The Kite Runner Chapter Summaries

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.

Thesis: Betrayal leads to feeling of guilt which forces the person in search of redemption either directly or through indirect actions and gestures.

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.

“ For you, a thousand times over”. This one sentence sums up the immense love, loyalty and friendship Hassan had for Amir.

Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, is most definitely different than other authors. He uses strong, detailed words that may be difficult, at some points, to understand. His use of vocabulary is rather challenging for me. The more use of challenging vocabulary, in my opinion, makes the book even more interesting. Now, I’m not a big fan of reading, but after reading this book, I had found an interest in reading more challenging books like The Kite Runner. Not knowing a word can change the whole scene by finding out what it actually means. Now, Khaled uses a wide variety of figurative language to grab your attention.

In life there are people that you could judge like a book, but others are morally ambiguous where you don’t know the other side to that story.In the book The Kite Runner there are many characters that are morally ambiguous which means the appear something but there a complete opposite. The Kite runner by Khaled Hosseini is an adventure book with many different characters. Some of those character are morally ambiguous. Zaman is the chacheter I will be talking about is a middle aged man that has a family later on in the novel you get to meet him, he appears to be good. But soon to come you learn a dark thing he is doing. Although he tries to reason with his bad doing.

A character that is morally ambiguous is unclear and they make rash decisions that make others think differently or confuse them. In the story, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the main character, and narrator of the story, Amir, face harsh realities and dwells on his bad decisions and qualities throughout the story. Amir’s friend and brother, Hassan, is there with Amir throughout the story and experiences tough decisions and horrible tragedies as well. More horrible than Amir experiences. The author put morally ambiguous characters like Amir into the story to represent why it is important to have clear thoughts and good decision making. Amir’s decisions he has made are not bad nor not all good, and that is why Amir is chosen to be a morally ambiguous character in The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.

A morally ambiguous character is one who shows positive and negative moral traits. Khaled Hosseini points out that, the main character in his story, The Kite Runner is morally ambiguous. That being Amir, who shows a great deal of moral traits. Hosseini put morally ambiguous characters in the reading to show the reader that good can overcome any negative situation. Amir shows how he is a terrible kid at the beginning of the story and towards the end, as he grows up, he shows a new character in himself.

Hosseini utilises Structure, Symbolism and Dialogue throughout chapter 6 to explore the characters and their relationships along with the central ideas of truthfulness and Afghanistan Culture.

The first sentence of the quote foreshadows Amir’s struggle to forget the past throughout the rest of the book. He claims that no matter how hard you try or how far you bury it, the past will always “claw its way out”. Also in this sentence, Amir implies an occurrence of a tragic event without actually telling the readers what it was. In the last sentence Amir speaks of peering into an alley later revealed as the alley where his childhood friend, Hassan, was raped. By saying this he is telling the readers that the alley and the events that occurred in the alley are constantly on his mind and have been on his mind for the past twenty-six years. The fact that it has been twenty-six years also verifies the importance of the event.

Amir says this simply because he feels regret for what he has done in the earlier years of his life and although he has made a lot of mistakes he redeemed himself by saving Hassan’s son. Him doing this action of kindness proves that he would have done it over and over again for the responsibility of earning his own integrity back. Amir says this line because he feels strongly that for a person he had unconditional love and he is hoping that one day people will return the favor and help him later on. Amir is not like his dad he is not strong headed or over exaggerate like Baba he is kind and is making up for a lot of mistakes he has made in his life especially in the younger years with Hassan. Amir has made a lot of mistakes and with this quote

1. It is very evident that Hassan and Amir have a complex relationship, that is not always compromising this could be because Hassan is a Hazara and Amir is a Pashtun, Amir having lived a life which he was always smothered with expectations of being the best and unsurpassed Amir and Hassan relationship suffers because of Amir’s need to be the best and reflects a side of Amir portraying his superiority complex. Amir doesn't see Hassan as a loyal friend, but sees him as a dumb Hazara who will never accomplish anything in life, for example we see Amir snap back with a nasty thought, after Hassan gave his input for an alternate ending for the story when the man killed his wife for wealth “A voice, cold and dark, suddenly whispered in my ear,

The novel, The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, is a story about betrayal, forgiveness, and redemption that revolves around that two main characters, Amir and Hassan. Amir is a young selfish boy who constantly manipulates and exploits Hassan for personal gains. He uses Hassan as a scapegoat to win Baba, but upon accomplishing this task, he is riddled with guilt. Amir uses his friendship with Hassan for ulterior motives. His lack of action caused severe guilt, which he tries to escape throughout the entire story. He uses various scapegoats to rid himself of his guilty conscience.

This quote is significant because the narrator gives a foreshadowing of what’s to happen in the novel. It hints that the narrator made a huge mistake in his past and tried to forget about it. It suggests that he tried to run away from his past sins instead of facing the consequences, and it didn’t work. He now has to atone for his transgressions, right his wrongs. This quote also says something about the narrator’s character. It shows that he is cowardly, since he buried his mistakes instead of fixing them.

Have you ever assumed what people might be from how they look or the last action they preformed? Most people can assume that of Amir, a character who is presumed a selfish person who cares not about what happens in other people's lives. Amir is the main protagonist in the novel ¨The Kite Runner¨. A renowned Afghan man named Baba is his father, and a hazara boy named hassan is his best friend/brother. The antagonist is Assef who creates many problems for Amir all throughout his life. Amir appears to be a morally ambiguous character due for the acts of his childhood and adulthood.