Comparing Khaled Hosseini's Personal Connection To The Kite Runner

“In Hosseini’s “The Kite Runner”, the plight of Amir, a young Afghan boy, distinctly parallels Hosseini’s past on multiple levels. By exploring his deep roots to the region and the Afghan people, Hosseini is able to provide a post 9/11 audience with insight that news coverage and journalists could not offer: a realistic portrayal of the subtleties and challenges of life in Afghanistan.” (Khaled Hosseini’s Personal Connection to The Kite Runner. 1) Like most solid narrator-protagonists, Amir is a round, complex character. One must pay close attention to his descriptions and the details he gives because they are being explained the way Khaled Hosseini would portray them. Living in a poorer country already puts people like the Afghans a step back but to have your country be attacked? Then you settle

“Hosseini’s life mirrors Amir’s life in so many respects that the novel is considered by many to be quasi autobiographical.” (Khaled Hosseini’s Personal Connection to The Kite Runner. 1) The novel is quasi autobiographical in the sense that not only did he just write this novel through Amir’s point of view but from his own. In doing so, he creates the story to be an effortless yet effective read but believable to the reader because of the parallels and connections from Hosseini’s life to Amir’s. We often watch television shows or read novels and become so engaged with the characters that we feel as if we are in the story or that we are those characters. At the time the novel was released, after 9/11, Hosseini is trying to connect his childhood upbringing of fleeing his home country because of being under attack to the upbringing of many of America’s children at the time, though they did not have to flee. He is not only comparing the periodical situations but himself and Amir because in doing so, the readers make that connection and can begin to make their own in one way or another throughout the