The Kite Runner Symbolism Analysis

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“We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard defining edges.”-Gene Wolfe. Wolfe connects how the symbolic events can connect and shaped the person as a whole. The symbol of The Kite Runner is the event of running the kites. The ideas of such an event shape many of the characters, especially Hassan and Amir. The symbol that ties this book together is the event of running the last kite. This is an event that all of the kids look forward to during the kite flying competition; they love the thrill it brings and the excitement of catching it. The side that many do not see until later is that it signifies an ending to an event loved by so many. It also brings out this competition …show more content…

The moment starts with showing the loyalty between their friendship, “for you, a thousand times over.” (67) This shows the friendship before the event, how it is full of loyalty and love. The competition and ending of this event, their friendship, comes much like the running of the kite. It is great and everyone is happy until that last kite is caught, then everyone just leaves, goes home. For Amir and Hassan it brings out much of the same, that they are both happy until that final step is “caught”, taken, and over stepped. In the case of their friendship it is the rape that Amir just watch and never once tried to stop, never once showing the loyalty Hassan always showed him. The running of the last kite also represents these characters and their friendship because they never looked at the ending of their friendship until it was over. They always just saw the happy times …show more content…

It is the same general idea with the possibility of a new ending that someone else will catch that last kite. This part of running the kite is shown with Amir's new relationship with his nephew, Hassan’s son, Sohrab. This is because after all that happened with Hassan Amir can finally show his apologies and redeem himself in his own eyes, which is that new ending of the next kite running. “I felt at peace.”(289) This is showing how that new ending can cause something different, even good. When Amir is fighting for Sohrab he is finally able to run after that last kite and change its course because he knows it is for the better. It shows that even though he was not loyal to Hassan in the moment of the rape that he was never not wishing he could have changed what happened, until being able to save

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