How Does The Kite Runner Affect The Future
Ethan Shan
Ms. Yamamoto
World Literature II
9 November 2015
The Past Doesn’t Affect the Future Some say that the future is always influenced by the past. This is often applied to The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. In this book, the protagonist is haunted by guilt his entire life from the failure to help his friend when he needed it, but is given the chance to redeem himself later on in his life. Many people say that the idea of the past influencing the future appears frequently in The Kite Runner. However, one can find that the future is influenced more by the present than by the past, no matter what time period. In the marriage between Amir and Soraya, only the actions leading to their marriage influenced their future together, not their past histories. The two were in love with each other since they first met. Neither of them knew about the other’s histories. However, this did not get in the way of their relationship. On the day that Amir and Soraya decide to get married, they speak on the phone with each …show more content…
After the king was overthrown, the future became uncertain. The only way to know about the future would be to analyze the present: look at how events were playing out. Sometimes deviations occurred: in 2003, America invaded Iraq, which no one expected. For example, after the coup in 1973, “for the next couple of years, the words economic development and reform danced on a lot of lips in Kabul” (Hosseini 43). None of this would have happened during the monarchial rule of Zahir Shah. Instead, these radical changes were based on the present, and would continue to influence the future until the Russians invaded in 1979, bringing in an era of pain and suffering that continues to this very day. The idea of the present’s future influence is clearly seen throughout the modern history of Afghanistan, showing the radical changes in its history is independent of previous
Ms. Yamamoto
World Literature II
9 November 2015
The Past Doesn’t Affect the Future Some say that the future is always influenced by the past. This is often applied to The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. In this book, the protagonist is haunted by guilt his entire life from the failure to help his friend when he needed it, but is given the chance to redeem himself later on in his life. Many people say that the idea of the past influencing the future appears frequently in The Kite Runner. However, one can find that the future is influenced more by the present than by the past, no matter what time period. In the marriage between Amir and Soraya, only the actions leading to their marriage influenced their future together, not their past histories. The two were in love with each other since they first met. Neither of them knew about the other’s histories. However, this did not get in the way of their relationship. On the day that Amir and Soraya decide to get married, they speak on the phone with each …show more content…
After the king was overthrown, the future became uncertain. The only way to know about the future would be to analyze the present: look at how events were playing out. Sometimes deviations occurred: in 2003, America invaded Iraq, which no one expected. For example, after the coup in 1973, “for the next couple of years, the words economic development and reform danced on a lot of lips in Kabul” (Hosseini 43). None of this would have happened during the monarchial rule of Zahir Shah. Instead, these radical changes were based on the present, and would continue to influence the future until the Russians invaded in 1979, bringing in an era of pain and suffering that continues to this very day. The idea of the present’s future influence is clearly seen throughout the modern history of Afghanistan, showing the radical changes in its history is independent of previous