English Essay

The Idea of Returning Home in Rush Home Road and Kite Runner “A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever.” (Author Unknown, Thinkexist.com) This quote means that you have many moments in life that are simply just to take up time and carry one throughout the years but memories are much more important and stay in one’s head forever with no time limit. This quote is significant to the two novels Rush Home Road and Kite Runner because each protagonist has a past that they carry with them throughout their years. Their memories of tragedy are with them forever and there is no way of escaping them permanently. In the novels Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens and Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the protagonists, Addy and Amir, are constantly drawn back home by recalling difficult memories, through adoption, and with the idea that they have a mission to complete. In Rush Home Road, the main character, Adelaide Shadd begins to have flashbacks of her past and old life after she adopts Sharla into her life. She has tried hard over the years to bury these memories in the back of her mind and forget about them but they tend to lead her in the direction of home instead. When Addy zones out she recalls difficult times of her past. She relives getting raped, being alone and abandon, and many deaths within her life. As she remembers these moments she is drawn back to her old life mentally and eventually physically as well. Similarly, in the book Kite Runner the protagonist is also both mentally and physically drawn back home. After Amir stands by his Hazara servant and best friend get raped everything changes in his life. Hassan and he are no longer friends and they become very distant, Hassan and his father, Ali, leave Baba and Amirs’ household to make things better for everyone. Baba and Amir eventually leave Kabul to live somewhere safer and more stable and they end up in America. Amir begins fresh and his past gets pushed to the back of