The Blue Kite

The Kite Runner For the final summer reading assignment, I chose the book The Kite Runner. I chose this book because it was previously purchased by my older siblings for their summer assignments. This way, I figured I would save money by avoiding the purchase of a brand new book. Out of the numerous lessons I’ve learned in this book, the one that was most prevalent to me is that bad things happen to good people. This occurs several times in The Kite Runner with the character Hassan. He is always

In Khaled Hosseini’s book, The Kite Runner, the author brings the reader on a journey where we are introduced to two young boys, Amir and Hassan. It is a story about their friendship and the choices they make while growing up in Kabul. Although, Amir and Hassan are raised in the same household, and are fed from same breast, they grow up in different realities: Amir is a Pashtun and the son of a rich and noble man, Hassan is a Hazara and Amir’s servant, whose father also served for Amir’s father.

THE KITE RUNNER Symbolism is a literary device found in all mediums. Symbols are marks or words that designate the significant features in a piece of literature. They allow people to connect to the many concepts found in the literary works. The novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, showcases this notion of symbolism well. These symbols come full circle by the end of the novel as they represent pivotal moments in the close bond Amir and Hassan share. Within the novel, Hosseini uses a kite to symbolize

Shield, Heater Shield, Kite Shield, Pavise Shield and Targe Shield.

“Hope is knowing that people, like kites, are made to be lifted up” (ARO). Kites play a large role in the book The Kite Runner and in the Afghanistan Relief Organization. Kites are similar to people and symbolize being uplifted and emerging from our problems. In the book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, this is reflected at the end of the story where Sohrab lifts Amir from his sins. The end applies to the statement given by the Afghanistan Relief Organization and how they’re both connected. Expanding

him and ended up as one of those people who had gotten rid of their best friend from his childhood. A great author, Khaled Hosseini explains what happens further on in someone’s life when they get rid of their childhood best friend. In the novel The Kite Runner, Hosseini uses betrayal, jealousy and guilt to demonstrate what one’s life could end up in the middle east if one leaves after inevitably destroying a childhood friendship. The stories that Hosseini tells from Amir throughout the entire story

In The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini consistently includes two blatant themes, friendship, and sacrifice, in order to create a sense of family to the main character, Amir. The books starts off with Amir’s childhood memories of himself and Hassan, his family’s servants son. Amir and Hassan had been inseparable best friends, since the day they were born. In fact, the two were so close that Hassan’s first word was Amir’s name (Hosseini 11). Hassan was time and time again there to defend Amir and stand

In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, we learn a lot about Amir the main character, and Hassan his servant/brother. In the beginning Hassan and Amir’s relationship was one of brotherly love despite the fact that Hassan was a Hazara and Amir a Pashtun. Back in the 1970’s race and religion played a big part in Kabul and these two races were not suppose to have relationships unless it was owner (Pashtun) and servant (Hazara). Baba Amir’s father had an affair with Hassan’s mother, but it was kept a

Brazilian Guided Tour Daytripper, by brothers Fabio Moon and Gabriel Bá was my first graphic novel of any length. As someone who has not been a fan of comic books or graphic novels, I’d have to say I enjoyed Daytripper more than I thought I would. Initially, I found the storyline hard to follow and was surprised at the death in the first chapter of who appeared to be the main character. After delving into the second chapter, I became more comfortable with the story line, helped along by the beautiful

“Then I glanced up and saw a pair of kites, red with long blue tails, soaring in the sky. They danced high above the trees on the west end of the park, over the windmills, floating side by side like a pair of eyes looking down on San Francisco, the city I now call home.” [p. 1-2] Flying kites together seemed to be the most treasured childhood past time these two boys had growing up, for Amir, Baba’s son, and Hassan, the servant son. They were two kids in Afghanistan, from different classes of society