recall about the moment he became “what he is today (p2)? What do you think that happened that day? Amir recalls kite running with Hassan and a dark alley. I think something very traumatic is going to happen to Hassan. 4. What does it mean to be Hazara‚ Shi’a Muslim‚ and Afghanistan’s minority group? Who‚ in the story
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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. Hassan is one of the main characters that Hosseini uses to show ethnic tensions. He is constantly picked on for his social status as a Hazara and the way he looks. In Afghanistan mostly everyone is prejudice towards Hazaras. In the novel‚ Hassan and Amir
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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 and
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patriotic feelings are well illustrated in the scene‚ where Baba takes some soil of his motherland just before leaving the country due to the fear of soviet repressions. While the fact that up to his dying day Baba kept in secret his affair with the Hazara servant woman and the real relations between his 2 sons
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was a Hazara servant to the other one’s family. What these two boys didn’t know was that they shared the same blood‚ and the same father. Baba was a rich man who lived in Kabul. He had a very nice‚ big house and drove and expensive American car‚ a Ford Mustang. Many people envied
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courage to see past other people’s weaknesses and faults‚ and forget his own prejudices when dealing with people‚ especially his now deceased best friend Hassan‚ who was of Hazara descent. Similarly‚ Baba had shown Amir early in life how to treat others correctly‚ even if they were not of the same ethnicity as you‚ or perhaps the same social class. Baba was always best friends with Ali‚ who is a Hazara and Baba’s housekeeper‚ since the day Baba’s father took Ali in off the streets‚ and “Ali and Baba grew
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involves rage and conflict. The string of the kites have ground glass on them and carves into the fliers hands‚ while the runners run to retrieve them once they are cut down by their opponents. Throughout the book‚ Afghanistan had to go through people overthrowing each other. Although class separated Hassan and Amir‚ they both love their kite running‚ and it brought them together as a team despite their differences. They were most like brothers in these moments‚ more then any other time. They
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Write about the way the significance of the way in which Hosseini uses setting in ‘The Kite Runner’. Focus on two or three. Hosseini uses setting in the kite runner in various ways. It is a tool in showcasing the social division between Hazara and Pashtuns in Kabul and is also used to dramatise and add tension to the story. An example of Hosseini adding tension through setting is Amir and Baba’s car journey from Kabul to Jalalabad. It is narrated by Amir in the present tense‚ as if he is there
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” Humans will always encounter conflict to the day we die and have had experienced what happens to society‚ when conflict develops. Conflict displays how ourselves’ experience changes and when we are striving to survive how we will influence other people to pursue the hope of surviving. An understanding of the nature of conflict is acquired through close study of the extraordinary story ‘The Rugmaker of Mazar-E-Sharif’ written by Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman as well as the confronting story of
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challenging decisions‚ overwhelming pressures‚ and emotions that can be very difficult for adolescents to overcome. In the excerpts that we studied‚ The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and Escape to Afghanistan by Farah Ahmedi‚ the stories of two young people are told‚ revealing their struggles with coming of age and their personal life battles. The Kite Runner tells the story of the character Amir who is a boy trying to deal with his own internal conflicts involving the relationship with his father‚ Baba
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