Kite Runner is the story of a boy named Amir who must flee his native country of Afghanistan after the Russians invade. The movie starts with grown Amir, who has just received his first shipment of his novel, “Falling Ashes.” It pans back to Amir’s childhood, showing him playing with his best friend Hassan. Hassan is the son of the servant of Amir’s family, and he is very loyal. Amir sometimes feels depressed because his mother died giving birth to him, so he writes stories and shares them with Hassan, who is illiterate. Another activity they do together is kite flying. The boys practice together until they are ready to enter a competition. Amir is declared the winner after cutting the last kite, and Hassan runs to find the fallen kite so …show more content…
Amir finds Hassan and watches while it happens, but doesn’t do anything. Later Amir tries to get Hassan to stand up for himself, but Hassan remains loyal. Their friendship withers, and soon Hassan and the servant will leave. Shortly afterward, the Russians invade Syria so Amir and his father must leave. They head to Pakistan, where they are able to find transport to the United States. Amir’s father, once wealthy in Afghanistan, is forced to work full time at a gas station in the Afghan community of Fremont. There Amir graduates from community college and meets a girl he likes. Things take a darker turn when Amir’s father is diagnosed with lung cancer, presumably caused by smoking. Before he dies, Amir asks his father to arrange his marriage with Soraya, the daughter of an important Afghan military man. Soraya confesses to Amir that she had a relationship with another man, but Amir loves her the same. The pair is married, but are unable to bear children. One day Amir gets a phone call from his father’s friend in Pakistan saying he needs to come to see him. The friend tells Amir that Hassan was actually Amir’s half brother, because his father had an affair with the servant’s
Amir is, to be put bluntly, a coward. He is led by his unstable emotions towards what he thinks will plug his emotional holes and steps over his friends and family in the process. When he sought after Baba’s invisible love, Amir allowed Hassan to be raped in an alleyway just so that the blue kite, his trophy that would win his father’s heart, could be left untouched. In the end, he felt empty and unfulfilled with the weight of his conscience on his shoulders comparable to Atlas’ burden. Unable to get over his fruitless betrayal, he lashes out and throws pomegranates at Hassan before stuffing money and a watch under his loyal friend’s pathetic excuse for a bed, framing Hassan for theft and directly causing the departure of both servants from his household. Even after moving to America, finding a loving wife, and creating a career for himself in writing, he still feels hollow when thinking of his childhood in Afghanistan. Many years later, he is alerted of Hassan’s death and sets out on a frenzied chase to find his friend’s orphaned son. He feels that he can somehow ease his regrets from all of those years ago if he takes in Hassan’s son, Sohrab. He finds Sohrab as a child sex slave for Assef, who coincidentally was the one to rape Hassan all of those years ago. After nearly dying in his attempt to take back Sohrab, he learns that he can take the damaged child back to the states with him. Sadly, Hassan’s son is so
Not only did Amir ran away, but he never told anyone what he saw, this including Hassan. However, this is not his last sin, for in a few months later Amir frames Hassan for thief. Hassan, when faced with Baba, say that he stole the items in question to protect Amir. And shorty leaves Baba’s service with his father against Baba insistent to stay with them and solve the issue in a differ manner… In the end, Amir got the bonding time he what with his father, however, at a cost of not helping Hassan in his greatest time of
(2) The Kite Runner follows Amir on his odyssey to redeem himself for his hurtful actions. Through this journey, Khaled Hosseini delivers the message that sin and guilt can always be atoned for. At the beginning of The Kite Runner, young Amir wins a kite fighting tournament. He feels like he has finally redeemed himself for his father.
As a foreword, the story of The Kite Runner focuses on a man named Amir. In his childhood, he enjoyed a high-class life in Kabul, Afghanistan, living with his father Baba. They have two servants, Ali and his son Hassan. They are Hazaras, a lower class ethnic minority in Afghanistan. In one Winter of their childhood, Amir and Hassan participate in a kite-fighting tournament; the goal is to be the last kite flying. When a kite is cut, boys chase after it as a trophy. Amir wins the tournament, and Hassan flies to catch the losing kite. Later, following Hassan's path, Amir comes upon a neighbourhood bully named Assef about to rape Hassan who has the trophy, the blue kite. Amir does not interject, believing this will secure him the kite. Thus, Amir sets forth a chain of events he must redeem in his adulthood.
The Kite Runner focuses on the relationship between two Afghan boys Amir and Hassan. Amir is a Pashtun and Sunni Muslim, while Hassan is a Hazara and a Shi’a. Despite their ethnic and religious differences, Amir and Hassan grow to be friends, although Amir is troubled by Hassan, and his relationship with his companion, one year his junior, is complex. Amir and Hassan seem to have a "best friend" type relationship. The two boys, Hassan and Amir, are main characters in the book titled, The Kite Runner. The two boys have a relationship that is significantly different compared to most. There are many different facets that distinguish the relationship the boys possess. The boys do write their names in a pomegranate tree as the "sultans of Kabul" (Kite Runner 27) but, their friendship is not strong and it is one sided. Hassan has love for Amir. He loves him like a brother. Hassan is exceedingly loyal to Amir. The relationship between the two boys is emotionally wearing and rather gloomy for the most part. The main reason for their complicated relationship is the fact that Amir is Pashtun, and Hassan is Hazara. The Afghan society places Hassan lower than Amir. Hassan is Amir's servant. The placement of Hassan in the Afghan society disenables Amir from becoming Hassan's true friend. Amir sees Hassan as lower than human. Amir ruins the chance for friendship between himself and Hassan because he is jealous of Hassan, he thinks of Hassan as a lower human, and because Amir possesses such extreme guilt for what he has done to Hassan. Amir is an unforgivable person overall.
Betrayal, redemption, and forgiveness are all major themes in The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini. The novel also focuses around the theme of a broken relationship between father and son as well as facing difficult situations from ones past. Amir and Hassan are best friends with two completely different personalities. Each character in the novel faces their own hardships and eventually learns to overcome those difficulties. Beginning with betrayal then the characters have to make their way to gaining redemption and forgiveness from others, as well as their self, is carried on throughout the novel. It is a continuous story of the relationships between Amir and his father Baba and facing their challenges from the past every day of their present.
Amir is mostly disappointed in betraying Hassan. Amir betrays him when he see’s Assef raping Hassan in the alley. At the end of the book, Amir has resolved issues, and has accepted his feelings towards Hassan. Amir has proved himself by rescuing Hassan’s son and making sure he returns with him to America. Amir has finally become the man his father has wanted him to be.
Amir is the main character and narrator that tells the events when they were boys in Kabul, Pakistan, and what happens. Then Amir and Baba go to America, and start the next part of the story when Amir is an adult, and tells about other events, like Amir meeting his wife and getting married. One day, Amir gets a call from Rahim Khan, his father’s old friend from Pakistan who was always there for Amir and like an uncle to him. Rahim Khan wants Amir to come to Pakistan to see him before he dies, and tells Amir “there is a way to be good again” signaling to Amir that he knows about what happened between Hassan and he, and that he has to tell Amir something. Amir then goes to Pakistan to see Rahim Khan, which leads him on a journey throughout the rest of the
There are always moments or events that occur in someone’s life that stay with the individual into adulthood. We often try to forget these things that make us feel guilt or anxiety, but in reality we never really lose the impact that event has made on us. The Kite Runner is an emotional story about two boys whose lives are shaped dramatically by the political and social tensions that existed in Afghanistan during the 1970s. It is a story that highlights the danger of hiding behind lies and putting one’s own needs before that of another’s. Amir, the main character and narrator begins his journey to redemption by indicating that all his attempts to forget his past have failed.
His father starts to accept him more and becomes a more likable character in the story and creates a resolution atmosphere, but then is called to Pakistan to meet with an old friend. Amir learns that Hassan is dead but had a son and is living in Kabul, Afghanistan, his home country that he wanted to forget and now is returning to. Sohrab, Hassan’s son, is kept in an orphanage, but is taken before Amir can make it to him. Amir traces him down inside of a house where is long-awaited rival, Assef, is waiting. After a final
The Kite Runner is written by Khaled Hosseini, which was published in 2003. This novel goes from the feeling from wanting to impress, to guilt and relief. The main character, Amir, goes through various obstacles in life to get where he wants to be, but it won’t be easy. In the beginning of the story it explains the relationship between everyone in the household and how Amir and Hassan are best friends.
the Kite Runner is a phenomenal work of literary genius authored by Khaled Hosseini. The award-winning novel depicts the life of Amir, an Afghani man living in America. The novel reflects on the trauma Amir’s witnessed throughout his childhood in Afghanistan. Amir, is a Sunni Muslim who lived in Kabul throughout his childhood growing up with his single father known to the reader as Baba. Amir, grew up with Hassan his childhood companion and servant.
In winters, when the kite-fighting tournament occurs, boys cover their kite strings in glass and battle to see who can catch the string of the opposing kite. When a kite loses, boys chase and retrieve it, which they refer to as kite running. Amir wins one of these tournaments and Hassan sets off to catch the losing kite. When Hassan does not returns for a while, Amir goes to look for him. He finds Hassan trapped at the end of an alley, pinned with his pants down.
The boys are torn apart when Amir becomes a witness to Hassans rape no he does nothing to help. Then to get rid of his guilt for not helping his friend in his time of need Amir frames his friend Hassan for stealing a watch to get rid of him. As Hassan leaves Amirs house with his father luck would have it that Amir and his father must also leave their home because of the war approaching their home. The two boys grow up separate from each other Hasssan stays in his country while Amir moves to
Amir has always craved a bond with his father who was always respected and praised among their society. Amir blames himself for his mother dying giving birth to him and feels as his father resents him. Amir is a little bit jealous of Hassan for his father paying him attention and it did not help that amir himself wa not good at soccer or sports and could not stand up for himself so Hassan always stood up for him. Amir and Hassan join a Kite fighting competition as they win the kite drops and Hassan goes to get the spoils of their fight but a group of boys that Hassan had stood up to for Amir conners him and gives him a choice of giving him the kite and being forgiven or Assef would get his revenge. Hassan decides to keep the kite for Amir and gets beat and raped.