The Kite Runner Rhetorical Analysis

Section One: One thing that I would like to comment is about redemption and the one thing that a lot of Americans didn't and still don't know about which is the Afghan culture shown in this section of the book. When I think of Afghanistan I think of war like the Soviet invasion and the war in Afghanistan currently happening with the involvement of the U.S and also like this place where extremist groups like the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and ISIS take root and spread fear. The book states that “women dressed in long, colorful shawls, beads, and silver bracelets around their wrists and ankles” (Hosseini 23). The book also stated that “people spoke of women’s rights and modern technology. People went to work Saturday through Thursday and gathered for picnics on Fridays in parks, on the banks of Ghargha Lake,

I find that very ironic for future reference and as a symbol that presents itself through the story. The ultimate betrayal was that he watched his best friend get raped just so he could finally be accepted by his father because he has daddy issues and feels like winning the kite fighting contest would make his father proud because his father too, was a kite fighting champion. His father showed more affection towards Hassan the Hazara (the lower class and servants). Amir states that during the rape he saw Hassan’s eyes and “it was the look of the lamb” he then has a flashback to the day of Eid-e-Qorban a day where they sacrifice a lamb, which in terms the lamb is a symbol of a pure sacrifice and that was what Amir considered Hassan at the time nothing more than a mere sacrifice in order for him to make his father proud by bringing back the last kite in the air as a trophy (Hosseini 57). A humongous symbol in the story was a dream that Hassan had “It was warm and sunny, and the lake was clear like a mirror. But no one was swimming because they said a monster had come to the