The Kite Runner Passage Analysis

It has been suggested that memories are all that make up a person. They certainly hold a heavy impact, especially when used in literature. In this passage, Hosseini chooses to include two memories and a dream in quick succession to amplify the dramatic tension and exemplify Amir’s emotional state. The major theme of the whole novel is betrayal and redemption, something that focuses around the events that follow this passage. The author uses this passage to amplify this theme, giving a reminder of the bond between Amir and Hassan, a bond that has existed since they were babies: “there is a brotherhood between people who’ve fed from the same breast” (73). This shows how close the two are, tied by fate since birth, and reminding the audience …show more content…
Amir is “lost in a snowstorm” which causes him to “fall and lie panting in the snow, lost in the white, the wind wailing in [his] ears” (74). Hosseini uses the snowstorm to represent Amir’s guilt for what is …show more content…
Amir and Hassan, “the Sultans of Kabul”, are tied together by an unbreakable bond throughout the course of their lives. This goes beyond the bond of “brotherhood between people who’ve fed at the same breast” as Ali says, and beyond their actual brotherhood through Baba. They are tied to each other by devotion, loyalty, friendship, and what can even be described as love. Even with everything that befalls the two of them and all of the times Amir betrays Hassan, the bond is still there. They both stand before the fortune teller and neither hear his truth (74). They both feed “from the same breast” listening to “old wedding songs” from their nursemaid (73). Even after everything Amir has done, Hassan will extend his bloody hand into the snowstorm and pull Amir into the field, full of sunshine and kites (74). The core of the novel is their story, after all, and even when relationships are frayed and tattered, one that deep will never fully