Khaled Hosseini

QUESTION: Imagine that Baba keeps a journal in which he comments on important events. Write an entry for this journal just after the kite tournament. In this entry he reflects on the tournament and on his feelings about Amir's victory. You should give careful consideration to your language choices and style, which should achieve a sense of Baba's voice. Today was the day I have been waiting for. A day I can be a proud father. A day I can finally say, 'My son Amir, my son, is a winner.' A…

Splendid Suns’, Hosseini immediately introduces the reader to the oppression of the central women characters whereas in Atwood’s ‘The Year of the Flood’, the introduction of the enslavement of women is significantly more subtle. In ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns,’ Hosseini uses the structure to show the reader that women are submissive to men. By presenting women’s enslavement in society at the very beginning, Hosseini shows the importance of this theme in the book as a whole. Hosseini reiterates the…

influence their fates and their identities dramatically. In, The Kite Runner, Amir places his father on such a high pedestal and continues to vie for his attention and approval throughout his life. He describes his father as a “force of nature” (Hosseini, 13) and is very proud of his father’s accomplishments, as when his father is giving his opening speech at the orphanage…

wonderful. It is vile and horrible. It is feared for its destruction and brutality, but sometimes, it is only necessary. This mentality doesn’t quite apply to life, but more so to great literature, in which violent scenes do not exist for their own sake. Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner clearly demonstrates the importance of violent scenes in contributing to the overall meaning of the book. In the book, the main protagonist Amir, a young Afghan boy, experiences a violent event in his early…

Sometimes, a kite is much more than a simple toy. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, a young boy discovers that a kite can mean many things as your perspective changes. As time goes on and people change, a kite acts as a blank canvas, for which one can project their views and sentiments. Even at a young age, Amir, The Kite Runner’s protagonist, knows that kite is not just kite. To Amir, kites represent many different things as he is in different stages of his life. The story speaks to…

The autobiography, Musui’s Story, depicts the life of Katsu Kokichi, a samurai who lived during the Tokugawa period of Japan. Katsu Kokichi was a masterless samurai who never held public office, due, in large part, to the trouble he often found himself in throughout his youth. As he grows older, however, he reflects on his youth and attempts to change his life for the better. He becomes a person others can count on and he uses his familial connections to aid others in his community. Despite his…

The Kite Runner and Oedipus Rex are both stories with a distinct theme and major plot twists. The Kite Runner is about a kid named Amir who grows up with this incredible guilt of what he had witnessed happening to his best friend, Hassan, who he would later find out is his half brother. Because Hassan died years later, Amir felt it was his responsibility to find his kid, Sohrab, and raise him as his own. Amir found where Sohrab was living and was flooded with emotions when he saw that he was…

The relationship between a father and a son is often very special. A father will do anything for his son; however, in “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy, the father goes above and beyond to make sure that his son is protected. Although the name of the father is not revealed in the book, the reader is given much insight to the father character through both his actions and his words. The father endures several challenges on his journey on the road, but he is able to provide for the boy. “The Road”…

Have you ever felt like all odds were against you including your friends and family? Flik the main character in the movie A Bug's Life was striving to please his colony. However, no matter what he did the outcome was mostly negative. Until Flik made a trip to the city where he met some circus bugs who helped him and his colony gain freedom from the grasshoppers. Linda Seger the author of the essay “Creating the Myth” explains the Hero Myth. The Hero Myth is a basic story structure that many…

Plot and Conflict Structure In the beginning of the story the author tells about a boy name Keesh who lived in the poor condition together with his mother. Keesh lived at the edge of the polar sea. The father of Keesh had been a brave man. But he had died hunting for food. Keesh was his only son. Keesh lived alone with his mother, Ikeega. One night, the village council met in the big Igloo of Klosh-kwan, the chief. keesh listened, then he waited for silence. He said, "It is true that you give…