The Kite Runner Movie And Book Comparison Essay

The Kite Runner is a book about the life of Amir and the people around him. The book starts off with Amir at a very young age and follows him through adulthood. The book also has a movie adaptation by Marc Forster. They follow the same story line but handle certain scenarios in a very different manner. The movie (like most book-to-movie adaptations) shortens certain scenes, cuts out entire scenes, and seems to be for a generally younger audience as it censors certain scenes. The book seems to capture the emotion and atmosphere of the story better, but that might just be me. An example of this is the scenes that involves Amir adopting Sohrab. In the book it's a long drawn out process involving death, rape, differences in culture, corruption under the taliban, and severe forms of abuse. In the book Amir has to go undercover and go to a ballgame where a surprise execution of a young man and young women accused of adultery and is explained

The book goes into great detail about how Baba and Amir felt about America and how life in America was actually starting to depress them. A entire scene detailing how hard life in america was cut from the movie. This scene takes place in a grocery store owned by Mr. and Mrs. Nguyen. Baba enters the store attempting to buy some oranges for himself and Amir, he didn't have cash on him so he attempts to pay with a check which requires I.D. to be shown. He didn't have his I.D. on him and can't buy the fruit, he then has an anger outburst shouting about how he's bought from them for two years, damages property, talks down upon the Nguyens, and sees what is a very common system as biased against him (Baba thought the Nguyens were accusing him of being a thief). Amir has to enter the store and try to calm everything down as well as return later to ask for forgiveness and say he’ll pay for the