Through out the book‚ Amir was knuckling down for his father’s affection and his obsession to be the perfect son blurred out the fine line between good and bad‚ and made him take odious actions. Baba was one of the wealthiest and noble men in Kabul. People looked up to him and honored him for his courage and the principles he stood up for. Amir being the only child of one of the most dignified men was put under immense pressure to be the perfect son. People around him and Baba himself expected
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against the wall‚” (75). Amir witnessed the rape of Hassan‚ and after he took his trophy kite home and hung it up on the wall it mocked him‚ reminding him of his cowardice‚ and the purity and the innocence that were taken from him. When Amir returned to Kabul as an adult there were no kites. Afghanistan had been run over by the Taliban and everything had been destroyed‚ just like the innocence that was taken by Amir and the goodness and that was stolen from him. In The Kite Runner‚ Amir wanted the winning
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Understanding the Phenomenon of Religious Terrorism in Pakistan Pakistan has ended up as a target for the Taliban and Al Qaeda forces through a strange spiral of events which were triggered after 9/11. Terrorism has reached new and disturbingly dangerous heights. Not a week seems to goes by anymore without an attack resulting in the death of countless innocent victims. The economy of the country has been severely affected. Hundreds of thousands of people have left their homes to avoid cross fire
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affection with his sister sacrifices her belongingness for her better future and life of prosperity. Just like Baba Ayub in the story gets separated from his beloved son‚ Abdullah was also to part with his sister. The journey of Abdullah from Shadbagh to Kabul holds upon him a test; a test to make him strong enough to leave Pari at his Uncle’s place. The Div of the story signifies the difficulties that one has to face in one’s life and once these difficulties are surpassed‚ there exists satisfaction and
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Developments in Delhi and Agra disturbed the Mughals at Kalanaur. Many Mughal Generals advised Akbar to retreat to Kabul as Mughal forces may not face Hemu’s might and new awareness among Hindus to liberate their country‚ but Bairam Khan decided in favor of war. Akbar’s army marched towards Delhi. On November 5‚ both armies met at the historic battlefield of Panipat‚ where‚ thirty years earlier‚ Akbar’s grandfather Babur had defeated Ibrahim Lodi in what is now known as the First Battle of Panipat
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fossilized; there is nothing much to it but death and decay. This isn’t a place any one would like to be. It makes me as a reader feel depressed and somber. On this land the soil is dead. As we reach the foot of the mountain we have reached the city of Kabul or as the writer describes ‘’what’s left of it: a city in
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at the later stage‚ some of its western and eastern tributaries make it more huge and vast in volume and speed. Its eastern tributaries are Sutlaj‚ Bias‚ Ravi‚ Chenab‚ and Jhelum‚ while its western tributaries include rivers Swat‚ Kunar‚ Panjkora‚ Kabul‚ Kurram‚ Tochi‚ Gomal‚ Bolan‚ etc All the plain areas of our country have existed by the Sediment brought by River Indus and its tributaries. The whole of the Indus Plain can be sub-divided into three parts for detailed study: * The Upper
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Laila’s mother became depressed and spend all the time in her bed. Fariba didn’t pay much attention to Laila‚ and all she would talk about was how her sons would be good‚ educated people if they didn’t leave. Later in a story the war came even to Kabul‚ city they lived in‚ and after Laila’s good friend‚ Tariq‚ left their country‚ Laila and her parents decided to leave too. Unfortunately as they
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The Kite Runner Chapter Review of Narrative Aspects Chapter 1; It is December 2001‚ and our narrator‚ recalls an event that occurred in 1975‚ when he was twelve years old and growing up in Afghanistan. He doesn’t say what happened‚ but says it made him who he is. He follows this recollection by telling us about a call he received last summer from a friend in Pakistan‚ Rahim Khan. Rahim Khan asks Amir‚ to come to Pakistan to see him. When Amir gets off the phone‚ he takes a walk through San Francisco
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person’s emotion. This is easy to understand in the novels Angela’s Ashes and The Kite Runner. In these two stories a person will encounter with the feelings of abandonment and death. In the kite runner Amir was depressed that he and baba had to leave Kabul. He was wondering if he was going to forget his homeland along the line. He mentioned‚ “I only knew the memory lived in me a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past a brush stroke of color on the gray‚ barren canvas that our life had become ”
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