Dennis Hardy Mrs. Hardgrove AP English 12 September 9‚ 2014 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini 2003 1. Analyze the title. The Kite Runner feels like an odd title especially at the beginning of the novel when the protagonist is the kite fighter not the kite runner. As the book progresses it becomes more and more obvious that the novel is not about the protagonist but his best friend. The author chose this title to help illustrate the fact that although the novel follows the life of Amir it is really
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Though The Kite Runner has not had as much time to age into being called a “classic” like To Kill a Mockingbird or The Great Gatsby‚ I argue that yes this book should be brought to classic status. Time be damned! Classics are novels that have received acclaim from the critics as well as the readers‚ as well as well known. Classics dive into raw and sometimes taboo topics and the author uses a unique style of writing. Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner should be brought to classic status‚ literally
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Study Questions 1. What role does religion play in the lives of Baba‚ Amir‚ and Assef‚ and in the novel as a whole? * Though it is rarely the main focus‚ religion is nearly always present in Amir’s narrative. It is part of the culture of Afghanistan‚ and it is accordingly a fixture of the everyday life Amir describes. Amir creates a complex portrait of both the positive and negative traits of religion‚ with the negative always stemming from fundamentalists who use their beliefs as an excuse
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In the novel‚ The Kite Runner‚ by Khaled Hosseini‚ the attack of Hassan is a significant event as it is the beginning of Amir‚ the narrator’s search for redemption. The opening chapter of the novel starts with Amir who lives in Pakistan with his father‚ Baba‚ and his servant‚ Hassan. Amir starts by retelling his childhood memories‚ particularly‚ his regrets for not rescuing Hassan who is his friend and secretly his half brother during the attack from Assef. Through Hosseini’s clever use of circular
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Do you have the experience that you deny something which is true for self-preservation? When some unavoidable things happen and we can’t accept the truth‚ in this case‚ refuse it may the best choice to comfort ourselves. In the novel The Kite Runner‚ Amir who is the protagonist‚ in order to protect himself from consequences‚ he refuses to acknowledge the truth‚ such as the jealousy‚ father’s prejudice and the guilty. Firstly‚ throughout the whole novel‚ the story is always linked with the
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1. The novel begins with Amir ’s memory of peering down an alley‚ looking for Hassan who is kite running for him. As Amir peers into the alley‚ he witnesses a tragedy. The novel ends with Amir kite running for Hassan ’s son‚ Sohrab‚ as he begins a new life with Amir in America. Why do you think the author chooses to frame the novel with these scenes? Refer to the following passage: "Afghans like to say: Life goes on‚ unmindful of beginning‚ end...crisis or catharsis‚ moving forward like a slow‚ dusty
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Amir is a person with darkness looming inside of him. Since he was a boy‚ he faced his darkness‚ his guilt‚ differently from when he was a boy compared to his adulthood. In Khaled Hosseini’s book‚ The Kite Runner‚ Amir at first glance does not seem to grow in character. He lived a privileged childhood‚ but did not take advantage of it because he was overcome by the anguish of his inner guilt of taking his mother’s life by being born. His guilt of taking his mother’s life was an excuse to abandon
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Kite Runner Questions 1-3 1.The book doesn’t really give a detailed description of Amir but he is referred to as a Pashtun and pashtuns have dark hair and eyes and olive colored skin .In my opinion Amir is a coward and this is evident by the way he renounces Hassan as a friend and referrers to him as a mere servant because he fears what Assef would do to him if he was truly friends with Hassan ‚does nothing to help Hassan when he is raped and after that instance Amir is too afraid to face Hassan
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Socratic Seminar Questions 2. The pomegranate tree is a symbol of the different stages of Hassan and Amir’s friendship. "One summer day‚ I used one of Ali’s kitchen knives to carve our names on it: "Amir and Hassan‚ the sultans of Kabul.’ Those words made it formal: the tree was ours" (26). This quote represents Amir and Hassan’s relationship between them during their early childhood. They are extremely close and carving their names on the tree shows that they will be a part of each other’s
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Karl Taro Greenfeld once said‚ “The harsh truth of every relationship‚ even between those who love each other‚ like fathers and sons and daughters‚ or husbands and wives‚ is that the love is always unequal.” In The Kite Runner‚ Amir‚ the protagonist‚ life changes tremendously and is displayed through relationships‚ events‚ and character development. As Amir matures‚ he witnesses and experiences many things things most young men don’t typically encounter. Amir’s mother died when he was just a boy
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