THE KITE RUNNER HAS ENDED
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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is about revenge, love, forgiveness, friendship and many more. I could go on forever talking about all the categories this book fits in with. The Kite Runner is a fiction novel about a boy who lives in Afghanistan during an invasion by the Russians and about how the hard events that he encounters are solved. The thrilling historical novel talks about how Amir (the main character) has problems with himself and other people. He encounters numerous bumps in his life to be good and clean again. Throughout the book, Amir experiences the loss of family and relatives, a rape, courageous acts by Baba and the finding of a long lost nephew.
Amir is "friends" with a Hazara named Hassan. In Afghanistan, Hazaras were considered people of lower class. He is his servant but also his only friend.In one part of the book, Amir watches as Hassan gets raped, but Amir could not do anything due to their lack of friendship. They are friends, but in reality you can not become friends with your servant and have a good life with them. In this book, social rank and racism stops Amir from helping Hassan out. After the rape, Amir and Hassan slowly drift away from each other to the point where they start live half the globe away from each other. Shortly after, the Russians invade and during that time, Baba's old friend (Rahim Khan) called Amir to ask him to fulfill his life and to complete what he has left in Afghanistan. He told Amir to come back and pick his nephew up and to bring him to America with him. Rahim Khan intently tricked Amir that there was a shelter for his nephew, knowing that there is no safe orphanage, Amir has no choice but to take his nephew back with him to America. This book teaches about how you must finish something you started. The purpose was to tell how a single child could do so much harm to his friend, but at the end fix it all back up. In reality, the purpose is to talk about how Afghans have been struggling to overcome violence and how hard everyday life was after the invasion. The purpose was obviously clear in this book here:
Amir is "friends" with a Hazara named Hassan. In Afghanistan, Hazaras were considered people of lower class. He is his servant but also his only friend.In one part of the book, Amir watches as Hassan gets raped, but Amir could not do anything due to their lack of friendship. They are friends, but in reality you can not become friends with your servant and have a good life with them. In this book, social rank and racism stops Amir from helping Hassan out. After the rape, Amir and Hassan slowly drift away from each other to the point where they start live half the globe away from each other. Shortly after, the Russians invade and during that time, Baba's old friend (Rahim Khan) called Amir to ask him to fulfill his life and to complete what he has left in Afghanistan. He told Amir to come back and pick his nephew up and to bring him to America with him. Rahim Khan intently tricked Amir that there was a shelter for his nephew, knowing that there is no safe orphanage, Amir has no choice but to take his nephew back with him to America. This book teaches about how you must finish something you started. The purpose was to tell how a single child could do so much harm to his friend, but at the end fix it all back up. In reality, the purpose is to talk about how Afghans have been struggling to overcome violence and how hard everyday life was after the invasion. The purpose was obviously clear in this book here:
"Khaled Hosseini gives us a vivid and engaging story that reminds us... people have been struggling to triumph over the forces of violences...threaten them even today."This book has powerful and inspiring messages that are not just to tell a story, but to tell of a story of how family, friendship, and betrayal all work in one boy's life that changes him forever.
All of the characters in this book were different from each other. The two most important were Hassan and Amir. Amir is a rich boy who lives in Afghan, and Hassan is a poor servant who serves Amir and lives in Afghan. They are both secretly great friends, but they hide it. During the rape scene this is shown:
"Would he do the same for you? ... Because to him, you're nothing but an ugly pet... Don't ever fool yourself and think you're something more."In this quote, Assef has blocked Hassan's way and asked him puzzling questions. He asked him if Amir would be this nice to Hassan if he was in need. He asked him if Hassan really thinks that Amir is his friend. When Amir hears this he feels like a bolder just hit him and that he can not escape if the question is not answered. To Amir, Hassan is really just a friend. Amir really thinks Hassan is a friend but he is not willing to stand up for it because of their class differences. They play together 24/7. How could they not be friends? To Hassan, Amir is the only friend he has got. Hassan is not afraid to admit that his friend is like a king compared to him. He is not afraid to say that Amir is his only best friend in the whole wide world. Their friendship is like a rope. Hassan on one end and Amir on the other but in the middle is a big wall that says racism and social rank. They both look at each other differently, but as time goes on Hassan still loves Amir and Amir starts to see what he has to do to make up for his friendship.
The author of the Kite Runner is Khaled Hosseini. He was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1965. In 1976, the Afghan Foreign Ministry moved his family to Paris. They were about to return to Kabul in 1980, but an invasion from the Soviet army devastated everyone. Therefore in 1980, Hosseini's family moved to San Jose, California. Immigrating was a major part of writing The Kite Runner. Hosseini graduated from high school and made it to Santa Clara University. He was influenced by his childhood before the invasion to write. He had personal experiences with Hazara people before. Khaled had a Hazara servant who he taught to read and write. He was inspired by the relationship they had, and decide to write a book.
In conclusion, The Kite Runner was the best book I ever read in my life. I would recommend it to everyone and anyone. It gave me some ideas of how life was and still is in Afghan. Afghan traditions and cultures have been shown in the novel and it supports the purpose of what Hosseinni is trying to present. He is trying to show his country as a bad and horrible place to live in. There are a lot of poverty in Afghan and I think poverty is something a nation should lack in order to create a great and prosperous nation. The book offers an important point of view of the world where tragedy is most at. The book The Kite Runner was a great story and I am so sad to end it nowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
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