As many
of you may already know, The Kite Runner is the first novel by Afghan-American
author Khaled Hosseini published 12 years ago. The Kite Runner tells the
story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, whose
closest friend is Hassan, his family's young Hazara (lower caste in the Afghan
society) servant. The story is set in a period of tumultuous events, ranging
from the fall of Afghanistan's monarchy through the Soviet military
intervention, the exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the
rise of the Taliban regime. Hosseini commented that he considers The
Kite Runner to be father-son story this emphasizing aspects of family
in the novel, aspects that he continues to use throughout his trilogy. And
perhaps most importantly The Kite Runner primarily highlights themes of
redemption and guilt related to a life-changing scene depicting an act of
violence against Hassan that Amir doesn't prevent.
The plot develops from this very line because this fact sets the stage for the novel's plot through referencing the time that has passed, "twenty six years". From this quote Khaled Hosseini has been able to put in context the format and timeline of the novel proven by the fact that the novel then goes on to start from Amir's and Hassan's very beginning and leads up to the moment when Amir says the quote above in the beginning of Chapter 1. This quote happens to be so important because the quote highlights and exemplifies the quality of guilt, that is developed through the course of the novel by the descriptions of the events that cause Hassan to remember the fateful memories of his past. |
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other important quotations and their accompanying explanations from The Kite Runner view the following link:
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