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This 5 page paper discusses some of the issues Amir, the main character of the novel "The Kite Runner," faces as he tries to resolve a horrific incident from his childhood. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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issues the main character, Amir, faces as he tries to resolve a horrific incident from his childhood. Discussion The story opens in San Francisco, where Amir and his father Baba
now live. Amir gets a call from a friend, Rahim Khan, asking him to come home to Kabul and in so doing, forces him to reevaluate his life and
his betrayal of his friend Hassan. The title of the book describes a game played in Afghanistan. Kite fighting is an "ancient sport" in which "competitors coat their kite
strings in glue and ground glass, the better to cut their rivals moorings. While the fighters kite is swooping and feinting in an effort to rule the skies, his
kite-running partner is racing to own the streets, chasing down all their opponents unmoored, sinking trophies" (Kipen, 2003). The image of the kite fight is a symbol both of
"Amirs privileged Afghan childhood in the 1970s, when he and his faithful servant, Hassan, had the run of Kabuls streets"; and of Afghanistan itself-jerked back and forth like a kite
among the British, Soviets, the Taliban and the U.S. (Kipen, 2003). Its a potent symbol, since the kite soars beautifully only to fall or be cut from the skies,
in the same way that Afghanistan has endured invasion after invasion; and the way that Hassan fell and took Amirs courage with him. Amir and Hassan may have played together-indeed
they had the same wet nurse-and were very close as boys, but although Hassan protected Amir time and again, when Hassan desperately needed Amir, he wasnt there. The conflict
that tears at Afghanistan itself also tears at its people, particularly in the relationships between Amir and Hassan, and between Amir and Baba, his father. Hassan is a Hazara,
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