Chapter twenty-two represents a kind of purgatory for the main protagonist‚ Amir‚ within the novel. It can be argued that this chapter represents the cyclic nature of the novel‚ in the repetition of events. Hosseini manipulates Amir into nervous action; seemingly casual movements that delineate the fear‚ and in some respects the anticipation‚ that Amir experiences lying in wait for the ‘Talib’‚ visible within short sentences‚ for instance in ‘I crossed my legs. Uncrossed them;. In these lines‚ Amir’s
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speaks to him tauntingly as if his grotesque actions never took place. Years later it is found out hat Assef has been sexually assaulting Hassan’s orphaned son respectively named Sohrab. Amir‚ now a United States refugee‚ is realizing he has to write his wrongs‚ goes back to his old home‚ fights for the freedom of Sohrab and come out victorious. Khaled writes Assef in the novel as being a true embodiment of the terrible injustices being imposed on the Hazara
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Statement of intent: I have done a formal writing piece of the Kite Runner to show what I know about this novel‚ and to show some of the ideas in the text that are represented by cruel and kind behaviour. (Analyse how cruel or kind behaviour was used to show one or more ideas in the text Note: ideas may refer to character‚ theme or setting.) The Kite Runner In the novel ‘The Kite Runner’‚ written by Khaled Hosseini‚ the themes of cruel and kind behaviour helped me with the understanding of the
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Toward the beginning of the novel‚ Amir and Hassan have a very close brotherly relationship when they are alone. Amir is afraid to be Hassan’s true friend in public because they are from two different social classes (Amir being a Pashtun and Hassan being a Hazara). Hazaras are thought of to be lower class and should not be fraternizing with upper class Pashtuns. Amir tests Hassan’s loyalty and resents Hassan because he is secretly jealous of him. Baba is always treating Hassan like a more favored
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The Violence Runner Seung Woo (Mike) Son‚ 11A (Word Count: 799) Throughout the history‚ there have been leaders of good and evil‚ moral and immoral‚ peaceful and violent alike. Sometimes‚ when the evil takes power and misuses it‚ the staggering impact they entail in the society can be appalling and outrageous. In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner‚ Assef is exemplary of an evil leader who misuses his power and stands in the frontlines of crippling Afghanistan and its people into a pitch-black
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incidents that set the rest of the novel in motion. The more substantial part of Amir’s search for redemption‚ however‚ stems from his guilt regarding Hassan. That guilt drives the climactic events of the story‚ including Amir’s journey to Kabul to find Sohrab and his confrontation with Assef. The moral standard Amir must meet to earn his redemption is set early in the book‚ when Baba says that a boy who doesn’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything. As a boy‚ Amir fails to stand
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The Kite Runner Chapter 1 – 5 (PP 1 – 47) 1. The novel begins with a flash black to make the reader aware of what has happened in the narrators past and prepares them for the story that is about to be told. It tells us how he is caught up in his past‚ how the event that took place in 1975 made him who he is and how he see’s kites flying and is reminded of his friend Hassan‚ who he calls a kite runner. 2. Hassan is the son of Ali who is the servant for Baba. Hassan is a childhood associate of
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changes in setting throughout the book from countries to remote landscapes‚ however within these larger changes there are smaller ones that we can identify to have a significance on key events. The first key event I will discuss is the rescue of Sohrab from Assef’s house. This is a pivotal moment in the novel as it could be described as the moment of redemption for all the regret Amir has felt in his life after the incident when he was young. Setting has a large part to play in this event and is
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day Amir finally stood up for himself for the first time in his life. He stood up to the man that in his childhood Amir got Hassan to fight his fights for. “For the first time since the winter of 1975‚ I felt at peace.” amir returned to America with Sohrab which wasn’t speaking a word. Amir redeemed himself by saving a boy in need and adopting his half brother’s son. Baba showed redemption in a different way. He showed it in the way he treats people and the way he presents himself. “That good‚
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14 May 2013 T/TH 10:15 Irony of "The Kite Runner" Irony is a literary technique used to show contrast between reality and what appears to be reality. It is usually used to put emphasis on a particular event in a book. In the novel The Kite Runner‚ written by Khaled Hosseini‚ irony is used throughout the book to tie together certain events and themes. The story follows a boy named Amir living in Kabul‚ Afghanistan during the Taliban take over. Amir lives with his wealthy father Baba and his
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