Not a television in the country was turned off; the stench of neglected cooking fills the air as families across the United States stop what they are doing to watch the unimaginable. On September 11, 2001 Al Qaeda leads a hijacking of commercial airline planes, driving it into the twin towers. Terrorism was the word on everyone’s lips, however the bitter taste of the Taliban in America could not compare to the brutality in its origins, Afghanistan. Through Khaled Hosseini’s historical fiction The Kite Runner, he brings light to the violence in Afghanistan through powerful literary devices, hidden symbols, and a strong message of friendship and sacrifice.
To begin, within the pages of Hosseini’s classic bears numerous rhetorical and literary devices, beginning with imagery, and metaphors to encounters of the past. Hosseini touches the five senses with his use of imagery, allowing the readers to transport themselves in the story itself; one example would be “For some …show more content…
The cleft lip Hassan bares on his face represents the difference between Hassan and Amir. Where Hassan shows his shame on the outside, Amir bears his on the inside. When Hassan’s lip is healed, he no longer has any shame to bear, and Amir hates him for leaving him alone in his shame. As the novel moves forward we see symbolism in the kite flying, “That was the thing about kite flying: Your mind drifted with the kite.”(63) Kite flying is symbolic to that of freedom. Their competition took place before any political change or violence, and everything else in the world didn’t matter—just the kite. Amir even says that he needed to ignore how much Baba would be proud of him in order to focus. When Hassan went to chase the kite his freedom is ironically stolen from him, but through the violence against him, he delivers the kite safely. Sacrificing himself for that beautiful symbolic
To begin, within the pages of Hosseini’s classic bears numerous rhetorical and literary devices, beginning with imagery, and metaphors to encounters of the past. Hosseini touches the five senses with his use of imagery, allowing the readers to transport themselves in the story itself; one example would be “For some …show more content…
The cleft lip Hassan bares on his face represents the difference between Hassan and Amir. Where Hassan shows his shame on the outside, Amir bears his on the inside. When Hassan’s lip is healed, he no longer has any shame to bear, and Amir hates him for leaving him alone in his shame. As the novel moves forward we see symbolism in the kite flying, “That was the thing about kite flying: Your mind drifted with the kite.”(63) Kite flying is symbolic to that of freedom. Their competition took place before any political change or violence, and everything else in the world didn’t matter—just the kite. Amir even says that he needed to ignore how much Baba would be proud of him in order to focus. When Hassan went to chase the kite his freedom is ironically stolen from him, but through the violence against him, he delivers the kite safely. Sacrificing himself for that beautiful symbolic