The Kite Runner Literary Devices

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini reflects how the setting, the characters, and the literary devices contribute to the shaping of the novel. The novel unfolds a story through these. The setting transforms the characters into the people they are seen as at the end of the novel. Hosseini shows how the setting, the character, as well as the literary devices work together to tell the story from the beginning to the end; Hosseini uses these elements to promote the effect of the story. Thus, Hosseini reveals through The Kite Runner, the setting, the characters, and the literary devices.

The setting and atmosphere in The Kite Runner changes in order to reflect a shift from past and present events. Amir flashes back to his childhood home in Afghanistan

A flashback is a scene in a novel set in time earlier than the main story (Webster). Amir starts the novel with a flashback saying, “I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975” (Hosseini 1). This flashback is teaming with foreshadowing, working together to build the story (Burke). This indicates the entire novel will be about Amir and how he has been shaped into a man. This flashback also sets the mood to The Kite Runner. The flashbacks are told not in chronological order hence, making the story seem more realistic (Webster). Foreshadowing hints to an important event that will be unfolded in the story (Webster). Amir notices different aspects of Hassan saying, “It just appeared, this other face, for a fraction of a moment, long enough to leave me with the unsettling feeling that maybe I’d seen it someplace before” (Hosseini 54). The face that Amir is seeing in Hassan is his own (Burke). This foreshadows that Hassan is more than a friend, but family a brother that was kept a secret. The Kite Runner is built around these literary devices and creates this