The biggest misunderstanding of friendship

The kite runner is the first book that I read written in English. During read this book, its scenes always impresses me so much. Such as Hassan always say “for you, a thousand times over”, however, when terrible thing happen to Hassan, Amir was to weak and chose to keep quiet and escape. Such a tragic result is not just because of their personality were different; these kids have already been taught through their inner mind the ‘necessaries’ and ‘non-necessaries’ of their own social status.A Hazara servant has to be completely loyal to his master, whereas a noble Pashto agha should never risk himself for a cheap Hazara servant.
Back to the real world, when they were young, they enjoyed the time spent with each other; those childish conversations, easily made but faithful swears and unforgettable funs shared. However, when facing the cruel realities and challenges, the bridge of friendship could easily collapse as soon as one side gives up.
Therefore, let’s look into the novel, when Amir saw those bad guys bulling and even sexually abusing his ‘best friend’ Hassan, he chose to escape. Meanwhile, for protecting Amir’s kite, Hassan bravely faces Assef, when Assef tells that the relationship between Amir and Hassan is just master and servant, Hassan argues that Amir is his friend. However, it is the truth that their fates are differentiated by those social tags they may never understand, society will force them to accept the positions assigned to them, and they must put on the masks given by society.
Hiding in a corner, timid Amir is not touched or encouraged by Hassan’s words.
This is the biggest misunderstanding of friendship.

literary analysis of the kite runner

The kite runner is a book written by Khaled Hosseini and set in kabul, afghanistan. At the beginning of the book, it is mainly telling about the sad story of the main character, Amir, and how he betrayed his best friend, hassan, when he was still a child. Later in the story it is telling on how the main character is haunted by this betrayal even after many years and how he is looking for a way to "be good again" or attone for his sin. The book is also showing the comparison of modern day afghanistan which is plagued by wars and the old afghanistan during the main characters childhood years which was a peaceful and had prospered.

When i first started to read this book, i thouhg it was going to be boring but once i passed the first few chapters, i became "hooked" to the book. This is because the book has a lot of twists, which make it intresting and the themes, such as friendship, that are disscused in it are very important to our lives. This is the reason why i would definately recommend this book to others.

'The Kite Runner' Review

The Kite Runner is a story about a family from Afghanistan. About a father and his son, Amir, and about Amir and his friend, Hassan. Like other boys from Kabul, Amir and Hassan love to play kites. Amir is a sensible boy, and his dream is to be a writer. Hassan is the son of a servant to Amir’s father and he has a big heart. He also tries to do everything to his friend Amir.

Amir realize his dreams and became a writer, however Hassan dealt with a lot of abuse from society. Amir betrayed Hassan whom he was connected with by blood unknown by both of them. Amir left Afghanistan for America and started a family. He felt deeply guilty about abandon Hassan. Amir return to Afghanistan to help Hassans son Sohrab, who was really sick. This book talks about the disturbing true of a hero who is truly not hero. From his book we can see a very talented writer who brings together the differences between two worlds.

The book review of the Kite Runner

This novel mainly tells the story of two children living in the 1970s’ Afghanistan. One is the much more fortunate Amir and another is a Hazard boy called Hassan whose life experience is a tragedy. What’s more, the continuous wars and civil turmoil even worsen the life of Hassan and finally he is struck by a bullet by the Taliban with his beloved wife, only leaving a young boy who becomes an orphan and is abused by the Taliban. However, the loyalty Hassan lasts from the beginning, they are young children when Hassan runs the kites for Amir but not cares about his potential harm done by Assef to the end when Hassan shot by the provocative Taliban during the time that Hassan takes care of Amir’s home when Amir escapes to America, avoiding the harm from the chaos by wars. On the other hand, what Amir does pay back is to tease Hassan when they are young and even wants to drive him away because of envy. Nevertheless, one day, when adult Amir who has already married and happily been leading a happy life in America received a determinant call from Rahim Khan who is not only the business partner of Baba but also a father-like man to Amir and it changes Amir’s life completely. The growth experience during those years, the education of Baba and his kind wife all contribute a new and much mature Amir at last so he makes the decision to follow the wish and suggestion by Rahim Khan and makes up for his faults to some degree, although time passes, nothing can come back, especially for the dead. The complex massive relationships between Amir and Hassan indicate that the loyalty is much more deserved to value.

As a result, I strongly recommend this book to everyone. The theme of the loyalty and chasing for the kindness will absolutely make you deeply moved. The literary strategy is really wonderful because not only does it reflect the theme from beginning to the end but also it does deepen and sublimate the theme. As far as I am concerned, the kite is the symbol of kindness and loyalty so running after it is the way to chase for the nice personality. Besides, another unique feature of this novel is the use of several words of Pashto. It plays a good role in indicating the setting of the story, although it may be confused to read, especially at the beginning. In all, I evaluate it a wonderful work so it deserves everyone to read it.

Review

The kite runner contains a fluctuated plot by the development of relationship between Amir and Hassan. Amir and Hassan are childhood playmates. They grew up together and run the kite together. Hassan shows his absolute loyalty to Amir thousand of time. In return, Amir is struggling with his sin that he betrayed Hassan and his loyalty. After Hassan’s leave, Amir came to America and got his marriage and respect within decades. In contribute of Rahim Khan , a father like friend, Amir and Hassan met up finally. Later on, Hassan died for his loyalty, and in the meantime, the truth of relationship between Amir and Hassan has been exposed. In order to atonement, Amir went all the way down to Afghanistan to find his nephew Sohrab, Hassan’s only son. However, to open a child’s heart is not easy. Amir has been tested as same as when Hassan was been tested. The kite is the key to open this door.

I like this novel very much. It brings me a new sight to Afghanistan. And I learn a lot of justification and the truth in like from Amir and Hassan. In addition, I enjoy fluctuated plots and character descriptions in the book.

review of Kite Runner

This story,Kite Runner, is written by Khaled Hoseini about that a man whose name is Amir tried to make up for what he did to his friends, Hassan. This story is located in mainly Afghanistan and this includes the issue of war, religion discrimination by the religious differences. Amir and Hassan are best friends like brother and they always played together. However, one day Amir did something seriously bad to betray Hassan and Amir spend his life for regretting it. Then, he became an adult and he got an opportunity to make up for it. In this story, a competition of kites named Kite Runner is a key thing. The event changed the relationship between Amir and Hassan dramatically when they were young and even after they became adults.
This is a great book because there are a lot of techniques used in order to attract readers. First, he uses foreshadowing from beginning. In addition, by using different language, he succeeds to attract readers attention toward key words. In the content, this story reminded me of my childhood and of how important my friends are. After I read it, the emotion lingered on my heart. Therefore this book is very good.

Literary analysis essay

This is a book about friendship and families. The main character is Amir, a child who came from a rich family of Afghanistan. Another main character is Hassan, the servant of Amir. Amir and Hassan were just like brothers. They played together, talked with each other and so on. On Amir's mind, Hassan was not only his servant, but also his best friend. For Hassan, Amir was not only his friend, but also his master. However,during a kite race, a dire thing happened. Amir was ashamed of himself for his coward. After that, he forced to leave Hassan and then rushed to America.
Several years had pasted and Amir had become an adult with a happiness family. However, he still couldn't forgive himself for betray to Hassan. After he received a call from Afghanistan, he decided to return to Afghanistan and atone for his betray. In Afghanistan,he knew another thing that was shocked him deeply. Then he decided to atone to Hassan in a specific way.
I think this book is really a good book and I really would like everyone to read this book. In this book, you can deeply feel the author's feelings about his father, his friend and his life. And then,after finishing reading this book, the author will apply you a space to think about friendship, life and so on. In this book, you can read a lot of descriptions about the environment and feelings and some of them are really vivid. However, this book has so many difficult words that it is hard for me to read it without a dictionary, even in some parts, I really can hardly understand its meaning.
I really loved this book since it told me how to treat my friends and how to communicate with your friends. The most essential part is what is the true friendship.

Book Review

Childhood, Afghanistan. He and Hassan who is a son of servant, they were together and together all the childhood time. As the writer says in the book “When we were children, Hassan and I used to climb the poplar trees in the driveway of my father’s house and annoy our neighbors by reflecting sunlight into their homes with a shard of mirror. We would sit across from each other on a pair of high branches, our naked feet dangling, our trouser pockets filled with dried mulberries and walnuts. We took turns with the mirror as we ate mulberries, pelted each other with them, giggling, laughing….” They always fly the kite together. However, Hassan is the runner for pick the kite back every time when they won the game. And this becomes a pain in Amir’s heart, forever. When Hassan went for catch the blue kite back for Amir, meantime in order to protect Amir’s kite, he suffered sodomy, but Amir watched all the thing happened and he run away instead of step forward. The worse thing Amir did was trumped-up the missing watch to set Hassan up. Turns out, they do not have a good relationship like before any more. Time moved on, Amir moved to the United States, but the guilty full of his deep heart duo to Hassan, and later he was aware of the family’s secret that Hassan is his half-brother. In order to get back ‘once again become a good way’ Amir back to Afghanistan, while Hassan is dead, after a tons of difficulties and dangers, Amir rescued the only son of Hassan, Sohrab, back to the United States. Amir fly kites with Sohrab to warm the lonely child, meantime he seemed to have heard of ‘for you, thousands of times!’ in the back. He saw Sohrab’s lips smile, and he really began to aware salvation…
I start to read to this book for home assignment, I mere get through this book in couple of days, nevertheless, I couldn’t put it down once I started and I was totally absorbed in the setting of this book. And I will definitely spend time to plough through it again later. It is such a wonderful book. It is so hard to depict friendship, servant hood, and brotherhood at the same time, but Hosseini did it successfully!

The Kite Runner

The story told about the complicate relationship between Amir and Hassan. One is a Pashtun, one is a Hazare. One is a selfish master, one is loyal servant. One is brave ,and one is not vilolent. These differences give birth to the different life. Amir was born in a rich family, when he was a children, he spent a happy childhood with his servant Hassan, it seems they are friends, or like brothers. It is obviously that Hassan regards Amir as a good friend definitely, never tell lie to Amir, sacrifices himself for Amir. But in little Amir’s mind, he treated Hassan as a servant more than a friends. Ever thing became changed after the kite tournament, in order to protect Amir’s kite, Hassan was hurt deeply. But Amir he chose pretended not to see,for he want to protect himself and get his father’s praise. For his conscience, he told lie to his father that Hassan stolen his watch. As a loyal servant, knowing amir against himself, Hassan still choice to protect Amir at last time. Since then, Amir’s inner blame was weight. After the war in Afghanistan, he moved to the United States with his father, for Amir, everything is a new start. College, a father's illness, death, married... he tried to forget past, tried to drive his inner shadow, amir and have a normal life. But a Khan’s call make everthing changed again, he asked Amir to come back to Pakistan for Hassan’s son. Khan told him a a big secret, Hassan was his borther. Rahim khan said "once again become good way to find sola Amir. Amir once cowardly and selfish, but these years have been suffering from his conscience, this time, he chose the brave, chose the brave self-salvation.

I like this book. Hassan always said "for you, a thousand times over," bur Amir chose to ignore, such a tragic results not only is caused by the individual differences in these young and the children had been instilled the subconscious and corresponding to their social status "should" and "should not", a hazara servant should fight, but noble master is not worth to take any risks for a hazara servant. It is unfair.People can not adviod his human weakness, what’s the most important things is beat it. Amir came over it and make up his mistake in the end. It is what I learned from the book.

'The Kite Runner' Review

‘The Kite Runner’ is a story about two childhood friends in Kabul who appeared at first to come from two complete different backgrounds. Little did they know that they had more in common than just their love for kite running. Amir is the son of Baba, a well-respected businessman, and Hassan is a Hazara, the son of Baba’s servant. Baba cared for both boys but Amir always felt jealous about the way Baba paid attention to Hassan. This jealousy and envy is the base of all the events to come in the story. Rahim Kahn is a business associate of Baba’s and has a soft spot for Amir and is more of a loving father figure than is biological one. Amir witnesses Hassan get raped in an alley by the local bully and does nothing about it. This haunts him for years to come, he avoids facing his sins and instead he keeps running away from them. Shortly after that incident he frames Hassan for being a thief and he leaves. Later the Russians invade Pakistan and Baba and Amir flee to America. He carries the burden of what he did to his loyal friend in his heart and mind right into adulthood. He marries a woman by the name of Soraya, but is unable to share the entire truth of his being with her. When Baba passes away he comes to the realization that even those we admire have secrets and bare shameful burdens. This motivates him to face his reality and return to Afganistan to seek closure on the events that haunt his conscious. Upon return he uncovers lifelong secrets and gives back for his past wrong doings. He finally acquires the closure he so truly needed and eventually gets the happiness, fulfillment and peace he longed for.

I would recommend this book because it is a touching, meaningful story which encompasses a real situation which is occurring in the world. It gives insight into the trauma and tragedy of the innocent people in Afghanistan. The storyline also includes a good moral lesson, which can really be taken to heart by the reader. The reader can see how easily friendships can be broken but how difficult it is to put them together again. At times the text is not very clear and concise with what the author is trying to say. Confusion can occur when there are phrases in a foreign language.

Review for Kite Runner

In the beginning of Kite Runner, the call from Rahim Khan recalled the days of the author Khaled Hosseini’s childhood in Afghanistan. Amir was the son of a rich family in the capital city Kabul of Afghanistan. His Baba was a successful businessman who had a good reputation and prestige. Hassan, a servant and friend to Amir, was a brave and loyal person. He used to stand up for Amir and regard Amir as his best friend. Comparing with Hassan, Amir was so cowardly and selfish. One important plot in this book is the Kite competition. When Amir saw Hassan was hit by Assef, he did nothing. When Russian invaded Afghanistan, Amir and BaBa escaped to United States. They had a different life in America and worked hard for their new life. Amir loved writing the fiction in America. He built a new family with his wife Saraya who is also from Afghanistan. Amir has changed a lot and begun to think about others. After he talked with Rahim Khan, he thinks about that he will go to save Hassan’s son to make up for Hassan.

This is a great book for me. From this book, I felt a lot about the friendship and how to be a good friend. When I read every chapter, I would expect what will happen in the future. In addition, I learned how to be brave and responsible man like Baba and adult Amir. To sum up, this is worthy to read. It will help the readers to know much about your life.

review of the kite runner

The novel “Kite Runner” tells us a story about a boy in Afghanistan. The boy called Amir is the dramatis personae in this novel, and he has a friend, his only friend called Hassan, and also hassan is his little servant. They suffer the same situation because they both lost their mother when they were born, they grew up together, they treat each other as their best friend, but they have the opposite characters, hassan is brave and loyal, but amir is timid, and this bad character finally made amir lost a precious friendship with hassan. When hassan was facing the violent and insult, he didn’t give up, he protected amir’s kite, his glory, but amir saw this happened and did nothing but to run away. Then amir maligned hassan had stolen his watch in order to drove away hassan. Even amir did those bad thing to hassan, but hassan said nothing but to suffered it. After that, the war came out, amir and papa all moved to America and started their new life. Many years had passed, after amir married, he found that he was so sorry for hassan, he wanted to do something to make up for hassan until one day Rahim Khan gave him a phone call to tell him the way to be good again, and he step out to do so.
This novel is so attractive to me. Because it writes about people’s weakness, and as the time going on how people overcome it, also, it teach us a lesson that we should treasure the thing around us, when you loss it, you will find how precious it is and no matter what you do to make it up, it won’t come back again.

Kite Runner review

I found the novel kite runner very interesting. From the moment i started reading it i could bearley put it down. The kite runner was set in two countries; Afghanistan and the United States. The begining of the novel takes place in Afghanistan where Amir lived with his father Baba and there servants Hassan and his father Ali. At the begining Amir and Hassan are shown as inseparable but as the novel goes along amir does not stand up for hassan as much as hassan stands up for him. Later in the novel, Amir and Baba move to the US and Amir thinks that this will help him get over his guilt. While he is in America Baba passes away, and Amir is forced to be independent. Baba's long time friend Rahim falls ill and calls Amir back to Afghanistan, this phone call brings back the guilt that Amir had been hiding inside him. He is forced to go back to Aghanistan to see Rahim. When he meets Rahim, he reminds him of his sins and his fathers sins too and assures him that it is not too late to change. Amir finds out the devasting news about Hassan and he is forced to look for Hassans son; Sohrab who he finds in the care of Assef. Amir is now forced to stand up for Sohrab who was assulted while in the care of Assef. Amir and Assef fight and they both get what they deserved. Sohrab is now in the care of Amir and although he tries to commit suicide and doesnt talk to Amir for a whole year even after taking him to America.

I think that this is a wonderful novel and should be read by everone! it is amazing to see how precious life is, and how family and friendship bonds are forever no matter what. This is a wonderful novel and i truly enjoyed reading it. I reccommend it and everyone should get a copy at some point in their lives. It truly teaches one a lot.

Literary Analysis of the Kite Runner

“This is one of those unforgettable stories that stays with you for years.” (Isabel Allende). After I read this unforgettable story I was lost in my thought…

The first chapter is started with a call from Rahim Khan, who is one of the main characters in this Kite Runner. When Amir picked up Rahim’s call, he hesitated for a long time: whether he should come back to Pakistan, where has tons of memory of Amir’s childhood, or not. Amir and Hassan grew up together, and they experienced numerous things such as sharing Amir’s story, flying kites or fighting against Assef who did some bad behavior to Hassan. Actually, Amir was not a 100 percent bad person---he was selfish, superficial and coward, but in the later years he changed a little bit , for example, at last he decided to go back to Pakistan and took care of Hassan’s son. Hassan is the person who treated Amir as a fantastic master and friend--- he obeyed to Amir no matter what Amir said. In the opposite, Amir just looked him as a slave almost all the time--- he was full of jealous when Baba showed his love to Hassan. In the end of the story, both Amir and Assef got what they deserved, which pointed to that Amir suffered with his bad behavior to Hassan and Assef lost one of his eyes.

This powerful book, Kite Runner, makes me think about many characteristics which we need to be a good person. In addition, it helps me develop a standard about how to evaluate a person. Also, marvelous description about the changes of Amir gives me an imagination of his future life… All in all, I value this book a lot, which made me lost in my thoughts about how to be a good person as best as I can for several times.

Review of The Kite Runner

It is unusual a boy from wealthy family, as Amir is, has this close friendship with his servant Hassan in Afghanistan. Whenever Amir needs, Hassan is the one who stands out to protect him, who follows every word Amir asks him to, and who can do everything for Amir even die. Amir has a weak character which is totally opposite to his dad's requirement. That's one of the reasons why he always feels his dad does not like him at all. But his talent for writing appears in his dad's best friend Rahim Khan's eyes. With Rahim Khan's encouragement, Amir finally becomes a good writer. Besides writing, Amir is also good at kite running. So is Hassan. As a gift, Hassan can always exactly find the location of the kite beaten by Amir. One time, Amir and Hassan win the first prize in kite running. Hassan runs to get the kite excitedly. But the kite is found by Assef and his friends, a group of really bad boys. In order to get the kite for Amir, Hassan is raped. Unfortunately, Amir see the whole fact happening. Still, he is too weak to stand out. The champion wins his dad's admiration for Amir. But he losts Hassan. By excuse, he forces Hassan and his dad to leave. As the war starts, Amir leaves for the United States with his dad. Life is hard but happy there. He founds a best relationship ever with his dad and marries his bebloved wife. But the peace is broken by a call from Rahim Khan. He realizes it is the time to do something for Hassan to release from his guilt. He stands on his motherland again after 20 years wishing to catch the chance to be a good one again. But this time, he is totally shocked by a tremendous lie. But this time, Amir choose to be brave, fighting for his best "friend" ever, Hassan...
The Kite Runner is an amazing novel which used to become an international best-seller published in forty countries. It is not only telling a story but also shows us the defect of human nature and how to become a good one. The plot is attractive with unexpected turning points. To sum up, it is a worthy-reading story.

Tiantian's Homework

In the book kite runner, the protagonist Amir grew up with his loyal servant Hassan when they were kids. They always got together, because Amir has little friend. Hassan was very brave especially when Amir got troubles. However, Amir was cowardly, he couldn’t protect Hassan, even he couldn’t stand up for himself. After the kite runner competition, Hassan met Assef who always conflict with Amir and Hassan, and Assef did harmful thing to Hassan, but Amir didn’t stand out for Hassan. After that, the relationship between Amir and Hassan got worse, and Hassan left the home. Then the war in Afghanistan break out, Amir with his father escaped to America. Their new lifes started, they were so busy to fit the new living style. However, Amir never forgot Hassan, because he what he did to Hassan was too terrible. He went back to his country because of his uncle after he got married. His uncle told a lot of thing to him including Hassan’s death, Hassan’s real identity and the difficulty of Hassan’s son. At that time, although Amir was still ambivalent, he decided to stand out for Hassan’s son and pay for his sin.
The novel kite runner written by Hosseini and it was very famous in United States. The people in that book were described very clearly and deeply. In addition, the most outstanding areas in the novel are dialogue and emotional description. The dialogues are easy to understand, and it sometimes very interesting, the emotional description made readers think over as well. Every scenes are very vivid that I could almost see these in my mind. Moreover, for an international student, I learnt numerous new vocabularies through kite runner, and it made me remember easier because of the attractive content.

Literary Analysis of the Kite Runner

The Kite Runner, the author relates a story about a boy comes from a rich family, Amir, and his servant’s son, Hassan. This story started in 1975, in Afghanistan. Amir is a boy who is cowardly and selfish. He doesn’t have any friend except Hassan. But in his mind, Hassan just is servant. For Hassan, he can do every thing for Amir, even sacrifice his life. Every time when Amir gets into a trouble, although Hassan also afraid, he will still protect Amir. It likes the sentence in the book, “For you, a thousand times over.” In Hassan’s mind, Amir is the first one, but Amir sacrifices Hassan to get Baba’ love. At last, although the relationship between Amir and Baba changes better, he lost Hassan. Then the war start, Amir and Baba leaves Afghanistan and go to United States. By the time Amir grows up, the relationship between them become better and better, and he get married with a girl. Life is well, but he feels more and guiltier for the past. Until one day, Amir gets a call from Rahim Khan, also it is from the past of his sins. Rahim Khan says, “There is a way to be good again.” This time, Amir does not flinch, he choose to face his past, to face his crimes.
I like this book. It talks about how the people struggled between the humanity and crime. It’s not only a story, it also teaches people something. What is the most important in our lives? Should we sacrifice others to get what we want? And everyone should atone for their crimes. I really get some useful information form it. Different people will get different feel after read this story. It is a book that you should read it.

Literary Analysis of the Kite Runner

This novel tells a story about two young people who come from Afghanistan. And Hassan is Amir's servant who is one year younger than him and with a harelip when he was born.
They were taken care of the same nursing woman because of they both lost their mother when they were born. Amir's birth took away his mother's life, and Hassan's mother desert him just after some days later than his birth. It seems that the friendship between the two boys is unbreakable. But what really happened is Amir run away when Hassan suffered disgrace what is because of he wants to protect Amir. After that Amie lived with self-accusation for years. Time flies, Amir becomes a famous writer and live in American. Once he got a telephone call which is caled from his father's friend, Rahim. He gives Amir the chance to be a good man again.
Anyone will be attract from . This is one of the best book I have read before. The reason I speak such highly of it is not only because its real emotion's presentation, but also the ingenious ideas. Author's description of people's mood made me felt that I am part of the story, even sometime I felt I'm in Amir's view to see the world. Along the feeling, the story's climax appears time after time. And you will find that the planting always after the end of the climax. I want to recommend anybody to read this book. It showed us many things, responsibility, friendship, love between love, cruel war, and so on. It's should be a book people can not miss.

Literary Analysis of the Kite Runner

Kite runner is a cliff-hanging story, it’s all start with a phone call which is from Afghan, it remind Amir’s memory when he was a little kid in Afghan, and his dear friend Hassan. At that time (1978), Amir is a son of a really rich family, and Hassan is his loyal servant, they always hang out together, they enter a competition which is a kite tournament. Some big events happened in this tournament include Hassan was pederasty by some bad boys and Amir discerned all the procedure but because the inner scare and recurrence, he didn’t take any action to stop this and just let it happens to Hassan. After the kite competition, the relationship between Amir and Hassan changed, the fetal belong to them are also change. Ali took Hassan leave the home of Amir, since then, there is no any information about them, and the war is erupted, Amir and his father also have to go to The USA to start their new lives.
I actually like this novel a lot because besides the vivid description of what happened in Amir’s childhood and the fantastic rhythm control which is the most critical point to finish a successful novel, I really like Amir’s father who is real tough guy and never give up for himself and his family’s dream and hopes. Reading the novel is like encourage myself to be a real man just like his father, no matter what happened to me, everything will be fine if I try all what I can do to rescue myself and the people I loved.

Literary(critical) Analysis of the Kite Runner

The Kite Runner Analysis
The kite runner is a fascinating book in various perspectives. The writer’s style of intertwining reality with fiction is unique. As much as he addresses the story of two boys Amir and Hassan he still addresses the current political state in Afghanistan and how it came about. He also deals with the social issues affecting Afghanistan such as the prejudice towards the Hazara.
The Writer introduces as to Amir in the beginning worried about some happening, which we are not aware of. As the book continues he introduces as to Baba, and his wealth. He however portrays Baba as such a good man regardless of the fact that later on his sin would be revealed. It is this picture of Baba that causes Amir to really want to win his love, therefore after winning the kite competition Amir is willing to let Hassan get assaulted in order to keep the kite. This then reveals to the reader, the sin that he was worried about while also highlighting the title of the book the kite runner.
After highlighting the sin of Amir the writer then writes about his redemption. Five years later, the Russians invade Afghanistan; Amir and Baba escape to Peshawar Pakistan and then to Fremont, California. It is while in America that Amir becomes more independent. He becomes a well established writer and even gets married to sohrab. This independence also comes due to the fact that Baba dies while they are in America. The writer later brings about the first phone call Amir had at the beginning of the book and it is Rahim Khan calling him back to Afghan the writer uses this also as a way of taking as back to Afghan and show us the political situation there after dwelling on America for a while. The situation is bad. It is while in Afghanistan that Amir atones his sin by finding sohrab Hassan’s son an act that was not easy as he had to fight Assef. His past catches up with him and this time he does the wise thing and stands up for Sohrab. He has a hard time trying to get Sohrab adopted and when he tells sohrab that he might have to take him to an orphanage, sohrab attempts suicide.

The book is very captivating with great twists that keep you hooked. I think this is a classic piece of writing. The only negative thing is the writer depicts some scenes which may not be very pleasing,but all in all he uses this for a good cause.

Literary analysis essay

This is an opportunity, which could put aside the guilty and regain the spirit of innocence and virtuous. The story was happened in 70s of last century, there are two children who lived in Afghanistan, 12-year-old Amir and his family’s servant Hassan, both of them have deep friendship with each other. And both have unquenchable love on kite and then they participated in the kites’ competition. As a result of Amis’ father, Baba had excessive praise and reward on Hassan, but had apathy to Amir; it made Amir feel frustration and injustice. Thus Amir hoped to win the kite’s contest and got the appreciation from his father. However, after the kite-flying contest, there were a dire thing on Hassan, but Amir had no courage to rescue him. After returning home, Amir was ashamed of his coward inferiority, even more Amir was suffered the torment of facing Hassan everyday, in order to oust Hassan and his father by, Hassan was falsely to accused of Amir’s watch. At last, Hassan was expelled. Later, the outbreak of war in Afghanistan, Baba and Amir was forced to flee to the U.S, for Amir, he also took the guilty in all his life. After many years, Amir became a well-known and accomplished writer, was called by Baba’ partner, Rahim Khan, who was in the know, and encouraged Amir to come back to Afghanistan in search of a servant child.. Because there is a way to be good again. Amir mustered up courage went from San Francisco to return to Afghan, the city under the cruel tyranny of the Taliban regime, Amir found Rahim and known the amazing secret, and then he taken the first step toward the road of salvation. Amir find himself who lost in the past and grew up as a man-like.

The process of reading “The Kite Runner” is a pretty exciting experience, it made me indulge in the plot and. I was following along with Amir, and recognize a culture, a family with complex relationship and also included the remedy mistakes from Amir. I was deeply moved by this story. No matter what you did in the past, so long as you can remedy your mistakes, you will be condoned. So this is a lively and readable literary work.

The kite runner chapter 22-23

Amri‘s words were exactly right，they all got something. As for Assef,he lost his left eyes. When they was young, Assef and Amri hurt Hassan,and now both of them are hurt, Assef lost his left eyes and Amri was badly hurt, this is punishment for them. Maybe it is a make-up pain for Hassan. so it is fair for both of them to suffer from this fight and got what they should get.

There are two fights between Amri and Assef, the first was when they was young.There is some similar in these two fights. Amri was rescued by Hassan in the first and was rescued by Hassan's son in many years later, even Amri hurt Hassan. I think Amri got Sohrab,which was also what he wanted to got.Sohrab's help and his trust is the key of the story.

Assignment for Kite Runner Chapter 22-23

I agree with Amir's words and both he and Assef got what they deserved. First of all,because of his fault,Assef lost his left eyes . And then,Amir did so many mistakes on Hassan,at last,he didn't meet Hassan after he left his hometown. As a result,he lost his best friend in his life.

Amir and Assef

I agree with the statement Amir said. I think it’s fair for both, for Amir and Assef to get what they deserved, we can see when Amir's said "we both got what we deserved".
Assef was a bad friend for Amir and Hassan because he used to intimidate Amir and Hassan. And now he got what he needs and he lost one of his eyes.
Amir is feeling guilty but can not turn the time back; he suffered a lot about what he did to Hassan.

Amir's words

In chapter 23, Amir said he and Assef both got what they deserved when Farid asked about the situation of that day. To be quite frank, I believe his words mean that he and Assef's hurts are both due to their guilty actions. They got punishment because of their guilt.
I still remember years ago, how Amir was eager to be beaten or cursed by Hassan for his selfish and cowardly action. He probably considered this as a way of redeeming himself. He feel guilty year after year. At this time, he got what he wanted finally---he was hurt because of someone related to Hassan at least. That's why he said he deserved it.
Meanwhile, Assef lost his left eye which he might had lost years ago due to his savage action. Hassan didn't do it that time, but his son made it at last. Assef did deserve it as an outrage person we all hate in this novel.

Amir & Assef

I do agree with the statement Amir said. They did get what they both deserved in that house that day.
For years Amir held the guilt inside for his actions in the alley. Assef was the person who inflicted the assault on Hassan and Amir was susposed to be his friend and stood by and watched when it happened to him.
When Amir was attacked he felt like he deserved it because of the sins he had committed. For the first time in his life he put his own fear aside and walked into the Talib's house and confronts his own demons. As Amir was being attacked we see he laughed. He felt a strange sort of inner peace through the beating. He in way a way accepted it as a form of punishment and finally settled his conscience that haunted him for so many years.
When Sohrab shot shot the brass ball into Assef's eye, it was just what he deserved. For all the sins he committed, especially for assaulting hassan.

Kite Runner

I agree with Amir's words that both he and Assef got what they deserved. As for Amir, he treated Hasson bad before so he saved Hasson's only son as a way to make up. Amir was laughing even when he was beated by Assef because he thought saving Sohrad deserved for him to be hurted and it could made him felt less guilty. As for Assef, he wanted to revenge to Amir and this time he could do what he wanted. He kicked, punched, scratched Amir and made him badly hurt. At last, he lost one eye by Sohrad's slingshot. This was what he should paid for the bad action he had done. Both of them got punishment of what they've done before.

Amir's Response .........................

When Amir leaves Assef's house ,and Farid asks what happened Amir's response,"we both got what we deserved" encompasses the past the present and the future. By saying that they both got what they deserve Amir means that Justice finally served its cause. Amir should have stood up for Hasssan at the alley before Assef assaulted him.This being the case, he did not and so, he saved himself the assault that Hassan got for his own sake.This is the past that this statement is in owe of. Also in the same past Hassan had told Assef that he would make him a one eyed Assef had he dared to touch Amir. This past was finally settled in the present when Sohrab finally plunged the marble into Assef's eye after he assaulted Amir.The future this sentence implies is that finally Amir would not have to worry about his past as he had atoned for his sins.

The Kite Runner Chapters 22-23

"What we deserve" Has three means. First, for Amir, it means he received punishment from Assef instead of Hassan. "What was so funny was that,..., I'd been looking forward to this. ... Healed at last."(p.289)
Second, for Assef, he also received punishment from Sohrab for what he did toward Hassan and Sohrab.
Finally, they tried to end their battle. Assef said on page 42-43, "This doesn't end today, believe me. This isn't the end for you either, Amir. Someday, I'll make you face me one on one." They did what Assef said.
I agree with him because got satisfied, he healed from that and, as a result, he could saved Sohrab, and Amir was alive.

Amir and Assef

After reading chapter 22 and 24, the sentense Amir said is meaningful. "Let's just say we both got what we deserved."He said. Both Amire and Assef got what they should get from their past action.
For Amir, he came there to save his nephew, because he did so much sin to Hassan. When he overcame his character of recreance, he realized his sin for Hassan. He wanted to make up for Hassan. He was at a risk to go there to save Hassan's son and bring him back to America. He paid what he should pay.
For Assef, he used to bully Amir and Hassan. He attended the Talib. He did so much sin. At last, he got blind. That's he should get. He got a bad result from he did in the past.

Kite Runner Chapter 22-23

"Let's just say we both got what we deserved."---Amir must have a complicated, sad and regretful emotion when he said that. After several years later either Assef or Amir was punished by what they had done wrong before--- that means Amir suffered a lot about what he did to Hassan and Assef lost one of his eyes.

After I read chapter 23, I totally agree what Amir said that they got what they deserved. He felt sorry for Hassan, because he treated Hassan really as a slave even though Hassan was his brother. Also sometimes Amir had jealous about Hassan, and he did not do anything when he had seen Assef hurting Hassan. All these things Amir did to Hassan make him get what he deserve now. Refer to Farid, he did numerous bad things before which makes him “slingshot by the brass ball” (Yan Chapter 22-23 poster). His lost eye is the best reward of what he did before.

All in all, it is fair for both Amir and Assef to get what they deserved. What’s more, the result should make me think about something---good people will get good reward, at least good people do not need to suffer emotional dilemmas.

Chapter22-23

In my opinion, what Amir says means that Assef and he both got what they are supposed to get so I do agree with what Amir says.
For Amir, he has successfully god rid of his coward character and finished the wish by Rahim Khan-taking Hassan’s son safely to a better place. Besides, his behavior also makes up for the sins he did to Hassan in the past to some degree and a way to thank him for his loyalty so that he can get relieved and does not be blamed and feel anxiety for his faults along with his whole life. In addition, Sohrab is his own nephew, the only living kin who has blood relationship in the world after all. Moreover, the injury compared with Hassan gets is not severe but still a kind of punishment.
On the other hand, for Assef, it is absolutely a good lesson for him that he must not bully others all the time. Whoever does evil things will have a bad result. What’s more, it is rather an ending for Amir and Assef’s enmity than a revenge by Assef because he still takes the thing that Hassan and Amir once were rude to him to heart so Assef wants to abuse Amir to make him realize that whoever goes against him will get suffered.

Amir's response

I totally agree with Amir, his words were so justified. Amir wanted the boy and then he took Sohrab. He was responsible for his sin by being punched. He was laughing even it hurts because Amir thought he deserved it. One-eyed Assef has been hurt by the same situation, a Hazard tried to protect Amir. And these two Hazards were father and son. This was the result for Assef whom was hurting the most important person for nonresistance Hazards. Now Assef is blind because he own it.

Tiantian's Homework

On the page 298, Amir said to Fraid that we both got what we deserved. It means that both Amir and Assef got what they want. Amir went to Assef’s house in order to save Hassan’s son, because he want to atone expiate at the same time. For Assef, he hated Amir, but he couldn’t hurt Amir at that time, so he hurt Hassan and Hassan’s son to make he feel comfortable.
However, I don’t agree that both of them got what they deserved. Undoubtedly, Amir got he want because he saved Hassan’s son, but it doesn’t means that Assef got what he wanted. He is an unreasonable person and he want to revenge Amir more than what he did. So I could predict that he will do others thing to Amir for retaliate.

Kite Runner

I think Amir’s meaning by this response is just like he said that he and Assef did some bad thing in the past, now they got their punishments.
I agree with that they all got they deserved. For Amir, in the past, he did not protect Hassan because he was cowardly and he wanted to sacrifice Hassan to got Baba’s attention. This time he protect Hassan’s son and was injured. This is Amir’s castigate. For Assef, he did something really bad for Hassan and now he also insulted Sohrab. Now, Assef lost his one eye by Sohrab. He also got what he deserved.

The response of Amir

Amir response Farid like that means that he think the ending for him or for Assef is what they should get. He think that they both are sinner.
And I agree with what Amir said. In his mind,what he deserved is to pay back what he haven't done. But Hassan's death brought away the chance. What happened in the house made him faced what he have ran away when he was young. He think this is what he should deserved. Maybe it's a kind of way to expiate his sins.

To Assef, he is really a sinner. The ending is what he should get. What goes around, comes around. He really got what he deserved.

Response

If you keep reading the dialogue on P299, talking between Farid and Amir shows the answers for the questions above. Yes, finally, Assef, Amir, they got retributions that they should deserve, I think.

From previous chapter we can recall the bad things that Amir has done to Hassan, and Assef. And now, Amir trying to rescue Soharb by fighting with Assef, and from the fighting he got hurt badly. Also, Assef was injured by slingshot from Soharb, because Soharb was so angry with what Assef did to him. So, let just say they both got retributions physically, but, here Amir not merely mean physical retributions, I think he also want to say something that spiritual, because he starts repent what he did wrong to reparation.

Kite Runner

I agree with the response of they were both deserved. They all got the punishment deserve, Amir was thrown the wall and shattering him his body brutally, and Assef was slingshot by the brass ball. As for Amir, when he was a child, he tried to irritate Hassan and thrown with pomegranates, however, Hassan was still sanding there with no any action and responses. And then Hassan taken the pomegranate form Amir’s hand, triturated it against his forehead, he said, “Are you satisfied now?” At that time, Amir was healed, because he was fighting by Assef, in order to save Sohrab, Hassan;s sole son. As for Assef, he was hit by Sohrab on his eyes. He was indecency against Sohrab in the past. So it is say that they were all deserved and evil action will bring retribution in the future.

Assef and Amir get what they deserve

I totally agree that Amir and Assef got what they deserved. In the previous chapters one can tell that Amir was begging for someone to do something abd to him so that he can feel less guilty and this way he did get what he deserved and so did Assef. Amir does not complain because deep down inside that is what he needed and he got exactly that. And Assef to, for all that he did in the past, he truly deserved what he got.

Amir and assef get what hey deserve.

Yes. I Totally Agree With Amir when he says "we both got we deserved". The reason is because amir's words had some truth in them. In Amir's case, he Finally got the peace that he was craving for (page 289) that he was actually laughing even though he was getting beat and extremely injured. On Assef's case, he got what he deserved by losing another eye to sohrabs slingshot (page 291).

The Kite Runner Chapters 22-23

On page 298, Farid asks Amir, "What happened in that house? What happened between you and the Talib?" Amir's response is, "Let's just say we both got what we deserved."

What do you think he means by this response? Do you agree that he and Assef both got what they deserved? Why or why not?

Contrast in kabul

Old kabul

Page 4 he says it was a new and affluent neighborhood. (Wazir Akbar khan)
Baba’s house…Broad entry way flanked by rose bushes.
Green playing fields….page 268

New Kabul
Page 259 dust covered city filled with beggars. (Wazir Akbar khan)
Baba’s house…..Tufts of weed grew between the sun-faded bricks.
Holes and craters everywhere in playing fields… page 268

Sui

Old Kabul or Afghan:
1. The city was crowded.
2. It is a peaceful city.
3. Orphanage was there.
New Kabul or Afghan:
1. The city was no longer peaceful
2. No longer crowded
3. Orphanage no longer there

Qian Pan, Yan Wu

It takes longer time than before, drive from Jalalabad to Kabul took two hours, now it takes over four hours to reach Kabul.
In the past, there are not so many beggars, now there are most children beggars and squatted at the street corner.
Jadeh Maywand used to have shops and hotels, Neon lights and restaurants, and Amir used to go there to buy kites form an old man named Saifo by the police headquarters, now the police quarters are still there, and no shortage of police in the city, but there were not any kites shops any more. Entire blocks had been obliterated to rubble.

Rui and Daniel

The new Kabul was controlled by Taliban.
Ruin is everywhere around the country after the war.
People were struggle with their miserable life.

Differences

Fan Yang.
Ren.
Not too many beggars. Beggars everywhere.
Shops, hotels. Ruins of the building.
Many trees. Trees have been cut down for firewood or to avoid the dangers from snipers.

T

Old Kabul
1. A lot of people stay outside.
2. A peaceful place.
3. There is an orphanage.
New Kabul
1. Few people outside.
2. Not peace any more.
3. The orphanage disappeared.

The difference between old Kabul and new Kabul.(Yanzhao Liang & Robert)

1, The bazaar don’t have peddler anymore.
2, The orphanage is disappeared.
3, No kite tournament anymore.

Bing & TianTian

Old Kabul/Afghan: 1-There was an orphanage.
2-More crowed version.
3-It was a peaceful city.
New Kabul/Afghan: 1-The orphanage was gone.
2-Few people outside.
3-The city was bursting with sounds ---“Shouts of vendors rang in my ears”.

Child and adult Amir

Since time passes, it changes some part of the personality of Amir and they mainly are affected by his kind wife and the education and also the actual behavior done by his father, a real man. As a result, Amir becomes more mature and sometimes reflects his past. When he knew from Rahim Khan that Hassan is indeed his brother but born from different mother, he began to understand what Baba had done to Hassan was not excessive at all because Hassan was not a servant. He is also Baba’s son, the master of the house. No doubt that Baba would never miss either of his birthdays and treated him so well, which always made Amir really envious and wanted to drive Hassan and Ali out of the house, which made Baba quite angry, although Hassan is always honest to Amir and did nothing wrong. Besides, Amir always teased Hassan. All these past things make Amir ashamed and regretful now so he decided to make up for it and makes his trip to find his son and creates a better life for him. Amir begins to understand the duty for a brother, a friend and also a father.
On the other hand, there is also something that never changes since he was a young boy. It was his dream and hobby – writing. He takes English courses at university and takes on writer as a job. He has already published four books and it is the beginning of his success.

revised thesis statement

Should the government punishes those people who drunken-driving strictly? Due to they ignore the nation's law and respect lives, thus they should be penalized strictly, such as fined in high amount or in prison for corresponding years.

Adult vs Child Amir

The main content throughout chapter 14~19 revealed the psychological reformation of Amir via the trip to his homeland in Afghanistan. The certain changes for his personality could easily identified as his life pattern changed significantly after his immigration to the states and the absolute effects of adulthood and career.

Amir's change is not dramatic but gradual. In my opinion, Amir's failure of aiding his friend Hassan in that incident was due to the fact of fears that ordinary children all held in the early years. Although most people put doubts of friendship between them up to this point, there could still be ways to resurrect the seemingly broken relationship between the two: " there is a way to be good again" indicates the voluntary expectation for help from Amir's close ones. Such an invitation left a chance for Amir to make up for his former childhood mistakes, encouraged him to face and get over with his regrets deeply inside his heart. If Amir was born to be coward and selfish, he could not agree to leave his comfort life and head to the turmoil of afghanistan.

Only immature views stick to Amir's childhood mistake. after all, the novel is about salvation and value of friendship through the ups and downs of one's life, not revenging or being revenged.

Edited thesis statement.

Is too much technology hurting American Teenagers?
Though technology is good, too much of it can have a negative effect on American teenagers be it their health, social life or education.

the changing of Amir

After I finished reading from chapter 14 to 19, I feel the changing of Amir, even though he contended with his thoughts a lot. When he arrived in Pakistan and called on Baba's friend Rahim Khan, he told something about Hassan and let him to look for Hassan's son and look after him. In page 226, "I can't go to Kabul, I had said to Rahim Khan. I have a wife in America, a home, a career, and a family. But how could I pack up and go back when my action may have cost. Hassan a chance at those very same things." At that time, he was in hesitation. This chapter shows the weakness and egoism of Amir, it seems like the preview Amir is coming back. In page 227, we can find the changing of Amir's thougt. "It looked at the round of face in the Polaroid again, the way the sun fell on it. My brother's face. Hassan had loved me once, loved me in away that no one ever had or ever would again. He was gone now, but a little part of him lived on. It was in Kabul." Then he told Rahim Khan that he would go to Kabul. From this, we can know how he changed since his childhoos. Some people assert that he is still selfish. To a rich and protected Amire when he was in childhood, his essential character is selfishness. He already changed a lot. We should find the changing from it.

Adult vs Child

Chapters 14-19 show Amir as an adult. Amir goes back home because Rahim Khan is very ill and would like to see him before he passes. Although Amir has spent so many years in the US, he is still attached to his homeland and the people that he left there. There is a drastic change in Amir's behavior once he is an adult, Amir visits Wahid on his way to find Hassan's son, and before he left he leaves a large sum of money under a mattress, this is a kind gesture as Wahid's family treated him with so much respect and kindness when he visited them, Amir knew that the family did not have much but where still able to sacrifice the little they had in order to make him comfortable for the night. (chapter 19, pg 242). Amir also shows the way in which he has changed when Wahid asks him who the person in the picure is, Amir says that Hassan is his half brother(chaper 19 pg 237), which is totally opposite to how he was one he was a child, when he was younger he was embarrassed of Hassan and often felt as though he was inferior to him. Amir has changed a great deal and he really has matured and has a warmer heart now that he is an adult and is dealing with his sins and doing something positive. I personally like the "older" Amir.

The Kite Runner Chapter 14-19

Through these chapter, I found a new Amir. Amir has grow up to be a man with a family, a carre and peaceful life. Through the tough life, he has became more mature raher than a little boy under the pretcct of his father.

But his selfish still lives in his heart, he thought about his own bebefit more than others', even for Hassan, a faith friend who offered his entire life for Amir. On page 221 his words shocked me:" Why me? why can't you pay someone here to go? I'll pay for it if it's a matter of money."His first instinct made me feel pity. He was reluctant to risk himself for Hassan.I thought he would be moved by Hassan's letter and started to regret about what he had done for Hassan.But he still cared about himself and betraied to Hassan's faith."I have a wife in America, a home, career and a family. Kubul is a dangerious place, you know that, and you'd have me risk everthing for...." There is a common ground between yonug Amir and adlut Amir, it's his weakness.As his descripted:"A boy who won't syand up for himself become a man who can't stand up to anything."

But finally,he went to Kabul and saved Sohrab. Just as Khan said :" There is a way to be good again." He final choose made everhting chang, including his weakness.He gained a sense of reponsebility, it was real new Amir.

kite runner:chapter14--19

After finishing reading the kite runner from chapter 14 to chapter 19,in fact,I think it is really hard to say some obvious changes for Amir. However,we can also find some changes bout Amir.
First of all,I think Amir was braver than before. When he was young,I think he always very coward when he was teased by others or did other things. However,on chapter14,when he knew his Papa's partner----Rahim Khan was very sick,even though he was affected by what he had done,he still chose to back to Pakistan to watch him.
On the other side,from my point of view,I think he was still a little coward just when he was young. For example,on page 202,when Rahim Khan tried to tell something about Hassan,Amir said yes and murmured. From this,we can see that even now Amir had the courage to back to Pakistan,he was still a little afraid to hear about Hassan. And then,on page 223,when Rahim Khan told him that Hassan was his brother,he didn't handle it sensitively,on the contrary,he thought that his whole life was one big fucking lie(page223),and then, he could not accept the truth and ran out from the apartment.

Thesis Statements & Homework

Model Thesis Statements:
Some mothers have a desire for more children; however, this does not give them the right to conceive by using new technology, such as injecting sperm, with carelessness of how these children will grow up.

Even though solar power is still being developed, it can still be used effectively today as an alternative source of energy for building an environmentally-friendly house.

According to international laws, relics which were robbed during the war should be taken care of and should not be auctioned or sold for money. All of these relics should be given back to China.

Homework:
- Go back to your thesis statement that is posted on the blog. Read your classmates’ comments and my comment. Write a revised thesis statement and post it in the COMMENT section of your original thesis.
- Read in HTWA Chapter 3 (pp. 68-101), Chapter 41-42 (pp. 428-434).

Adult Vs. Child Amir

I think Amir it’s a little different now but in a good way. He regretted some things, he know now when he was wrong. Maybe the difference is not to big but we can see how he misses everything. Amir spends a day thinking of Hassan, his past, and the mistakes he has made. That night, Amir dreams of Hassan saying, "For you, a thousand times over!" He’s thinking about the past, about Hassan, Baba. I like the page 222 when Amir finds about Hassan is his brother. He is angry. I think here is the same like when he was child. He still doesn’t know how to control himself.
When Amir was talking with Wahid in Wahid's home and when he was asked about the relationship with Hassan and him, Amir answered about Hassan: "He was my half-brother"(237 Chapter19) He don’t want to lie, he is more mature now.

Amir: New/ Old

It is very clear to the reader from the point where Amir arrives in America, right through to his adulthood in this point in the book, he is continuously developing and maturing.

He is a new established person when he goes back to Afganhastan. He has now published a book and became his own person, independent from Baba. When he was a child he was looked down upon for wanting to be a write now he has achieved his dream ad proven himself he is definitely a new Amir. Although he is the new, confident Amir going back to his country will make him uncomfortable because of all the memories he has hidden and suppressed from there.

On page 221 we see that Rahim is pushing Amir to stand up for himself and be assertive. He is using sensitive topics about how Baba said he could not stand up for himself. He clearly thought that this would spark Amir’s emotions enough to take action on the matter.

Amir still has some lasting characteristics from his childhood and these are accentuated when he arrives in Pakistan. He still has weak and cowardly tendencies.

On page 223 when Amir finds out Hassan is his brother he loses control and curses. he is still too immature to be able to control himself.

He does start revealing his true self and repent for his sins. He leaves money under the mattress as a gesture for forgiveness of his sins. Finding out Baba, the one person he admired most in the world had even bigger sins than himself really knocked him. But I think this also encouraged him to start revealing and coming to terms with his own sins.

In many ways he is still that little boy who we met in the beginning of the book. He has still not found his way in life. He has tried to cover up his past with this illusion he has created of himself in the present.

Kite Runner 14-19

The same thing between adulthood and childhood of Amir is his cowardice. He always keep himself from danger. For example, he couldn't help Hassan when he was child (P.73). After he had grown up and was 38 years old, he still said "Why me? Why can't you pay someone here to go? I'll pay for it if it's a matter of money." (P.221)
However, he had changed. He finally went to Afganistan to save Hassan's son. He could take action which might lead him to be dead. He said "And from this one last chance at redemption."(P.231)

Amir's Change``

I feel ashamed to complain this assignment is sort of the definition for the word ‘tough’ to me, because it is so long and takes more than couple hours to read it. To be honest, I just get through these chapters in a few hours. And I merely jot down some notes form it. I just can’t squeeze some time to plough through. But, I was really enjoy this book, and totally absorbed in, also I take a lot of interest in the story and plots.


Well, about the questions, with no doubt, since Amir left to Palestine and Afghanistan, he sure is change from the past when he was a child and his characters, behaviors as well as the way thinking are the way different form when he was a child, although when he got the message that he needs to go to Kabul to rescue Sohrab, he was hesitated and reluctant. “Rahim Khan, you can’t be serious.” “Children are fragile, Amir jan. Kabul is already full of broken children and I don’t want to go to Kabul. I can’t!” … “Why me? Why can't you pay someone here to go? I'll pay for it if it's a matter of money.” According to Page 220,221. And these shows Amir still is a irresponsible, even a coward.


Nevertheless, it is not hard to find his changing obviously. Say, the childish, selfish, and immature Amir was long gone, he knows as well realizes something he never give a though when he was the younger one. In chapter nineteen, page 237-238, shows Amir’s change to more like a true man, mature and responsible. Also, Baba and Hassan were pasted away, no one can protect and take care of him anymore, he had to force himself to be a new man to live by own, be independent and brave. I would like to say, he is different right now. One more thing, surprisingly enough, the life he has in the Palestine and Afghanistan often make him think about Hassan from time to time, seems he regrets and felt guilty about the things he did to Hassan, also he started to know and appreciated what Hassan done things to him. In short, I will say he has changed significantly.

Adult vs. Child Amir

It is still a perplexed thing for Amir to change him totally, but he did change his characteristic a little bit. In chapter 14 when Amir was told to go back to Pakistan, he felt like he was facing a dilemma---he is afraid of facing his past life, especially afraid of remembering something related to Hassan. However, at last Amir decided to go back to Pakistan to see Rahim Khan, which shows that he became more brave and mature than before. And then, when Rahim Khan told him Hassan and Hassan’s wife lived with him for a while and other things associated with Hassan, Amir could not face this fact---the fact that Hassan had died and the fact Hassan was Baba’s bastard. The reason why Hassan could not accept that Hassan was Baba’s bastard is because of his jealous--- from child Amir to Adult Amir, he never change his jealous emotion. “All of you, you bunch of lying goddamn bastards!” (Chapter 17, Page 222) Amir felt unbelievable and angry when he knew that Hassan was a bastard of Baba. Also, Amir is still selfish---“ I can not go to Kabul, I has said to Rahim Khan. I have a wife in America, a home, a career, and a family.” (Chapter 18, Page 226) In fact, Amir did not change a lot, he still has similar personality as he was a child. 

Child Amir vs Adult Amir

After finish all the chapters i need to read in kite runner, i have to say that Amir is still Amir for being a such coward, but also for such a kind-hearted person.
Let's see the coward part, when Rahim Khan call him to go back to the Kabul and take Sohrab back, the coward gives a lot of excuses to say no, such as from page 220, "Rhaim Khan, I don't want to go to Kabul. I can't!" "Why me? Why can't you pay someone here to go? I'll pay for it if it's a matter of money." Man should take all the responsibility he need to take just to prove that he is a real man, but Amir can't when he is a little boy neither when his age is beyond 25 which should be called "man" rather than "boy".
But, on the other hand, we can't refuse that Amir is still care about Hassan and willing to rise his son after he died, i guess, deeply, Amir thinks that Hassan is his brother even though when he know the news that Hassan is his half brother, he intend to refuse it and fell anxiety about it. I think that Hassan and Amir's relationship is the clue line through the whole Kite runner.
Something changed, something not, i think looking child Amir and Adult Amir is like looking a time mirror.

child amir vs. Adult Amir

In the Kite Runner chapters 14 to 19, we see Amir as an adult. Even if this is the case he still acts like he used to a long time ago when he was still a child. For instance he still can't stand up for himself. This can be seen on page 222 after Rahim Khan asks him to go to Kabul to rescue Sohrab, but he refuses and storms out of Rahim Khans apartment. After he does this, he goes to a hotel to get some tea while thinking things through. This is when he finnaly realizes the main reason as to why Rahim Khan wanted him to return to Afghanistan, and this was to mend and get retribution for the betrayal of both him and Baba to Hassan and Ali. When he realizes this, he decides to go and get Sohrab (page 227). This is when Amir starts to act more like an adult and "a true afghan" as wahid points out on page 238.

At the end of the day, Amir's character gradually changes impressively from childish to an adult. He becomes a person who can stand for others and a true afghan.

Child Amir vs. Adult Amir

Amir’s soul wasn’t growing with age growing until he decided to go Kabul to take Sohrab. I think Amir was still a child because he was such a selfish and cowardly person as he used be. He cannot face to Hassan even beg for forgiveness after hesitating for 20 years and Hassan probably knew the truth. Hassan, a loyal friend, against Taliban not for his wife Sanaubar but Amir and finally died for him. He knew but still making excuses when Rahim Khan asked him to go to Afghanistan at the beginning. Amir was not as brave as his father, he was afraid of death. However, Amir made a decision after he accept the fact that Hassan and him were brothers. Our little boy grew and became an adult! He was not concealing the secrets to others as he always did. He told people that Hassan was his half-brother directly without any covers. (page 237). He was coming to save Sohrab, a little part of Hassan, from this death place, Afghanistan and no matter what he was not going to give up. He is a real man now. Thus, Wahid praised him as an honorable man and a true afghan. To be honest, I really surprised the growth of Amir, and the story touched my heart. I Proud of Amir and admired his determination.

Amir as depicted in Chapters 14 -19

Amir is presented to us in a different perspective from chapter 14-19.Chapter 14 begins when he is perplexed by the call he receives from Rahim Khan, calling him back to Pakistan.As much as Amir has to make this decision on his own, it is only bad enough that Baba is no longer there, and Amir has to do this out of his comfort zone.The Writer therefore brings out an independent Amir. He has been able to achieve his own dream, he has published a book.Therefore even the decisions he makes while in Afghan bring out a new Amir. He is no longer interested in impressing Baba out of loneliness as depicted in the beginning of the book. He makes mature decisions, especially after he finds out that his father whom he adored had an even greater fault than he did. Amir therefore in a stance that took great courage assumes position when called upon to atone for his sins and as if that was not enough Baba's sins.Clearly the Amir presented is different he acknowledges his sins and faces them for example in chapter 19 page 241 he says "...I had made a choice and that choice had landed me right back on this soil ." While this shows that he acknowledges his sins he goes further to try and atone them.He plants money in Wahid's mattress after spending the night there and acknowledges the fact that the last time he had done that he had done it to try and run away from his sins. Amir is now trying to pay back for his past sins instead of running away. As much as the writer has reached the climax of the story by quelling the suspense from the beginning about the phone call when he uses flashback as a style.He still leaves the reader with a lingering suspense on whether or not Amir will atone for all his sins.

Kite Runner14-19

I feel ashamed for Amir’s former actions at first and then proud of Amir. The reason I feel ashamed for Amir is he was still fear for his own safety and cannot be stand up for anything. Such as Rahim Khan hoped Amir to go to the Kabul and take Sohrab back, Amir was struggled with excuses to refuse to go the dangerous place, Kabul. Amir said, I have a wife in the USA, a Victorian house, a promising career, and a family who love him, he can not be given up good life to just save a child, Sohrab, the son of Hassan’s. When he was told that Hassan was his younger brother, Amir barely had time to deal with the fact and ran out of the apartment. It can be seen that Amir is still like a coward and lack of courage from these details, even worse thing is that he could not face to the facts. Thus it is the same characteristics with Amir’s childhood, it has no change. Things have changed at the end, Amir thought of words what said by Baba, his problem was someone had always done fighting for him. Amir thought that although he was old now, he maybe not too old to start doing something for fight for himself. From this detail, it is obviously to see that Amir became brave and decide to go the Kabul, go there to save his nephew, Sohrab.

Adult vs. Child Amir

After I read the six chapters.I believe that the adult Amir is different to the child Amir.
Although Amir can not faced to the past in the beginning, but it is just the beginning.When Rahim Khan talks about Hassan's son. He want Amir to take the child to Thomas's charity organization. "Rahim Khan, I don't want to go to Kabul. I can't" I said.(Page 220 Chapter 17) Amir can't face to the past. After that, Rahim Khan said the words what Baba said before. "Rahim, a boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.", then Rahim asked, " I wonder, is that what you've become".(Page 221 Chapter17) And Rahim add the most serious words which is "What I'm asking from you is to grant an old man his dying wish." to made Amir can't say no. "Maybe Baba was right"(Page 221 Chapter17) Amir replied. All these seems that Amir is just like what he was in his childhood.He still can't give a hand to Hassan to get away from the trouble. But later. When he was in a smoky little samovar house. He woke up, he got the meaning of Rahim's word."There is a way to be good again"(Page 226 Chapter18) He knows that"Rahim Khan had summoned me here to atone not just for my sins but for Baba's too"(Page 226 Chapter 18). And then he made the decision, he decide to go to Kabul to take Hassan's child. Now he is not the boy who won't stand up for himself, but a man who is not only stand up for himself, but also can stand up for others.
Remember that when Amir was a child. The child from the rich family laughed at him to play with Hassan, they said that Hassan and Amir are good friends. But Amir deny with that. But when the night he was talking with Wahid in Wahid's home. Wahid asked about the relationship with Hassan and Amir. Amir avowed that Amie is his half-brother."He was my half-brother"(237 Chapter19)Although Author just described how it related to Amir's father. But it can reflect that Amir is not the child Amir. He have the norve to avowed that Hassan is his brother. We can image that if it was the child Amir talked with Wahid, the answner to Wahid's word"He was a friend of yours?"(Page 237 Chapter19) must be some words like, "yes, a friend.".

Adult Vs. Child Amir

Through chapter 14 to 19, compared with the adult amir and the child amir, there is a lot of change happened on him and also some character like when he used to be.
When he receive the call from Rahim Khan, amir was so worried about him then he decided to get him in Pakistan, and during the time he was in Pakistan and Afghanistan,we can find some differences and similar charactor on him, and what was the similar is that amir is still cowardly and weak like before, when he heard that Rahim Khan wants him to get hassan's son in Kabul, he refused so determined, just because that he was afraid of death and the danger there, from page 220, "Rhaim Khan, I don't want to go to Kabul. I can't!" "Why me? Why can't you pay someone here to go? I'll pay for it if it's a matter of money." these sentences are all good proof to support me. And this is the bad character what he used to be, but he also kept a good character which is kind. When he found that Wahid provided amir goods to eat and made his family had nothing to eat, he left some money for him. From page 242, " I did something I had done twenty-six years earlier: I plantes a fistful of crumpled money under a mattress." did I get the message.
Now let's see the different he became, when he known that hassan is his brother and found it is the only chance to be a good man and compensated hassan, he made up his mind to go to Kabul to get hassan's son even there may be dangerous. I am proud of amir, that moument he was brave.
After all, in my opinion, amir has became better than before, even he is still cowardly but who has no weak point?

adult & child

In my opinion, the adult Amir’s character is almost the same as the child one. First of all, Amir still likes Hassan and misses him. When Amir hearted about Hassan’s death from Rahim Khan, he couldn’t accept it, and he felt depressing. However, when Rahim Khan told Amir to go to Kabul, he wanted to refuse and escape. Baba had said to Rahim that Amir would become a boy, who would not stand up for anything, because he never stood up for himself (Page 221). Amir didn’t want to accept the responsibility which he should accept. Also, when Amir knew that Hassan was his brother, he could believe and shouted. Amir said: “I’ve just found out my whole life is one big fucking lie”, then he stormed out of the apartment (Page 223). The series of him actions show us that he was still milk- livered, and he refused accepting the truth, especially the most cruel thing. So, those two sections can reflect that adult Amir was similar to child one.
On the other hand, Amir actually changed. When he was a child, he couldn’t stand out for everything, but adult Amir realized that the unfortunately things happened to Hassan was made by Amir himself and his father. He though about saving Hassan’s son and brought him back to home. This is one of the different between his child period and now.

Adult vs. Child Amir

From chapter 14 to 19, I think there are some similar things between the adult character of Amir and the child character of Amir. I think Amir most time only care about himself, no matter how the people important for him. For example, when Rahim Khan wants Amir to go to Kabul, and to bring Hassan’s son Sohrab, he said he can’t. He said, “I have a wife in America, a home a career, and a family. Kabul is a dangerous place, you know that, and you’d have me risk everything for…” (In page 197) Amir refused Rahim Khan. This is Rahim Khan last wish, and it also is the way to end Ami’s cycle, but Amir refused it because he is afraid. It is as same as what he did when he was a child. Although he do it at last, I think it just because he know Hassan is his brother, and atone for his and his father’s crimes. Another thing is same since Amir’s childhood is Amir’s father used, “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything,” this sentence to describe young Amir, and Rahim Khan also use it again when Amir became an adult, then Amir said, “Maybe Baba was right.” (In page 197) but he also have some differences. Just like the case that Rahim Khan wants he to bring Soharb back. Crossing those chapters that I read before, I think if in the child character of Amir, no matter what Rahim Khan said, he will never go to Kabul. But now, he went there. He goes, because he grows up, he can think more side of one thing, and he can surmount his fears. This is more better than before. So, I think Amir has some thing are similar, but he changed some side better since he was a child.

Adult Vs. Child Amir

I have to say I was really moved by reading these six chapters. When considering the changes between the adult and child character of Amir, the first image comes to my mind is that morning Amir was going to leave he left amount of money for Wahid's family. As he said in the book "I did something I had done twenty-six years earlier: I planted a fistful of crumpled money under a mattress" (Chapter 19, Pg. 242). Compared with the same action made by child Amir twenty-six years ago, we all can find the definitely different meaning of the action this time. Amir was much more mature at this time. He knew how hard life was, especially for those poor people. From the his own description, I feel his deep pain in his own heart the time he was doing the same action. He must think of Hassan, his loyalty to him, his smile, and all the special experience they shared together. The same action meaned a lot to him, I believe. After all these years, Amir was not that "mean" person. He was an adult. He had his own family. He knew what to do, what should do, and what shouldn't. He knew how painful it was to lost someone he loved and loved him from true heart. That was all he did not realize how precious those things were and lost many years ago as a child.
The other change I believe is Amir was braver and had more sense of responsibility when he became an adult. We all still remember how weak he was when he was a child. Each time he got trouble with those tough guys, it was Hassan who protected him. He did nothing. He was just not that brave to stand out by himself. But this time, he was different. For Hassan and, I believe, for himself also, he wanted to go back to Kabul where was really dangerous to all the people to pick up Hassan's son. I have to accept that his decision was made after his long time struggling. And maybe this action was just out of his inner feeling of guilt to Hassan, but still I feel Amir, at this time, was different. He was much more braver than little him years ago.

Assignment 7: The Kite Runner 14-19: Adult vs. Child Amir

Chapters 14-19, which tell about the beginning of Amir's excursion into Palestine and Afghanistan, reveal to the reader many insights into Amir's character. He is forced to reflect on his past as he is confronted with people and places that have changed since he has been gone. How is the adult character of Amir different or similar to the child character of Amir in his thinking and his actions? Give at least 2 examples to show how he has changed since his childhood or how he is the same.

Due Wednesday, October 28, 5 pm.

Chapter10&11.

"Babe loved the idea of America." We can find that Baba's politics are very similar with America. From the content comes after the words. Baba told his politics to author when they were walking beside the lake. "There are three real country in this world."(P125) This showed us the importance of the three country's positions in Baba's heart. And the first country Baba said is America. After that, "he used to wave his hand and make a phht sound" This sentence made Baba's point powerful.
But when Baba came to America, the life isn't as good as what in his mind. He do not like the life in America. Or ot say, Baba's does not enjoy the life in America.On page 127, when Baba paid some fruits by check, Mr.Nguyen ask for Baba's ID. Baba was angry with that. Baba has never be treated like this before came here. But it's the life's style of America. "Almost two years we've bought his damn fruits .." ,"My father is still adjusting to life in America." the two sentences showed us vivid that Baba's real feeling in America.

Before I came to USA, I thought the life in America maybe not easy. Maybe the people here do not like foreigher strangers, or maybe the food in America is not suitable for me. But what I worried much are nothing. People here are friendly and the food are really nice. Like here is much better than what I thought before.

life in America

By saying “Baba liked the idea of America”, Amir means that America is the country that gives Baba much more freedom. Firstly, the father and the son went to the far away country to escape the suffering caused by war so it is much safer for them. Secondly, for Baba, he thought that living in America gave him an ulcer and he considered the America the brush savior one of the only three types of real men in the world. He owned a high reputation and wealth where he lived in the past, so he was limited by keeping himself as a good model. Besides, America at that time was a relative peaceful compared to Afghanistan. When they stepped on the completely unfamiliar county, he must be curious and hopeful about the future. On the contrary, the reality is always brutal and everything must be started from scratch and she was also supposed to adjust the new life and confront the culture shock. For instance, he took on the tough and dirty work in the gas station and lived in a narrow apartment with nasty smell and his neighbors were all blue collar ones. Just compare with his former life, you can imagine how cruel the fact was! Moreover, a scene impresses me most is that when Baba went to a store for shopping, he wanted to gave the shopkeeper the check but the woman also asked him to show his ID, so Baba thought she must regard him as a thief so he got quite angry and did some damage to the shop, which made the shopkeeper wanted to call the police. Luckily, Amir came and led Baba out. Then he apologized to her and promised to pay for the damage. The shopkeeper do not understand the feeling of Baba and she cannot believe that in the past Amir can even use a branch like a check so Amir did not explain because he knew the reality is cruel. Everyone is just working for support themselves to lead a life.

As an international student, I also suffer from the culture shock, although I had already knew something about the big advanced country via books, television, the Internet and friends before I came here. For example, the way that students arrange their time is much more free than in my own country. Although when students are getting into the college, they are still supposed to follow the schedule planned by the school. There is a strict time for them to get up and sleep. However, in America, it depends on yourselves. It is good to have a flexible timetable because individuals all have their own plans and specific situations. Coins have two sides. On the other hand, it must be difficult to compromise with your roommate. In particular, you meet selfish ones like me. My former American roommates are the crazy ones and they keep talking, laughing, the TV loud on and keeping the guest over midnight and sleep in the daytime but I have early morning class so I asked the RA to coordinate. Unluckily, things got even worse. They began to treat me as an enemy and tried their best to bother and harm me. At last, I cannot tolerate anymore so I try all my best to change my dorm and then I succeed. Now, I am happy and get along well with my new roommate. Anyway, I am still trying my best to adjust life here and I believe everything will be better.

Kite Runner Chapters 10 and 11

According to the chapter 10, we can easily find that amir's father was really found of the life in american. At the beginning of the chapter, the author tells us the opinion about american, american is one of the three true men in the world, he reallay love american, he thinks that american have the courage of opinions, and also, the reason papa moved to here is that he wants to give amir a better environment to receive the high education even also he sometimes meet something he doesn't like, after all, american is not Afghanistan, he gave up the job to run business but to work in a gas station, even two years has past, he still can't the life in american, because he is a so self-respect man, but he still try his best just to want to give amir enough money for hime to finish his education and also the high quality of life standard. So i can say papa likes american here.
For me, i also like american, not only because of its high science and technology and high life standred but also its world's best education and the freedom here. When i was small, i've known that american is one of the most developed country in the world, and i wish taht oneday i could come to american to receive a high education and experience the life there, but now, my dream have come true, i am standing on the ground of american, and through these days, i think i have a deeper recognize of american, i love it even more.

Amir and Baba in America

Baba liked the idea of living in America because like everyone else, America is the land of freedom. Unfortunately for Baba who was used to being treated like royalty it was different. Baba was used to getting anything and everything he wanted, he was respected by everyone back home and he was used to living his life the way he wanted to. unfortunately when Baba came to America he had a low paid job and was not living the life that he was used to. In chapter 11, Baba does not have enough money to pay for his oranges and when he is asked for his ID he becomes very defensive and starts to shout which scares the shop owners. This shows how agitated Baba was, he was used to getting what he wanted and was treated with so much respect.

As an international student i thought that coming to America would automatically be an easy life, but i came to realize that like everywhere else, one has to work hard. Everyone i have met that has not come to America thinks of it as some kind of luxury, but in actual reality America provides people with a lot of opportunities but you still have to work hard if not twice as hard to achieve what you want.

Kite Runner chapter 10&11

"Baba loved the idea of America" means that Baba agreed with the US policy especially, he liked Ronald Reagan. In page 125, Baba said to Amir,"There are only three real men in this world, Amir."The rest of them-" "-they are like gossiping old woman." He said America, Britten and Israel are the three country. This means that only the three country take action when something happen in the world. The other country will be just looking the event. Baba claims those real actions are necessary and admirable.
However, real life in America is different from the idea. He can't adjust the life in America. For example, he had conflict with a grocery store's owner with a difference of communication. First two sentence of page 125 suggest the differences between idea and reality very well. "Baba loved the idea of America. It was living in America that gave him an ulcer." The author uses italic for "idea" and said the life was stressful enough to get ulcer.
For me, as an international student, it was amazing for me that American people were very tolerance for other culture and religion. I thought American people are a little bit haughty toward others before I came here but they are very interested in other different culture and religion, and very enthusiastic to know about those.

Kite Runner 10&11

Refer to Baba’s feeling about America, we need to explain it in two sides--- one is Baba’s imagination about the United States, another one is that his real feeling about America when he met some dilemma. Baba’s imagination of America is great---“There are only three real men in this world, Amir…He’d count them off on his fingers: America the brash savior, Britain, and Israel.”(Chapter 11, page 125) what’s more, Baba likes the idea America means that he hopes to have the freedom ,rights, and equal as the Americans. Baba put America in the first place where he thought was the greatest place in the world. But it is one thing to imagine how great the United States is, it is quite another thing what the real life in America. When the first days Baba and Amir came to the U.S., they had a difficult life---“I glanced at him across the table, his nails chipped and black with engine oil, his knuckles scraped…” (Chapter 11, page 129) Baba had a comfortable life in Afghan, however in America they had a difficult life.

As to me, I am a foreigner for American---just as Baba and Amir. Before I came to the United States, I thought it is a not peaceful place, I mean, it is filled with dangerous things. But after I live here for almost one year, I change my mind--- it is not so dangerous if you can protect yourself. No one is perfect in the world. America has some good things, also it has some bad things. 

The idea and reality of America

In the whole chapter 10 and the beginning of chapter 11, Amir’s Baba really likes America for following reasons.
First of all, through the discussion with Hassan’s father, he thinks America’s living standard is much better than Afghan, and this is one of the important reason that he decides to move to America.
Secondly, Baba is not regular person who has no interest in politics and willing to live without faith, he thinks that America is one of the three real men in this world.
But the reality world in America is tough; Baba is so self-respect, which makes their life even tougher. Baba end humiliating food stamp is a pretty good proven
In some particular situations, even Baba already moves to America for about two years, he still not adjusts to the life in America after two-year, he was embarrassed when he was trying to buy some vegetables without ID, the couple who opened the grocery don’t understand him and thought he’s crazy (beginning of page 128) and Baba thinks this is unreasonable at the same time. (What kind of a country is this? No one trusts anybody!)
He refused to go to the ESL school to improve his English is another typical Certification that shows Baba is resistant to change his style to adjust America.

The idea of america vs the reality of America.

According to myself and what i have experienced in America, i would have to say the idea of it is totally different from the reality in so many ways. One of these ways is that life in America is over exaggerated by the media and the people who have visited the country. I can personally confess this since i have experienced it. For instance, before i came here, i thought America was way better than Kenya, that life and school would be really easy, and that i would get easy money only to realize that as an international student, this wasn't the case.

This is why I think that my Idea of America can be compared to Baba's.For instance Before Baba came over to America, he used to think that he was going to lead the same kind of lifestyle he did in Kabul. This can be seen when he calls America a real Man (p.g. 125) showing respect for it, but once he got here, he realized the harsh truth which hit him head-on, when he, one of the most wealthy, influential men in Kabul, had to work in a gas station at a disadvantage of not being able to speak fluently in English, just to be able to provide for both Amir and Himself and if it wasn't for his pride, which was the only thing that left that he could hang on to, he could've commited suicide along time ago, maybe as soon as he got here.

the idea and reality of America

From the first sentence in chapter 11,” Baba loved the idea of America.” we saw that Baba really liked America and count it as one of three real men in this world. He did not like Jimmy Carter who he called a “big-toothed cretin.” because, in Baba’s opinion, Jimmy was not a hard man and he was not fit to run this country. “It’s like putting a boy who can’t ride a bike behind the wheel of a brand new Cadillac. “ On the other hand, Baba praised president Ronald Reagan who called the Shorawi” the Evil Empire”. As a matter of fact, Baba was still adjusting to life in America after two-year adaption. He got a lot of problems to his health, such as headaches, cough, and ulcer. Also he could not improve his broken English after two years study. What’s more, the reality America disappointed Baba most was the relationship between people. As Baba said in page 128,” what kind of a country is this? No one trusts anybody!”

I like American teaching style. It is speech free and I feel comfortable. But something I don’t agree with is lacking practice problem in science classes. Another different idea and reality of America is the building, I thought there are many high building in America. After I came, I found in most places, buildings are two-floor with a basement and I always wonder why.

assignment for Kite Runner

From my point of view,I think Baba just inspired the America. On page 125,Baba told Amir that there are only three real men in this world:America the brash savior,British,and Israel. From this words,we can see that Baba was really like the America. However,it seemed that sometimes it was different from Baba's idea. For example,on page 128,when Baba bought some oranges and wrote a check,Mr.Nguyen just asked Baba to show him his ID. This action might make Baba disappoint about his idea about America.
Then this is the first time I have been to America,as a matter of fact,I am a little afraid because I think the America and the American is not so friendly for foreigners. However,when I got there,my opinions are totally changed since I found that people here are always very friendly. Other that,before I came here, I am very worried about the safety here, but when I got there,I think this action is no need.