Morality In The Kite Runner

Anchit Mishra

Ms. Kanika Dang

English Term-2 Paper

10 November 2015

Morality as Depicted in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner

Humans are often known to differentiate their actions into two major parts— Right and Wrong. However, since there exists no universal definition of these words, and the human condition relates morality heavily with emotions, how is one to know which is which? The brief answer to this is:— There is no answer. In this human world, where most of our actions are governed by emotional impulses, it is not possible for a binary segregation of right and wrong to take place, without leading to conflict. The aim of this paper is to analyse this situation and to examine whether or not the absence of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ actually makes a difference when emotions come into play.

With the passage of time, people have come to develop further understanding of the abstract, unquantifiable forces that are ‘emotions’. Furthermore, as the knowledge about emotions has blended with morality, artists have increasingly expressed their thoughts on emotions through their media. More specifically, in the genre of movies, lit-erature, and video games, the paradigms have evolved to depict morality in a much more human manner. An example that has really stood out in this respect recently is the video game ‘The Last of Us’.

Drawing from The Last of Us, the game presents players with a story that superfi-cially shows the fate of the world hanging in balance, but connects it with