Thesis: Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, acknowledges the physical, psychological, emotional, and cultural tolls on forced border crossing in order to fit in and survive.
TS: Refugees are forced to live and act like the “American Dream” when taking refuge in America and end up expecting that from themselves. FB: The natives of any country have a certain expectation of what they expect refugees to act and fit into their culture a certain way.
ES1: Stephen Chan (2010) recognizes that authors have been writing more books featuring an Islamic hero to try and get Americans more understanding and help them more relate to Islamic people “They were the Other that we would wish the Other to be” (p. 83).
ES2: Baba displays how Afghans are not trusted and mistreated in this part of the novel, “It turned out that Baba had had no cash on him for the oranges. He’d written Mr. Nguyen a check and Mr. Nguyen had asked for an ID. ‘He wants to see my license,’ Baba bellowed in Farsi. ‘Almost two years we’ve bought his damn fruits and put money in his pocket and the son of a dog wants to see my license!’” (Hosseini, 2003, p. 127). …show more content…
ES1: Becoming American and accepting the culture is the biggest step towards being accepted for refugees, “They have become as American as they are Afghan or Pakistani” (Chan, 2010, p.
TS: Refugees are forced to live and act like the “American Dream” when taking refuge in America and end up expecting that from themselves. FB: The natives of any country have a certain expectation of what they expect refugees to act and fit into their culture a certain way.
ES1: Stephen Chan (2010) recognizes that authors have been writing more books featuring an Islamic hero to try and get Americans more understanding and help them more relate to Islamic people “They were the Other that we would wish the Other to be” (p. 83).
ES2: Baba displays how Afghans are not trusted and mistreated in this part of the novel, “It turned out that Baba had had no cash on him for the oranges. He’d written Mr. Nguyen a check and Mr. Nguyen had asked for an ID. ‘He wants to see my license,’ Baba bellowed in Farsi. ‘Almost two years we’ve bought his damn fruits and put money in his pocket and the son of a dog wants to see my license!’” (Hosseini, 2003, p. 127). …show more content…
ES1: Becoming American and accepting the culture is the biggest step towards being accepted for refugees, “They have become as American as they are Afghan or Pakistani” (Chan, 2010, p.