The story ‘The Kite Runner’, written by Khaled Hosseini, takes place mainly during the war in Afghanistan. After the country became a republic instead of a monarchy, the former Soviet Union invaded the country. Many years later, the Taliban, an Islamic fundamentalist movement , seized power in Afghanistan. This was accompanied by intense violence and the consequences were immense. Not only was Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, almost entirely destroyed, but the cost to human life was also huge. The Kite Runner describes the life of Amir. Before the war, he lived in Kabul with his father Baba, their servant Ali and Ali’s son Hassan. Hassan and Ali are from a lower class than Amir and Baba, but Amir and Hassan are best friends regardless. In this essay the assertion ‘Amir is selfish and …show more content…
Amir made Hassan do things Hassan didn’t actually feel like doing. Firing walnuts to the neighbour’s dog, for instance. Ali always got mad at Hassan when he caught them, but Hassan never told Ali that it was Amir’s idea. Amir also took advantage of Hassan’s illiteracy for his own pleasure. Amir used to read poems, riddles and stories to Hassan, but he sometimes changed the stories and Amir teased him with words Hassan didn’t know the meaning …show more content…
His shame for being so selfish and cowardly, while Hassan always was faithful to him. Amir wanted to get rid of Hassan. Therefore, he planted his new watch and some Afghani bills under Hassan’s mattress. He thought Baba would condemn him for this. Although he knew that Amir betrayed him, Hassan said to Baba that he stole the watch and the money. Baba forgave him, but Ali decided to leave anyhow. This act was cowardly of Amir. He decided that he wanted to get rid of Hassan instead of facing his problem and express his regret to Hassan. In 1981 Amir and Baba fled from Afghanistan and went living in the
Amir struggles with finding closure from the incident and it changes who he is as a person throughout the novel. Not knowing how to deal with the problem, he did what most twelve year olds would do, and took the easy way out by sending Hassan away. During the first part of the book, Amir starts off being jealous and oblivious. His father Baba failed to mention that Hassan and Amir were half brothers because he was ashamed of his past; sleeping with a 19 year old servant named
In addition to this, Amir also betrays Hassan when he puts his birthday presents underneath Hassan’s mattress to look like Hassan stole them, which in the end got Hassan and Ali kicked out. Amir walks to Hassan and Ali’s living quarter, “I lifted Hassan’s mattress and planted my new watch and a handful of Afghani bills under it,”(pg 104). This shows how Amir went behind Hassan’s back and framed him for his event, which Hassan admitted to, although he didn’t steal Amir’s presents. This shows how Hassan would do anything for Amir and Amir wouldn’t. This event relates back to the theme of betrayal, that is shown in my artwork.
This action by Hassan makes Amir realize that Baba was right he couldn't stand up for himself from this point on Amir was determined to get his father to love him at any coast. Later on during a kite flying tournament Amir and Hassan fly a kite together and in the end win the tournament Hassan decides to run down the kite for amir. After some time passed Amir goes
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a novel that shows life before and after the many wars in Afghanistan and its surrounding countries. Hosseini shows and argues that
After the occurrence, Amir begins to grow farther and farther away from Hassan, too guilty to show him his face. Still too terrified to confront Hassan, Amir sets him up, making it appear that he stole from Amir’s father, Baba, and Hassan and his father, Hazara, Baba’s
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini, is a story about a young Sunni Muslim boy named Amir. Amir is shy, not very courageous, and likes to just do what he feels is right without getting in trouble. Amir lived with his father, Hassan, his maid (hazara), and Ali, Hassan’s dad. Hassan is the brave one, who makes sure that no one will hurt Amir and is not very well educated. The story first takes place in Kabul, Afghanistan.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a bildungsroman about a young privileged Afghan boy who betrays his best friend and servant as a result of cowardice and ingrained social prejudices. Cursed by constant guilt, protagonist Amir flees to the United States where he hopes to bury the tragedies of his childhood. However, in order to regain his honor, Amir must return to the country of his birth to rescue his best friend Hassan’s son in now war-ravaged Afghanistan. The essay explores themes of friendship, betrayal, and redemption using the image of the kite.
Similar to Hassan, Ali knew his place in the social order and what his son was being framed for. Amir failed to acknowledge what his actions could have done as a result. For that reason, he feels downcast for losing “the person whose first spoken word had been [his] name”. He, in that moment, embraced his Pashtun roots and looked down upon Hassan as inferior and has him removed from his
Amir is the son of the wealthy Baba: his mother died at birth and Amir is being fed by the same few as his poor boyfriend Hassan, who lives with them with his awful father Ali. His own mother ran away when Hassan was very young: she was far too beautiful and too young for the old Ali and she left him for another man. The physical handicap for Hassan is that he has a haze lip: he always seems to smile.
The Kite Runner is a novel written by Khaled Hosseini, this novel shares the story of a young boy named Amir and his transition from childhood to adulthood. Amir makes many mistakes as a child, but the moral of the story is to focus not on the mistakes he has made, but how he has grown, and become a better man by redeeming himself for the mistakes he has made. The mistakes he has made mostly revolve around his friend Hassan, and his father Baba. Three of the most prominent mistakes are when Amir doesn’t help Hassan when he is being attacked by the village boys, lying to Baba about Hassan, and not appreciating and abusing Hassan’s loyalty to him.
Sacrifice, one the most prominent themes in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, clearly determines a person’s unconditional love and complete fidelity for another individual. Hosseini’s best-selling novel recounts the events of Amir’s life from childhood to adulthood. Deprived of his father’s approval and unsure of his relationship with Hassan, Amir commits treacherous acts which he later regrets and attempts to search for redemption. These distressing occurrences throughout his youth serve as an aid during his transition from a selfish child to an altruistic adult.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a moving story about the lives of children in Kabul, Afghanistan. It begins with a boy named Amir, who is best friends with his servant Hassan, but Amir struggles with this relationship because Hassan is in fact his servant. When Hassan is attacked by a bully named Assef, Amir is too cowardly to stand up for him and instead hides. He escapes from Afghanistan to America and lives with guilt on this subject for a long time, until Hassan is killed by the Taliban. Amir is able to find redemption in helping Hassan’s son, Sohrab.
Loyalty and support is all Ali and Hassan provided to Baba’s entire family from the beginning. Ali has done everything for Amir from making his breakfast to getting his clothes ready in the morning. In addition, Amir made the wrong decision as Hassan and Amir are basically brothers. Family or in this case family friends have to stick together, “Did you know Hassan and you were fed from the same beast? Did you know that, Amir agha?”
Therefore I think Hassan knew he had let Amir know that he would always find a friend in Kabul. In doing that Hassan showed Amir that forgiving is important and never too late. The last character to influence Amir was Baba because he shaped Amir into the man he is. In the letter that Rahim Khan left for Amir when he arrived back in Pakistan in the hospital, he reads, “When he saw you , he saw himself.”
The Kite Runner visualizes what it was like to life in Afghanistan during the best and worst