The Examination of Complicated Relationships between The Flying Troutmans and The Kite Runner

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Author of many children’s books, Karen Mueller Coombs has illustrated that, “often the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hardest path is the one that will make you grow as a human being” (“Karen Mueller Coombs”, 2013). This statement explains how regardless of what circumstances or experiences a person goes through in life, an individual’s character will grow and evolve. This concept is demonstrated in The Kite Runner and The Flying Troutmans. Both main characters display that despite being brought up in different situations, their past choices evolve their characters. Their family complications are decreased and their family foundation becomes stronger. In The Kite Runner, Amir is a young Pashtun boy with a privileged childhood. Hattie is a character in The Flying Troutmans who is a selfless woman with a rough family history. The concept of decreased family complications is evident in both novels when Amir and Hattie find selflessness in experiences and relationships they encounter, by accepting the truth of their realities and empathizing with other members of their family to strengthen their family relationships.
Miriam Towes, author of The Flying Troutmans, provides evidence of the main character, Hattie, demonstrating selfless qualities during her childhood, which enables her relationship with her family to strengthen. Most children focus on playing games, however, at the age of eight Hattie spent an entire week travelling to different hospital wards to support her mother, father, and sister. Hattie demonstrated her family importance to her by,
“Spend[ing] twenty minutes, silently, at each bedside, and then spend[ing] twenty minutes searching every vending machine for change… It was really...

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... being herself it hadn’t worked out.” (The Flying Troutmans, pg. 214) Hattie understands why Thebes is so upset; she can visualize Thebes’ perspective since she had grown up with Min once too. The examples delivered regard how sympathizing with someone when they are delicate is critical in withholding trust inside of family bonds.
Therefore both The Kite Runner and The Flying Troutmans express how possessing the ability of being selfless, acceptance of the truth and knowing how to empathize with others will help avoid complication of family relationships. The audience notices the strength of characters throughout the two books. They grow with time and evolve with much more improved personality and wellbeing. People ponder while looking for ways to benefit and redeem themselves when the real solution is helping the ones around you will ultimately end up helping you.

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