The Kite Runner Setting Analysis

The setting of a text is a rich resource for understanding significant ideas.
In consideration to day to day life, it is difficult to understand the full extent of something, without first knowing the context in which it is situated. In regards to literature, it is nearly impossible to understand the significant ideas in the writing without first knowing the setting. In the text ‘Kite Runner’ written by Khaled Hosseini, the author uses the historical context and many different geographical locations, such as the Pomegranate tree and Afghanistan to identify that many significant ideas, such as the ideology hate is not in the nature of children but is something that is taught.

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a literary work that relates very much to this book. Shmuel and Bruno were friends. Shmuel was a Jew and Bruno was the son of a Nazi general, much like Amir and Hassan, they came from very different backgrounds to establish the most unlikely friendship. Until Bruno came to the understanding that Jews were hated by the Nazis, did Bruno act like Shmuel was anything less than human. The only reason Bruno ever feared to help Shmuel was because of the hatred that the adult population showed Shmuel. The fact that hate is taught is not only identified in literary works either. In Ireland, the two different major denominations of christians were taught to hate each other. Both denominations persecuted and murdered each others for years. In all of the discussed scenarios, whether they come from literary examples or from actual events, it is true to all that the events that are happening cannot be understood without first knowing the historical context. We would never understand that hate is not in the nature of children but is something that is taught. Without first knowing the basis in which hate is established we would never understand why people hate. This book has conflicting effects on the author. Through the establishment of the pomegranate tree the audience is put into a scenario that reveals the innocent and loving nature of children, but placing the pomegranate tree into a historical context that thrives on hate we can begin to understand how strongly the adults can influence children into becoming beings of hate, as if they (the adults) physically burnt down the pomegranate tree, tearing their relationship