Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is a fictional narrative about a man who grew up in Afghanistan. Hosseini uses his personal experience from his childhood there, and other general knowledge about the area, to tackle issues of the Middle East that western culture often ignores. Every page of this novel is rhetorically rich with devices like diction, analogy, and realism. There is a short anecdote, beginning on page three and concluding on the top of page four, that embodies many of these great rhetorical strategies that Hosseini employs. This childhood flashback effectively introduces, and characterizes, two of the novel’s main characters, along with establishing a relationship between the narrator, later named Amir, and his childhood friend. …show more content…
Hosseini stays within the parameters of the story Amir is telling. By doing this, describing Hassan becomes a natural part of the novel, rather than feeling forced. The author uses a metaphor to describe Hassan’s features. To quote the passage directly, Hassan had “a face like a chinese doll chiseled from hardwood," this metaphor emphasizes his smooth complexion, and his predominantly asian features, and also keeps the reader engaged. Having the image of a chinese doll to focus on gives the imagery perspective makes it more compelling. When Hosseini describes Hassan’s final defining physical feature, his cleft lip, he accentuates it by assigning it its own unique part of the metaphor: the doll …show more content…
The passage doesn’t delve deeply into Ali’s character, but does present the character at face value. Just as he had with Hassan, Hosseini uses the opportunity the story presents to characterize Ali. When he finds the boys in the tree misbehaving, the readers learn that Ali is kindhearted, and thus doesn’t become as angry as others might. The wagging of his fingering and waving the boys down, rather than shouting, is an example of this kindness. Many angry parents would not scold their children so calmly. In connection to this idea, but also building another aspect of Ali’s character, Hosseini then uses, in order to prevent the flow of the paragraph from being interrupted, dialogue embedded into a sentence; rather than have Ali actually say these things Hosseini tells us he said them. The line says “He would take the mirror and tell us what his mother had told him, that the devil shone mirrors too, shone them to distract Muslims during prayer,” which establishes that Ali is a religious
Character Trait Note #1: Amir fits the character trait of Cowardly because of how he cannot stand up for himself or others sometimes, mostly when he was younger. This quote shows how Amir is a coward because he would not stand up to Assef and help Hassan. Instead, he ran away and pretended that he was never there. Another example of Amir’s cowardice was when Baba would persuade him to act a certain way and how he wanted to be a writer, but Baba wouldn’t let him. He always wanted to impress Baba and he was a coward because he didn’t profess his true feelings or what he felt about what he wanted to do.
Figurative language can help to make a novel even better than it is in so many ways. It makes the details in the story come to life for the reader and it creates an impression on the reader, as well. Hosseini uses the different types of figurative language, like similes and metaphors, to display several different concepts in this dynamic story. In the novel The Kite Runner, figurative language is used in order to show the difference between Pashtuns and Hazaras, to reveal the war and fighting in Afghanistan, and to display the power that Amir and Baba have while also enhancing the experience of the story for the reader.
This imagery further sets the scene for Amir to face his past, for not only is he where he fell from grace, but he is less than three feet from the person he betrayed. Then, something interesting happens- “Watch, Sohrab. I’m going to show you one of your father’s favorite tricks…(pg 369) Amir’s portrayal as a character is beginning to change. This new characterization places Amir in an important role- the teacher and the close family friend.
You’d never guess that a novel titled “The Kite Runner” would ever lead into an epic tale of betrayal, forgiveness, love, and eventually redemption; however, Hosseini manages to do it all. “The Kite Runner” was written by Khaled Hosseini in first person primarily describing events that occurred in the past. Sohrab is saved from a life of sexual abuse and an orphanage, but is unable to escape his traumas. Sohrab’s internal conflict with himself regarding his sexual abuse and orphan status made him feel depressed resulting in an attempted suicide . Sohrab was sexually abused which has caused him to feel dirty and sinful.
In written works, a writer presents a certain theme in several unique ways. The author may express a theme through the feelings of the main character about a certain subject. Similarly, themes can be presented through thoughts and conversations of different characters. The theme of Ignorance within a dominant character or a group of characters normally prevents them from obtaining a certain goal or ambition and later, understanding through epiphany, the coming of a certain realization. Literature, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic value, show a contemporary way of what takes place when the main character and lack of knowledge collide with outside forces like society.
The 2007 blockbuster film, “The Kite Runner,” directed by Marc Forster, is an adaptation based on the novel by author Khaled Hosseini. The Kite Runner tells the story of an epic tale of two boys Amir and Hassan, and their struggle with friendship because of the political systemic class structure between the ethnic groups of the Pashtun and the Hazara’s. The plot of both the film and the novel is set in Afghanistan during the 70’s and goes all the way through the early 00’s. The chaotic history of Afghanistan is told from the perspective of Amir one of the few privilege children growing up in Afghanistan before the monarch was taken over by the new government. Usually, when it comes to a film adaptation of a novel there are things left out such
Hosseini writes that Hassan represents Amir 's failure in his childhood and as Amir grows into an adult, while Hassan 's son, Sohrab represents Amirs redemption. The author Hosseini starts the story out with the love and tension between a father and his sons. Baba had two sons, Amir and
The Kite Runner is a brilliant book by Khaled Hosseini. This novel tells the story of a Pashtun family and their Hazara servants. Amir, who is the narrator, witnesses an event that becomes a pivotal moment in his life that leaves him with a vast amount of guilt. After Ali and Hassan leave, Baba and Amir escape to America in hopes of having a better life. Amir is forced to grow up much faster, so he can take care of his father, and meets the daughter of General Taheri, Soraya; eventually they get married.
The novel “The Kite Runner” is about a young boy who grew up in Afghanistan during the 1970’s, and later moved to America as an adolescent: during his life’s journey, he betrayed a close childhood friend, discovered a betrayal, and was finally able to right the wrong he had done. The protagonist Amir is an eleven-year-old boy living in Kabul, Afghanistan with his father, Baba, and their Hazara servants, a man named Ali and his young son Hassan. In the year 1975, there is a kite tournament where Amir and Hassan fly a kite together. Hassan is running the kite for Amir when he is cornered in an alley and is sexually assaulted by the town bully, Assef. Because Amir witnessed the rape and did nothing he frames Hassan so his father will send
The novel, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, portrays three main settings; Kabul, Afghanistan before the war, Fremont, California in the 1980’s and 1990’s, and finally Kabul again in 2001 when the war is progressing rapidly. In each of these settings Amir’s character develops in diverse ways. As our protagonist moves from place to place, he transforms from a cowardly, and somewhat greedy boy into a brave man who will fight for what is without a thought to the consequences. As a boy in Kabul, Amir, although creative and intellectual, is somewhat spineless and cruel.
The Kite Runner, a story of an unexpected friendship between a wealthy boy and his servant, is written by Khaled Hosseini. Hosseini was born on March 4, 1965, in Kabul, Afghanistan. At the age of 11, his family was relocated to Paris by the Foreign Ministry. By 1980, Hosseini’s family was granted permission to move back to Afghanistan, however because of the invasion of the Soviet army and a communist coup, they never returned to their hometown. Instead they immigrated to San Diego, USA, where Hosseini obtained a medical degree in the University of California San Diego.
The author used this line ‘Never mind that to me, the face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and low-set ears, a boy with a Chinese doll face perpetually lit by a harelipped smile.’ to illustrate Hassan was a boy always with a smiling face. He used the laughter to covered his sorrow or other negative emotion. The disability of harelipped made a mask of smile for him. ‘Still, I don't know it.?
Amir’s cruelty to his friend Hassan, and his quest to redeem himself repeats over several generations. The desire for redemption also takes root in Amir’s father, Baba, who hopes to someday express his true relationship with Hassan. Hosseini connects both characters experiences to circularity and the idea that
Tacit Loyalty Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, includes a tale disclosed by the narrator, Amir, about his life leading up to the present as an adult. The author portrays the resent, the hardship, the sadness, the drastic differences of social classes, and the every-day life of Afghanistan in that time period. Among various other themes, betrayal looms incessantly over the lives of his characters. It infiltrates not only Amir’s life, but also the lives of those around him. Khaled Hosseini delineates that betrayal is inevitable through the relationships of his characters.
Amir lives through a great deal of hardships when growing up such as his mother passing away while giving birth to him, issues with his father, the loss of a great friend and the conflict surrounding him in Afghanistan. The story has a strong impact with the reader, it is really heartbreaking and obsessed on. Due to the great success and popularity of the novel, it took flight into becoming a