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Grit In The Kite Runner
“Grit is that 'extra something' that separates the most successful people from the rest. It's the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality” (Bradberry). Throughout someone life series of events may occur, some of them will be good and some of them will bad, but the way people deal and react with the bad occurrences shape their characters and may lead to good events later one, meaning the amount of grit someone has can lead to how successful someone will be later in live. This can be shown by comparing the childhood, the father-son relationship, and the adulthood of two different literary characters, Joe Rantz, from the Boys in The Boat, and Amir, from The Kite Runner. …show more content…
As stated on the last paragraph both Joe and Amir had some tough relationships with their fathers, Joe for not getting chosen by his father over his stepmother and Amir for not being the son his father hoped he would be. Amir’s father was never really close to him, Amir believed that was because he thought his father blamed him for his mother’s death, and not having similar interests did not help their situation so not getting his father approval in his views or accomplishments was a daily thing for Amir. “I kept stealing glances at Baba sitting with Rahim Kahn on the roof, wondered what he was thinking. Was he cheering for me? Or did a part of him and joy watching me fail? That was the thing about kite flying: Your mind drifted with the kite” (Housseini 63). Joe’s relationship with his father seen to be good, after his father got back from leaving him and starting to get his life together their relationship seemed to be doing good, but after getting chosen by his stepmother and being kicked out of the house we see that their relationship wasn’t that good, but as an adult Joe forgive his father, one thing that other people didn’t understand why, and this shows how gritty he is. “Joyce erupted. She demanded to know why Joe let his parents treat him as they did. Why did he go on pretending that they hadn’t done him any harm? What
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