Year 11 English Prelim Assessment Task HOST: Welcome to the show Khaled. Before we begin the interview proper I would like the listeners to hear an excerpt from the novel. When it is finished‚ could you explain how this scene sets up some of the characters and themes of the novel? KHALED: Good morning and thank you. These particular few pages of my novel‚ The Kite Runner‚ hold some of the most important parts regarding character and theme set up. One of the first apparent themes is the book
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Baba sat Amir on his lap and explains his idea of sin and says “When you tell a lie‚ you steal someone’s right to the truth” (18). To Baba there is only one sin‚ and this sin is theft. Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is about a wealthy Sunni Muslim boy Amir that is raised in Afghanistan. Amir lives with his father Baba‚ Ali the servant and Ali’s son Hassan. Amir’s mother passed giving birth to Amir and Amir blames himself for his mother’s death. He struggles to gain a relationship with his father
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Khaled Hosseini author of The Kite Runner shows a story of pure love‚ trust and betrayal towards two completely different people. A friendship that takes place where class matters and your depended on your race. The story is about a boy name Amir who is the son of a wealthy man in the northern area of Kabul‚ who develops a friendship with his servant name Hassan. Amir never considered calling Hassan a friend because of his low class Hazara heritage and Amir can’t get past the society they lived in
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Who has suffered the most in the Kite Runner Novel? The Kite Runner novel is a tragedy story of two boys growing up in Kabul Afghanistan in 1970s. Amir and Hassan who are portrayed as the boss and the servant from the Pashtun and the Hazara nationalities of Afghanistan. In reality they are two brothers from the same father‚ however this secret keeps hidden until later. Hassan the loyal Hazara servant of the house‚ who lives with his father Ali in a mud house built by Amir’s father Baba
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In Khaled Hosseni’s novel‚ The Kite Runner‚ the main character‚ Amir‚ has an internal battle against himself for his wrongdoings. He has to face the overbearing guilt which has come from a terrible event he had witnessed during his childhood. The beginning of the story shows the reader the relationship that Hassan and Amir have. Amir is more well off‚ and Hassan’s father works for his father. Although the boys grow up together‚ Amir tends to act with a more self righteous air to him‚ while
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Literature is an art form unlike any other‚ with a special ability to allow us to peer into the lives of others. In turn‚ we then are able to peer into the lives of these characters‚ revealing a more nuanced‚ complex portrait of human nature. The two books‚ Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison and Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry both allow the reader to experience this complexity‚ by contrasting the characters reactions to the extraordinary and mundane events in their lives. By doing so‚ they
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Word Count: 2080 Hosseini ’s use of recurrent symbols and motifs to represent not just the personal relationships in the story‚ but to portray the larger scale problems in Afghanistan‚ has received both applaud and criticism. Through the use of these literary techniques‚ Hosseini illustrates the progression of characters and relationships whilst engaging our emotions with the quest for redemption and portraying the changing backdrop of Afghanistan. Hosseini ’s use of symbols and motifs in The
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Amir - The narrator and the protagonist of the story. Amir is the sensitive and intelligent son of a well-to-do businessman in Kabul‚ and he grows up with a sense of entitlement. His best friend is Hassan‚ and he goes back and forth between acting as a loyal friend and attacking Hassan out of jealousy whenever Hassan receives Amir’s father’s affection. Amir is a gifted storyteller and grows from aspiring writer to published novelist. His great desire to please his father is the primary motivation
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learned Hassan’s death. Although Hassan is dead‚ Amir’s salvation did not stop‚ Hassan’s only son Sohrab was controlled by the rivals of Amir’s childhood. His cowardice and guilty intertwined him...‚ a redemption began again. The end of the story‚ Amir saved Soharb‚ but the mental pain had completely lost his feelings‚ only about kite - that Hassan and Amir childhood favorite plaything‚ would made Sohrab to laugh. Isabel Allende estimated this novel unforgettable‚ extraordinary and powerful. Compared
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Jamila Taheri Jamila Taheri is Soraya’s mother and the General Taheri’s wife. She lived in Afghanistan‚ where she married then powerful General Taheri and her family had to emigrate to the USA just before the change of regimes when the Soviet army invaded Afganistan. She is a mature person‚ her personality was defined by Afghan traditions‚ values‚ culture. In the USA she is exposed to different culture and society traditions. Although the space given to Jamila in the book is modest‚ but her
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