John Peterson November 3, 2010 Road To Redemption What is redemption? How does Khaled Hosseini incorporate it in his book The Kite Runner? The Kite Runner and the main character, Amir, are all based around redemption. Amir is eaten away by guilt and a painful past his whole life and finds that pain and regret have a very close relationship. Living the life of a coward and the betrayal of his best friend calls for Amir to redeem himself.
Towards the end of the Kite Runner has a lot of of irony, The first example is in chapter seven in the Kite runner and how Amir watches Hassan get rapped he does nothing to help his friend out. HOW DOES AMIR'S "WATCHING" REVEAL IRONY? The second example is near the end of story, when Amir goes back to pakistan and talks to Rahim Khan, Rahim Khan tells Amir all the things his father did not. He finds out that Hassan is his half brother. When Amir was going back to Kabul, he finds Assef the man who rapped His Best friend, He's see Sorhab Hassan child getting rapped too.
The symbols that help out the better understanding of the characters are the kite, a soccer ball and brass knuckles. In the novel the kite symbolizes the deception of Amir and Hassan’s friendship and the redemption for Amir. The kite is the bond between Amir and Hassan; it brings them together like brothers. For instance, when Assef and the two boys had Hassan trapped in the corner of an ally and demanded him to hand over the kite but Hassan responded with, “Amir Agha won the tournament and I ran this kite for him. I ran it fairly” (P.77) and later got raped.
(4.6) Amir lays out the opposing argument just prior to this paragraph. In it, he says ethnicity will always define a relationship. We believe Hosseini really wants us to grapple with Amir's contradictory stances: Does Amir's friendship with Hassan ever get past history, ethnicity, society, and religion? Later, Amir will justify his cowardice in the alleyway by asking himself
This shows the major divide of the Pashtuns and Hazaras. Early in the novel, when Hassan and Amir’s friendship was much stronger, there was a kite running tournament. Before the tournament Amir was worried about a dream he had had concerning a monster in a lake. Hassan reassured him that it was all fine and the tournament went on. What Amir didn’t realise is that the ‘monster’ was a metaphor of himself and that the dream was foreshadowing the betrayal he would commit toward Hassan.
While there are many different ways to view what this book is truly about. One of the big themes of this story is the horrors of war and how soldiers are changed forever from what they experience. The war doesn’t end for the soldiers when they come home; they relive it every day for the rest of their lives. John Wade is a perfect example of a man reliving his horrible war experiences. John Wade seemed to be two
Literary Analysis Contemporary Literature 1-2 The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, is a novel about friendship and loyalty between two Afghan boys. Amir, who is the main character in the book, has betrayed Hassan, his friend since birth. Due to the wars that are happening in Afghanistan, Amir and his father move to United States. Yet Amir’s guilty past calls him back to the city of Kabul. He returns to Afghanistan to free Hassan’s new son from the Taliban.
The kite runner Change of narrative voice in the kite runner The first part of the kite runner is told to the reader using first person narration through Amir as a young man as he struggles to grow into adulthood faced with his own shame concerning his best friend, Hassan, and his quest to forge a strong bond with his father, Baba. Through Amir's voice, the reader is able to understand the harsh realities of growing up and the pain and guilt associated with the betrayal of one you love: "Kabul had become a city of ghosts for me. A city of hare lipped ghosts. "First person narration provides insight into Amir's heart and soul allowing the reader into the Afghan culture through the eyes of the main character.As the novel is from Amir's point of view, We as the readers could question whether amir is a reliable narrator. The main point is that the majority of the story is told through firs person narrative, the protagonist of Amir.
In Khaled Hosseini’s book The Kite Runner, Hosseini describes the relationship between Amir, a young, upper class Pashtun boy from a wealthy family, and Hassan, a young Hazara boy who lives in his home as Amir’s servant. The two boys are close friends and, later, turn out to be brothers. The author has written about the close friendship that the two boys had and highlighted many of the social and historical issues that the boys had confronted, such as the discrimination and persecution of Hazara people by the Pashtun majority, the overthrow of the Afghan monarchy, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the rise of the Taliban regime. Even though the author highlights these aspects of Afghanistan, he still focuses on the friendship between the two boys with these issues remaining in the background of the story. He uses these issues as a basis for his story, not to be the center of it.
It is because of this that he betrays Hassan, and says, “He was just a Hazara, wasn’t he?” (p. 77). Later in life, he regrets this, realizing that love is more important than anything else. Amir gets a chance for redemption when he finds out Hassan has a son, Sohrab. So Amir rescues Sohrab from Assef, adopts him, and takes him back to America. In America, they attend an Afghan party, where a kite fighting competition takes place.