What Does The Kite Symbolize

The kite runner is a historical fiction of Afghanistan that talks about the life of Amir in Kabul. The book uses a lot of symbolizing, imagery, allegory, parallelism, pathos and many other things to convey the readers about important themes in life, such as guilt. The title is the main symbolizing used in the book and is referred back a lot of times,
The kite symbolizes a lot of things about Amir, from the relationship between Amir and Baba as Amir tried to gain Baba’s respect, attention, and love as said on pages 46, 79, 77 and many others. To his emotions regarding Hassan. He was a coward or a “boy who won't stand up for himself..” It is also possible that the kite represents, to some extent, Afghanistan.

The kite mainly represents Amir’s and Baba’s relationship, an example is when Amir won the kite running tournament thinking that kite would finally win Baba as Amir expected when he was younger as presented on page 66 “... And that right there was the single greatest moment of my twelve years of life, seeing Baba on that roof, proud of me, at last” …show more content…
Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba...”
The issue was that it never helped the relationship, and that’s something Amir learns as Baba had left him