Essays on The Kite Runner

Traumatic events and tragedies can heavily affect people and change the course of their lives. These traumatic events can be a result of a person’s fate or their lack of action taken to make it avoidable. Trauma can be experienced at any age, from childhood...

The novel The Kite Runner, written by Afghan-American author is about the fierce cruelty and fierce yet redeeming love. There are many noticeable motifs in this novel, the first and most important symbol in the novel is “The Kite”, it appears only at the beginning...

Have you heard about chasing kites? It is a traditional competition in Kabul. Both the book The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini was published in 2003 and the movie of the same name directed by Marc Forster released in 2007 introduce the competition well....

The beginning of Kite Runner is talks about the narrator, Amir received a call from Rahim Khan in Pakistan, which cause him to remember the past, a boy who running kite for him. In the whole novel, kite through all plot and connect all of...

The major themes of the novel are guilt and redemption. Guilt is the fact of having committed a specified or implied offence or crime. Redemption is compensation for one’s sins through actions that relieves one from guilt. In the novel, The Kite Runner, the author...

Rahim Khan’s statement “there is a way to be good again”, signals the beginning of Amir’s journey for redemption in The Kite Runner. It can be argued that The Reluctant Fundamentalist is also a novel about redemption with Changez seeking redemption for pursuing the American...

Khaled Hosseini had an abnormal childhood. He grew up in Afghanistan in the pre-soviet war era. Both of his parents where college educated. His father was a diplomat for the Foreign ministry and his mother a high school history teacher at an all-girls Highschool. In...