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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a multithreaded, Bildungsroman novel. It tells the story of a young Afghan boy Amir, whose closest friend is Hassan. The plot of the novel focuses greatly on number of events, like political and cultural situation in Afghanistan or relationships between Amir and his father, Baba. The novel has been praised for its role in understanding the complex nature of Afghanistan by Western audience. According to former Afghan ambassador in The United States, Said…

Resulting from Amir neglecting to fight for Hassan in the alley, Amir feels heavy guilt weighing him down throughout his child and adult life. After the betrayal in the alley and after with the kite, Amir and Baba decide to take a trip with a bunch of people including Baba’s second cousin. Amir thought that he and Baba together would be perfect but “it shouldn’t have felt this way. Baba and [Amir] were finally friends (...) [This should be] fun, spending a day like [this] with Baba, hearing his…

The novel, Untouchable is realistic portrayal of society. It deals with Anand's personal experiences. During his childhood, he had played with the children of the scavengers attached to the regiment in which his father, Lalchand was employed. By showing the miserable condition, physical, economic exploitation and social inequality of the outcastes, Anand has presented the real problem of society. He has condemned injustice and exploitation. He delineates a definite grasp of the psychology of…

I read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini over the break for the assigned piece of reading. It was an incredibly well written book, once I picked it up I drove right into it, I found it extremely hard to put down. It follows the life of Amir and his best friend, Hassan growing up in Kabul, Afghanistan prior to the invasions. The writing itself was good as the author creates a warm depiction of a warm and homey Afghanistan before the coup, Soviet invasion and Taliban control. But it did leave me…

The introduction Boy Overboard, is a highly realistic fiction/child's literature book, that was released in 2002 by Morris Gleitzman, who wanted to recreate the story of a family escaping from to go to Australia, in the most realistic way possible. In this moving tale, Jamal and his family who live in one of the millions of villages in Afghanistan are force to leave. Jamal's mother has been running secret school for a while, and just like many other things in Afghanistan, it's illegal and doing…

In The Kite Runner the motif “nang and namoos” means “pride and honor” which are emotions many people of Afghanistan strive for. In Afghanistan, the one thing that should be hidden from anyone is shame. It is shown throughout the novel that the characters try to achieve “nang and namoos” because in their culture that is what is important to them. Three characters who show what it means to have nang and namoos are Hassan, Baba, and Amir. To elaborate, Hassan displays nang and namoos when he…

When Hassan gets raped in the story it is not a crime of passion, but instead the rape represents the power which Assef hold above him. The act of Amir not helping is a power move too, because he has the power to stop it. Amir instead decides not too for personal gain, believing that by winning the kite touroment he will gain his father’s respect. The act of not saving Hassan is rooted in his jealous feelings towards Hassan, as he believes his father, Baba, loves him more. Amir in the past has…

The Truth That Breaks Us Relationships between two people can have very different meanings, like the relationship between a father and his son or the relationship between a husband and wife. A father plays an important role in a child’s life because he provides for them, and he puts a roof over their head. He doesn’t lie to his child because he knows that there may be consequences, and he’ll feel guilty no matter how big of a lie it is. In his novel, “The Kite Runner”, Khaled Hosseini indicates…

The father-son relationship between Amir and Baba was not always positive throughout The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini. Amir feeling that “Baba hated me a little”[pg18] and Baba feeling as if Amis is someone “who won’t stand up for himself and becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything”[pg22], the reader is able to understand the sketchy relationship between Amir and Baba. Through the depiction of the characters and their interaction, the reader can see how Amir and Baba's…

her daughter know about her background as Wangero askes her mother “Who she named after” her mother replying her “after Grandma Dee” so these questions shows that she wants to know about her ancestors. Dee realize and gives value to each and every single piece of her house equipment’s now for example When they are eat she says to her mother “Oh, Mama” (475) “I never knew how lovely these benches are. You can feel the rump prints,” (475) and moreover she looks at the churn and look at it very…