The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a novel about a Pushtun boy, Amir, his childhood and his journey to forgiveness and redemption. The story starts with Amir remembering the winter of 1975, the day that made him who he is today, and realizing he can no longer run from his past. In 2001, Amir receives a call from his Rahim Khan asking him to return to Afghanistan and telling him, “there is a way to be good again.” The novel then flashbacks to Amir as a privileged child, living in Afghanistan
The Kite Runner, a story of an unexpected friendship between a wealthy boy and his servant, is written by Khaled Hosseini. Hosseini was born on March 4, 1965, in Kabul, Afghanistan. At the age of 11, his family was relocated to Paris by the Foreign Ministry. By 1980, Hosseini’s family was granted permission to move back to Afghanistan, however because of the invasion of the Soviet army and a communist coup, they never returned to their hometown. Instead they immigrated to San Diego, USA, where Hosseini
Amir is a person with darkness looming inside of him. Since he was a boy, he faced his darkness, his guilt, differently from when he was a boy compared to his adulthood. In Khaled Hosseini’s book, The Kite Runner, Amir at first glance does not seem to grow in character. He lived a privileged childhood, but did not take advantage of it because he was overcome by the anguish of his inner guilt of taking his mother’s life by being born. His guilt of taking his mother’s life was an excuse to abandon
immigration, Hosseini and his family faced many hurdles and difficulties. These bitter and unforgettable experience are brought out in his first book. The Kite Runner is more autobiographical. He had a deep admiration for Ahmad Zahir, an Afgan singer. His works are The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns and And The Mountains Echoed. The Kite Runner, is a debut novel of Khaled Hosseini was published in 2003. It was the novel which brought an identity and position for Khaled Hosseini in the literary
Through an opportunity to redeem himself for past harms, Amir also greatly improved his moral character. When Amir was young, he chose to avoid perceived danger and to protect himself first, regardless of the effect it had on others. He acted out of fear with the intention to protect himself from immediate danger; however, he learned he could not avoid the emotional backlash from these decisions. As a result, he would feel guilt and shame; he knew it was morally wrong, but his fear simply overcame
“Modernisation” 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