Amir’s first experience of violence is when Amir wins the Kite fighting Tournament, and Hassan, runs off in pursuit of Amir’s trophy. Hassan is gone long enough to alarm Amir, who begins to search for him and once he finds him, he sees Assef, a bully, raping him. Amir at first is scared of Assef but later convinces himself by says, “Nothing was free in this world. Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay to win Baba (Amir’s Father) Was it a fair price?” (Hosseini 82). As Amir never helps Hassan, this shows that Amir will do anything to get Baba’s love and intention.
He thought that Hassan was like his own sacrifice; Hassan got raped just because he wanted to get the blue kite for his friend Amir. Amir wanted to impress his father, Baba, so he assumed that blue kite would win over his father’s love and approval. In this part of the story, Hassan was the sacrifice Amir had to make get Baba’s affection. After this incident, Hassan didn’t really speak to anyone, but Baba was praising
Is this a commentary on the modern day passiveness towards death and violence? That a boy should fall from the sky to his death for no one to notice, except for his own father, is certainly a kind of indifference. Wendy A. Shaffer, in comparison, questions if Icarus would have listened had Daedalus not spoken in the same tone used in his everyday chastisements. The theme of father and son has also brought about works depicting Daedalus’ reaction to his son’s death. Anne Sexton tells of Icarus plunging to his death “while his sensible daddy goes straight to town,” in her poem ‘To a Friend Whose Work has come to Triumph.’ In the myth Daedalus searches the ocean for his lost son.
In one situation, a bully named Assef is about to violently attack Amir for socializing with a Shi'a, but Hassan stands up for Amir and threatens to shoot Assef in the eye with his slingshot. Betrayal is one of major themes in this story. One day, Amir and Hassan win a kite tournament and as Hassan goes to run the last cut kite, Assef confronts him and says that he must give him the kite. Knowing how important this kite is to Amir in order to make his father proud, Hassan refuses to give the kite up. Amir goes in search of Hassan and as he hears Assef voice, hides.
The silent animosity between father and son ends when Amir joins and wins a kite-flying contest and ties his own father’s record in the number of kites he cut down. Later, the relationship between the two strengthens as they flee from war-torn Afghanistan and in the process Baba shows Amir how he stood up even to the point of risking even his own life in order to save an unknown woman from a Russian soldier’s vile intentions. As immigrants in the United States Baba once again shows Amir how he can make personal sacrifices for his son’s sake. Forced to live in a foreign country, Baba dies broken hearted but fully resigned to what Amir had made of himself – a writer happily married to a wonderful
Writing about Day and June in the future split up America creates a rich plot. In Legend the first grand event is when Day has found out that his youngest brother Eden is sick. In this attempt to get the cure for his brother he attempts to break into a heavily guarded lab which resulted in the murder of Metias. Metias is June’s older brother and June is revered as a child prodigy and the murder of Metias sends June on the hunt for Day the country’s most wanted. Another event is when June is on the hunt for Day and they finally meet but none of them know anything about each other and begin to bond with each other romantically.
Formal Writing- Kite Runner “There is way to be good again.” This remark of Rahim Khan suggested to Amir that he could make up for his past mistakes. This realistic novel highlights the tension between two ethnic groups the Pashtun and the Hazara living together in 1970’s Afghanistan. This is shown in the story through the two main characters and their childhood friendship as Pashtun and Hazara boys. A significant event in Kite Runner is the Assef’s violation of Hassan after the kite flying tournament. When Amir decided to run away from Assef’s attack on Hassan, it meant that he chose to protect himself rather than help his friend.
Other characters are the boys in Stanley’s work group at the camp, the warden at the camp and her men, Mr. Sir and Mr. Pendanski. Stanley’s family is cursed because his “pig stealing” great great-grandfather, Elya Yelnats, does not keep his promise to Madame Zeroni. Nothing good happens to the men in his family because of the curse. His grandfather made a lot of money but it was stolen from him by Kate Barlow when he kissed her. She left him in the desert to die but he lives.
Maybe even hating him a little” (15) • “Of course, marrying a poet was one thing, but fathering a son who preferred burying his face in poetry book to hunting…well, that wasn’t how Baba had envisioned it, I suppose. Real men didn’t read poetry –and God forbid they should ever write it!” (20). • “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything” (22). • The story of Rostam and Sohrab, where the father accidentally kills his son. “Personally, I couldn’t see the tragedy in Rostam’s fate.
All I smelled was victory. Salvation. Redemption.” (65) Amir felt early in the novel that Baba thought of him as weak. By bringing Baba the blue kite back he could end the disappointment of him, redeeming himself for his mother’s death, and end his longing for Baba’s love. For a moment Amir had redeemed himself, but created a new situation which he had to redeem himself from.