The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini in 2003 is a narrative, which features a young Afghani boy named Amir and his personal struggles of impressing his father to deciding what is right and wrong in life and how to treat his best friend, who is also his servant. The novel deals with many personal tragic events and the events occurring in Afghanistan during the 1970-1980s, which includes the Soviet intervention, thousands of refugees escaping and the Taliban rule of Afghanistan. Khaled Hosseini in The Kite Runner uses symbols, which are heavily present throughout the book, which displays and explores the themes of loyalty, betrayal and redemption. This is done by the way the novel displays kites, how they display the freedom of the Afghani
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All these symbols explored the key themes and ideas.
The kite and how it was displayed was a massive symbol in The Kite Runner, it represented the key ideas of loyalty, betrayal and redemption all in different means. During the exposition of the novel, kites are displayed as a sense of freedom, which the people of Afghanistan have and the loyalty and friendship between Amir and Hassan. Hassan adored Amir, whereas Amir just thought of Hassan as his servant where he would say: “The curious thing was, I never thought of Hassan and me as friends either… Never mind that we spent entire winters… running kites. Never mind that to me” (Hosseini, 201, p. 24). This …show more content…
These themes were expressed through the means of the kites that showed the friendship between Amir and Hassan and how it fractured after Amir abandoned Hassan. Amir would try to redeem himself by asking Sohrab to fly a kite with him. Baba’s tormented life displayed all three themes from him sleeping with Ali’s wife to keeping the secret to himself. However, his whole life was spent redeeming himself for a lifetime of sin. The pomegranate tree also served as a symbol, which displayed the key themes with it being the sanctuary of Amir and Hassan and the place where their friendship came to an end. It would also be the place where Amir realised he needed to redeem himself. All three of these crucial symbols help present the themes of loyalty, betrayal and redemption in the
All these symbols explored the key themes and ideas.
The kite and how it was displayed was a massive symbol in The Kite Runner, it represented the key ideas of loyalty, betrayal and redemption all in different means. During the exposition of the novel, kites are displayed as a sense of freedom, which the people of Afghanistan have and the loyalty and friendship between Amir and Hassan. Hassan adored Amir, whereas Amir just thought of Hassan as his servant where he would say: “The curious thing was, I never thought of Hassan and me as friends either… Never mind that we spent entire winters… running kites. Never mind that to me” (Hosseini, 201, p. 24). This …show more content…
These themes were expressed through the means of the kites that showed the friendship between Amir and Hassan and how it fractured after Amir abandoned Hassan. Amir would try to redeem himself by asking Sohrab to fly a kite with him. Baba’s tormented life displayed all three themes from him sleeping with Ali’s wife to keeping the secret to himself. However, his whole life was spent redeeming himself for a lifetime of sin. The pomegranate tree also served as a symbol, which displayed the key themes with it being the sanctuary of Amir and Hassan and the place where their friendship came to an end. It would also be the place where Amir realised he needed to redeem himself. All three of these crucial symbols help present the themes of loyalty, betrayal and redemption in the