Thesis:
While homes have sentimental value that can’t be replaced, people find ways to create new homes because they’ve lost touch with their past homes, have their homes destroyed and taken away, or must adjust to their surroundings and create new homes.
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Losing the connection to your past home is a recurring theme in both Khaled Hosseini 's The Kite Runner and Ernest Hemingway’s A Soldier’s Home. Both of these texts have significant events, both being war, that draws the main character away from the home they were once attached to. In The Kite Runner, after the Russians invade Afghanistan, Amir’s hometown Kabul is completely destroyed and the Taliban continue to cause chaos even to this day. When Amir returns to the rusty gates …show more content…
It’s a story about a man versus himself, and within that conflict we learn that …show more content…
Baba and Amir are forced to move out of Afghanistan after the Russians invade and go to America where their lives completely changed. All the hard work Baba put into living a great life in Kabul meant nothing to the Russians, and what took him years to accomplish was basically destroyed in a single day. However, when Amir and Baba later adjust to the American life, Haasan returns to his hut on Baba’s property (out of respect) and takes care of the home, expecting his master’s return. The book says, “Hassan tended to the flowers in the garden, soaked the roots, picked off yellowing leaves, planted rose bushes and painted the walls like he was preparing the house for someone’s return,” (Hosseini 208). Seeing that the house was destroyed, Hassan tended to the house assuming one of his masters out return to it after being forced to leave a home what was rightfully theirs analogous to the American Facebook timeline Like It or Unfriend it, where it says, “America is no longer friends with the Indigenous People 's” (Wayne 1), the author implies that Europeans forced the Natives out of their homes and took the lands that was not rightfully theirs, which was the same case seen in The Kite Runner. Homes attain a certain value by the people who occupy them, but as seen in both of these texts and that value in a home can easily be taken away from
While homes have sentimental value that can’t be replaced, people find ways to create new homes because they’ve lost touch with their past homes, have their homes destroyed and taken away, or must adjust to their surroundings and create new homes.
Paragraph 1:
Losing the connection to your past home is a recurring theme in both Khaled Hosseini 's The Kite Runner and Ernest Hemingway’s A Soldier’s Home. Both of these texts have significant events, both being war, that draws the main character away from the home they were once attached to. In The Kite Runner, after the Russians invade Afghanistan, Amir’s hometown Kabul is completely destroyed and the Taliban continue to cause chaos even to this day. When Amir returns to the rusty gates …show more content…
It’s a story about a man versus himself, and within that conflict we learn that …show more content…
Baba and Amir are forced to move out of Afghanistan after the Russians invade and go to America where their lives completely changed. All the hard work Baba put into living a great life in Kabul meant nothing to the Russians, and what took him years to accomplish was basically destroyed in a single day. However, when Amir and Baba later adjust to the American life, Haasan returns to his hut on Baba’s property (out of respect) and takes care of the home, expecting his master’s return. The book says, “Hassan tended to the flowers in the garden, soaked the roots, picked off yellowing leaves, planted rose bushes and painted the walls like he was preparing the house for someone’s return,” (Hosseini 208). Seeing that the house was destroyed, Hassan tended to the house assuming one of his masters out return to it after being forced to leave a home what was rightfully theirs analogous to the American Facebook timeline Like It or Unfriend it, where it says, “America is no longer friends with the Indigenous People 's” (Wayne 1), the author implies that Europeans forced the Natives out of their homes and took the lands that was not rightfully theirs, which was the same case seen in The Kite Runner. Homes attain a certain value by the people who occupy them, but as seen in both of these texts and that value in a home can easily be taken away from