The Kite Runner Personal Response

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Eileen Sun & Kristina Huang
Mr. Guimaraes
ENG 3U1
June 11, 2017

Group Essay After reading The Kite Runner, feeling a lot, it is not pure literary works, it is more political, ethnic, racial, class theme. Although we have thousands and thousands of words but we don't know how to express it. In a word, the story is based on the lower class people under the background of the fate of description, mapping Afghanistan's political unrest, racial discrimination brought grave disaster to the people. In the Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, Hosseini using kite as a clue to the entire story. The protagonist Amir is the first person talking about the story of his father's server's son Hassan. They both grew up together, and share the same milk. Hassan is loyal strong Brave and sincere, Amir cowardly, kind and sensitive, although Hassan and Amir are very close, however in the deep of the heart of Amir, Amir
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Because one is the young master, the other is a servant. So Amir can share a story to Hassan when he is happy, but kick him away when he is not.
Because one is the young master, the other is a servant, so Amir never calls Hassan when his father's guest's child comes. He looks for excuses.
Because he is a young master, he is a servant, so when Amir saw Hassan was humiliated or even raped, he ran away without considering Hassan.
Because he is a young master, he is a servant, There have never been equal.
This book is more profound to write an author in order to make up for their mistakes, the process of a long way to sin, let people feel the charm of personality.
The kite is affection, love, friendship, integrity, kindness, honesty, is an indispensable part of personality, only when you caught it, you will be sound.
Everyone has a kite, no matter what it means, we all should have the courage to

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