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Symbolism In Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner

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Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner narrates through multiple events involving the contradicting actions of greed, courage, and betrayal against individual to individual. Amir, protagonist and narrator of the plot, goes through the remembrance of events from his hometown as a child, leading to his current position in life. In his past life, he experienced many obstacles and ramifications with his decisions in actions regarding life and friendship. The symbolism of the pomegranate tree where Amir and Hassan played daily together represented the intimate connection between the two friends, as the pelting of Hassan by Amir with pomegranates causing them to break represented the change in perspective towards each other in intimacy of their friendship due to the betrayal of Amir witnessing as a bystander in Hassan’s rape. Betrayal is used as key object within the novel, which progressively develops each character into who they become in their own genuine character. Amir presents an act of betrayal to Hassan’s rape by wanting him to depend on his own to see what he is capable of in such a conflict, which is consequently an action of greed. For that reason, he believes that he is not accountable for the act to happen to Hassan, according to as if it was Hassan’s own …show more content…

Ali, his dedicated servant, was recognized as Hassan’s biological father. Sanaubar had the inability to become pregnant through Ali, which led the betrayal of Baba towards his loyal servant to impregnate her himself. Baba’s belief towards sin was that there is a single one, thievery. Belief that a single sin would lead to many, such as dishonesty. Dishonesty was claimed to be the most hated from Baba, as it was the act of stealing the truth from an individual. This is an example of betrayal as Baba contradicts himself of despising dishonesty, while he kept in silence as a traitor towards Ali and dishonest of Hassan’s actual

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