friend Hassan more than once because he is too scared to own up to his actions, while Lady Macbeth betrays Macbeth due to her own selfishness and greed. Acts of betrayal are committed out of pure selfishness, and the more acts one commits, the easier it becomes to continue. However, they always have negative side effects. Amir committed an act of betrayal towards Hassan by watching him be sexually assaulted and not helping, although he knew he should. He considered helping because Hassan would have
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place in 1975 Kabul, Afghanistan and how this event was what changed the rest of his life and made him who he now is. This event was Amir’s reluctance to help Hassan while he was being raped, and how this impacted his desire to, later on, mature and be “good” again. Khaled Hosseini shows how Amir’s Islamic faith and guilt over abandoning Hassan ultimately led Amir to forgive himself and seek redemption. All in all, this novel demonstrates that even in cases of betrayal, redemption is possible. In The
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memory while witnessing a rape incident taking place to Hassan in the alleyway. A sheep symbolizes fate acceptance, purity, innocence, and the blameless being left to suffer. Hassan is described to have “the look of the lamb” when the disturbing event is taking place. Additionally, Amir mentions that the sheep always seems to have a “look of acceptance” in its eyes before being slayed, which compares to Hassan’s eyes during the tragedy. Hassan made no attempts to fight back with Assef and he end up
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of kites, red with long blue tails, soaring in the sky. They danced high above the trees on the west end of the park, over the windmills, floating side by side like a pair of eyes looking down on San Francisco…” (p. 1) | | | Symbolism | Hassan | 1 | “Hassan the harelipped kite runner.” (p. 2) | Amir describes
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most children in Afghanistan are, like soccer, and he exceeds in school. Amir always feels as though Baba never respected or thought he is a good son. Amir feels guilty when he thinks about kite flying. It reminds him of his childhood memories with Hassan, the friend he betrayes for a kite, letting him get raped. After this, his recollections drift to betrayal and guilt. Rahim Khan, a lifelong friend, Baba and Amir are connected through the flying of kites. Kite flying is an essential aspect of Afghani
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the story unfolds, we realize that the deserted alley Amir refers to is where Hassan was raped, and that this event has largely defined the course of Amir’s life since. This is what Amir means when he says that the past continues to claw its way out. Try as he might to bury it, he was unable to because his feelings of guilt kept arising. As a result, he figuratively continues peeking into the alley where Assef raped Hassan, literally meaning that he keeps going over the event in his mind. 2. “A boy
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the characters Amir, Baba and Saunabar are used to demonstrate the constructive forces of shame. Baba was generous to make up for his shame of Hassan, Amir was more than willing to do whatever it took to make up for his unatoned sins and Hassan’s mother, Saunabar, came back to him after she abandoned him as a baby. Sanaubar’s shame and guilt for leaving Hassan when he was a child
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What are the essential values and ideas presented in The Kite Runner? Analyse and assess how effective their representation is Hosseini has expressed copious essential values and ideas in his novel The Kite Runner (TKR) including Loyalty, Culture, Gender and Ethnicity and Atonement. Hosseini has expressed these through the combination of style, structure, characterisation, themes and setting. Due to the context of The Kite Runner, culture is an important idea presented because it has major significance
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characters. Both Amir and Assef display the relationship between fear and selfishness through Hassan’s rape, Amir’s attempt to strengthen his relationship with Baba, and Amir’s plot to get rid of Hassan. The relationship between fear and selfishness is shown through Assef and his actions through the raping of Hassan. “His well-earned reputation for savagery preceded him on the streets. Flanked by his obeying friends, he walked the neighbourhood like a Khan strolling through his land with his eager-to-please
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just keep going back to Hassan and his character. Hassan was so gentle and kind, showing much loyalty and love to Amir. For a young child, being a servant, he was so appreciative of people and of life. Amir showed such malice toward Hassan at times, for no apparent reasons, other than jealousy of his father. Throughout the book, I was rooting for Amir, to be honest telling his father the truth about Hassan and his rape. I just wanted Amir to acknowledge the rape to Hassan and apologize for not standing
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