A Thousand Splendid Suns

Thesis: While homes have sentimental value that can’t be replaced, people find ways to create new homes because they’ve lost touch with their past homes, have their homes destroyed and taken away, or must adjust to their surroundings and create new homes. Paragraph 1: Losing the connection to your past home is a recurring theme in both Khaled Hosseini 's The Kite Runner and Ernest Hemingway’s A Soldier’s Home. Both of these texts have significant events, both being war, that draws the main…

Character Analysis- The Kite Runner How one acts in the past does not dictate how they will turn out to be in the future. Sins can always be atoned and amends can always be made. No matter how immense the wrongdoing, or how much devastation it causes, every human has the chance to repay their debts and make up for their transgressions. “There is a way to be good again” (Hosseini 1). However, jealousy can drive one 's self to act without thinking and can hurt the people they are the closest to.…

“That I believe is what true redemption is, when guilt leads to good.” Redemption is often seen as freeing one’s self from error or sin but in Khalid Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, it proves that true redemption is when good is brought out through guilt by helping both yourself as well as other’s. Amir has a past of “unatoned sins” and although he destroys the lives of many, he has several opportunities to redeem himself of his guilt; he works to not be the selfish little boy he once was.…

Often people can change their behavior based on an event that has impacted them or their life, either in a good way, or bad way. In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, Amir was always too scared to stand up to anyone and would even lie to protect his dignity, that was until he discovered that Hassan had a son. Amir transformed from a helpless boy who was easily influenced by his role in society, but he realized that he needed to be his own person and do what he thought was right so he became a…

"Ceremony" is a novel about a young man - Tayo's - healing journey, from PTSD and cultural and family conflicts to building a life of wellness, connection, and identity. The novel was written by Leslie Marmon Silko, and she shows the life of a Tayo and his journey after World War II, where he comes back suffering from PTSD and other personal situations like PTSD. Silko does well in showing how natives have young men go on journeys to find peace or something of the nature. She also shows the…

Ishmael Beah’s Memoir as a Reflection of Society Ishmael Beah is a writer from Sierra Leone and a human rights activist. He became famous for his extremely popular novel A Long Way Gone: A Memoir Of A Boy Soldier. The book was nominated for a Quill Award, an American literary award that was consumer driven, in 2007 and named one of the top ten nonfiction books in 2007 by Time magazine, ranking at number three. The book is a firsthand experience on the brutal civil war in Sierra Leone; Beah…

In An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, the theme of self discovery is presented through the character Sir Robert Chiltern. As the play progresses Sir Robert begins to walk the road of regret, change, and hope as he begins to think about the life he could have lived or could live in the future and how it has been affected by the choices he has made. Not only does Sir Robert Chiltern go on a journey of discovery but while Robert struggled to come to terms with his past, Oscar Wilde was also…

The book Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini describes life in Afghanistan. Hosseini Talks about how he grew up in Kabul. This book gives a complete background of the Afghani culture and History. There are two different setting in this book, one in Kabul and the other in US, and narrates the Kite runner through his voice. The author expresses a lot of his emotions in the book like fear, jealousy, lies, betrayal and loyalty. His writing is very simple which makes it a valuable and easy to read book.…

“‘There is no act more wretched than stealing, Amir,’ Baba said” (Hosseini 18). This is said within the first few pages of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and helps set the tone for the rest of the novel. Baba has a very set-in-stone way of looking at life, but his actions don’t always reflect this. Baba’s view of the world and what he considers the worst sin affects his son Amir negatively. This negative effect can be seen in Baba’s hypocritical actions, in Amir’s views of Baba, and…

Naguib Mahfouz’s, Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature, short story, “The Answer Is No”, published in 1991 addresses the topic of consent and asserts that traumatic experiences in the past can affect future relationships. Mahfouz supports his claim with foreshadowing about the outcome of the story with the title, similes to compare the rapists overbearing character to a violent current in the ocean, and concrete language to express the emotions the woman is experiencing…