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    The Kite 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

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    ignorance in secrets‚ and the protection that secrets provide fades away into nothingness.....and the truth explode into the world and people finally see things the way they really are and realize they much rather handle the truth. In the novel The Kite Runner‚ Khaled Hosseini’s characters keep secrets to protect each other‚ but the ignorance that they spread causes more pain to the people then the truth would have. They learn this harsh reality by suffering from massive guilt‚ realizing the aftermath

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    The Kite Runner In “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini‚ Hosseini tells a story about Amir‚ a young boy from Kabul whose closest friend is a young Hazara boy named Hassan‚ who is also his servant. Amir witnesses a horrendous act committed against Hassan and he spends the next 26 years trying to forget what he saw that winter of 1975. Throughout the novel Amir narrates his own transformation‚ which is caused by all his guilt leaving his closest friend‚ Hassan vulnerable and the search for redemption

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    ‘The kite runner shows that it is better to confront our mistakes than attempt to leave them behind.’ Do you agree with this interpretation of the text? In Khaled Hosseini’s novel the Kite Runner‚ Amir the protagonist and narrator of the novel spends his life guilt ridden over his central mistake of abandoning his childhood friend Hassan when he is beaten and raped by the evil Assef. Amir is a 38yr old living in America with his wife Soroya‚ he is immediately revealed to be a deeply scared prisoner

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    Friendship in the Kite Runner Every child makes a vow to be best friends with another child at least once in their life. Some girls by necklaces with matching half hearts to signify their friendship and some boys carve their names into trees. In the bestselling novel The Kite Runner‚ by Khaled Hosseini‚ two boys‚ Hassan and Amir‚ have a friendship that is not as typical as other children’s. In every friendship there is always at least one loyal friend. The friendships between: Amir and Hassan;

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    The kite Runner- Analysis and Chapter Summaries Chapter 1 Starts off in the present day when Amir receives a phone call from Rahim Khan in Pakistan telling him that he must go and see him. We are told about the events that made him who he is today and we also find out that the grown up Amir has moved to America. Key quotes: “I became what I am today at the age of twelve.” “there is a way to be good again" “the hard ripped kite runner.” Flashbacks: The story is being told from end point December

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    Dorothy Campbell M.A.L.S. Essay The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini This essay will discuss the central themes of the book The Kite Runner‚ by Khaled Hosseini. Because the story is told at a time before the War on Terror‚ it brings the reader back to an Afghanistan the average American never knew existed and presents the current socio-economic reality of a United States one may choose to ignore. The description of Afghanistan before its many "occupations" is a tragedy in itself. The Author

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    E4U Mrs. Nizic The Kite Runner Novel Vs. Film Transforming a novel into a film can be a very challenging task to do. This is due to the fact that a novel has many key factors that make up the plot and it is nearly impossible to compress them in a certain time frame. Mark Forster’s adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s coming of age novel “The Kite Runner” is a weak portrayal of the originally work because specific scenes lacked intense

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    Amir’s dishonesty which flares up on regular occasions‚ most notably in his refusal to admit that Hassan has been raped and also when getting Ali to leave by saying he stole. These traits are those which are most notable in Amir’s behaviour and this essay will show how Hosseini presents each of them in different ways and through the use of different techniques. The first episode which Hosseini uses to reveal an important aspect of Amir’s character is in Chapter 3 which shows how vital it is to Amir

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    Essay of The Kite Runner It is never too late to redeem your prior mistakes. Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner‚ he writes about an afghan boy who grows up with fear of standing up for himself. He later finds out in life that he is more like his father than he throught. Throughout the novel‚ the author shows that its never too late to redeem your prior mistakes which is shown through Hassan’s rape‚ Hassan;s mother leaving him‚ and Soraya talking to Amir about her life when she was sixteen

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