A Thousand Acres

Amir’s relationship with his father is a clear example of situational irony. After always never being acknowledged by his father, Amir strives to do his best in academics, combat training, and achievements. He hopes that these things will make his father proud of him and that he will finally deserve the love he has always wanted. It has always seemed like his father loved Hassan more, and that Amir will never be a true son. In truth, Amir’s father does love Amir, though it is not very obvious.…

The Kite Runner a novel written by Khaled Hosseini in 2003. This novel is about several conflicts which influence the characters in many ways. This novel talks about a rape that Hassan, a young Hazaran boy. Also about Baba never telling Amir that Hassan and him are both brothers. Then the loss they suffer when the Taliban take control of Afghanistan. The young boy, Hassan getting raped in the novel, one incident that influenced Amir. Amir feels guilty about letting this incident happen; he had…

My Analysis of The Kite Runner Afghanistan. 1975. Only a few short years before the country went into an all out urban civil warp impacting the lives of everyone in it. It was the same year that Amir had made the cowardly decision that would haunt him with guilt for the rest of his life. In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, we are able to get a glimpse of those feelings of guilt and resentment from the point of view of Amir himself. The story follows the life of Amir and his best friend and…

Throughout the number of unfortunate events that occur in Amir’s life, The Kite Runner reminds the reader that there is always hope for better days. The story shows us that although our lives may seem bad for an extended period of time, we must keep our heads held high because life will come through for us in the end. The idea of hope plays an important role throughout The Kite Runner, and seems to appear right after a catastrophic event in Amir’s life. There are a few instances in the story…

The idea of the hero’s quest is an archetype of literature; it occurs countless times in the history of stories. Many believe that any and all stories follow the path of the hero’s journey. The movie Excalibur includes multiple hero journeys, but the most prominent one is that of King Arthur. By mistake, Arthur successfully attempts to remove the sword Excalibur from the stone, symbolizing that he is the rightful king of the land. This sets him on the task of acquiring respect and recognition,…

Joseph Campbell once wrote, “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself,” and the hero’s journey is divided into three separate parts: departure, fulfillment, and return. Though at first glance, Suyuan Woo, from Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, doesn’t appear to meet this definition of a hero, she actually satisfies it by devoting her life to improving her daughter’s life. Suyuan’s early life is spent in Kweilin, in the midst of the second Sino-Japanese war.…

A hero’s journey is the steps of a process in which a hero is trying to accomplish a goal. However, the journey is about more than just completing their goal, they also find themselves and who they want to be. The hero encounters many obstacles throughout their journey that changes their view on the world and sometimes even their goal that they have worked so hard to strive for. In the book the Odyssey, the main character—Odysseus, went through his own hero’s journey. Along his journey home, he…

In every great novel, there is bound to be a tempest, the best friend, and the grand adventure in which there is bound to be a battle of some sort. The Monomyth and temple pattern has been seen throughout various movies and books around our culture. Fahrenheit 451 is no exception to the pattern. Among the three compilations of The Hearth and the Salamander, The Sieve and Sand, and Burning Bright, we as a reader travel through the monomyth journey alongside Guy Montag to show the adventure’s…

Campbell begins his explanation of the hero’s journey by revealing the first step of his monomyth, The Call to Adventure. The call can not be seen as physical nor as musical, instead it can be viewed as every person's tether to the universe and when the universe pulls that tether, it demands the attention of those it calls. The universe should not be seen as tyrannical however, for it calls a person to adventure not to be cruel but to bestow the knowledge that a rite of passage must soon be…

A morally ambiguous character is a character who is not really sure what their morals are yet. In the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Amir and Baba are part of this upper class called the Pashtun, they are lucky enough to get an education. Hassan and Ali are in the lower class called the Hazara and they are servants to Amir and Baba. Amir and Hassan are best friends even if they cannot admit it because of their classes. Hosseini’s purpose for making morally ambiguous characters is to…