Comparing The Kite Runner And A Thousand Splendid Suns

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As readers are captured by the characters and their lives in different stories, it becomes important to keep reading. Some authors use specific techniques to grab the reader’s attention.
For example, according to Rebecca Stuhr in her chapter entitled, “Forms of the Novel That Can Be Used To Describe The Kite Runner And A Thousand Splendid Suns” outlines that a bildungsroman story “...follows the life of the young man or woman as they become aware of limitations imposed upon them by family and the inadequacy of their education opportunities” (Stuhr 12). The novel,The Kite Runner, meets the criteria of a bildungsroman novel when Amir, the main character, witnesses Hassan's rape and winning the kite competition.
In the novel Amir can also show

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