Good morning and thank you. These particular few pages of my novel, The Kite Runner, hold some of the most important parts regarding character and theme set up. One of the first apparent themes is the book is the tension and delicate relationship that exists between father and son. In the excerpt I show the reader that Baba is unimpressed with Amir. He feels that there is something wrong with Amir; he infers that Amir is a coward. This is revealed when Amir overhears the conversation between Rahim Khan and Baba. They are discussing Baba’s disillusion with his son, Baba says “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who won’t stand up to anything.” At this moment Baba is keeping his true feelings hidden, which only serves to heighten Amir’s feeling of inadequacy. This theme runs throughout the book and causes a lot of complication.…
The story opens in pre-Taliban Kabul, Afghanistan. The protagonist, Amir, is recalling events from his childhood. He lived a lavish life with his father, Baba, and their servant, Ali and his son Hassan. Hassan and Amir grew up together and were almost like brothers, however Ali and Hassan belonged to the religious minority group, the Shias, and Baba and Amir, Sunni Muslims, superior. The different religious sects made it difficult for the boys to be real friends, despite their many character similarities and personal connection to one another. Hassan and Amir had a lot in common, such as the fact that they both grew up without a mother. Though they were raised with different beliefs, they were brought up together, and spent their entire childhoods making memories with each other.…
I believe the source of Amir’s power is in his ethnicity because he was born in a higher class. I also believe that Hassan had some power since he was the son of Baba. Throughout the book, you can see that Hassan had lived a plight free life. Amir would always scoff at Hassan about literature even though Hassan is unschooled. Hassan always stayed loyal although I would think he would feel animosity towards Hassan. I also think that Hassan’s passive ways have power over Amir. Amir hates that he cannot undo what he did, or have Hassan deal the same pain unto him. This makes Amir feel bad because he knows that he has hurt Hassan. While Hassan doesn't hurt Amir back, Amir is handling things in a pragmatic way. Amir’s goal was to get rid of Hassan.…
Baba is very defense because he feels as if he is being accused of stealing by the Nguyens. This section of the chapter withholds more meaning than is on the surface. Baba is also really upset because in Afghanistan, he was known and respected by all, and now in America he is constantly trying to prove himself. In a way, this feeling is good and humbling for Baba. However, this feeling can also be scaring and unhealthy for people. For example, Amir felt as if he had to prove himself constantly during his childhood. This did not prove to be helpful in his life. At the end of the scene, Amir apologizes for his father’s behavior and adds “My father is still adjusting to life in America.” Amir says it meaning Baba has not become accustomed to America’s traditions and ways of society. However, Baba is having trouble accepting his position in…
Baba is an idealistic character. Throughout the book he is descried to be this morally driven person, who sees the world in black and white. Amir states that “my father molded the world around him to his liking.”(15) This would show how Baba was seen as driving force through the young Amir’s eyes. In more ways than one Baba affected the people around him. He was displayed to the soldier who donned the armor; however, he himself hid secrets. Despite knowing that Hassan was his son, he carried to his grave the truth of his birth. Not once did he tell Amir of his true relations with his son, nor did he try to attempt. In a way Baba is a hypocrite who preached that thievery is the worst of sins, but stole the opportunity for Hassan to live a better life. However with that in mind Amir did grow to atone for his sins, because he was his father’s son. In the end Amir took it upon himself to purge the sins his father started and he…
It is a blessing to have both parents. Some people lost that opportunity. Losing a parent is like losing a part of yourself, it's not easy to live without it. Losing a parent can be a huge impact on someone’s life especially on a young child, they suffer from the lack of love, attention and support, which affects the child physically, mentally, and emotionally. The lost of a parent might also affect the child’s education and social life.…
Novels have to be catching to eye; a good book has to possess certain characteristics to allow the reader to be engaged in the novel and to be able to make personal connections or references to their everyday lives. Having a theme gives the novel an edge and creates a better story to read. Three key themes that are portrayed in the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini are betrayal, forgiveness and atonement.…
Kemmy Nolah once said,” Be extremely careful not break someone’s heart or to cause someone great disappointment, and never put up with people that are reckless with yours. That is why you shouldn’t force yourself to have space in anyone’s life because if they know your worth, they’ll create one for you”. (Nolah) In the novel, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, Amirs father” Baba” is greatly responsible for determining the personality of Amir. Born without a mother and raised by his father, Amir lives with a single role model in his life who repeatedly expects more from his disappointing son. Amir is like a key while in the same way Baba is a door that has no key hole. ” With me as the glaring exception, my father molded the world around him to his liking”, (Hosseini 12). Throughout the novel Amirs character is developed in different time periods of his life involving his father. Furthermore growing up in a wealthy environment Baba did not show traits of a parent, causing Amir to betray and creates additional deceptions, which escalates Amirs life for the worst.…
In today’s society many people make mistakes and either choose not to fix them, or never have the chance to. The Kite Runner is a fictional work by Khaled Hosseini. Hoesseini starts the book with a memory of Hassan kite running for Amir, which leads to a horrible mistake. Hoessini ends the book similarly with another scene of kite running, but this time Amir is running for Hassan’s son Sohrab. Hosseini frames the novel with two scenes of kite running to illustrate how Amir redeems himself.…
prove he can stand up for what is right, and live up to Baba’s moral standard set early in the…
Throughout the novel The Kite Runner, the ideas of betrayal and redemption are brought up various times. These factors help readers understand and study the different relationships these characters have with one another. The father-son relationship that Amir and Baba had was different than the ideal relationship people would see in today’s society. Readers learn how Amir always felt envious towards Baba’s appearance and wanted to find a way to please him. When living in America, Baba and Amir create a stronger bond with one another. When Amir goes to find Sohrab, it guides him to the truth about Baba, and once he is found, their once cold relationship will be fixed.…
Do you have the experience that you deny something which is true for self-preservation? When some unavoidable things happen and we can’t accept the truth, in this case, refuse it may the best choice to comfort ourselves. In the novel The Kite Runner, Amir who is the protagonist, in order to protect himself from consequences, he refuses to acknowledge the truth, such as the jealousy, father’s prejudice and the guilty.…
Khaled Hosseini is the author of the powerful book called the “Kite Runner”, story is based on young Afghan boy named Amir. The story is based a lot by, how your past can affect your future. Amir is consider coward by what he has done in his past, what made him have this title “coward”. He watched his best friend the person he grew up with, he watched him get raped by the town bully. Imagine he kept living his life with guilt, sorrow and complete angry towards himself. He lost his friend more like a brother then anything they practically lived together, shared the same breast when they were infants. So what makes you be like a coward and able to live with yourself.…
Throughout the novel The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini gives the reader a clear insight into the character of Hassan. One instance in which Hosseini does this in the description of Hassan’s eyes, “eyes that looked, depending on the light, gold, green, even sapphire” (3). Each color represents Hassan in a different way, gold for wealth (Parker), green for his Islamic faith (Fauzan) and rebirth, and blue - sapphire is a shade of deep blue - for trust and loyalty (Parker).…
He is very independent and does not treat his son like others do. He does not pay much attention to him. "Sometimes I would ask Baba if I could sit with them, he would stand at the doorway and say, 'Go away now'" (5). he treated his son like he was not even there. This was a poor parenting decision made by Baba because Amir does not have a mother. Although he grew up with very minimal parenting, Baba was extremely strict when he wanted to be. In early stages of The Kite Runner, Baba is never around, he is often seen leaving the house to go somewhere out of town. Amir’s father is mostly seen in his smoke room with a cigar and drinking with his friends when he is home, “Baba smoked his pipe and talked...he then closed the door” (Hessieni 56). Amir thinks his father overlooks him because he has yet to live up to his expectations and that Amir was not the type of son that Baba imagined. He never went out of his way to speak to his son and the only time they communicated was when Amir had done something…