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The Kite Runner Analytical Essay

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• Amir is characterized as an intellectual • The allusion to the power Rami who was born in Afghanistan. • Even though Amir won the battle of poems, Baba’s characterized unveils that he is more athletic. • Hassan expresses his loyalty to Amir by bringing his kite like he promised, even after losing his innocence. • The author identifies the rape as allegorized and Amir is standing in front t of the incident, witnessing it. Amir painstakingly describes the incident of Hassan getting raped in the alleyway. • Hassan respects Amir more than anything and he considers themselves as friends. While Amir doesn’t because of Amir being a Pashtun and Hassan being a Hazara. • Baba doesn’t want to announce his illness to others Afghani around the neighborhood. …show more content…

(Literary device: Flash Back) • Rahim Khan knows the incident with Hassan and he knows of a way for Amir to be good again and stop Amir from feeling guilty. • In the Kite Runner, Rahim Khan has taken a tremendously positive, and uplifting tone towards Amir, to tell him that in life there is “a way to be good” again. Even if you do something very terrible. • Hosseini explicitly describes his inner guilt and strength as the motivation for an individual to seek improvement in life and he wants to reach the satisfaction of self-fulfillment through the characters of Baba and Amir • Hassan death represents the political struggle devastating Kabul and the ingrained preconception against the Hazaras. • Rahim Khan tells Amir about the Taliban officials wanting Baba’s house. As a result of Hassan being a Hazara, it implies that he has no right to live in this house because a Hazara like him cannot afford a big house like Baba’s. • The value of a Hazaras life is none in Kabul. Foreshadow of Hassan’s death occur when the Taliban first took over after the victory against the

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