The Kite Runner Research Paper

Generally speaking many texts have similar contexts and can very easily relate to one another. Action, character, and theme are some common connections that may relate to similarities between texts. A common connection that can be derived from all three texts is similarities in the characters. In chapter 3 of “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini Amir feels as if he is disappointing his father Baba because he is interested in poetry and is incompetent at participating in any task that would be considered manly. Amir desperately wants to change to impress his father but there is a side of him that really enjoys reading and poetry. Amir wishes he could impress his father and make him proud by being more like him but rarely feels he is successful. The narrator in the poem “Envy” by Yevgeny Yevtushenko very similarly relates to the character of Amir in “The Kite Runner” because throughout the poem the narrator is jealous of someone else who accomplishes all the things he wishes that he could. He wants to be as worthy as the other boy but he just can’t be because there is always someone that is more capable than you. The characters from both of the texts above can also relate to the narrator of the the text “Specifications of a hero” by Wallace Stegner because he is also envious at someone. The narrator envies a man named Alfie Carpenter …show more content…
This character is much like Amir in “The Kite Runner” because they both fail to live up to their masculine standards. The narrator