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Theme Of Violence In The Kite Runner

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Many literary works throughout history have used violence to teach a lesson or to help the author get his or her point across. The Kite Runner is no exception. Hosseini used violence all throughout this book to show how important courage was to him and how important of a trait it is for everyone to poses. He did this on more than one occasion whether it was with Hassan’s rape, Sohrab trying to kill himself, or Amir and Assef fighting. Hosseini started off the novel showing what it is like to have a lack of courage then he moved to gaining courage and finally ending with being able to use that courage to help others. The way he showed a lack of courage through violence was Hassan’s rape. When Amir was standing there watching this heinous crime take place he has to choose whether he was going to help or just turn away and ignore what was happening. "I had one last chance to make a decision. One final opportunity to decide who I was going to be. I could step into that alley, stand up Hassan-the way he'd stood up for me all those times in the past-and accept whatever would happen to me. Or I could run. I the end, I ran." (Pg 77). When Amir ran from this violence he showed that he didn't have the courage to stand up for Hassan and it started his personal struggles that persisted throughout the book. If Amir would have had the courage to have stopped the violent act that was happening to his friend the main part of the book wouldn't have existed. The inner struggle that came

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