Kabul

Khaled Hosseini manages to effortlessly give his reader a glimpse of how the lifestyles of Afghani women play into marriage while also allowing the reader to gain a grasp on the religion of the serene city of Kabul, Islam. The tale of the two boys, Amir and Hassan, take place in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan. In the beginning of the novel, Hosseini talks about the serenity and…

through the remorseful tone of Amir's comment, specifying in the type of pain and implying that it was caused by him. When Amir returns to Afghanistan, his friend warned him that, "Kabul is not the way you remember it" (244). This quote ties closely to change through the fact that the statement clearly implies that Kabul has changed specifically through the phrase 'not the way you remember.' Guilt is further emphasized when he sees what his hometown had become. There was, "rubble and beggars.…

which persists throughout much of the book. It is also the only item he takes with him when he leaves Kabul for America, which symbolizes the end of his strained relationship with his father. Amir’s journal also represents change in his life. The night he took his journal with him, was the night he changed his life forever with his father and his friends and family by moving to America and leaving Kabul behind. He further conveys this when he says, “The signs of our elopement were subtle…The…

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, begins in December 2001 with a flashback about an event that changed the narrator’s life. The story starts before the event occurs in Kabul, Afghanistan, 1975. The narrator, Amir, is twelve years old and lives with his father, a successful businessman, whom he calls Baba. Amir’s father has two servants, Ali and his son Hassan, Amir’s best friend, who live in a small shed owned by Amir’s family. Hassan’s mother left after she gave birth to him because he and…

Research Paper: September 11, 2001 was the most tragic event ever to happen in history. Killing thousands of people as well as destroying the World Trade Center, this event will forever be remembered. After the event, the nation began to mourn, and around the country Americans began to commemorate the victims and demonstrate their patriotism. On September 20, President Bush called for the War on Terror. In his speech, he said “Americans should not expect one battle but a lengthy campaign,…

by reflecting sunlight into their homes with a shard of mirror” (3), but after a kite-running tournament in Kabul in the year of 1975, everything had changed for the worse. Since Hassan comes from a different social class than Amir, Hassan never participated in the events due to his political, ethnical, and religious…

Khan also, convinced Amir to rescue Hassans son, Sorhab. Sorhab was raised by Amir and Soraya after Amir saves him from Aseff. Aseff is the bully that raped Hassan when he was a young boy. Lets' talk about the setting now. The setting takes place in Kabul during the reign of the Taliban. This story has many different conflicts. One conflict is Character vs. Character. The characters were Aseff and Hassan. Aseff raped Hassan to show dominance. "There's nothing wrong sinful about teaching a…

Plot Twist I really wanted to go to Baba and tell him that we had to leave Kabul. Of course it was that or Hassan and Ali leaving Kabul. But I had to do what I had to do, we could not be here together, it was not right. It had to be the perfect time, also when Ali and Hassan were gone. So that day I had waited till they had to go to get food from the market. Than that was the moment I had done something I never had done before, I lied and black mailed my brother ,the person that fed from…

redemption really is. The twelve year old boy did whatever he could think of to find redemption for the actions he made. The journey to redemption are telling Hassan to hit him with the pomegranate, the actions after the pomegranates, and going to Kabul. Amir’s journey to redemption started when he was only twelve years old. After witnessing the rape of his best friend and servant, Hassan, he did whatever he…

family, faith, friendship, and salvation in love. Mariam and Laila, the two protagonists with varying generation and ideas about love and family, are brought together by war, caused by loss and fate. The enduring dangers in home and in the streets of Kabul helps to form a bond of mother-daughter to each other which drifts their story and alter the course of next generation. Inspired by the lacking portrayal of Afghan women in The Kite Runner, Hosseini writes about woman’s love for her family…