Reason for Selecting this e book: Probably one of the most wonderful and memorable tales on friendship, found and lost.
About the writer: Khaled Hosseini was created in Kabul, Afganisthan in 1965. His dad was a diplomat in the Afgan international ministry and his mother a instructor in a institution in Kabul. His first work The Kite Runner was published in 2003 followed by ONE THOUSAND Splendid Suns, which was also a critical and commercial success.
Background: The story is set in the setting of the Soviet invasion and the climb of the Taliban and the next demise of its culture and modern culture of old.
Writing style: The style and terms of Hosseini is lucid and fairly simple. The written text seems often such as a journal and autobiographical perhaps owing to some of it being derived from the author's own childhood in Kabul, where in fact the story is set.
Use of sources and research: http://www. khaledhosseini. com/hosseini-bio. html
http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/The_Kite_Runner
http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/The_Kite_Runner_%28film%29
http://www. enotes. com/topic/The_Kite_Runner
Genre of the book: Book(Play)
Outline of the Story
Kite Runner(2003) by Khaled Hosseini often reads just like a fable, a parable of love, camaraderie and most importantly redemption. Though it would be nave to limit the novel and its themes to just these three facets, Kite Runner will be a lot more. The annals of a stressed and savaged land told in small. The rise of an extremist group that would take control in the conflict torn and tough land and above all a poignant story of love, camaraderie, damage and filial romance.
Characters:
The main protagonist is Amir. His daddy is a successful business man in Kabul and quite prosperous. Amir, however as a little guy is insecure since little or nothing that he does is sufficient in the eyes of his daddy. His father desired him to be always a sports player whereas Amir was more into writing and kite soaring. It his through his sight and life that Afganisthan is attracted for us. It his a friendly relationship and search for atonement that form the pivot of the novel.
Hassan: Amir's best friend and also the kid of Ali, their servant. Hassan is of lower strata of modern culture and also disfigured with a cleft lip. However he is in love with Amir devotedly and frequently involves his help. He even defends Amir from the local bullies. Strangely, Hassan is everything that Amir's daddy required in Amir. This led Amir to be sometimes envious of Hassan. Nonetheless it is their earning of the kite flying tournament that forms one of the memorable cases of the novel. Hassan is best kite runner. Indeed it is him on which the e book has been titled.
Rahim Khan is Amir's father's business affiliate as well as close friend. It really is he who shields and often shelters Amir from his over critical dad. It is also him, who advises him to come over from America to conserve Sohrab, Hassan's boy from the twisted orphanage.
Assef is the proverbial villain. He was the bully of Amir's years as a child as well as the one who leads the intimate assault on Hassan. Later when Amir comes back to Taliban ruled Kabul, he confirms that it's Assef who's one of the Taliban leaders and it is he that has bought Sohrab for his salacious sexual appetite. He is the very incarnation of bad and quite easily lives up to the popular impression of the Taliban across the world.
Setting:
The book at one level is also an autobiography of Hosseini, who himself was created in Kabul and was pressured to relocate in america after the USSR invaded Afganisthan hence disabling his family's return from Paris, where his daddy was stationed in the embassy. Despite living exterior Afganisthan and Kabul generally of his life, he spent his childhood till eleven years there. The novel too begins with Amir in his youth. Khaled has been working to provide humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan throughout the Khaled Hosseini Groundwork hence recommending that Afganisthan contains more than mere sentimental and nostalgic interest for Hosseini. Through Kite Runner, he perhaps tries not only re-familiarise himself along with his own land of beginning but also present a contrasting picture of it to the Western, where currently Afganisthan symbolizes all that threatens their nationwide security. Through his depiction we get the Afganisthan and Kabul of old but scarcely known, where Michael Jackson, Hollywood, alcohol and undoubtedly kite traveling, was quite popular. Afganisthan which wasn't as divorced from the Western world as it later became, first from the Soviet invasion and later by the Taliban rule. The get away from Afganisthan that Amir and father makes is symptomatic of an entire technology of Afganis who fled their country following the Soviet invasion. Many sought refuge in Pakistan and other more well off in america. Hence a deep and tragic background underlines Kite Runner, a brief history of your country and its own people, ravaged perhaps beyond salvage by battle and extremists.
Theme and Plot:
At the centre of the book lies a beautiful and sensitive story of friendship and love. The friendship of Amir and Hassan, kid of the servant of his house, is most vividly and exquisitely rendered. The moments of their own time jointly, the kite traveling and working is etched with such artistry and feeling which it becomes unforgettable. It really is simple yet endearing, short yet everlasting. Such is the magnitude of the beautiful relation called companionship penned by Hosseini in Kite Runner. Furthermore what makes this friendship eternal which book so grand in its depiction of the most cherished human sentiments is the seek out redemption or absolution by Amir. Their friendship sadly ended anticipated to a childish error and cowardice for Amir forcing Hassan and his father to leave Amir's household. Almost more than 2 decades later when Amir is wedded and successful as a novelist in the US, he receives a call from an ailing Rahim Khan, his father's close friend. He asks Amir to come to Afganishthan, he enigmatically instructs Amir that "there is a way to be good again. " Still haunted by his betrayal and cowardice and not knowing of what got become of his best friend Hassan, he decides going. Thus beginning the final leg of Amir's quest, the trip of atonement and locating a lost camaraderie. The shutting chapters where Amir tries to find Sohrab, the later Hassan's son, provides a troubling and gruesome representation of Afganisthan under the Taliban program. These sections however have been controversial and also have been questioned regarding their veracity. "The Kite Runner has been accused of hindering European knowledge of the Taliban by portraying Taliban associates as representatives of various alleged Western common myths of bad ( for example, Assef's pedophilia, Nazism, substance abuse and sadism, and the actual fact that he's an executioner). The American Library Association studies which the Kite Runner is one of its most-challenged literature of 2008, with multiple makes an attempt to remove it from libraries scheduled to "offensive dialect, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group. Afghanistan's Ministry of Culture banned the film from syndication in cinemas or DVD stores, citing the probability that the movie's ethnically costed rape picture could incite racial assault within Afghanistan. " Despite this, these sections are perhaps the most riveting and gripping parts of the publication and also critical to the saga of Amir.
Analysis and analysis of text
The Kite Runner is a simple, straight-to-heart kind of tale. It generally does not involve complicated romantic relationship or subconscious explorations. However it does paint a wonderful almost poetic picture of camaraderie. What I find most interesting about the text is the Afganisthan that perhaps few are aware of. The normal pereception that it is a lawless land of tribal warlords, forever being the centre of growth and colonial ideas by stronger nations, the foundation of the Taliban and personalities like Osama Bin Laden but Hosseini implies that it wasn't so always. It's capital Kabul was an urban modern city like any other put in place the world till the Soviets determined another thing for the land. The story is dramatic, almost Bollywoodish in its depiction of a friendly relationship lost and the quest to get it. Here, I really do not, use the term 'Bollywoodish' in a derogatory sense but in a feeling where I mean to imply it appeals to me like one of the old masala yarns in the "Yaadon Ki Baarat" mould. I also find the depiction of the life span of refugees in america quite interesting and exactly how they have got carved out their own homelands and civilizations in their new international homes amuses. Certainly the crowning glory of the text is Hassan and his companionship. Despite him being only present till the first one fourth of the written text, Hassan the kite runner remains with us long after the close of the text. "For you, one thousand times over. ", echoes throughout the written text since the second Hassan first utters it in testament to his eternal camaraderie.
In the bizarre way the tale echoes and resembles Pather Panchali, the Bengali classic made eternal by Satyajit Ray. This novel too explains to the tale of the voyage of a guy from his home or origins to a country significantly beyond and different from where he grew. It says the story of Amir, like Apu, who grows up and faces the changing world around him. A trip from tradition to modernity here symbolized by Afganisthan and America respectively. Here too Amir becomes a article writer exactly like Apu in the Apu trilogy of Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhyay. However Kite Runner depicts a much harsher fact, a much horrifying express of things where conflict, rape, bloodshed, etc resonate viciously in the web pages.
Evaluate the entire impact of this book to the audience it is supposed for:
The novel's remarkable success is a powerful witness to the impact of the book on viewers. Yes, it's charm will go beyond just the East but also the Western, "it was the first 2005 best retailer in the United States, corresponding to Nielsen BookScan". A film too of the same name was manufactured in 2007 on the novel by director Marc Forster of Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland and Quantum of Solace popularity. Regardless of the film being more or less faithful to the book, I personally found it much less almost stimulating or heartwarming as the book. It seemed simply an effort to drive the success of the book. Kite Runner, the novel is a text message that despite being rooted in a land and culture significantly removed from our own somehow still resonate our own memories of friendship and our homes which most of us live definately not. I think, that's where it appeals most to the reader regardless of his nationality, culture and race. I'd like to elucidate the selling point of the written text to readers with the impact it had on me ppersonally. After I had done the last site of the novel, I somehow couldn't help but reminiscing my own memories of youth and the place where I was created. I live currently not very far from my delivery place yet I did not find as much opportunities of revisits as I would have loved owing to my hectic university routine. However Kite Runner prompted this unexpected flashback in me and strangely I skipped my hometown and my friends there terribly. I abruptly realized I had fashioned grown up and made a reasonably large distance from my years as a child. Perhaps I can be blamed for being oversentimental or nostalgic but I did make that revisit to my hometown and my friends the next day. It is not every day that a book touches my heart and soul but Kite Runner certainly does and I believe perhaps it is there where Hosseini triumphs.
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