Chapter 11: • Fremont, California. • 1980’s • Baba and Amir have moved to America. • Baba is not adjusting well to America. • Baba freaks out at a local convenience store because they won't take his check without ID, he claims that no one has any trust. • Baba has a very low paying job as a gas station manager. Baba works a twelve-hour shift six days a week. • "Baba's face drawn and pale under the bright fluorescent lights". • Baba and Amir lived on on welfare. However, when Baba got his job, he
flow of the essay, or because expanding that point would use words that I simply don’t have. Characterisation is key to establishing social norms in literary works. The characters in a novel or poem are what the reader forms an emotional connection to; they are the driving force that makes us want to read on. It is how these characters conform to or rebel from their imposed social norms which engage the reader on their journey. Therefore
of Afghanistan: Transformation of Personal and Cultural Identity in The Kite Runner. Annotated Bibliography Algoo-Baksh, S. (2005) ‘Ghost of the Past’, Canadian Literature, 184, pp. 143-144. In addition to Hosseini’s literary style, the brief analysis has outlined several major themes employed in the story, including the contradiction between contrasting social classes, redemption of sins, family, love, betrayal, guilt, fear and redemption. However, the source had not thoroughly made reference