Khaled Hosseini

The paper you are about to read is going to be discussing the theme of the novel, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. The Kite Runner is a story about two boys, which happen to be best friends, that each have to make their own choices about their loyalty to each other and the road they take throughout their lives. However, one fateful night after a kite fighting competition, Amír, the protagonist, makes a decision that changes both of their lives, and that very decision drives the events that follow

positive that they have been “more sinn’d against than sinning.”, yet the reader outweighs the character’s opinions with interpreting their actions as actually having sinned against others more than they have been sinned against. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini revolves around the life of a person, Amir, whom feels that he has been lied to his entire life, forgetting that he has done more wrong than what has been done to him. Amir is the son of a rich business man,

The Prison of the Past The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini gives rise to many themes regarding Amir’s quest for redemption. The Kite Runner is a statement about the past, and how it acts as a prison, binding people to bygone mistakes and unatoned sins of their past. In Amir’s attempts to break free from the shackles of his past, Housseini leaves readers questioning whether it was destined that guilt would send Amir on a journey of pain and misfortune back to Pakistan. Nobody within The Kite Runner

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

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, addresses the issue of violence and ethnic discrimination in Afghanistan with an example of the relationship between Pashtuns and Hazaras. The novel uses Assef as a conduit to reveal the cruelty that people, mainly Hazaras, were forced to go through. He is what Amir has to come to terms with at the end of the novel, the evil and inhumanity of Afghanistan. Hassan most likely represents what is good and kind. Amir is caught between Hassan and Assef, two contradicting

dilemmas and ideals are used extensively across the multi-cultural spectrum to express freedom and redemption to all. One such form of expression, unbounded by ignorance and restrictions, is literature. The author of the book The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini, excellently uses his mastery of the art of literature to express the philosophical ideas of redemption through the uses of imagery, excellent and heart-tugging storytelling, and consistent use of flashbacks. He does so to express that everyone

always finds a woman. You remember that Mariam” (Hosseini 7). In this passage from A Thousand Splendid Suns, Mariam’s mother explains to her what her father is really like. Through the begging of this novel, Mariam sees her father, Jalil, as the better parent and views her mother as the more strict one. Nana isn’t fond of Jalil because after he had got her pregnant, he denied that he tried sleeping with Nana, “That [she] forced [herself] on him” (Hosseini 6). Mariam doesn’t believe this story. She feels

redeem himself from an early in life tragedy, Amir, the young man, struggles to find the perfect redemption to end his suffering. By reading about Amir’s mistakes and redemption attempts, we are able to see what truths about redemption the author, Khaled Hosseini, is trying to inform us about. Although Amirs makes a plethora of mistakes, they all are based off of his mistreating of Hassan. We finally realize that Amir knows he had made these mistakes late in the book when, describing his father, Amir

n the book A Thousand Splendid Suns , which was written and published by Khaled Hosseini in 2007, is an engrossing historical fiction novel that goes in depth about the mistreatment of women in Afghanistan in the mid twentieth century until now. The author pinpoints and focuses on the ill-treatment of women and how they are treated like property instead of human beings. Also he focuses on the harsh laws that are made in Afghanistan for everybody. As you read the book , you will feel like you’re

comes into play along with many other aspects, one being gender roles. While “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini focuses mostly on Amir, it is very clear that gender expectations are visible in the novel. The importance and role of women are one of the leading factors in the novel. Although gender roles have changed over time and males and females have become equal than before in western culture, Hosseini uses Soraya, Jamila and the Taliban to emphasize the roles and expectations that are placed upon