Preview

The Kite Runner

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
714 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
The Kite Runner
THE KITE RUNNER
I will be doing my book review on the book called ‘kite runner’, by Khalid Hosseini. The Kite Runner tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who befriends Hassan, the son of his father's Hazara servant. The story is set against a background of upcoming events, from the fall of Afghanistan's monarchy through the Soviet invasion, the large number of refugees sent to Pakistan and the United States, and the rise of the Taliban regime. I am doing my book review on the Kite Runner because I think it is a marvellous and very interesting book. The author also describes the settings very well. Khalid Hosseini was born on 4th March 1965; he is an American novelist and physician from Afghanistan and he is an ethnic Tajik.
Amir, a wealthy Pashtun boy, and Hassan, a Hazara who is the son of Ali, Amir's father's servant, spend their days in the peaceful city of Kabul, kite fighting and roaming through the streets. Amir's father, a wealthy merchant, whom Amir affectionately refers to as ‘Baba’, loves both boys, but seems critical of Amir for not being manly enough. However, he has a kinder father figure in the form of Rahim Khan, Baba's friend, who understands Amir better, and supports his interest in writing. Hassan and Amir are great friends. Hassan is also a very good kite runner. Five years later, the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan. Amir and Baba escape to Peshawar, Pakistan and then to Fremont, California, where Amir and Baba, who lived in luxury in an expensive mansion in Afghanistan, settle in a run-down apartment and Baba begins work at a gas station. Amir eventually takes classes at a local community college to develop his writing skills after graduating from high school at age twenty. Every Sunday, Baba and Amir make extra money selling used goods at a flea market in San Jose. Hassan is killed but his son is in trouble, so Amir goes back to Afghanistan to save him. The genre of this novel is action and

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    The Kite Runner

    • 496 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Everyone has something they do that they really wish they could just take back. People ask for a second chance but more importantly, forgiveness. Khaled Hossenini shows a great example of this In his novel, “The Kite Runner”. The main character, Amir, goes through many events in the book that he regrets and later ends up seeking forgiveness.…

    • 496 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    the kite runner

    • 404 Words
    • 2 Pages

    In the novel Lord of the Flies, the author William Golding, proposes that the primary reason individuals descend into savagery is the influence of others on their natural instincts. When faced with a question of survive how will most humans react?…

    • 404 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    The Kite Runner

    • 1306 Words
    • 6 Pages

    The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is inundated with the phrase “for you a thousand times over” (2) and it plays a major role in the life of the main character, Amir. The quote is present in his youth, as he grows and during a moment that greatly influences the man he becomes. Over time the saying “for you a thousand times over” (2) fills Amir with first internal anguish, then guilt, and finally what he needs, healing.…

    • 1306 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Kite Runner

    • 958 Words
    • 4 Pages

    “Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.” Amir, the main character in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, has an entire life full of guilt and full of lack of attention. Amir always feels as if he has to work for his father’s appreciation. Amir strives to redeem himself by trying to prove his abilities to his father, by searching punishment, and by always wanting to have Baba all to himself.…

    • 958 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Kite Runner

    • 1524 Words
    • 7 Pages

    The story begins in Afghanistan in the 1970s and spans over 20 years. It is told from the perspective of Amir, a rich Afghani boy who lives with his father and their Hazara (low caste Shi'a) servants. Amir, an only child, spends much of his childhood with Hassan, the son of his father's loyal servant Ali and also the best "kite runner" in Kabul. The boys grow up as brothers despite the social differences, but this relationship is put to the test after an important kite flying tournament. Amir is overwhelmed with guilt when he allows Hassan to be beaten and raped on the day of the tournament. He lies to have Hassan accused of theft so he will leave their home and Amir can try to forget his guilt. Amir and his father flee to America to escape the Russian…

    • 1524 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    Kite Runner; Past Regrets

    • 1885 Words
    • 8 Pages

    The Kite Runner is a book that was written by Khaled Hosseini from a young boy’s perspective named Amir who lived with his father, Baba, and two Hazaras named Ali and Hassan in Kabul, Afghanistan. They lived here during the Russian War and had escaped to America to find peace and happiness. We learn about Amir’s childhood struggles and his efforts to be what his father wanted him to be and to be a good friend like Hassan is to him. Amir knows that Hassan is better than what he deserves; he knows he is guilty through his secrets and his selfishness. Materialistically, Amir and his father had a good life and treated Ali and Hassan quite well, but we discover that there is a reason for the good treatment that they receive from mainly Baba. Amir witnesses a very tragic experience that Hassan is put through with Assef and he does not take a stand. Amir is cowardice unlike Hassan. Although it may seem that Amir is confused with what he should do about what he has done and the secrets that he hides, his final decision will affect the rest of his life. He runs from his past escaping to America in hopes that his guilt will finally be freed.…

    • 1885 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Kite Runner

    • 1899 Words
    • 8 Pages

    I chose to do my paper on the caste system. The caste system is an inherited social ranking of the classes and plays an important role throughout the Kite Runner. The book sates that there needs to be an order of the people to make sense of things worthwhile. The two boys try to defy that the caste system is nothing more than a state of mind. The Afghan people feel alienated from their own history because of the caste system. Kite fighting is a perfect example of the caste system. One has the fighter who attacks other kites, and the runner who chases he fallen kites. Hassan who is a Shi'a while Amir is Pashtun and has many more opportunities available to him because of his social class. Although they are friends, Amir is hesitant to acknowledge this while in public. I believe that the caste system imposes many of its own seemingly unintentional rules among the people. These systems even lead Amir to stand by while his servant was raped by local bullies. Even though there may not be any laws about certain issues, the caste system might impose and enforce them through hate and violence. The caste system forces people to be alienated from their own history.…

    • 1899 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Kite Runner

    • 2856 Words
    • 12 Pages

    1. The novel begins with a flashback. What do you think is its purpose? What do you learn about the narrator? The purpose of the book in my opinion is to set up the setting of the main idea of the book and to give the readers Amir’s opinion on his fellow characters, so they can see the main idea. You learn about Amir’s life and how this event has affected him.…

    • 2856 Words
    • 12 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    The Kite Runner, written by Khalid Hosseni is a novel, which follows the life of childhood friends Amir and Hassan who grew up together in Afghanistan during the seventies. Both had very different family backgrounds; Amir is the only son of a rich and powerful businessman while, Hassan’s father is a servant in Amir’s family. Amir and Hassan spent most of their free time together despite having very different personalities. This novel is told from the first person perspective by the main character, Amir. The novel is told as a story of Amir’s past, which contributes to the theme of loyalty and betrayal in the novel as it allows the reader to understand all aspects of Amir’s life. The reader is able to read exactly…

    • 1364 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Kite Runner

    • 560 Words
    • 3 Pages

    “…better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie”. The Kite Runner shows how destructive secrets can be, especially to family relationships. Discuss.…

    • 560 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The kite Runner

    • 695 Words
    • 3 Pages

    3. a. What does it mean to be Hazara, Shi’a Muslim, Afghanistan’s minority group? Who, thus far, is Hazara?…

    • 695 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Kite Runner

    • 854 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The Kite Runner, a very emotional novel, was written by Khaled Hosseini. It is the story of two young boys growing up in Afghanistan named Amir and Hassan. Their different social classes cause tension and they part their separate ways but are later reunited. Amir was the son of a well-known Pashtun while Hassan was his servant and the son of a Hazara. Hassan looked up to Amir in the same way that Amir looked up to Baba, but they had completely different personalities. In The Kite Runner, Hosseini shows ethnic tensions with the characters Hassan, Ali, and Amir.…

    • 854 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    The Kite Runner

    • 1777 Words
    • 8 Pages

    There is famous saying that, “Life repeats following a circular path. That is why history repeats itself”. Circularity has a strong connection to the main theme in the novel- sin and atonement. This idea is portrayed throughout Khaled Hosseini’s first novel The Kite Runner. The novel takes place in Afghanistan where the main characters Amir and Hassan grow up. Through a beautiful yet devastating love story, Amir betrays the one person who has always been loyal to him; his best friend Hassan. Years after their separation Amir is given the chance to “become good again” from Rahim Khan who was an uncle-like figure in Amir’s life. Circularity, one of the key concepts in the novel, is used as a narrative technique by Hosseini. He uses circularity in his novel, by portraying Amir’s redemptions years after his betrayal of Hassan, through Wahid, Sohrab and Assef.…

    • 1777 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Set in the 1970s in California, the novel The Kite Runner is told in flashback as the reader follows the main character through his resolutions to life-long conflicts. The Flashbacks are set in pre-civil war Afghanistan in the home of a wealthy man. The main character, Amir, is an intellectual character, loving books more than sports, a major disappointment to his powerful father. Amir’s best friend is also a Hazara servant, Hassan. Although they are master and servant, the boys’ relationship is more of friends and companions.…

    • 505 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a book about a boy named Amir who lives in Afghanistan. Amir witnesses his servant, Hassan, get raped, for sticking up for Amir but does nothing, and does not tell Baba. A few months later Hassan and his father, Ali, move away because of what happened to Hassan. Years later war breaks out and Amir and Baba move to America, where Amir gets married and becomes an author, but Baba dies from cancer. Amir goes back to Afghanistan to visit a friend, and finds out Hassan has a son named Sohrab, but Hassan and his wife were killed by the Taliban and Sohrab are in an orphanage. Amir goes to take Sohrab out the orphanage and finds that Sohrab has been taken by a member of the Taliban named Assef, who happens to be the person who raped Hassan years ago, and Assef says he will fight Amir for Sohrab. Amir gets beat up and Sohrab saves him, they escape, and Amir takes Sohrab back to America as a way to make up for never telling about Hassan getting raped.…

    • 489 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays