Kite Runner Character Analysis

Are there people in your life that have similar characteristics with the characters in the book, The Kite Runner? Sometimes when you read a book, you like it because either you find yourself in one of the characters or you find similar people in your life from that book. The Kite Runner has rich and multipronged characters in it. Especially, the relationship between specific characters has taught me a lot of things. In the book, the readers see that there are many characters with many different characteristics, in fact; Amir, the narrator of the story, tells about his childhood in Afghanistan and the relationship between him and his half-brother, Hassan. Hassan is the most sacrificing and the kindest character in the book. He is Amir’s best friend and later in the story it is revealed that he is also his half-brother. Another important character, Baba, is Amir and Hassan’s father, who is very ashamed of the fact that he is also the biological father of Hassan and keeps this as a secret until his death. Those are some of the main and the most important characters in the book. These richly described characters get the readers’ attention and hook them up to the flow of the story. The characteristics of Amir, Hassan and Baba in The Kite Runner, such as, Amir being guilt-ridden and condescending, Hassan being loyal and compassionate and finally Baba being protective and heroic, constitute the main idea that the author is trying to give the reader.

As a characteristic of Amir, he is guilt-ridden; in fact, a great quotation can be given as an example of his characteristics from the beginning of the book. “I [Amir] sat on a park bench near a willow tree. I thought about something Rahim Khan said just before he hung up, almost as an after thought. There is a way to be good again" (Hosseini 1). Perhaps, a better example for Amir’s guilt is the pomegranate scene. Hassan and Amir had a special Pomegranate tree that they would go to together and read. They spent some of

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