The Blue Kite

The Kite Runner uses blue symbolically to show the guilt that follows the story’s characters. This novel is filled with references to past guilt that people hold onto as they grow up. This is most prominently seen in our main character, Amir, who never learned how to redeem himself for the atrocities he committed in his youth. Leading him to be often haunted by his past mistakes no matter how long ago they were or how far away he gets away. However basically any character that is followed for any

The Blue Kite is a Chinese film directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang, and released in 1993. It was immediately banned by the Chinese Communist Party due to its central theme revolving around the chaos and destruction Mao’s Great Leap Forward during the Cultural Revolution wrought on a mother and her child. The controversy the film represented was complimented by its artistic appeal and subtle conveyance. The film is broken down into three sections: father, uncle, and stepfather. The corruption of the innocent

This phrase was first said by Hassan to Amir on the day of the kite tournament. When Amir asked him to get a blue kite, Hassan answered: “For you a thousand times over!”(p 67). This statement indicates how strong was Hassan’s loyalty and his readiness to do anything for Amir, to sacrifice for him. After Hassan’s rape in the alley, Amir is full of guilt that follows him throughout his life until the moment he found Hassan’s son. It was his “way to be good again”. At the end of the story Amir tries

-Creates a very depressing tone as selfishness takes over to allow the rape that is described for the possession of the blue kite “That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six

Urja Amin Ms. Behnessilian ENG 3U0-I Monday May 23rd, 2016 Part II- Notes for The Kite Runner ‘Yes.’ I flinched, like I’d been slapped…: Hassan knew. He knew I’d seen everything in that alley, that I’d stood there and done nothing. He knew I had betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time” (88-89) • Self-reflection • Loyalty • Guilt “Baba stunned me by saying, ‘I forgive you’” (89) • Shows caring “Will you take us to the bus station, Agha sahib?’ Then I saw baba

capitalism. Most people were in suffered, imprisoned, executive and tortured that led to the chaos of moments in China. Both films To Live and The Blue Kite are depicted the struggles and hardships from the family encounters in the chaotic country that life must go on; however, To Live emphasizes family’s struggle to live in a normal life while The Blue Kite demonstrate to avoid living in poverty for hope and protection. To Live is directed by Zhang Yimou to show Fugui and his wife, Jiazhen struggle

Hassan still has the blue kite in hands after being raped by Assef. He hands the kite to Amir when he sees him walking down the sidewalk. Amir hands the kite to Baba in order to complete his quest for Baba’s love. Even though Baba is finally proud of who Amir is, Amir feels guilty of what he has done recently. A week has gone by and Amir’s and Hassan’s relationship has weakened. The two of them barely talk to one another nor do they play together. Amir asks Baba if they can get new servants because

The Blue Kite Symbol The book titled Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini explores multiple different symbols from a slingshot to a sacrificial lamb. These symbols help give more meaning to different situations involving these symbols. The blue kite was a very important symbol to Hassan and Amir. The blue kite appears when Hassan and Amir are in the kite running contest and the blue kite was the last kite to cut down and retrieve the kite. Hassan went to retrieve the kite after they cut the kite down

Khaled Hosseini wrote The Kite Runner in such a way that one element symbolizes the entire moral of the book, from start to finish. In this book, the blue kite that the main character, Amir, flies is the major icon. Hosseini makes Amir’s priorities change throughout the novel. Amir was a selfish coward who later in the book reflected on his actions and turned out to be a brave man. Only the mind of the reader of this book can imagine the vast meaning behind the blue kite, and only the eyes of the

has been used across cultures for thousands of years, and The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini is no exception. Colors play an extremely important role in the novel by contributing to the reader’s own understanding of the text. Hosseini’s use of the colors blue, red, and green depict the concepts of characterization of Hassan and Amir, tone towards the Taliban, and inter-novel connections. Hosseini uses the notion of the color blue representing Hassan’s melancholy following the rape as well as