The Kite Runner
Reading for leisure provides valuable insight into the author’s imagination or prior experience giving the reader a different perspective on a certain topic or culture. In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, we are introduced into a world of privilege in Afghanistan for the main character, Amir, combated with his best friend and half brother Hassan, their lowly Hazara servant. The two boys were raised together but being a Hazara is seen as an inferior race to many of the other more privileged Afghan boys, in particular a vile aggressive boy named Assef. The novel gets its name from a leisure activity known as kite fighting in Afghanistan in which Amir takes part as the main fighter while Hassan is his kite runner. Amir loves the kite fighting tournament as it is one of the only ways he is able to make his father, Baba, proud of him. Baba is a strong, wealthy, well respected man in the community and he wishes that Amir was interested in sports and in becoming a......
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Approximate Word Count: 1498
Approximate Pages: 6 (260 words per double-spaced page) |