Write About the Ways Hosseini Tells the Story in Chapter 10

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Hosseini uses a number of literary devices in chapter ten, on of the ways he tells the story is when Amir and Baba are in the fuel tank, He opens the paragraph with “PANIC.” this makes the reader ask a number of questions, why is he panicking? is he in danger? and so they read on eager to know what’s going on, he also repeats it again after describing his anxiety of not being able to breath, I think Hosseini used this to build the tension and reflect Amirs fear. Hosseini also repeats “now” when they’re in the fuel tanker “ you order your lungs to draw air,NOW,you need air,need it NOW” the reiteration of the word shows Amirs claustrophobia and desperation for air which causes the reader to empathise with him over the severity of the situation. Hosseini also uses Nouns and adjectives to describe the how Amir feels, he describes his airways “collapse,tighten,squeeze” which creates an image for the reader of how gruelling a simple task like breathing is.The lack of descriptive detail of the setting also helps to portray the sensory deprivation of being trapped in the dark. Towards the end of the chapter when they finally emerge from the tanker Amir describes feeling “thankful for air, thankful for light, thankful to be alive” the repetition of ‘thankful’ reflects how relieved he is to be able to breathe fresh air again. The positive outcome then changes to a horrific incident in which “Kamal’s lifeless body lay on his father’s lap” and drastically escalates to Kamals father committing suicide in front of a crowd of people. Hosseini uses the contrast of good and bad, to emphasis to the reader how gruesome the situation is. Primarily, the chapter (and the majority of the novel) is written in a first person, retrospective narrative. However, in this section, the writer uses present tense coupled with the second person in order to try to get the reader to empathise by

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