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In four pages this paper analyzes the novel’s theme of how overall hatred between classes can lead an individual into actions that can lead to guilt and subsequently leads the individual to find ways to redeem himself. Four sources are listed in the bibliography.
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skies" (Kipen M-1). Each competitor has a partner who acts as a spotter, running after the opponents kites until there is one kite presiding over them all. The
kite metaphor is masterfully featured throughout Khaled Hosseinis debut novel entitled The Kite Runner, which is loosely based upon his own childhood experiences in Afghanistan. Kite running metaphorically represents
the intense competition among Afghan social classes, which often erupted into violence. In The Kite Runner, the overall hatred between classes can provoke an individual into actions that can
lead to guilt and to find ways subsequently to seek redemption. The class distinctions are physically evident from the first pages of the novel, in which the protagonist Amir
describes the very different lifestyles between the master class his father enjoys and that of the servant class of his friend Hassan. According to Amir, "Everyone agreed that my
father, my Baba, had built the most beautiful house in the Wazir Akbar Khan district, a new and affluent neighborhood in the northern part of Kabul" (Hosseini 4). In
sharp contrast, "on the south end of the garden, in the shadows of a loquat tree, was the servants home, a modest little mud hut where Hassan lived with his
father" (Hosseini 6). While there was certainly hatred both expressed and suppressed among the classes, Hassan was the rare exception. Professor Edward Hower, once a Fulbright lecturer in
India, observed in his consideration of The Kite Runner that was featured in The New York Times Book Review: "Amir is served breakfast every morning by Hassan; then he is
driven to school in the gleaming family Mustang while his friend stays home to clean the house. Yet Hassan bears Amir no resentment and is, in fact, a loyal
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