Symbolisms in The Kite Runner Essay

Anyone whose heart strings were pulled by Khaled Hosseini's first, hugely successful novel, The Kite Runner, should read his second book; A Thousand Splendid Suns. This book is the best he has ever written. I guarantee you that you will be more than satisfied, after reading this impressive novel. Hosseini is one of the few writers who has talent when it comes to describing unbearable events, such as violence, misery and abuse. The novel is about two women: Mariam and Laila. They live in a war…

A symbolic feature of losing innocence can be the kite. The last time Amir and Hassan flew a kite was the last time they were both innocent. So the kite might represent the good before the bad. It represents innocence before it is taken in the novel. But it also represents how Hassan lost his innocence by being raped because he was trying to save the kite for Amir. “I actually aspired to cowardice, because the alternative, the real reason I was running, was that Assef was right: Nothing was…

The Kite Runner Analytical Writing Task The term “sacrificial lamb” is someone being made to suffer the consequence of a wrongdoing by another. In the book, The Kite Runner, Hassan symbolizes the sacrificial lamb. Amir sacrifices Hassan many times for his own benefits. For example, when Amir sacrificed Hassan for the blue kite, he was able to get the kite back and make Baba proud for winning the tournament. Another scenario where Hassan was the sacrificial lamb was when he took the blame for…

Strong, enormous, unbreakable, unsinkable- these powerful images describe the Titanic, once an unbreakable ship that lies at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean today. Khaled Hosseini uses the Titanic movie in A Thousand Splendid Suns. In this novel, Hosseini relates Rasheed to the Titanic to represent entrapment, degradation, and control of Mariam’s and Laila’s lives: yet like the Titanic, Rasheed is also vulnerable. Rasheed verbally entraps Laila and Mariam in A Thousand Splendid Suns just like…

The demons of Afghanistan possess the many characters in The Kite Runner. Amir, our protagonist, is a very flawed character, with so many things wrong with him even though we must root for him, which could be an entirely different essay in itself. Baba is built up so much throughout the book, but turns out to be a fraud. He has a secret that he feels guilty about his whole life, which causes him to act the way he does. There are other characters like Sohrab (who has had many terrible things…

Does The Kite Runner Have Enough Literary Merit to be Read In and Out of School? The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, is more than just a well-written story. It’s a narrative that takes the reader on a profound journey of heart-tugging events, grieving ups and downs, and life-changing perspectives and themes that can transform a person’s soul. The book has won myriad awards for its plot-twists, character development (especially that of the protagonist, Amir), and also the sensational experiences…

The dictionary defines betrayal as the act of betraying one’s country, a group, or a person, otherwise known as treachery. In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, the character of Baba betrays certain characters in the book by having an affair with Sanaubar, the servant’s wife, and fathering a child with her. In the novel, Baba seems to be a stellar example of good will and purity; however, by fathering Hassan, Baba betrays Hassan, Ali, and Amir. It is Baba’s initial act of betrayal that leads…

relationship with her father until after his death. In “the kite runner” a boy named Amir doesn’t have a good relationship with his father because a boy named Hassan is in the way. The narrators in both literary selections relate the events about their journey in the form of conflict, which builds tension along the story. Text 1 relates to “The Kite Runner” by the progress of each relationship with there dad from the beginning to end. “The Kite Runner” relates to text 1 “Father” because both…

understanding of themselves and the world around them through overcoming adversities. The texts The Kite Runner and The Tragedy of King Lear investigate journey through the concepts of loyalty and jealousy by using an array of literary and film techniques. The famous play, The Tragedy of King Lear was coined by William Shakespeare and was first performed in 1606. The film directed by Marc Forster, The Kite Runner is a film adaptation from the book by the Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. …

excerpt from Father and the novel The Kite Runner demonstrates how two people are trying to make their father notice both of them. In the future the fathers died, in which Amir and Alice regretted not exposing the way they felt. Furthermore, Amir did everything to make his father proud. As a matter of fact, both fathers are dead now that both characters can’t admit their feelings towards them or find out how their father’s felt. Amir was competing in a kite race in order to make his father glad…