The Tale of the Tape: Baba vs. Rahim Khan In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner there are many themes that come up throughout the book, but the most important one that I had come across when reading the book was: love has no boundaries. Yes, the book revolves around Amir’s life and all that he had to go through, but no matter what Amir had going on he always had either Baba or Rahim Khan or both of them there for him. Both Baba and Rahim cared greatly for Amir and Hassan, no matter what the circumstance
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The Kite Runner is a story of two boys, Amir and Hassan growing up in the tragic environment of 1970s Afghanistan. Amir is the son of Baba, a Kabul businessman. Hassan is the son of their indigent servant Ali, is his friend. The boys are indivisible, playing and working unitedly as a unit, particularly in the yearly kite-fighting competition in Kabul. Yet in an Afghanistan divided by ethnicity, the Hazara to which Hassan belongs to is seen as inferior. Amir most importantly pursues admiration from
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Betrayal is a central theme throughout the novel, The Kite Runner. Throughout the novel, Khaled Hosseini depicts several acts of betrayal among the various characters and the vast effect that betrayal had on their lives. Amir betrayed his best friend, Hassan, many times and once the reality of the act of his betrayal set in, it negatively affected Amir and his way of thinking for the rest of his life. Amir was later betrayed by his own father which also had a major impact on his adult life. Since
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Many characters in The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, and Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, commit acts of betrayal. Amir betrays his best 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
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Kite Runner vs. Poetry Key quotes: “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything” – Baba says this to Rahim Khan as a comment on the behaviour of Amir. Through this he identifies Amir’s greatest flaw: cowardice. It is this trait that leaves him desperately craving Baba’s love, and ultimately leads to be letting Assef rape Hassan. It also foreshadows Amir’s return to Kabul in search of Sohrab; the test of Amir’s character also tests whether Baba’s statement is
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Actively and willingly striving towards decisions to benefit the majority, rather than strictly ones own self interests, is a troublesome feat. Undeniably, Khaled Hoseini’s The Kite Runner captures this moral struggle within various living circumstances and familial origins. Nonetheless, while an abundance of characters’ experiences are captured, only a minute handful truly grasp the conceptual understanding of self-sacrifice. Specifically, Soraya, Rahim Kahn, and Baba comprehend the authentic tribulation
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result when facing fearful events in an individual’s life. As fear takes over and an individual is out of his or her comfort zone, one may resort to selfish behaviours in an attempt to regain control and suppress their fears. Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner exemplifies the relationship between fear and selfishness through the actions of the characters. Both Amir and Assef display the relationship between fear and selfishness through Hassan’s rape, Amir’s attempt to strengthen his relationship with
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Nothing is perfect and humans are as far as you can get from it. From the flawed society the population has created, oppression has formed. Hosseini subtly hints at the unjusts in this system. In his novel, The Kite Runner, Hosseini writes about two young boys growing up together in Afghanistan. Both boys are plagued with the inequality 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
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Fathers take on great responsibility sometimes joy and pain as well. Fathers are not always blood. Take Rahim Kahn in The Kite runner; he played a father figure to Amir, Rahim was more sensitive to Amir. He listen to Amir poems and stories. Rahim praised him about how good his work was, Also Rahim always let Amir know that is Biological Father Baba loves him and will kill for him. Ali was not Hassan biological father but he raised Hassan as such. Ali taught Hassan how to serve like him, do things
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Book Club #3 – The Kite Runner Ch. 21–25 Discussion Director 1. How did you feel about the crowd at the stadium cheering while the man and woman was pelted by Taliban officials, despite the terror they had brought to citizens of Kabul? I did not understand why the crowd cheered for the Taliban, like Farid and Amir, since it was hypocritical of the Taliban to murder people who have supposedly been sinful to their Muslim religion, and for the others to support and cheer for their actions. Perhaps
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