“Redemption”
The Kite Runner

Kati Hernandez
3/3/15
AP English 12 Period 1

Three Questions 1. Why do you think Baba refuses to refer to Ali as his friend? Is it the divide between servant and master?

2. Does a character like Assef even choose between good and evil? Could Assef be innocent in ways Amir is not?

3. Why doesn't Amir admire Rahim Khan as much as he admires his father? What does this tell us about admiration?
Literary Criticism New historicism criticism insists that to understand a literary piece, readers need to understand the author's biography and social background. Every human action is actually the effect of a network of material practices. Every act of unmasking, critique and opposition uses the tools it condemns and risks falling prey to the practice it exposes. No discourse, imaginative, scientific, or archival, gives access to unchanging truths, nor expresses inalterable human nature. A critical method and a language adequate to describe culture under capitalism participate in the economy they describe.

What makes a legend, is it someone who is a hero or someone who is infallible from making mistakes? In the novel, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the character described as a legend is Baba. Seen as the most perfect figure to be looked at for its bravery, generosity and caring for others. His actions describe him better than words can, as he always defends others in time of need and stays loyal to his home and country when he migrates to America and he seemed as well to be the best father that anyone could have. But no one is perfect, not even legends. Therefore, Baba in the end has made multiple mistakes which contribute to many complications in the novel and so he turns out to be just a human being. Baba, a physically imposing man, with a thick beard and unruly brown hair. He is strong and “capable of