I did what was best for my family in leaving. In Hazarajat, we were welcomed with open
I did what was best for my family in leaving. In Hazarajat, we were welcomed with open
Bravery is being strong in the moment of pain or fear. In Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, between Baba and Hassan I believe that Hassan showed to have more bravery of the two.…
Dear Amir agah, I’m going to start off by saying I know what you did, or didn’t do. We trusted you and were loyal to you and your father, and you let Hassan get attacked by those, those, monsters. He will never be the same thanks to you. And the money Hassan “stole from you, yeah,…
As a child and all throughout his life Khaled Hosseini loved reading. Khaled was born and raised, for a few years of his life, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Although Khaled has moved around quite a bit, he has lived in San Jose, California for much of his life. Khaled lived in Afghanistan during the years of the constitutional monarchy. He thought of his time in Afghanistan as very peaceful and quiet.…
Amir changes to become worthy of Hassan’s love and loyalty. After many years Amir returns to Afghanistan to learn the fate of his childhood friend and he finds a very different country than the one he left as a boy. Even as an adult, Hassan had remained loyal to Amir by asking Rahim Khan about his friend and he wrote a letter to Amir in hopes that it would be passed along. Amir’s guilt is brought back and he feels he owes Hassan loyalty in return. The friendship is developed further when Amir finds out that Hassan was actually his brother. At that moment, Amir became determined to find Hassan’s son. Only when Amir goes to rescue Sorab, Hassan’s son, does he truly start feeling “healed at last” (289). As an act of loyalty back to Hassan, Amir’s journey and heroic efforts allow him to adopt Sorab. This showed that Amir really had a deep respect and love for his best friend. The parallelism of Amir and Hassan’s last kite flight together and Amir and Sorab’s first kite flight together shows that Amir’s and Hassan’s friendship never died. In the final scene of the novel, Amir yells to Sohrab, “for a thousand times over” (391). This statement proves that Amir has become loyal to Hassan. The past clearly dictates who one is in the future, and the previous actions of Amir have taught him to accept his betrayal and account for it in the end. By lovingly and wholeheartedly adopting Hassan’s son, it proves to…
From the start and through his death, Hassan remains the same: loyal, forgiving, and good-natured. Hassan grew up with a very particular role in life. He prepares Amir’s breakfast and collects his books while Amir gets ready for school. Rather than going to school as well, Hassan stays and helps his father, Ali, get groceries and complete their chores. Instead of receiving his education, he stays home and lives as a servant to those richer than he. Hassan learns early on in life that it is his duty to sacrifice himself for others. As a result of growing up this way, Hassan is not prone to envy and is even happy with the way he lives; the life he has. Even after a traumatic, violent past, he remains innocent from the beginning and to the end of his life. There is no way for Hassan to become ‘good again’ because he had never been bad. Hassan’s ability to suffer without becoming bitter, his integrity, and what his character truly shows us that there is no way for him…
Sense of dethronement and loss because Amir felt he would lose his father to Hassan because his father should Love and care towards Hassan more sometimes.…
The first step to redemption is acknowledging what has been done wrong. This may seem easy, but it took Amir decades to get past this step. After Hassan was raped, Amir didn’t tell anyone about it, which built up a lot of guilt and stress in him. Amir avoided Hassan, and whenever he was…
Explore how Hosseini portrays the character of Baba and his relationship with Amir in the opening chapters of ‘The Kite Runner’…
Because Amir is feeling distanced from his father, he is driven to betraying his best friend Hassan, by leaving him to be assaulted in an alley. Amir doesn’t have a very good relationship with his father. He is very different from him, and his father, Baba, doesn’t like this. Amir is almost the complete opposite of Baba, and because of this, Baba is sometimes not as fatherly a…
This came about when Baba’s darkest secret was revealed by Rahim Khan. The secret was that Baba had slept with Ali’s wife Sanaubar and impregnated her, making Hassan his child. Amir went through a series of mixed emotions at this revelation. Initially the news made Amir furious. He thought of his father as a hypocrite due to all of the lessons he had thought him in his past. Baba once told Amir, ‘There is only one sin – ‘and that is theft…When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth.’ (Pg.225) Due to this lesson, Amir couldn’t help but think that Baba’s theft was the worst kind of stealing, since “the things he’d stolen had been sacred: from me the right to know I had a brother, from Hassan his identity, and from Ali his honor.” (Pg.225). As Amir reflected on his father’s deception and betrayal, he started to see himself in a similar way. Amir realized that his father was more like him than he ever knew and this is when their relationship made the final shift. He saw how much they were one and the same. His feelings towards his father finally changed. “Baba and I were more alike than I’d ever known. We had both betrayed the people who would have given their lives for us.”(Pg.226). Amir finally realizes that Baba was a man who also made mistakes and lived with regret. He recognized that the negative behaviors he had witnessed from his father, came from the struggles he had while trying to deal with the guilt and failures of the past. In the same way Amir had also suffered from the terrible things he had done. The big difference is at the end of the day Baba was a better man than Amir was, but Amir knew he had time to change this. From here on, Amir took on the task of redeeming both his and Baba’s mistakes. He agreed to go on the search for Hassan’s orphaned son Sohrab and to take care of him and raise him like he was his…
In the alley, when watching transfixed as Hassan is tortured and humiliated by Assef, Amir opts to “[run]. [He] ran because he was a coward. [He] was afraid… maybe Hassan was the price [he] had to pay, the lamb [he] had to slay, to win Baba”. Knowing full well that Hassan would have gone to any length to protect Amir, for his perpetual loyalty never faltered, Amir fails to help the one who was always by his side in his time of need. For purely egocentric and self-protective reasons, and the fleeting gain of Baba’s attention, Amir betrays Hassan in an appalling manner, severing the ties of allegiance and brotherhood once holding them together.…
A major theme that reoccurs thought out the novel is the presence of division in Afghanistan. The differences between Amir and Hassan are evident from the beginning of the novel. Amir lives in a luxurious home with his father, while Hassan resides in a mud hut on the property of Hassan’s father. Hassan and Amir’s relationship as well as their personal lives are frequently affect by economic status, ethnicity, and religious beliefs. These specific divisions are clearly communicated through the two boys and are important theme.…
Transforming a novel into a film can be a very challenging task to do. This is due to the fact that a novel has many key factors that make up the plot and it is nearly impossible to compress them in a certain time frame. Mark Forster’s adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s coming of age novel “The Kite Runner” is a weak portrayal of the originally work because specific scenes lacked intense emotion, specific scenes were left out completely and specific scenes were poorly altered.…
The novel 'The Kite runner' by Khaled Hosseini is based in Afghanistan with many different themes in it. In the novel there are many different realities that a person might or might not know about. This novel greatly relates to Genocides that happened mostly during world war 1. According to an article, "the genocide is a very specific term, referring to violent crimes committed against groups with the intent to destroy the existence of the group." Similarly, in the book we see that pashtuns in Afghanistan wanted Hazara Muslims too leave their country and later in the novel we learn that when the Russians leave and the Taliban's take over Afghanistan, they started killing Hazara Muslims to get rid of them. In world War 1, the Germans brutally killed Jews because of their religion or some other factor. They were brought to the gas chambers and were then killed with chlorine and other poisonous gases and the other were forced to do hard labour which eventually leads to their death. Their only crime that they committed was that they were Jews and did not followed the same religion as Germans. Similarly in the book, 'The Kite Runner' Hazara Muslims were treated less. They worked as servants for the Pashtun Muslims. Aquote in the novel states, "Door to door we went, calling for the men and the boys. We'd shoot them right there in front of their families. Let them see. Let them remember who they were, where they belonged. Sometimes, we broke into their doors and went inside their homes. And... I'd...I'd sweep the barrel of my machine gun around the room and fire and fire until the smoke blinded me." this quote shows how Hazara Muslims were treated at the time and especially after the Taliban's took over. Although the killing in both cases happened differently, but still in both cases innocent people were either forced to work as servants or were killed brutally just because their belief is different from others. People think that just…
The Kite Runner is one of the best novels which have the story of friendship between two boys, Amir and Hassan. In this novel we, as a reader will be able to see the love and loyalty that Hassan shows toward Amir, but their friendship and trust broken because of Amir’s betrayal.…