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The Kite Runner: Complex Narrative, Plot, And

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The openings launch the author’s narratives significantly. Certainly authorial intentions emerge through a complex narrative, plot and subplot. Through three diverse texts we are able to see whether each plot’s storyline is really “the shocker.” “The Kite Runner” does contain a very complex plot as you readalong you are able to see how the story goes back many years illustrating how Amir begins to remember specific details which enable him to see the bigger picture and see each situation more clearly, for example we learn that Hassan and Amir are brothers, and how many difficulties Amir has faced to get to where he is today. However, this differs to “The Importance of being Earnest” as it does not have a complex plot, the story line is minimalistic

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