Comparing Time Traveler's Wife 'And The Kite Runner'

Name: Gillian Gan Velian (P5)
Date: 29th November 2011
Teacher: Mr. Loria

Both the novel The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini portray a similar theme about the persistence of the past is able to affect someone’s life in the future. In general, the past might turn out to be something nice and memorable for some people, but some people might think that the past is something that will haunt them and they just want to forget all about it and start a new life. It is scientifically proven that repression is one of the most haunting concepts in psychology. Something shocking happens, and the mind pushes it into some inaccessible corner of the unconscious. Later, the memory may emerge into consciousness.
Not only that, it might be traumatizing for someone that their behavior changes later on. This issue can be seen in the novel The Kite Runner later on. Emotion can be defined in various ways. The past not only can influence an individual physically and emotionally, but also keeps an individual from overcoming pain and them from moving on with their life. This can be known as memory. Memory means an instant act of remembering, or a particular act of recall or recollection (merriam-webster.com). Remembering the past might be tough for some individual because they might not be ready to face the problem or they do not have the confident to face the problem. Besides that, a strong bond relationship between an individual can leave a heavy impact on someone else’s life in the future emotionally and physically. The persistence of the past including memories and also past relationships has the ability to affect an individual’s life emotionally and physically in the
Relationships are like mathematics. Relationships are like independent variables, while the futures are like dependent variables. The independent variable is typically the variable representing the value being manipulated or changed and the dependent variable is the observed result of the independent variable being manipulated (en.wikipedia.org). ‘Then he would remind us that there was a brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could break. Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name.’ (Hosseini, pg) Amir and Hassan are like brothers, although one of them comes from the wealthy family while the other one is just a servant. In this novel, oppression between classes cannot be found. Amir and Hassan are like real brothers, they learn to walk together, they learn to speak together, and they fed from the same breast. After the incident where Hassan got raped, Amir felt so guilty that he chased Hassan out of the house. This proves that having a strong bond relationship can affect the future of an individual’s life emotionally and