Comparing The Kite Runner, Rain And The Rhinoceros

1042 Words3 Pages

The Kite Runner, Rain and the Rhinoceros and When a Parent’s ‘I Love You’ Means ‘Do as I Say’ are all connected by a single idea. The feeling of being alone is present in all three examples. The rain in Rain and the Rhinoceros is the bully terrorizing others without a second thought just like Assef, Wali, and Kama from The Kite Runner. The victims have no choice what to do just like when Hassan and Amir were being bullied. Also, in the story Rain and the Rhinoceros, the part about the one person being alone with no one around to help or be along side the journey is the same as when Hassan was raped and felt like the odd one because he has no one there with him. Finally, in the story When a Parent’s ‘I Love You’ Means ‘Do as I Say’ it tells …show more content…

The story of The Kite Runner is focused around Hassan and Amir, who are friends who spend a lot of time together. One of their favorite things to do is fly their kites and compete in tournaments. One of the tournaments they play in is won by cutting the string of the opponent’s kite. The string is cut by placing glass on the string then battling till one breaks. The loser or the person whose kite string breaks has to run after the kite and get it wherever it …show more content…

The two boys were battling it out to see who could cut the string of the others kite first. Amir comes out on top when he cuts the string of Hassan’s kite flying high in the sky. Hassan runs after his kite as it plummets from the sky. Amir soon flows after Hassan to gloat about his victory.
When Amir finds Hassan his is trapped at the end of an alley by Assef, Wali and Kama. Hassan’s pants are taken down and he is held back by Wali and Kama while Assef rapes him. Amir runs away form the alley and leaves his friend who once stood up for him trapped in the alley. Amir has a lot of guilt for what happened to Hassan but, Hassan feels worse for being the outsider who got raped without a thing he could do to stop it from happening.
In the story Rain and the Rhinoceros by Thomas Merton it describes a rain that is harder then any other. Like Assef being worse then any other kid. The location of the rain is in the forest with little around but nature and the small shelter. The rain surrounds the area and the writer describes the rain as something never felt before “The rain I am in is not like the rain of cities. It fills the woods with an immense and confused sound.” The writer describes the rain with a lot of

More about Comparing The Kite Runner, Rain And The Rhinoceros

Open Document