Characters of "The Kite Runner"

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Published by Riverhead Books in 2003, Khaled Hosseini wrote The Kite

Runner, a powerful story of love, fear, friendship, redemption, and the reality of the

cruel world we live in. In this tale, you develop a personal relationship with the

characters as you feel their emotions. Khaled Hosseini brings his characters to life

eloquently. The relationship between son and father, rich and poor, countryman

and his country, Pashtun and Hazara, friend and brother, and the conflict within

themselves. Anyone could fall in love with the characters of The Kite Runner.

In the beginning of Hosseini's novel, Hassan and Amir share an astonshing

friendship. Amir, being priviledged, and Hassan, being the Hazara servant boy,

developed a rare bond of brotherhood. The pomegranate tree they spent so many

summer days playing on, seemed to be the symbol of their childhood. Amir longed for

his father's affection, and whenever Hassan recieved more attention from Amir's

father, Amir grew jealous. Amir sacrifices their friendship over a single moment. Hassan

so desperate for his best friend, stays loyal through all the torture Amir put him through.

Best friends ...brothers...torn apart. Assef, the childhood bully, returns later in the story as

one of the Taliban's leaders.He becomes a speed bump in the way of Amir trying to

redeem himself by attaining Hassan's orphaned son, Sohrab, in the poverished streets of

Afghanistan. Amir encounteres many devastating realities as he is in Afghanistan. Once his

home, Kabul now seemes foreign to him. Destroyed by the Russian invaders in the 70's

and the Taliban slaughtering their own people, all of the things A...

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...uding one from the United Nations Refugee Agency. Soon after, he wrote A

thousand Splendid Suns.The Khaled Hosseini Foundation has been working in

Afghanistan to help the orphaned children.Currently, Khaled Hosseini resides in

California.

The kite Runner is a life changing story. It truly inspires the want to help the

poverished. The characters are beautiful and flow with the plot. The beginning seemed

Cinderella-like because of the unlikely hood of the odd friendships. Khaled Hosseini

used marvelous imagery and stunning irony. A man who obviously respects the world

of literature gives us a vivid picture of the decades that destroyed Afghanistan. I give

this novel five out of five stars and a definite recommended read for anyone who

enjoys quality work. A hard to put down novel will stay with me for many years

to come!

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