The Kite Runner: An Analysis

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Sugar is bright. Its color radiates a gleaming smile to its surroundings. Sugar also is incredibly sweet. It sweetens the bitter things in life. Sugar relieves pain and improves one’s mood.
Coffee, on the other hand, is a bitter drink. Coffee, having a dark and opaque color, represents the malicious minds in all of us.
When sugar is sprinkled into the coffee, the taste becomes sweeter—just like how sweet people always help our society and enlighten the world.
I am amazed at how sweet people almost never become bitter and how they can control their actions with ease. Rarely do they ever become angry at someone for lying to them. Rarely do they rage with fury for some cause. Rarely do they ever try to harm others for some wrongdoings. If they did something wrong, they would apologize. If someone else did an immoral act to them, they would always forgive them.
The world should direct its morality to be sweet to others in order to create a better community-for the greater good.
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They are always lenient to the opposing ideas that are thrown against them. They always perform kind actions and good deeds for their community. Take, for example, in The Kite Runner, Amir, the main character, recalls, “It occurred to me that, in a different world, those boys wouldn’t have been too hungry to chase after the car. Earlier that morning, when I was certain no one was looking, I did something I had done twenty-six years earlier: I planted a fistful of crumpled money under a mattress” (Hosseini 242). Due to his kind action, Farid and his family won’t starve and this will help them eminently. Sweet people, like Amir, perform kind actions, and kind actions always enhance the world’s perspective on morality. This demonstrates that a person, that is sweet, will always help society, not harm

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