I am here today to carry on my ideas on the difference between living and surviving. Now we might ask ourselves what living is and what surviving is or what the difference is. If anything, there is a huge difference. Surviving is doing whatever it takes to live up to the next day, you are doing just enough to get by. On the other hand, living is a whole other different thing and in life that’s what you want, you want to live not just survive. I want to live, not just survive and there are choices that you make daily to help you decide whether or not your going to live or survive so I’m asking you, are you really living or surviving? Really ask yourself that because in society we get confused, we get brainwashed into thinking things that are …show more content…
In English class, I read a book called The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Overall a splendid book, I enjoyed it quite a lot and I highly recommend reading it for those who haven’t because it really is a powerful story that grasps readers attention. Anyways, there are these 2 boys in this book, Amir who comes from a privileged background in Kabul and has a wealthy dad whom he calls Baba, although he is not a completely sympathetic character. Hassan is a hazara, which is the most disrespected and the lowest status group in …show more content…
Instead, why not enjoy the time that you have than worrying about your problems. I wonder why is it.. I wonder why is it that when someone has been told that they have some type of cancer and they’re going to die in six months that they automatically decide to have a great life, why is that? Well it’s because they thought their entire life that they deserved to just survive. God didn’t put us on this earth to simply survive, God put us on this earth to live, to enjoy the benefits of our hard work. That’s why he put us on this earth for and if you aren’t living then do what you would do if you didn’t have any time left in this world, write it down and go do it. There’s a huge difference between living and surviving, it shouldn’t take some type of cancer or disease, or for you to get in a car accident or for you to lose a loved one to actually go out there and live your life. Do not give yourself a chance to go back, do not give yourself a chance to stop moving forward and do not give yourself a chance to second guess yourself because life is not about surviving, it’s about living. Thank
In the novel The Kite Runner, author Khaled Hosseini writes about Amir a young Afghan child who is a coward and who later as an adult seeks redemption from past mistakes. These characteristic effects Amir’s live throughout the novel from childhood to present. However, these are just words on a paper without some proof and the novel happily supports this either through the events or the behavior of other characters. Now let’s start with Amir’s past childhood.
Kite Runner depicts the story of Amir, a boy living in Afghanistan, and his journey throughout life. He experiences periods of happiness, sorrow, and confusion as he matures. Amir is shocked by atrocities and blessed by beneficial relationships both in his homeland and the United States. Reviewers have chosen sides and waged a war of words against one another over the notoriety of the book. Many critics of Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, argue that the novel would not have reached a lofty level of success if the U.S. had not had recent dealings with the Middle East, yet other critics accurately relate the novel’s success to its internal aspects.
Your Scars and Wounds are pieces of evidence that show you are human. Your wounds and scars leave much more than a mark, it leaves a story. A story that can build you as a person, or in the least bit, change the person who suffered the extent of an injury. In The Kite Runner, the motif that stands out from the first chapter to the last, and reoccurs from chapter to chapter is the wounds and scars that all the characters have the shape the book for what it is.
In The Kite Runner, Baba, the father of Amir sets a good example from his kindness to the Hazara individuals, despite the fact that they are historically disparaged and oppressed. Throughout story, it is seen that the status and ethnicity of a person determines who they will be in the community, and little can be changed. The Hazaras are completely oppressed by the Pashtuns and are categorized as less important therefore; they are denied basic rights and have extremely low social status. Amir's Father allows Hassan's family to live with them while also treating them well. "Huddled together in the dining room and waiting for the sun to rise, none of us had any notion that a way of life had ended. Our way of life. If not quite yet, then at least it was the beginning of the end" (Hosseini, 33-34). This quote expresses the fear Amir’s family and Hassan’s family had to face. Hazaras shouldn’t have to go through just because their background is different, rather everyone should work together to create better lives and improve on their selves. Amir's Father allows Hassan's family to live with them while also treating them well. In the end of both novels, Max which was Jewish and Hassan which was a Hazara, they both pass away while not being able to change society or see change in their
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.
An important stepping stone in every child's life is when a child makes a vow to be best friends forever with another child. Many girls cement this promise by buying a necklace with half hearts on them, while boys may carve their names into trees, but either way this promise is very important for children to prove that they have someone who they can trust. In Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel The Kite Runner, two boys, Hassan and Amir, have a friendship that is not as typical as most children's. Although they do carve into a tree that they are the "sultans of Kabul" (Hosseini 27), their friendship is weak and one sided. These boys grew up in Kabul, and although their childhood friendship may have seemed like something out of a book, complete with pomegranate trees and story telling, it was dark and emotionally wearing. A main reason for this was because of the one subtle difference between these boys, omitting the differences in character; Hassan is a Hazara and Amir is a Pashtun. For this reason the Afghan society has classified Hassan as a lower human being and he, along with his father, is in servitude towards Amir and his family. Amirs lack of self-confidence throughout the novel hinders his ablity to have a true friendship with Hassan. 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 of his bitter resentment.
It is difficult to face anything in the world when you cannot even face your own reality. In his book The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini uses kites to bring out the major themes of the novel in order to create a truly captivating story of a young boy’s quest to redeem his past mistakes. Amir is the narrator and protagonist of the story and throughout the entire novel, he faces enormous guilt following the horrible incident that happened to his closest friend, Hassan. This incident grows on Amir and fuels his quest for redemption, struggling to do whatever it takes to make up for his mistakes. In Hosseini’s novel, kites highlight aspects of Afghanistan’s ethnic caste system and emphasizes the story’s major themes of guilt, redemption and freedom.
Amir, the main character and narrator in the Kite Runner, belongs to a wealthy family in which his father is a powerful businessman. Amir is also a part of the dominant Pashtun ethnic group and Sunni religious group. Amir in the Kite Runner tells the story of his friendship with Hassan. Hassan and his father, Ali, are Amir’s servants. Hassan on the contrary is a low-caste ethnic Hazara and belongs to the minority Shi’it religious faith. This provides many of the Afghan’s who are different such as Sunni’s, who make up 85% of the Muslim faith, to persecute people like Hassan for their religion.
An aspect crucial to understanding The Kite Runner is the Pashtuns contemptuous treatment towards the Hazaras based upon the immense social differences between these two ethnic groups. Hassan, one of the
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.
In the book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Amir and Baba struggle to find a way to talk one on one with each other and bring their relationship closer. They try to bond over countless activities, but none of that works out. Amir also accumulates guilt, and cannot let it go. To resolve his issues, Amir needs to learn how to “be a man” just as Baba has been trying to teach him to be all his life. Amir finally learns how to be a man by taking the examples from Afghanistan and applying them in America, learning how to stand up for himself, and more importantly for others.
In Khaled Hosseini’s novel “The Kite Runner,” he illustrates a fine line between what is defined as morally good and evil. During their lives as kids, Amir and Hassan had always been close, but there had always been one problem. Amir was the son of a rich and powerful Pashtun man who was almost always given everything he wanted, while Hassan was a Hazara boy who had spent his life serving Amir and his family with his father. Although the two of them seemed to always be inseparable when they played games or flew kites, there was always the defining factor of who they really are, a servant and his master.
Khaled Hosseini, the author of The Kite Runner, grew up in prejudiced Afghanistan during the 1960’s as a middle-class Pashtun living with Hazaras working for his family. His move to America after the Communist Coup proved difficult for his family, especially his father. In his novel, Hosseini writes through a young boy, Amir, very similar to himself, who grows up with his father and two Hazara servants in Afghanistan at the time of the Taliban attacks. Both Amir and his father, Baba, treat their servants, Hassan and Ali, like family. Society, however, does not approve of such relationships between Pashtuns and Hazaras. As Amir hides and watches horrified, another Pashtun boy rapes Hassan. This leads to the continuation of Amir’s internal conflict about the treatment of Hazaras by the public, and also makes him feel guilty and self-conscious throughout his entire life. In addition, Amir strives for affection and attention from his rather indifferent father. Amir’s outward conformity to societal values in his relationships with both Hassan and Baba, as a result of his inner struggle and guilt, contribute greatly to the significance of The Kite Runner.
There are a multitude of ways in which courage can be defined. For instance, Atticus Finch, a fearless lawyer who stands up for a wrongfully accused African-American man, describes courage as “knowing you’re licked before you begin, but begin[ning] anyway and see[ing] [the task] through, no matter what”. Courage, however, can also be defined as acting on one’s beliefs despite facing potential danger, or as making an effort to do something that seems to be frightening. The common factor in all of these definitions, though, is risk. A universal definition of courage, therefore, is the ability to take risks in the face of adversity. In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, the most courageous, fearless and lionhearted characters, specifically Hassan
such as love. If you both have love for each other, you will make good