Shawn Corey Carter, known professionally as JAY-Z, is an American rapper and businessman. He stated that "Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it but to try to understand it and to use it as a foundation to grow." In the novels, A Complicated Kindness and The Kite Runner, the protagonist Nomi and Amir, have to overcome challenging situations to develop their identity. Neither protagonists fully realise or accept themselves until they are faced with conflicts and difficult situations. It is only when they must choose their course of action, whether to stand up for what is important to them or to run away from conflict do they find satisfaction and reconciliation with themselves.
The central conflict of the novel, The Kite Runner, is caused by Amir seeing his friend Hassan being raped by …show more content…
In the Kite Runner, Baba hides that fact that Hassan was his son. When Sohrab asks Amir why Baba hide it Amir replies, "I think he was ashamed of himself." (page 323). This conflict has a tremendous impact on Amir's entire life. If Amir had known that Hassan was his half-brother, Amir's life would have turned out differently because he would have felt more of a drive to save Hassan. In A Complicated Kindness, Nomi must deal with not knowing where her mother is and, when she does eventually learn, she learns that her mother was excommunicated. "They threw my mother out. Gave her the old heave-ho. The term is excommunicated. She was excommunicated." (page 189) "My period started the day after Trudie left. That means I've bled thirty-six times since they've been gone." (page 4) This too has a tremendous impact on Nomi's development as it shows that she's waiting around for her mother to return. Feeling stuck in the town as she's not sure if her mother or sister will ever come back to Nomi and her father,
The central conflict of the novel, The Kite Runner, is caused by Amir seeing his friend Hassan being raped by …show more content…
In the Kite Runner, Baba hides that fact that Hassan was his son. When Sohrab asks Amir why Baba hide it Amir replies, "I think he was ashamed of himself." (page 323). This conflict has a tremendous impact on Amir's entire life. If Amir had known that Hassan was his half-brother, Amir's life would have turned out differently because he would have felt more of a drive to save Hassan. In A Complicated Kindness, Nomi must deal with not knowing where her mother is and, when she does eventually learn, she learns that her mother was excommunicated. "They threw my mother out. Gave her the old heave-ho. The term is excommunicated. She was excommunicated." (page 189) "My period started the day after Trudie left. That means I've bled thirty-six times since they've been gone." (page 4) This too has a tremendous impact on Nomi's development as it shows that she's waiting around for her mother to return. Feeling stuck in the town as she's not sure if her mother or sister will ever come back to Nomi and her father,