1. Flights of Fancy
2. “It’s really pretty straightforward: flight is freedom.” (136)
3. Foster explained in a story about people with “wings” and those “wings” provide freedom. However, with freedom comes the ones who abuse it. As you can see, the title of the chapter is Flights of Fancy which can explain the stereotypical snotty rich kid everyone hates. This is because rich people are fancy and rich people are very free, but can abuse their freedom to make the wings dirty, as Foster explained. A mean kid had “wings” and he got those “wings” dirty much like you can easily ruin your own freedom by abusing it, like abusing flight with wings.
4. Amir’s childhood bully, Assef, is the son of two rich parents. He would be out of the house most of the day, creating freedom for the fancy. However, like Foster explained, rich people like Amir or Assef have the most freedom to do what they want. Amir and Assef both abused this freedom, Amir by throwing rocks and shining light into people's’ eyes. Assef, by beating up and mocking other kids to intimidate the innocent children. At one point, Assef and Amir meet up accidentally during their adult lives and start a fight against the two, which Assef won until Sohrab came in, but this is because Amir and Assef had the same amount of freedom, but Assef abused it more than Amir, …show more content…
Since “The Kite Runner” is taken place in Afghanistan, the bible for Muslims is the Koran. The idea brought from the bible to this book was to recite lines from the Koran and pray something good happens. When Amir forgot some lines from the Koran, he still attempted to recite lines and prayed to god all will go well, like people did in the bible. Also, people respected the Koran like people respect the bible, people would teach lines from the Koran like people teach lines from the bible. Finally, the author used the Koran as a symbol of last resort, when all goes wrong, turn to god, like people turned to Jesus in the bible when they had no other
2. “It’s really pretty straightforward: flight is freedom.” (136)
3. Foster explained in a story about people with “wings” and those “wings” provide freedom. However, with freedom comes the ones who abuse it. As you can see, the title of the chapter is Flights of Fancy which can explain the stereotypical snotty rich kid everyone hates. This is because rich people are fancy and rich people are very free, but can abuse their freedom to make the wings dirty, as Foster explained. A mean kid had “wings” and he got those “wings” dirty much like you can easily ruin your own freedom by abusing it, like abusing flight with wings.
4. Amir’s childhood bully, Assef, is the son of two rich parents. He would be out of the house most of the day, creating freedom for the fancy. However, like Foster explained, rich people like Amir or Assef have the most freedom to do what they want. Amir and Assef both abused this freedom, Amir by throwing rocks and shining light into people's’ eyes. Assef, by beating up and mocking other kids to intimidate the innocent children. At one point, Assef and Amir meet up accidentally during their adult lives and start a fight against the two, which Assef won until Sohrab came in, but this is because Amir and Assef had the same amount of freedom, but Assef abused it more than Amir, …show more content…
Since “The Kite Runner” is taken place in Afghanistan, the bible for Muslims is the Koran. The idea brought from the bible to this book was to recite lines from the Koran and pray something good happens. When Amir forgot some lines from the Koran, he still attempted to recite lines and prayed to god all will go well, like people did in the bible. Also, people respected the Koran like people respect the bible, people would teach lines from the Koran like people teach lines from the bible. Finally, the author used the Koran as a symbol of last resort, when all goes wrong, turn to god, like people turned to Jesus in the bible when they had no other