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    FRIENDSHIP QUOTE Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph) Quote #1 Sometimes‚ up in those trees‚ I talked Hassan into firing walnuts with his slingshot at the neighbor’s one-eyed German shepherd. Hassan never wanted to‚ but if I asked‚ really asked‚ he wouldn’t deny me. Hassan never denied me anything. And he was deadly with his slingshot. Hassan’s father‚ Ali‚ used to catch us and get mad‚ or as mad as someone as gentle as Ali could ever get. He would wag his finger and wave us down

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    The film essay: the kite runner The film adaption of the kite runner does not diminish the complexity of the story to a full extent‚ only to some extent‚ for the book has too much content to be put in a film. However‚ the fil executed the scenes where hassan got raped for Amir’s kite‚ where baba was willing to die for the young woman in the truck‚ the scenes where farid assisted Amir to find sohrab and where Amir got beaten by assef to get sohrab well. All of these scenes are perfect examples of

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    Kite Runner Final Questions 1. The tortured souls are said to be Amir and Baba according to Rahim Khan’s letter. Baba was tortured soul because he was always hard on himself for not telling the truth and other things in that happen in the past. Baba had kept the truth about Amir and Hassan being half-brothers for his entire life. Baba couldn’t love Hassan the way he longed‚ openly as a father. Baba always became furious with himself‚ so he took out his anger‚ guilt‚ on Amir instead. Rahim

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    “…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.   Introduction: Bitter truths‚ soothing lies and carefully kept secrets are found throughout Khaled Hosseini’s novel‚ The Kite Runner‚ as many of the characters face one or the other at some point. Through their actions‚ Hosseini attempts to show the reader that despite the initial comfort a lie can bring‚ the harsh truth is often less

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    built on trust‚ since the older father is in a position of power and authority over the younger son. Without trust‚ the essential bond can only extend as far as the dishonesty lasts; when the truth comes out‚ there can be only bad feelings. In The Kite Runner‚ Baba conceals his parentage of Hassan from Amir both for cultural reasons and because he doesn’t want Amir to feel jealous of Hassan. When Amir finds out‚ many years later‚ his reaction shows how much of his life the broken trust affects: How

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    Examples of foreshadowing in the Kite Runner Foreshadowing is a literary device in which an author drops subtle hints about plot developments to come later in the story. An example of foreshadowing might be when a character displays a gun or knife early in the story. Merely the appearance of a deadly weapon‚ even though it is used for an innocuous purpose — such as being cleaned or whittling wood — suggests terrible consequences later on. 1. Foreshadowing is used as a literary device at the

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    Fathers in The Novel A bond so cherished and sought after‚ may not always be one of love‚ but one filled with pain and longing. The relationship between a father and a son helps prepare a boy to understand right from wrong. Khaled Hosseini in‚ The Kite Runner‚ uses the complex emotional bond between fathers and sons to demonstrate the necessity of an empathetic fatherly figure. The relationships that clearly demonstrate this need for a fatherly figure are between Baba and Amir‚ Hassan and Sohrab‚ and

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    The Kite Runner Suffering is The state of undergoing pain‚ distress‚ or hardship. People can suffer in many ways such as physical‚ mental‚ and sometimes spiritual. The novel The Kite Runner takes place in Afghanistan and Khaled Hosseini wrote this novel. His novel about a guilt-filled child named Amir demonstrates true suffering. The characters in this book try to write the wrongs they have done and try to make piece with there suffering. Amir What is suffering to you? Suffering to me shows how

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    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

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    The Kite Runner is an epic story with a personal history of what the people of Afghanistan had and have to endure in an ordinary everyday life; a country that is divided between political powers and religiously idealistic views and beliefs which creates poverty‚ and violence within the people and their terrorist run country. The story line is more personal with the description of Afghanistan’s culture and traditions‚ along with the lives of the people who live in Kabul. The story provides an educational

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