Utilizing irony advances the character development in novels, and Khaled Hosseini’s implements it in The Kite Runner. In Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, the fate of irony entwines with the lives of Amir, Baba, and Hassan. Certain and significant incidents in each of those character’s life experiences irony, whether it be directly or indirectly, in a different manner throughout the novel. Characters experience irony differently in the The Kite Runner, therefore Amir discovers relief by it because of attempting to earn redemption and his father’s recognition, Baba settles in guilt by it due to “stealing the truth,” and Hassan coyly recognizing it by listening to Amir’s story and serving as Amir’s contrast. First, Amir highly endears and dependently
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After Amir narrates his first short story to Hassan, Hassan recognizes the irony in it almost instantly. Hassan questions, "if I may ask, why did the man kill his wife? In fact, why did he ever have to feel sad to shed tears? Couldn't he have just smelled an onion?" Ironically, Hassan, though illiterate and uneducated, identifies the plot hole in the educated, gifted writer Amir's work. Amir comments that Hassan “couldn't read and had never written a single word in his entire life.” Hassan is the only one to recognize the solution to the character's dilemma. Another irony involves the contrast between Hassan and Amir. Since birth, Hassan has been loyal to Amir, providing him with unconditional love. Amir, on the other hand, does not reciprocate Hassan's feelings and abandons Hassan. In the Baba's eyes, Hassan is more courageous and loyal whereas Amir is more weak and pusillanimous. Hassan eventually and ironically changes Amir by saying, "For you, a thousand times over." Even though Amir fails to rescue Hassan, he saves Hassan's son Sohrab. Amir and Hassan's role switch when Amir is telling that quotation to Sohrab, finally reciprocating the unconditional love conveyed by Hassan. Hassan has not experienced it directly, persay, but it has been recognized by
After Amir narrates his first short story to Hassan, Hassan recognizes the irony in it almost instantly. Hassan questions, "if I may ask, why did the man kill his wife? In fact, why did he ever have to feel sad to shed tears? Couldn't he have just smelled an onion?" Ironically, Hassan, though illiterate and uneducated, identifies the plot hole in the educated, gifted writer Amir's work. Amir comments that Hassan “couldn't read and had never written a single word in his entire life.” Hassan is the only one to recognize the solution to the character's dilemma. Another irony involves the contrast between Hassan and Amir. Since birth, Hassan has been loyal to Amir, providing him with unconditional love. Amir, on the other hand, does not reciprocate Hassan's feelings and abandons Hassan. In the Baba's eyes, Hassan is more courageous and loyal whereas Amir is more weak and pusillanimous. Hassan eventually and ironically changes Amir by saying, "For you, a thousand times over." Even though Amir fails to rescue Hassan, he saves Hassan's son Sohrab. Amir and Hassan's role switch when Amir is telling that quotation to Sohrab, finally reciprocating the unconditional love conveyed by Hassan. Hassan has not experienced it directly, persay, but it has been recognized by