Loss Of Innocence In Hosseini's The Kite Runner

Amir loss his innocence with Hansen that night after they talked with Baba, which many people in the culture loss their innocence to violence, rape, and people being killed. Likewise, the characters lose their innocence about their own society. Baba loses his innocence in his own society when he loses the ruling of his country. In the novel, both boys are feeling ashamed. Amir tried to avoid being with his half-brother Hansen because looking at him would remind him of the evil mistake he made during the kite festival. They find out the secret that Baba is Hanson birth father. Both boys could feel a bond between each other, and even though Hansen is still mad at Amir for letting that boy raped him, he won’t harm Amir. For example,
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In the novel, the Afghan women and children make their own kites for the festival if they can’t afford to buy one. The author’s novel, the kites our “created with glass string” means they put glass coating around the rope string. For example, Hosseini's novel ''The Kite Runner'' or the movie based on it are flown with razor-sharp, glass-coated thread that often leaves fighters with bloody hands. The historical force of the kite in the festival is about who wins one of the flier maneuvers a kite to successfully cut the line of a competitor, a split-second affair that combines skill and luck” (JENKINS and RÍOS). When the kite flyers become jealous or upset a kite flyer will cut other people’s kites “When you fly, you feel something,'' said Pir Wajid Ali Shah, 70. ''You're controlling it. It listens to you, it works for you. Then, you see somebody else's kite there, you get jealous. You want to cut it” (JENKINS and RÍOS). The kite flyer in the festival will do whatever it takes to another person to make sure they lose like they did with Hanson in the novel. In the novel, some save money to buy a kite for the festival. “the fighters order hundreds of kites from Pakistan, where the sport has been forced into secrecy in recent years. In 2005, the Supreme Court in Pakistan banned kite fighting and kite making, citing increased injuries from downed glass-coated kite lines” (JENKINS and RÍOS). In the novel, it was getting out of hand. too much violence in the historical facts of socialism Islamic political group In the novel, the author talks about how the Islamic political group invasion took over their country, and many women, men, and children got killed. Which, the country lost their freedom was a great loss of innocence of their culture. Likewise, there was “many children whose parents and family who got killed in the war. The homeless children live in an