Baba’s House And The Pomegranate Tree

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How does Hosseini use baba’s house and the pomegranate tree as a narrative device? The first description of Baba’s house is page 4 of the ‘kite runner’. The descriptions of Baba’s house gives the reader a sense of who Amir’s father was as well as how the family and servants lived in Afghanistan. The descriptions are compelling of such things as ‘‘the poplar trees’’ that ‘’lined Baba's redbrick driveway, which led to a pair of wrought-iron gates.’’ Baba's house was the ‘‘most beautiful house in the Wazir Akbar Kahan district.’’ The house had ‘‘marble floors and wide windows.’’ ‘‘A crystal chandelier hung from the vaulted ceiling.’’ There was a two acre backyard with rows of cherry trees and ‘‘a small vegetable garden on the eastern wall.’’ Baba’s house is described like a palace with ‘‘gold tapestries’’ and a ‘‘mahogany table’’. But to Amir that is all it was, a ‘house’. Not a ‘home’ where Amie could tell us about all the fun times he spent their, it wasn’t a child’s place but it was a museum, a museum of Baba’s belongings. It was a very adult house, littered with beautiful things not really a fun place for children to grow up and play in. This description at the start of the book shows the contrast between Hassan and Amir, as Amir lived in the ‘‘estate’’ whereas Hassan lived in a ‘‘hut at the bottom of the garden’’ even though they were actually brothers. Amir is the one describing the house to us, he admits it is a beautiful place but he doesn’t seem to care much, and not much emotion is shown, its almost as if he seems detached from the house, like an outsider. The house shows Baba as a powerful man because the descriptions are also powerful. The ‘‘wrought iron-gates’’ is perhaps a representation of Baba, as gates keep people out which is what Baba does. The gates are shut just like Baba, in a way that Amir cant get into his dads

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