The Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini: Analysis
Over the last month or so i read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. This book has been eye opening for me. At points, I had to put down the book, close my eyes, and think. It brought up many memories for me, multiple times I had to tell myself that it’s in the past and it can’t be changed now. I actually spent fairly long amounts of time going over my life decisions so far, my regrets, and most of all, my future. When Amir had to make strong choices, it made me remember recent tough situations when I myself had to do the same. Lots of times during my reading i felt connected to Amir, the past year of my life has been an absolute roller-coaster and at emotional points in the novel i swear i knew exactly how the character must have
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The quote “Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.” Said by Rahim Khan, I really believe this quote is crucial to the story, and to the world as a whole. You could replace ‘children’ with ‘life’ , add a few grammatical changes the statement and it could be applied to any person in the world, and I think that’s what Hosseini was trying to do throughout the entire book. He tries to use his story in relation to many of life lessons, and to me, he was beyond successful. Of all the quotes in the story, such as “It wasn't meant to be, Khala Jamila had said. Or, maybe, it was meant not to be.”, “For you, a thousand times over”, also, “There is a way to be good again.” I felt more connected to the ‘Coloring Books’ quote. Thinking about the diction he used, I couldn't have ever said it better myself. It can be connected to parenting, because Parents are often guilty of this. Trying to ‘color’ their children the way they want. They project their own wants or needs onto their children and rather than helping them find their own paths in life, they push their children along a path of their own design. This only makes their children unhappy. The children either live lives that are not truly their own or they live their lives feeling they aren't really worthy of their parent’s love and
The quote “Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.” Said by Rahim Khan, I really believe this quote is crucial to the story, and to the world as a whole. You could replace ‘children’ with ‘life’ , add a few grammatical changes the statement and it could be applied to any person in the world, and I think that’s what Hosseini was trying to do throughout the entire book. He tries to use his story in relation to many of life lessons, and to me, he was beyond successful. Of all the quotes in the story, such as “It wasn't meant to be, Khala Jamila had said. Or, maybe, it was meant not to be.”, “For you, a thousand times over”, also, “There is a way to be good again.” I felt more connected to the ‘Coloring Books’ quote. Thinking about the diction he used, I couldn't have ever said it better myself. It can be connected to parenting, because Parents are often guilty of this. Trying to ‘color’ their children the way they want. They project their own wants or needs onto their children and rather than helping them find their own paths in life, they push their children along a path of their own design. This only makes their children unhappy. The children either live lives that are not truly their own or they live their lives feeling they aren't really worthy of their parent’s love and