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    The Kite Runner Theme Essay

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    Harmeen Ghotra ENG3U0J The Kite Runner – Theme Analysis Grade 11 Mr. Saini 1. Friendship‚ guilt‚ redemption “He knew about Assef‚ the kite‚ the money‚ the watch with the lightning bolt hands. He had always known. ‘Come. There is a way to be good again‚’ Rahim Khan had said on the phone just before hanging up. Said it in passing‚ almost as an afterthought.” (Chapter 14‚ pg 202). This quote symbolizes how Amir strived to do everything to forget‚ all he needed to do was to fly to Pakistan

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    The protagonist in the novel The Kite Runner goes by the name Amir‚ in addition to being the protagonist he’s also the main character in the book. The novel follows Amir and his experiences through his childhood in Afghanistan and into a good amount of his adult life as a refugee in the United States. The novel starts off in December 2001 when the unknown narrator who we come to find out is Amir‚ gets a phone call from an old family friend from Pakistan‚ after the phone call he finds himself reminiscing

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    In my english class we are reading the book called the “Kite Runner‚” written by Khaled Hosseini. This book itself is about fierce cruelty and fierce love. This book can also be considered to be a journey novel. A journey of redemption and self- awareness. This novel is different because it starts at the end‚ meaning that when you read the book the “Kite Runner‚” Khaled Hosseini starts to like give flashbacks on the things that happened in his life and the things he wished he could’ve done differently

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    The Kite Runner Analysis The expression "riddled with guilt" is a good way to describe the main character’s life‚ Amir‚ in the book The Kite Runner‚ written by Khaled Hosseini. The Kite Runner is a story about an Afghan boy‚ Amir‚ who has many hardships throughout his life as he grows from a boy living in war-torn Afghanistan‚ to a successful writer living in America. Amir experiences many events that caused him to carry a great amount of guilt throughout his life. So much guilt that it even

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    For example‚ Stanley Williams directly and indirectly takes away many people’s life by founding the gang‚ and organizing and participating criminal activities. Nevertheless‚ he pays back to the society by writing children’s books to prevent youths from joining gangs. He uses his personal experience to show youths the consequences of impulse‚ saving countless number of youths’ life. In this way‚ Williams atones his sin‚ because the lives he saved can match the lives he took

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    How Amir Comes to Be a Fully Grown Person Becoming a fully developed person does not just have to do with developing physically. One’s majority can only be approved of if there is mental‚ moral advancing as well. In the book “The Kite Runner”‚ Khaled Hosseini guides us through the maturing of the narrator‚ Amir through parallelism. A grownup Amir faces parallel situations to what he had experienced in childhood. These situations are ones that Amir regrets and wishes to forget‚ due to their destructive

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    Occasionally in the novel Baba drinks an alcoholic beverage. In Islam‚ this is an inexcusable sin. Readers with pervious knowledge would understand how great the event in the book is. It is understood in the novel that Baba is not very religious but this act shows how far to the other side of religion he truly is. Another example is when Amir waits until Sohrab is on his death bed to pray. The line in the novel stating that

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    Hassan Blue Kite

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    When Amir wins the kite race in the beginning of the book and right before Hassan gets raped. Hassan says to Amir “"For you‚ a thousand times over‚" (Hosseini‚ 67)‚ before running after the blue kite. Here Hassan is pledging his loyalty Amir saying that no matter what the cost‚ he will bring Amir happiness. This blue kite shaped the way that the book would proceed because of the fact that when Hassan said this Amir did not reciprocate it back. This was just a brief glance at what Amir actually thought

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    “There is a way to be good again.” This is a lesson that I personally learned from The Kite Runner‚ and I truly believe it to be true. In the book‚ Amir went through his whole life feeling guilty about all of the wrong and cruel things he did to his friend Hassan. When Rahim Khan called Amir and told him that he could in fact be good again‚ Amir went out of his way (to another country) to fix what he had done. This is a lesson that we can all apply to our lives in more ways than one. Everybody

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    Books And Reading

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    BOOKS AND READING Topical Vocabulary 1. Categorisation: Children’s and adult’s books; travel books and biography; romantic and historical novels; thrillers; detective stories; science fiction/fantasy; non-fiction; pulp fiction. absorbing; adult; amusing; controversial; dense; depressing; delightful; dirty; disturbing; dull; fascinating; gripping; moralistic; obscene; outrageous; profound; whimsical; unputdownable

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