Comparing The Kite Runner 'And Cat On A Hot Tin Roof'
English Language and Literature HL
With reference to at least two works of literature you have studied, discuss how sex and sexuality are portrayed to fuel their respective plot lines.
‘The Kite Runner’ written by Khaled Hosseini is a novel which revolves around the protagonist, Amir and how different incidents related to sex and sexuality change his life and the play ‘A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ by Tennesse Williams, is about a married couple whose lives have changed due to recent events involving sex and sexuality. In the following essay you will be able to see how these two closely linked topics helped develop the plotline of both these wonderful stories.
Both Brick and Maggie and Amir and Soraya’s childlessness plays a massive role in …show more content…
All throughout the Kite Runner we see that Amir is sometimes insecure about the way Baba treats Hassan, he always felt as though Baba felt more for Hassan than him because of the way he acted, maybe because then as a child he felt like Baba saw himself more in Hassan than in Amir and later on, in Pakistan, Amir understands why, it was not because Hassan was always the son Baba wished he had, but the son Baba did have. As Ali was infertile, Hassan would never have been born if it weren’t for the time that Baba and Sanaubar had gotten together; therefore, changing the entire plot line of ‘The Kite Runner’, if there was no Hassan, there would be no story to tell, just a lonely rich boy named Amir who went off to America with his father when the Russians invaded Afghanistan. Also when it comes to Sohrab, we see that Amir’s attitude towards him changes when he finds out Sohrab is not his servant friend’s son, but his own nephew, his blood …show more content…
And when someone accuses them of something we know they can never be capable of doing, we get hurt and we rebel, different people resort to doing it in different ways. In Brick’s case, he resorted to drinking so that he never even had to think about the rumors that were going around and the problem that orbited around it, about his dear friend, Skipper. In many parts in the play, many people strongly imply that Skipper was gay for Brick. Brick not only denies this fact but does not even want to hear people uttering such words. When people blame Maggie for Brick’s drinking problem and their childlessness Brick seems to be indifferent but when anyone even starts to say anything offensive about his late friend Skipper, he does not even want to hear it. He dreads his last conversation with his friend and if Skipper were not accused of being gay, or was not gay in the first place, he might have been alive and Brick would not be an alcoholic, he might not have been disgusted with Maggie as Maggie might not have to commit the act of adultery which could, in the end lead to Brick and Maggie having a child together, a legacy to lead on Big Daddy’s
With reference to at least two works of literature you have studied, discuss how sex and sexuality are portrayed to fuel their respective plot lines.
‘The Kite Runner’ written by Khaled Hosseini is a novel which revolves around the protagonist, Amir and how different incidents related to sex and sexuality change his life and the play ‘A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ by Tennesse Williams, is about a married couple whose lives have changed due to recent events involving sex and sexuality. In the following essay you will be able to see how these two closely linked topics helped develop the plotline of both these wonderful stories.
Both Brick and Maggie and Amir and Soraya’s childlessness plays a massive role in …show more content…
All throughout the Kite Runner we see that Amir is sometimes insecure about the way Baba treats Hassan, he always felt as though Baba felt more for Hassan than him because of the way he acted, maybe because then as a child he felt like Baba saw himself more in Hassan than in Amir and later on, in Pakistan, Amir understands why, it was not because Hassan was always the son Baba wished he had, but the son Baba did have. As Ali was infertile, Hassan would never have been born if it weren’t for the time that Baba and Sanaubar had gotten together; therefore, changing the entire plot line of ‘The Kite Runner’, if there was no Hassan, there would be no story to tell, just a lonely rich boy named Amir who went off to America with his father when the Russians invaded Afghanistan. Also when it comes to Sohrab, we see that Amir’s attitude towards him changes when he finds out Sohrab is not his servant friend’s son, but his own nephew, his blood …show more content…
And when someone accuses them of something we know they can never be capable of doing, we get hurt and we rebel, different people resort to doing it in different ways. In Brick’s case, he resorted to drinking so that he never even had to think about the rumors that were going around and the problem that orbited around it, about his dear friend, Skipper. In many parts in the play, many people strongly imply that Skipper was gay for Brick. Brick not only denies this fact but does not even want to hear people uttering such words. When people blame Maggie for Brick’s drinking problem and their childlessness Brick seems to be indifferent but when anyone even starts to say anything offensive about his late friend Skipper, he does not even want to hear it. He dreads his last conversation with his friend and if Skipper were not accused of being gay, or was not gay in the first place, he might have been alive and Brick would not be an alcoholic, he might not have been disgusted with Maggie as Maggie might not have to commit the act of adultery which could, in the end lead to Brick and Maggie having a child together, a legacy to lead on Big Daddy’s