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This 5 page paper discusses the way Khaled Hosseini presents American and Afghan culture in his novel “The Kite Runner.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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author, Khaled Hosseini not only gives Westerners a look at life in what to them is an exotic country, he constructs the novel and its characters with such depth and
feeling that readers become captivated and have to find out what happens next, and how these characters resolve their great difficulties. This paper discusses the novel and the way in
which Hosseini compares Afghan and American cultures within the context of the book. Discussion As is probably well-known by now, the incident that sets things in motion and forever changes
the protagonist Amir, is the rape of his boyhood companion Hassan by a group of bullies. Amir and Hassan are close and on the day of the attack, Hassan is
Amirs "kite runner" (Hosseini). In Afghanistan, kite fights are great sport: kites tails are covered with glue and broken glass, and the object is for one person to cut as
many strings of other kites as he can. His kite runner picks up the kites that fall (Hosseini). On this day, Hassan runs to pick up a kite Amir has
cut, and is cornered and raped by other boys; the terrible thing is that Amir hears the noise and goes to investigate, but cannot bring himself to intervene (Hosseini). His
inability springs not so much from cowardice, though he is badly outnumbered, as from something that might be even more shameful: he and the bullies are all Pashtuns, while Hassan
is Hazara (Hosseini). The ethnic tensions between the two groups proves to be more powerful than friendship, and Amirs betrayal of Hassan haunts him all of his life. The
themes that Hosseini explore in his novel include friendship, power, and the "cultural tensions inherent in being Afghan" (Miles). It is a novel that is peculiarly male in orientation, though
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