Bettina De Mesa Mrs. Mo AP English 23 Sept. 2010 The Kite Runner “I stopped watching‚ turned away from the alley.... was running down my wrist. I blinked‚ saw I was still biting down on my fist‚ hard enough to draw blood from the knuckles. I realized something else. I was weeping. From just around the corner‚ I could hear Assef’s quick‚ rhythmic grunts. I had one last chance to make a decision. One final opportunity to decide who I was going to be. I could step into that alley‚ stand
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The Kite Runner The book I’ve read this term is called The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. The novel is set mostly in Afghanistan and it’s written in first person. Amir‚ a well-to-do Pashtun boy‚ and Hassan‚ a Hazara and the son of Amir’s father’s servant‚ spend their days in a peaceful Kabul‚ kite fighting‚ roaming the streets and being boys. Hassan is a successful "kite runner" for Amir‚ knowing where the kite will land without even watching it. One triumphant day‚ Amir wins the local tournament
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Harlos The Kite Runner: Atonement When a life of wrong happens‚ people pay careful attention to the victims‚ but rarely look at the wrongdoers. Human makes mistakes‚ but what is done afterwards is what defines the nature of mankind. Some people repeat their faults without any regret‚ some people struggle over their life‚ trying to determine what is right and what is wrong. However‚ some people carry on with regret and guilt‚ spending the rest of their life to atone. Amir in The Kite Runner by Khaled
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The Kite Runner The novel “The Kite Runner‚” written by Khaled Hosseini‚ is about a young man named Amir and the experiences he went through during chaos in his country‚ Afghanistan. The story centers around Amir‚ the main character‚ and Hassan. Amir and Hassan are totally different people. Amir is well educated Muslim. Also he tends to read a lot of books. With his nerd like attributes‚ is somewhat disappointing to his father’s eyes. Hassan is a servant to Amir’s family
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Rahim Khan’s Advice Nicole Hamaway The novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini tells the story of Amir‚ a boy who faces numerous complications; such as‚ living in the household of an unloving father‚ and ultimately fails miserably when he tried to impress his father. His cowardice is revealed after witnessing the rape of his best friend‚ Hassan. With a guilty conscience‚ Rahim Khan tells Amir to travel to Afghanistan‚ in which Rahim says “there is a way to be good again” as a
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Nobody would ever believe that the innocent diversion of kite flying could lead into an epic tale of betrayal and eventual redemption; however Hosseini‚ in his novel The Kite Runner‚ manages to weld this activity with the journey of one man from betrayer to his redemption and challenge to higher authority. Amir a young and determined boy trying for his father’s affection will go to all extremes to win the kite tournament and his father’s love. He will betray his companion on multiple occasions‚ because
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Eastern country provides a contrast to the contemporary headlines about Afghanistan primarily being home to terrorist cells. The Kite Runner paints a realistic portrait of a country about which most readers probably know very little and enables readers to separate the people of a country from its leaders (the Taliban) and/or groups (terrorists) associated with it. The Kite Runner is a coming-of-age novel about finding one’s place in a world of turmoil and transition. It explores the difficulties of developing
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Afghans‚ not this Flat-Nose here’"(69). This quote is an example of how Assef‚ a Pashtun‚ thinks that he his more superior than another person just because of their ethnicity. Additionally‚ this quote is foreshadowing how Assef is going to behave later on and explains his actions."’The Talibs said he was a liar and a thief like all Hazaras and ordered him to get his family out of the house by sundown’"(304). Even though the Talibs are not an individual‚ this quote is proof that ethnicity plays a major role
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1. The overarching theme of Kite Runner is redemption. Taking that in the violence and misery incorporated in the book was necessary. With its use a realistic picture of Afghanistan and decisions that could lead to regret one almost forgets it’s a work of fiction. The violence‚ especially regarding the rape of Hassan and Sohrab‚ was written so detailed that it leaves scars on the reader. It fully captures the readers and embeds the feeling of guilt Amir holds‚ into ones conscience. It is almost as
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In chapters 16‚ 17 and 18‚ Rahim Khan meets Amir and tells him about what happened in his home town. He also tells Amir about his Childhood friends Hassan who got married and has a young boy named Sohrab. And how Hassan got brutally murdered by Taliban force along with his wife. They only spared his son who got sent to an orphanage house. Rahim asks Hassan to go Kabul and take Hassan’s son with him to America because he has not one left to take care of him. And‚ because Hassan is Amir’s brother.
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