The Kite Runner Brotherhood Analysis

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The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, is an informative and thought-provoking novel set in Afghanistan, which features themes and life lessons about the power of brotherhood, the relationship between father and son, and religion, ethnicity and social class. It is an ideal novel for year eleven students to study as it encourages the student to analyse key themes and motifs in detail, and become well acquainted with the author’s use of techniques and symbols to paint an image in the novel. The themes of brotherhood and the representation of relationships between fathers and sons are common throughout the novel. Two such examples are the representation of Amir and Hassan’s brotherly bond, and the recurring comparison between Baba and Amir’s relationship and Ali and Hassan’s relationship. At the novel’s commencement, Amir and Hassan are the best of friends, and have a bond that can be described as practically brotherly. Repeated several times in the novel is the idea that “there was a brotherhood between people who fed from the same breast, a kinship not even time could break.” Amir and Hassan are so closely bonded that nothing can separate them, and despite the events of the novel, we can see that the two boys continue to think and worry about the other. Since the boys’ bond lasts for the entirety …show more content…

And two years later, in 1998, they massacred the Hazaras in Mazar-i-Sharif.” The massacre in Mazar-i-Sharif is not necessarily linked to the banning of the kites, however, until this point we have seen how Amir and Hassan, a Pashtun and Hazara respectively, bond especially through their passion for kites and kite fighting. The banning of the kite fighting tournament lead to a further divide between Pashtuns and Hazaras, as they no longer had a common interest. The presence of the kites in the novel signifies prosperity, friendship, peace, and joy, whereas the absence of kites signifies the opposite; violence, rape, and

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