The Kite

"The Kite Runner", an English novel by Afghan-American writer Khaled Hosseini, was published in 2003. It has the privilege of being the first novel published by an author of Afghani origin. The plot employed in the novel is set in Afghanistan from the late 1970s to 1981, which is the time period characterized by the Soviet invasion, then in the Afghan community in Fremont, California from the 1980s to the early 2000s, and finally in contemporary Afghanistan suffering at the hands of the Taliban regime. The Kite runner is certainly a great literary work which deserves much applaud because of its effectiveness and completeness as an entertainer as well as potential food for thought.
The themes of the story are widespread: familial relationships, ambivalent and complex friendship of a servant and master against the ethnic and religious differences, the childhood betrayal, the lingering guilt from past, the never ending effort of emancipation from the guilt and redemption, the unkindness of a rigid class system; and a 40-year chronicle of Afghan history explaining the shocking realities of war.
The adult narrator, Amir, lives in San Francisco and is contemplating his past, thinking about a boyhood friend whom he betrayed in the days of adolescence. The story then moves backward in time to the narrator's early life in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he is the only child of a privileged merchant. Amir's closest friend is his playmate and servant Hassan, a poor illiterate boy who is a member of the Hazara ethnic minority (The Kite Runner). As the protagonist Amir grows to adulthood, he comes to terms with his past wrongs, trapped in the guilt of betraying his best friend and at the same time aiming to adjust to the culture of the United States, which is an exact opposite to the one in which he has been nurtured in the past.
An aspect worth mentioning is that the "The Kite Runner" grips us firmly from the beginning primarily due to the graveness of its plot. The author sets