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    The novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini presents an enriching story about love‚ guilt‚ and redemption. Hosseini uses real‚ relatable characters by recognizing and honoring the flaw in human nature. He takes you on an eye-opening journey of self-discovery and teaches us that good can always bloom from bad. In the first part of the book there is a kite tournament‚ which the characters Amir and Hassan attend. In the competition many brilliantly colored kites with razor sharp string‚ fly magnificently

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    I displeasure the way she acts because during the start of the movie she is racist to the Kadam family. She needs to overcome the differences between her and others. She doesn’t like the Indians because she says the Kadam family is not classy enough. I don’t think that means

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    "It may be unfair… In a single day can change the coarse of a whole life time." That one-day in 1975 made Amir who he was to become in 2001. Discuss. In the novel The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini‚ we find a grown man name Amir‚ still struggling to over come his past sins of betrayal and sacrifice. For the many years he had tried to bury his shameful memories of his cowardice of the abuse of his loyal fiend Hassan. Amir as a child had a confusing childhood‚ where he cried for the acceptance

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    The experiences of young children often shape their personalities and preferences later in life. In The Kite Runner‚ by Khaled Hosseini‚ Amir’s childhood affinity for American movies exposed him to a different culture than the one that surrounded him in Kabul and to a new kind of hero. As a child‚ the action-packed movies were mere entertainment‚ but they ingrained new ideas in his mind. The portrayal of the deeply flawed‚ yet ultimately good‚ protagonists in classic Western movies laid the foundation

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    Today a group very similar to the Taliban‚ ISIS is the group that is feared. They occupy mainly Iraq and Syria‚ and their doctrine is an interpretation of sharia law. Like the Taliban in the kite runner‚ ISIS is also a military group that controls people through fear and death‚ believing this to be the word of God. The Afghans that fled to America remind me of the Syria refugees of today‚ just like in the novel they are trying to escape a war stricken

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    their past mistakes? Many would argue that to become good again‚ they must pay for their sins. The ones who feel guilt believe they should be punished physically to be rescued from their agony. Many avoid the situation or go as far as blaming others for their own actions because of their troubling conflict (Barth). Numerous people feel like they should do acts of kindness as a way to redeem themselves‚ but to truly become good again one must try to change their own character. Amir from The Kite Runner

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    himself‚ with his long elegant strides that gracefully propel him forward‚ past his rivals‚ past roaring crowds‚ and right over the thin white line‚ telling him he’s won it all. To them‚ they know no one else who runs‚ and thus in my almighty five foot ten‚ lanky limbed runner’s body type stature‚ I must be the new‚ slightly more milky white Mo Farah. They all almost hold the same idea that I’m a gifted runner‚ and there’s no way they could be good themselves. What i don’t think they’ve noticed is the

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    I understand why he behaved the way he did because his father did not love him the way he needed to be loved. Hassan had a father who gave him love‚ so Amir was jealous. In Amir’s eyes‚ it was only fair that he have everything else if he could not have his father’s love. Amir became envious of anything that Hassan

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    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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    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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