Dialectical Journal For The Kite Runner

Chapters 1 through 10
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It had surprised me that though Pop Eye was white and had the opportunity to leave the island following the blockade, he didn’t. To me, I am able to get a general understanding of who this character is. I see him as a good character as he is married to a woman of colour, more or less breaking through a part of the segregation. Pop Eye shows that he holds goodness within himself as he begins teaching at the school because all of the teachers left, despite his lack of credentials. I thought it was a generous and wonderful thing as the mothers joined to educate their children using their wisdom and knowledge, it is brave to pass that down. Matilda shows that she understands her mother’s way of single minded thinking

I also felt proud when I began to realize that Amir’s character was developing positively. Amir had finally stood up for himself letting Baba know that literature was what he wanted to study and that there was no other option for him, he would not resort to anything else. It made me happy to see Amir’s character developing positively in the sense that he let himself out of his comfort zone, knowing that his disconnection for his new life had a greater meaning behind it, greater opportunity for a better life. He sees America as a high ground, somewhere he is able to escape his past and move forward, which again makes me excited to see Amir’s willingness for a new

Baba says “When you kill a man, you steal a life, you steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.” Finding out that Baba has an affair with his servant’s wife and fathering Hassan, I understood why Baba was protective of Hassan, but, it made me think about why he would speak those words and I want to know why he would if he was being a hypocrite. Was it to protect Hassan? Was it to encourage Amir to not follow in his footsteps? Either way, I believe that lying about being Hassan’s father created more harm than good. Lying to Amir his whole life could only magnify Amir’s feelings of anger and guilt when he found out Hassan was his