Important Quotes In The Kite Runner

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Kaitlin Premer 1. Contains a clear and strong thesis Mrs. Mills 2. Clearly implements three quotes April 18, 2016 3. Correct punctuation and grammar Senior English A child who grows up in poverty will only want to change their life as they begin to grow up for all they know is suffering through the first few years of their life. In Khaled Hosseini’s, The Kite Runner, Sohrab, the son of Hassan and the nephew of Amir was left alone at a young age after watching his father die in the streets of Afghanistan, scaring him for the time being. He was left to fend for himself, being taken to a horrible place. He had to face the world alone and with no knowledge of any other family. He thought he was the only one left of his family and …show more content…

He speaks about his parents, talking about how he doesn’t really remember their faces, that he wasn’t sad that they were gone. He claims he would rather them not see them with his quote “Because.. I don’t want them to see me.. I am so dirty, dirty and full of sin”. He feel that he is so full of sin after what the men had done, he would rather be alone than have his family come back to him. Amir does what he can to tell him that he is not full of sin, he wants to teach him that he is worth the world, but Sohrab thinks nothing of it. It is just words that are to good to even be true. He shows some serious emotions when Sohrab flinches when Amir reaches for him and try and comfort him. He is so horrified that he doesn’t wish to even be touched by another person. This could mean two different things in my mind. Either he is so scared that he flinches or even believes that he is so dirty no one should touch him. He needs to be loved more than any other person and this is Amir takes the chance to make things …show more content…

He is so afraid of the world around him that he would rather die than go into an orphanage, after what they had done to him. He has so much more emotion due to the background they gave him. He was raped, mistreated and used. He had suffered for years on end, probably hoping the end was near. He would never see an orphanage as a home, the memories flood every time the word is most likely brought up. It is the most depressing scene a reader will have to look at, and have to read multiple times to make sure that it isn’t some sick misread. Amir says “It’s just like sour apples” most likely meaning, only so many people are evil in a group of kind ones. Though I would see why he would see that so scary, because you never know who the “sour apples” are. He is so afraid to leave his safety zone, he would rather end his own life. To him the orphanage is prison. It is a hell on earth and is a horror story to him. The memories of those people that hurt his spirit, broke who he was. He needed a good home and he needed

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