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Tony Kappen Ms.Cecchetto ENG 4U1 13 March 2015 The Product of Fear Individuals who act selfishly are slaves to their fears, not masters of good reason. Fear is the root of all selfishness, as it is what drives individuals to place their own irrational needs before the wellbeing of those around them. Amir, the protagonist of Khaled Hosseini’s novel the Kite Runner, his father Baba and General Taheri are all examples of such individuals. The fear these individuals possess, cause them to damage…

For centuries, stories have been passed down from generation to generation to be shared around the world. The novel The Kite Runner shows a story of a character, Amir, that through his guilt decides to change his lifestyle so that he can compromise for his mistakes. Khaled Hosseini uses character analysis, symbolism, and theme to create a powerful novel with a strong message, The Kite Runner. In the novel, Hosseini’s main character, Amir, starts off with a distant relationship with his father,…

can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.” (Hosseini 1).Just like any story, the structure of the plot is the most important piece of this book. Hosseini does a great job building up to the climax with several key events that contribute to the rising action. One event that led up to the climax was the time that Hassan rescued Amir from the local bully who often picked on Amir and…

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, follows Amir, a boy from Kabul, Afghanistan, through his emotion-filled life. Throughout the novel, we witness Amir’s experiences with extreme guilt, unworthiness, selfishness, and selflessness. Majority of his relationships have one of these embedded into them. Including his relationships with Hassan, his family’s servant, and his dad, Baba. Hassan and his father, Ali, both serve Baba and Amir. Hassan is around Amir’s age, and because of that, they often…

The novel titled The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini incorporates numerous amounts of both comparisons and contrasts between characters. The insight given to help understand the Afghani culture assists in the portrayal of some similarities and differences between social classes. As the novel is read, the reader is told that Amir is of the majority and Hassan is of the minority. The two ethnic groups that are included in the novel are the Pashtuns, who make up the majority, and the Hazaras, who…

18). The lack of a good relationship between the two caused Amir to be hateful and even immoral at times. The first sign of this was when he was trying to win the kite fighting contest. Amir thought this was his chance to get to his father. In the book it states, “I was going to win, and I was going to run that last kite. Then I’d bring it home and show it to Baba. Show him once and for all that his son is worthy. Then maybe my life as a ghost in this house would finally be over” (Hosseini 56).…

The common consensus is if a book is converted into a movie, then the movie will be essentially a disappointment. In The Kite Runner, director Marc Forster’s version falls just short of the original novel by Khaled Hosseini. With removed scenes, themes and emotional ties to characters, the differences between the book and the movie are too great to claim Forster a succes. In the movie, The Kite Runner, significant scenes such as Sohrab’s suicide attempt, Amir’s relationship with Soraya and the…

advice, and have morals, which teach you lessons. Even if you read a book for the hundredth time, when you finish it, it might teach you something new, or a new way to look at it. It gives different point of views. So then you might ask why read books? Well, reading books improves your imagination, it helps expand yourself as a person, and of course simply to have fun, after all reading is just another…

act like he knows a lot about books even though he really doesn’t. This makes him look even less smart. The second Conflict is man versus man which is a struggle that occurs between two characters. This conflict occurs between the man and Mr. Clark. The man’s admiration for Mr. Clark turned into jealousy toward him, which caused a struggle between the two. Although Mr. Clark did not do anything, the man starts to dislike Mr. Clark and because of that he buys the book Mr. Clark was saving up…

fiction author, expresses the importance of libraries in the above quotation, stating that access to the public library essentially “cures” us of our nescience, pessimism, and prejudice. Bray describes books—to which the library card is a passport—as windows into new mindsets, ideas and perspectives; books are described as conduits by which the library broadens…