‘The Kite Runner’ to present key relationships? You should consider different reader responses and the extent to which your critical approach assists your interpretation.

Life is unpredictable and full of difficult decisions. Each decision one makes, has the powers to drastically change the direction in which one's life goes. Each decision is the difference between a life full of prosperity and a life full of regret.One character, Amir learns the difference of a regrettable choice which causes him to live in a state of guilt for years. As time passes, truths are revealed and Amir earns a chance to relieve his guilt, but his journey was not as easy as one would have hoped. Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, shows readers how a single day can alter the course of a life. Through the events that occurred on the kite flying day, finding out the truth of something hidden, and going back to Pakistan, the main character Amir’s life was shaken from his steady foundation.

friend. In the beginning, Amir and Hassan were the best of friends and did everything together. But things turned out for the worst for Amir and he betrayed Hassan to get Baba’s affection. Amir redeemed himself of his horrible past by taking in Hassan’s son, so he can have a future sin free. Hosseini portrays that the guilt does eat a person up, and that Amir couldn’t stand the guilt, but he was too late to fix his horrible deed. Was Amir really Hassan’s friend considering everything that Amir did to him? In the novel Kite Runner, Hosseini shows that Amir didn’t think of Hassan as his friend which he shows through his betrayal and the point that his redemption was only because he couldn’t take the guilt anymore and the sins, so it wasn’t because of Hassan.

One of the major themes in The Kite Runner is betrayal. Betrayal reoccurs throughout the book during multiple occasions within different characters. Hassan, Amir’s servant and friend, serves and defends Amir in several ways, and even says to Amir, “For you, a thousand times over” (Hosseini 167). While Hassan is molested by Assef, Amir becomes a bystander and watches the incident happening from a far, and by doing this he was betraying Hassan with his cowardliness. Not only did Amir betray Hassan, but Baba had betrayed his friend, Ali, as well. Baba who seems to be the definition of a perfect man is not so