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    In the beginning of the novel‚ The Kite Runner‚ the main character experiences the struggles with the impact of guilt and regret. He faces the consequences of a decision he made as a twelve-year-old for the greater part of his life. Therefore‚ he must search for his path to redemption for the rest of the novel. In the beginning of the book‚ he was definitely a coward. He was not able to stand up for his best friend because he was scared of getting hurt. Even though Amir’s made a horrible decision

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    Which techniques have been used by the writers of the texts to influence your attitude to and understanding of the ideas of power? In Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin‚ and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner the idea of power in masculinity and the powerless of femineity is contrasted. Women in both texts are shown to have very little power as they are punished when they challenge the traditional roles they are expected to abide shown through dialogue and epistolary. Men are seen to be

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    develop. Ali and Hassan are Hazaras‚ which means they’re from an ethnic minority. They don’t have the same status

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    James Cyr AP Lit Kite Runner Rough Draft In Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel The Kite Runner‚ two boys‚ Hassan and Amir‚ have a friendship that is not as typical as most children’s. Although they do carve into a tree that they are the "sultans of Kabul"‚ their friendship is weak and one sided. These boys grew up in Kabul‚ and although their childhood friendship may have seemed like something out of a book‚ complete with pomegranate trees and story telling‚ it was dark and emotionally wearing

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    Analyse how the resolution of a main conflict is important to the text as a whole: Hosseni’s ‘The Kite Runner’ is a haunting novel that follows one man’s search for redemption‚ as he attempts to atone for sins committed in the selfishness of youth. Due to focusing predominantly on his own needs‚ as a child in Afghanistan‚ our protagonist‚ Amir‚ allows his childhood playmate to get raped without intervening. This decision then plagues him for decades after the event. He experiences internal conflict

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    changing backdrop of Afghanistan. Hosseini ’s use of symbols and motifs in The Kite Runner is significant in illustrating the development of the characters and the plot. The predominantly male characters of The Kite Runner and the relationships between them‚ are the foundation pillars on which the story rests. Central to the text and precariously balanced‚ is the bittersweet relationship between “friends” Hassan and Amir. Hosseini cleverly uses the religiously symbolic pomegranate tree to represent

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    The Kite Runner demonstrates that people are motivated more by self-interest than by honour. Discuss. In the novel ‘The Kite Runner’ By Khaled Hosseini‚ people are motivated by self-interest rather than by honour. There are many instances throughout the book where the characters take actions that are selfish and only benefit themselves. They know what the right thing to do is but don’t do it because it may hurt their own reputation. Amir frames Hassan‚ Baba keeps a huge secret and Assef treats

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    novel more significant‚ as small things such as the kite in “The Kite Runner”‚ by Khaled Hosseini‚ have a greater meaning in the novel and represent themes. In “The Kite Runner”‚ I noticed three symbols: The cleft lip‚ the kite‚ and the lamb. Hassan’s cleft lip is one of his most representative features as a child‚ and is one of the features Amir refers to most describing him; “A Chinese doll... and the cleft lip‚ just left of mid-line”‚ this shows Amir’s description of Hassan’s appearance. The split

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    this defeats the purpose of learning. The purpose of learning is to take in new information and learn from it. When warnings are set in place for learning‚ some students are going to miss out on the opportunity to learn new lessons. There are‚ also‚ many ways that trigger warnings can be taken advantage of. By enforcing trigger warnings‚ we as a society would be encouraging people to shy away from things because they are considered too hard to handle.

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    The Kite Runner is a book all about the different choices Amir makes. Some choices he makes are good and some are bad. If Amir had chosen to make the right choices at the right time‚ he might not have gone through all he had to go through in The Kite Runner. In the end of the book‚ The Kite RunnerAmir and Soraya live with Sohrab in their house in California. Amir teaches Sohrab how to fly a kite and goes to catch the kite for Sohrab like Hassan had done for Amir. The ending of the book however

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