What Is Amir's Childhood In The Kite Runner

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“The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini tells the story of Amir who struggles to move on and become a better person after terrifying childhood events in the winter of 1975. The Kite Runner is divided into three sections: Amir’s childhood in Afghanistan, Amir and Baba’s journey in California, and the last section which is Amir back in Kabul. The story starts from the narration of Amir (the protagonist) in 2002 as an older man. He takes us back into his childhood where we meet his family and know more about his childhood but more specifically about what events lead him to not move on and be a better person. Furthermore, Amir lives in a big house with his dad who he loves and calls Baba but they also live with their servants, Ali and Hassan (a dad …show more content…

A Pashtun is someone who’s Muslim but is a Sunni Muslim. On the other hand, a Hazara is someone who’s also Muslim but is part of another group of Muslims; Shi’a. Furthermore, Hazaras are discriminated a lot in their town due to most people not being Hazaras. Hassan and his dad are faced with many rude insults and are discriminated from their neighbourhood. Amir seems to think that Baba dislikes him due to him liking poetry and not being that strong of a guy. He starts to assume that Baba likes Hassan more as he trusts Hassan to do his favours and shows more love to him. He decides the only thing he can do to earn his Baba’s love is to win the kite-fighting tournament.Amir and Hassan decide to try to win the annual winter kite fighting tournament together. After all the unique strategies and a little bit of luck, Amir really wins. But all he needs now is Hassan to chase down the defeated kite and as soon as that is done, he’ll finally have the love from his Baba that he strives for. Before Hassan leaves he says,“For you, a thousand times over.” Not everything goes the way Amir plans when Hassan bumps into Assef; the bully who wants

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