family; one is expected to bring honor to one’s family; men are above women; one should put guests’ needs before one’s own Characters: Amir – The story’s narrator and protagonist. He is an Afghan man who had a privileged childhood in the Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood of Kabul. The defining event in his life is his betrayal of his closest friend, Hassan. Amir lives in San Francisco from the age of eighteen. He returns to Afghanistan at the age of thirty-eight and finds out from Rahim Khan that Hassan
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no matter what. In the beginning of the book Amir talks about how he felt like the death of his mother was his fault. She died giving birth to amir and he thought “ I always felt like baba hated me a little, and why not? After all I had killed his beloved wife, his wife, his beautiful princess hadn’t I? The least I could have done was to have the decency to have turned out a lilt more like him. But I hadn’t turned out like him. Not at all.”(19) Amirs father is a very wealthy man, very smart and
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my interest from the very first chapter, in which Amir, the main character, received a phone call from Rahim Khan, telling Amir that “there is a way to be good again” (Hosseini 2). The author provided very minimal information in the chapter given the fact that the author only starts to mention the main character’s name in the next chapter, which helps develop curiosity and mystery. Furthermore, the phrase that Rahim Khan told Amir suggests that Amir had done something dishonorable and that the story
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“There is a way to be good again.” (Hosseni 192) These words hold a powerful meaning to Amir, the main character of Khaled Hosseni’s novel The Kite Runner. This quote is essential to Amir whom struggles with the guilt of the self-centered choices he makes at the beginning of the novel. Hosseni incorporates the theme of betrayal throughout the book; this is done through the occurrence of Hassan’s rape and the discovery of Baba’s second child Hassan. In the book The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseni uses
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relationships between Baba and Amir, Hassan and Sohrab, and Amir and Sohrab in The Kite Runner are examples of the emotional bonds that demonstrate the need for a father. To begin, Amir and Baba, the protagonist and his father, are a prime example of the fa-therly figure needed in one’s life. Baba and Amir are nowhere close to the expression “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” Amir is nothing like his father, and this causes Baba to not be the great fatherly figure that Amir needs because he does
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ourselves. The Kite Runner is full of examples of forgiveness between people, with themselves. Baba forgives Hassan, Hassan forgives easily, and Amir is unable to forgive himself but throughout the book the readers saw the travel of Amir how he forgive himself. The opening sentence sets this theme with "I became what I am today at the age of twelve," as Amir relates how he believes one action at that young age defined his entire life. However, as the novel progresses, the reader comes to the conclusion
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Runner”, the narrator known as Amir begins by quoting, “I became what I am today at the age of twelve” (Hosseini, 1). He describes a mysterious crumbling mud wall and an alley besides a frozen creek in the year 1975. He then states that he has been “peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty- six years” (Hosseini, 1). Something is obviously bothering him, but it really takes affect after a chilling phone call from an old family friend Rhami Khan, in Pakistan. To Amir, it isn’t just Rahim Khan
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through the life of a boy named Amir and all the struggles he endures. He betrays others, he gets betrayed, and he learns to forgive. Amir allows his guilt to consume him and with that he becomes a man full of remorse and regrets. Forgiveness of not only others, but himself helps him overcome these hardships and allows readers to learn that yes, there is a way to be good again. Growing up wealthy in Afghanistan, Amir had a servant named named Hassan. Being the same age,
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Pashtuns and Hazaras. The protagonist, Amir is a wealthy Pashtun who grew up with Hazara servants. As Amir grew older, he realized the many differences between him and his servants. For example, it is mandatory for Pashtuns must obey the Pashtunwali code, which is used to follow in the eyes of Pashtunwali. These rules have been set for over 5000 years and include core tenets of self-respect, independence, justice, hospitality, love, forgiveness, and tolerance of all. Amir is a true Pashtun because he takes
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between their classes. The main character, Amir often thinks about how unfairly he treats his friend, but rarely does anything to make up for it. Later in the book Amir discovers his childhood friend, Hassan is his brother. Hosseini created Amir to be a mean spirited, temperamental child, while Hassan is mature, level headed and respectful. Hosseini uses these two and their relationship with each other to display the contrast between oppressor and oppressed.
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