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    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

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    conflict in the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is caused by the major impact that Religion and Social classes have on the Islamic people. The people of Afghanistan have a unique tradition which is Kite Flying. Kite flying is an important part of the culture of the kids in Afghanistan. There are many things that Afghan people value and believe in then people in the US. The novel Kite Runner helps discover some of those values and beliefs. In the novel The Kite Runner, religion was a huge

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    The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a moving story about an Afghan boy, Amir, and the reader is taken on his journey to adulthood. However one must not forget about the the kite runner Amir’s best friend, Hassan, who despite being a servant had a beautiful friendship with his master, Amir. This novel is divided into three parts. The first part is focused on Amir’s childhood and the horrifying incident that Hassan suffered and Amir merely witnessed. In the next part Amir and his father travel to

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    Kites are the biggest symbol throughout the entire novel. Kite running begins as a way for Amir and Hassan to bond. Flying kites was only half of the fun of kite flying in Afghanistan. Once they had a battle, where a team of two would work to cut down other kites, there then is a race, “the kite run, to see who retrieves the fallen kite” (AmirDabbaghian). Both of them together made a great team that was just as capable as any other team. Hassan’s ability to predict where kites would fall always

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    The Kite Runner Analysis

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    Different cultural backgrounds cause an audience to respond differently on the themes and events presented in texts. This is clear in the novel “The Kite Runner” (2003) by Khaled Hosseini as it highlights many issues relevant to the world. The novel follows the lives of two young boys whom live in Afghanistan and the struggles within their lives as they grow older. The plot thickens with betrayals, broken relationships and injustice which in turn shape the way people in the novel are represented

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    ‘For you, a thousand times over.’ Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner (2003), is a poignant novel narrated against the deteriorating backdrop of Kabul, Afghanistan over a period of thirty years and largely centres on the defiant kinship shared between a wealthy Pashtun, Amir and his Hazara servant, Hassan. Hosseini skilfully employs literacy devices such as characterisation, irony, symbolism and foreshadowing to explore the universal themes of brotherhood, social prejudice, betrayal, redemption

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    The Kite Runner Essay

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    In The Kite Runner, the bond between the stories’ two central characters is almost identical to the history of the two key groups within Islam, the Sunni and the Shi’a. While, Amir is Sunni and Hassan is Shi’a, one’s heirloom of power over the other shows the historical difference among the religious groups. What comes next is a look at how this religious separation shakes up Afghanistan, and then how it has impacted the whole Muslim community. Either way you look at it, one can see how this division

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    The Kite Runner Analysis

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    The Kite Runner In this novel, the kite runner, author Khaled Hosseini writes about a twelve year old boy living in Afghanistan who is a coward and redeems himself later in life. The characters who brings out Amir’s cowardice in the Kite runner are Baba Amir’s father who doesn't support his son what he likes to do such writing which he enjoys doing. Amir knows that winning is the most important thing to his father. This effects Amir by making him feel as if he is not good enough. Hassan is

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    The Kite Runner Analysis

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    The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini features a few archetypes within it. Hassan is the scapegoat and an innocent youth. He is naive and pure but at the same time he is brave and protective of his friend Amir. Hassan trusts Amir completely and loves him very much. Hassan’s character in this novel is vital to the plot and to the character development of the main character, Amir. Hassan’s innocence makes his rape important in making Amir realize the value of friendship. Hassan did not say anything to

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    Khaled Hosseini’s, The Kite Runner, is a story about courage, love, and discrimination allowing the reader to experience a great level of emotion following the story of a little boy and a grown man at the same time. The story begins in Kabul, Afghanistan in the year 1963 when Amir, the main character is born until 1983 when Amir and his father are forced to flee the country. The book is filled with many literary devices describing all characters, and many forms of symbolism pertaining to characters

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