Analysis Of Quotes From 'The Kite Runner'

When Khaled Hosseini wrote The Kite Runner, he made several important choices involving narration. He chose to write the story in first person from a limited point of view. This is a very fitting decision because, writing in the first person adds a sense of intimacy that is crucial to this story; writing from a limited perspective allows the reader to make their own conclusions about what the characters are thinking. The way Hosseini writes The Kite Runner makes it very intimate, and feels like a person telling their life story. If The Kite Runner had been written in third person, or omnisciently, the story would not have impacted readers as much, and would have been too cold and impersonal to create emotional connections with the reader.

Begins with a comforting scene of Ben with his parents. The dreamy filter the scene is given makes it seem like a dream and/or a flashback. Initially, Ben was excited to have a sister and pleased as he says to his Mum, "I can't wait for the baby to come then we're gonna be best friends, aren't we?" However this is quickly changed when Ben drifts in and out of sleep, his first view being of his Mum singing to him and the third one of his Mother’s hair turning white and the desperation he

“My body was broken — just how badly I wouldn’t find out until later — but I felt healed. Healed at last. I laughed.” (289) Assef beats Amir with knuckle reinforcements, snapping Amir's ribs, part his lip and busting his jaw, and breaking the bone underneath his left eye, but since Amir feels he merits this, he feels help. He supposes he ought to have acknowledged the beating from Assef years prior, when he was given the decision of sparing Hassan — and likely getting physically hurt—or giving Assef a chance to assault Hassan.

The love and disputes between father and son. The relationship that Amir has with Baba is quite complicated. Amir constantly tries to earn Baba’s love and respect while Baba has a hard time accepting how Amir is and compares him to Hassan. While travelling to Pakistan in the back of the truck Amir felt sick quite often by which Baba was quite annoyed. “I saw it on his embarrassed face the couple of times my stomach had clenched so badly I had moaned. When the blurly guy with the beads-the praying woman’s husband-asked if I was going to get sick, I said I might. Baba looked away.”In addition to this when Amir throws up, Baba apologizes to the fellow passengers to which Amir feels guilty and annoyed that he is just 18 and the way Baba is behaving is as if car sickness is a crime. This suggests that Baba was expecting Amir to be more self controlled and strong so that he didn’t feel sick showing us the conflicts he has with Amir as he expects a lot from him.

Cassie shows her courage by taking care of her problems using brains and strength. Cassie has so much courage that she leads Lillian into the woods to attack her. The text on page 180 describes the fight between Lillian and Cassie, “I flailed into her, tackling her with such force that we both fell.” This quote describes how the fight went down. Cassie does not only stand up for brother. Cassie also stands up for herself. The brain part comes in at the end of the fight. When the fight is over Cassie threatens Lillian that if she tells anyone about the fight Cassie will tell everyone all her secrets. These actions show Cassie her smarts and strength to stand up for what she believes she must

Life is hard living in a society of racism and hatred. The Logans not only have to face this, but also other challenges. This family of 6 – Cassie, Stacey, Christopher-John, Clayton Chester, and their parents stick together side by side with each other’s differences and similarities. Together they stand and grow a new sense of justice towards the world around them. This is a new beginning for them.

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To begin with, Cassie Sullivan is on a mission to find her brother during a alien invasion. She has to infiltrate through many obstacles to get him back. One word to describe the plot is mystifying. One notable example is the scene where Evan tells Cassie that the “others” (aliens) have been living inside the humans body’s for many years with no idea that they were there, (Yancey 368). In short, this connects to the word, mystifying because it throws off all of Cassie’s and the world’s knowledge about earth. The “others” have been living in humans for many years, waiting for the signal to come. This is mystifying because thousands of them have been on earth, living with the humans. With all this in mind, I think the author did a good job on creating the plot. He did a good job by intriguing us

The film version of The Kite Runner omitted a scene from the book that vividly described a suicide attempt by a child. This scene was likely cut due to time constraints and the reality that a suicide attempt by a child would be very upsetting to many viewers. A scene as harsh as child suicide is not something that can be quickly processed and move on to the next scene. I believe the audience would require ample time to absorb what happened from beginning to end through the emotions of the characters; no doubt this scene would be too lengthy to include as a side-note to the main story. In addition, the scene might be so disturbing to some people they may not wish to see the film at all.

As I read pages 105 and 106, I was able to see myself in Amir’s position once again, and I was able to learn something from his experiences as well. In this excerpt, Amir tells a lie that changed everything forever: he lied that Hassan stole his watch in order to get rid of him and his father because of he couldn’t stand his own guilt. Amir even admitted that he “[became] capable of causing…pain” due to his lie. Truthfully, I’ve done that same before. When I was younger, I was quite envious of my nephew when he was a toddler since he received so much attention and praise. As a result, it began to feel like everyone had forgotten about me, therefore I began to make up lies regarding my nephew; I would blame him for things that he had never

Social conditions are what shape a country. Over the years, people, not only in Afghanistan, but around the world create norms that define people’s roles in life, their future, and how they should be treated based on their gender and beliefs. Khaled Hosseini’s first novel, The Kite Runner, comments on the social conditions of Afghanistan through telling a story about the lives of two Muslim boys; a privileged Sunni Pashtun, Amir, and his long-time friend and servant, Hassan, a loyal but disadvantaged Shia Hazara. Hosseini expresses Amir’s uncertain feelings toward Hassan which form the decisions he makes throughout the book. These choices result in Amir destroying his relationship with Hassan. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini is a commentary on the social conditions in Afghanistan as shown through the roles of women and men in society and the ideals of Afghan culture. Unfortunately, these problems are still active in most of Afghanistan.

One major theme that is evident in The Kite Runner is that scars are reminders of life’s pain and regret, and, though you can ease the regret and the scars will fade, neither will completely go away. We all have regrets and always will, but though it will be a long hard process we can lessen them through redemption. The majority of The Kite Runner is about the narrator and protagonist, Amir. Almost all of the characters in The Kite Runner have scars, whether they are physical or emotional. Baba has scars all down his back from fighting a bear, but he also has emotional scars from not being able to admit that Hassan was also his son. Hassan is born with a cleft lip, but for his birthday Baba pays for it to be fixed, which left a small scar above his mouth. Hassan also has emotional scars from being raped. The reader is probably shown the emotional scars of Amir the most. Amir has emotional scars because he feels that he killed his mother, and also because his father emotionally neglects him. In the end of the novel, Amir receives many physical scars from getting beaten up by Assef, when rescuing Sohrab. Though scars will never go away and are a reminder of the past, not all scars are bad.

Baba chased after redemption but failed because he could not own up to his actions. When his decisions of the past were unheard of to all ears besides his own Baba was known as a noble and dependable man. No one in the city of Kabul thought anything less than greatness and admiration from him. “But no one ever doubted the veracity of any story about Baba. And if they did, well, Baba did have those three parallel scars coursing a jagged path down his back.”( ) This quote helps prove that Baba was considered an honorable man that was loved by many and trusted by all. Every person that knew of Baba knew of what he has done to bring comfort to his city. Two examples of this was when he had built an orphanage to insure safety for unlucky children

The expression "riddled with guilt" is a good way to describe the main character's life, Amir, in the book The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini. The Kite Runner is a story about an Afghan boy, Amir, who has many hardships throughout his life as he grows from a boy living in war-torn Afghanistan, to a successful writer living in America. Amir experiences many events that caused him to carry a great amount of guilt throughout his life. So much guilt that it even turned him into an insomniac. He needed to find a way to make amends which would allow him to forgive himself and hopefully, one day, be able to sleep soundly again.

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, begins in the present day following the main character, Amir. After this brief one-and-a-half-page introduction, Hosseini jumps right into the main flashback structure of the novel. The reader lives in Kabul, Afghanistan, the capital, through Amir’s memories. This first section is fast-paced. The narration doesn’t jump back and forth between past and present, and no time is lost to create a frame story structure. Flashbacks are utilized more effectively by Hosseini. Flashbacks from Amir of the past occasionally happen in moments were the situation seems hopeless or futile. For example, when Amir and Baba, Amir’s father, must ride in the lightless tank of a fuel truck from Jalalabad, Afghanistan to Peshawar, Pakistan Amir remembers him and Hassan outside in the bright, fresh air standing in an open grass field. Hosseini uses them to convey how times were happier in the past. They project the antithesis of the current situation. Amir recounts his past from a self-deprecating point of view, reflecting on what happened regarding the friends, family, and foes in his life, and how his life seemingly deteriorated. Further into the first third of the book, the reader learns that Rahim Khan, the man who calls Amir from Pakistan in the introduction, was a friend of Baba. This initial detail poses multiple questions. Why didn’t Rahim Khan just contact Baba? What does Rahim Khan want from Amir? Why are Afghans congregating in Pakistan? Why did