Throughout the novel The Kite Runner, author Khaled Hosseini used a variety of literary devices. A major one would have to be imagery. Hosseini’s purpose of providing an abundant amount of imagery is for us readers to get familiar with what's going on during a certain scene or setting, as well as getting more familiar with the inside of his mind and what he's thinking. Within the last five chapters of the narrative, a scene that caught my attention is where he unknowingly described Assef: “His skin was much paler than the other two men’s, almost sallow, and a crop of tiny sweat beads gleamed on his forehead just below the edge of his black turban. His beard, chest-length like the others, was light in color too” (Hosseini 276). He gave us a
