Ethical Issues In The Kite Runner

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“The Kite Runner”, involving with diverse actors such as Khalid Abdalla (Amir), Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzato (Hassan), Homayoun Ershadi (Baba), Elham Ehsas (Assef), and Shaun Toub (Rhamir Khan) has been a magnificent movie. This realistic story began in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1975. During this period there were a lot of contextualization, mainly the Russians and the Talibans. Two young boy at the age of twelve, named Amir and Hassan were bestfriend, thought Hassan was Amir’s servant. Each relied on one another while growing up and having their childhood life. It came to some differences between them, Hassan who is an Hazara and Amir being a Pashtun. On a frigid overcast day in the Winter of 1975, had been their turning point of their failure relationship. …show more content…
The main reason behind is all due on a very religious individual, named “Assef”. Betrayal which is the breaking or violation of a presumptive contract, trust, or confidence by that conflict within a relationship amongst individuals or between individuals. This is the moral of the whole dilemma that was presented among these young relationship. The Kite Runner, could fall under any aged adults that has their family, mostly customers that were born or grew up near Afghanistan, interviewers that are fascinated in outer countries conflicts, writers or readers that could relate to such a story, a politician believer that could understand the impact of an individual, young teenagers that love outside movies with actions, and people that love documentaries. As a young cultural teenager girl, I came to a conclusion that this movie is very deep, dramatic, emotional, honest, realistic living, strong, visual, resourceful, and inspiring. The inspiring sections of this movie is getting to learn different cultural traditions. For example, kite fighting when Hassan was teaching Amir tricks to cut the string of the other kites and getting to know many different beliefs like when Baba mentioned “blood is good for the tree”. Out of a scale of 0-5, I would award the movie a 4, due to lack of explanation of the character's moral behaviors, but a well entertaining

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