Khaled Hosseini is the Man Who Makes a Difference with His Novels

In the novel The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini tells a notable coming-of-age story portraying the actions and thoughts of Amir, a penitent adult living in the United States and his reminiscence of his affluent childhood in the unstable political environment of Afghanistan. Throughout the novel Khaled Hosseini uses character description to display his thoughts on sin and redemption.

In the book, The Kite Runner, Hosseini was able to put us, the readers in Amir’s shoes as he takes us through his journey of self-discovery and his seemingly endless fight for redemption. In a way, it seems that Hosseini is portraying Amir as a character that we should look up to for moral guidance. The development and changes in Amir’s personality and ideologies was clearly shown as the plot develops, as the setting changes, and as Amir grows older.

A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by Khaled Hosseini, is a novel about the lives two different women, Mariam and Lalia, whose lives are dramatically changed when put under control of The Taliban. After the execution of the former president of Afghanistan, the Taliban publicly announce the laws which will be followed by men and women. Some of which include women must stay indoors at all time, they cannot laugh in public, and girls a forbidden from school. “ ‘They can’t make half of the population stay at home and do nothing’ said Laila” (Hosseini 278). Lalia and Mariam are devastated at the laws. The women of Kabul suffering under the rule of the Taliban, as represented by Miriam and Laila, are like the “thousand splendid suns” of the poem

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini is a story about an individual by the name of Amir who has experienced many changes within his home state of Afghanistan. The experiences forever changing him, and the story reflects on that. One of the underlying issues the author demonstrates within this novel is the treatment and view of the ethnic minority within Afghanistan and Pakistan. The second issue that sets the background of the novel is the ever-changing system Afghanistan is challenged with, transitioning from various systems and facing de-stabilization as of result, starting from the coup and then to the Soviet incursion. Due to the large amount of information, stemming from the transitions Afghanistan has gone through.

He later received his bachelor’s degree in biology during the 1988’s and worked as an internist at the internal medicine department at the Permanente Medical Group in Mountain View, California according to Harold Bloom. Although he wasn’t passionate about medicine, Hosseini began to follow his dream of writing when he heard that the Taliban had prohibited kite flying in Afghanistan. Which resulted in a story of two best friends who enjoyed kite flying together during their childhood known as The Kite Runner. His second book A Thousand Splendid Suns was inspired by a trip he took to Kabul in 2003. Hosseini had come across two poor women in the streets among their kids begging for money, and it led to him pondering how they ended up where they are. The stories he heard from many other women became his muse to his second book as stated by Johnson, Eugene. The storyline of A Thousand Splendid Suns is about two women, Mariam and Laila who together have to endure many unfortunate events. Beginning with beatings from their abusive husband to the constant political change in

Khaled Hosseini was born in the same place this book was set. Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan and was the place Khaled lived for 11 years. His father

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 4th 1965. Hosseini 's homeland was the inspiration for his novel, The Kite Runner, which gave his readers a taste of what Afghanistan was before the brutal invasions of the Taliban. He spent his early childhood living in Tehran, Iran, where he befriended his family 's cook. The unexpected friendship between a young Afghan and a member of the Hazara ethnic group exposed Hosseini to the acts of injustice against minority groups in Afghanistan, a major theme in his writing (Bloom).

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, is a story about the life of Amir, a young, wealthy boy that lives in Afghanistan, later to become a middle class man living in America. The Kite Runner describes many characteristics of life in Afghanistan. Such as, the tensions between the Pashtuns and Hazara, and the large role of religion in their culture. By reading this book, the reader can get an inside look into the culture of Afghanistan, this provides a new outlook at this otherwise exotic country.

Khaled Hosseini’s powerful and impacting book, The Kite Runner, has opened the eyes of millions of readers around the world. In the most realistic way, he integrated a portion of his life into a book that has become an international bestseller and beloved classic, sold in at least seventy countries. Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in a family whose father was a diplomat in the Afghan Foreign Ministry, mother who taught Farsi and history at a high school in Kabul, and a Hazara man who worked for his family for a couple of years. The Foreign Ministry then moved the Hosseini family to Paris, but when they were ready to return back to Kabul,

Today it is as if every news headline revolves around terrorist attacks, war, and travel bans in middle eastern countries. However most of what is stated relating to such disputed issues are brought forth by reporters or writers who are not of middle eastern race. So when writers of middle eastern ethnicity use their writing to expose the reality of what is occurring in their country, people are more likely to believe the brutal truth. With a modern voice Afghan internist and writer, Khaled Hosseini, has exposed the suffrage his own people live daily in Afghanistan. The Kite Runner, being his first ever published contemporary fictional novel, brought awareness to readers worldwide the hardships of Afghan people, while exposing many barbaric

After the 911 terrorist attacks，the land in Afghan has attracted worldwide attention. Since the fall of 2001, news about Osama bin Laden and the war on terror became a hot topic. Two years after the disaster, the novel The Kite Runner published. The Kite Runner is the first novel of Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. Since the novel published in June 2003, have won full recognition from the literary critics all over the world. The readers try to interpret the work from different angles, such as: extreme Taliban rule, Afghan-American immigrant, betrayal and redemption, etc. As an Afghan-American immigrant, Khaled Hosseini said his country is not only a land full of misfortunes and troublesome. The extreme Taliban

This paper intends to show how the experiences of Khaled Hosseini as a refugee are shown in the lives of Baba and Amir in the kite runner. Khaled was born on 4th march 1965 in Kabul. His father was a diplomat and his mother was a Farsi teacher. Due to his father being a diplomat he spent a quarter of his childhood days in Paris. During the soviet invasion of Afghanistan; His family was present in Paris rather than his own country which ensured their safety. Khaled’s father after seeing how dangerous their country had become decided to flee to the United states in hope for a better future. While Khaled lived his life peacefully in the United States and practiced medicine as he wanted to. The protagonist from his novel “The kite Runner” was loosely

An example of how Hosseini feels disgusted and sympathetic is when one of the main characters, Mariam Jo, is forced to go live with her father after her mother’s untimely death on page 36, “suddenly he was standing in front of her, trying to cover her eyes, pushing her back the way they had come saying ‘Go back! No. Don’t

Khaled Hossieni’s literature was influenced by his childhood and events held in Afghanistan during the 70’s and through a couple decades. Through Hossieni’s childhood he understands the torture and the horror that the Afghan people went through when the Taliban took over Afghanistan in

incomprehensible extent. In Afghanistan, Hazaras–the ethnic minority–have experienced ethnic discrimination by Pashtuns–the ethnic majority–because of a revolt dating back to the 18th century.Another form of discrimination in Afghanistan arises from the distinct religious groups–Shi’ite and Sunni Muslims. Shi’ite Muslims correspond with the Hazara ethnic group, but the Sunni Muslims correspond with the Pashtun ethnic group. This discrimination affects every age group in Afghanistan, and affects each of those individuals, “mental and physical health” (Pascoe). In his 2003 novel The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini exposes and discusses the ethnic and religious discrimination found in past and present day Afghanistan. By creating tense situations that originate, whether consciously or subconsciously within the characters, the author uses these conflicts to illustrate the impacts that stem from the masculine stereotypes associated with Afghan culture, the dire need for a father’s approval, and the on­going effects of a child’s jealousy. In The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini uses these intense conflicts to develop characters’ relationships and forces the reader to consider how the main character’s loss of innocence stems from a need of approval and ethnic and religious discrimination.