Kite Runner

1) Kite Runner is the story of a mans past, Amir our main character coming from Kabul Afghanistan, tells us a recap of some things that happened in his childhood. Amir and Baba (his father who we later find out is Hassans) have servants, Ali and Hassan. Amir becomes somewhat close with Hassan, they experience many things together as the story progresses. The plot itself seems to piece together to a climax as the Kite Battling tournament begins to draw near. By this time in the book Amir and Hassan have bonded so much that when Amirs kite falls, Hassan goes to retrieve it for him. Leading up to the climax in the book, Amir follows Hassan and finds him being "violated" by three kids. Two holding him down, (Wali and Kamal). Then Assef who starts the tragedy and rapes Hassan. Amir tries to play it off after like he never saw the incident. From that day things begin to change and Hassan and Amir start to drift away. Time passes after Hassan and ali leave Amirs house, Amir goes to college, Baba is diagnosed with lung cancer. (In time era, The soviets begin to lost their control to the taliban and it sets up a background to the story and some of the events taking place.) now Amir is introduced to Sohrab (Hassans son) from Rahim khan (who in the beggining was a close friend of Baba). Amir is sent on his mission to find Sohrab. In order to find him he had to find a Taliban official. He sets up a meeting with the official and they meet. The official turns out to be Assef and he attacks and injures Amir. Sohrab defends the both of them by slingshotting Assef in the eye. They escape, amir has to go to the hospital to treat his injuries and there he tells Sohrab to live with him in the u.s. They face slight trial with the adoption because they say it wasnt possible and Sohrab begins to go slightly suicidal. He no longer continues to talk after the move. Then the story concludes with a memory of Amir and Sohrab flying kites at a park, and Amir like Hassan becomes a kite runner.

2) The theme of the novel I felt was redemption. Throughout the book we find that Amir goes through all of these incidents, stopping and now wondering why? i came to the conclusion that Amir since the beggining has always tried to keep himself as an "equal standard". Feeling that he has fallen short of that equal standard, he continually tries to redeem himself. His belief is his mother died giving birth to him. For that he tries to redeem himself in any way he can to Baba. He witnesses Hassan getting raped but takes no action, Lowering himself from the perfect equal balance, for he had to take it upon himself the guilt and grief of that day for his life, Rahim Khan after informing Amir about how Hassan and his wife met there deaths and there son Sohrab was sent into an orphanage, Amir looks to redeem himself by taking on the challenge of going to get Sohrab and keeping him safe with him. Once he accomplished his goal we feel a sense of relief as the book ends, with Amir running for Sohrabs kite.

3) the authors tone is very legit. since it was about a recap of Amirs past, we can see the legit literacy of the story told through amir as it stated in the beggining. There are times when the story is calm and flows , like when Amir and Hassan were with Baba getting dinner or when they would talk, the kite flying, "huddled together in the dining room and waiting for the sun to rise" then there was the counter to the calmness, in i could use it in one word for tone, i'd have to say the word would be epic using this deffinition of it "Surpassing the usual or ordinary". The rape, assault, finding Sohrab, Getting attacked by Assef who happens to turn into a Taliban officer,etc.. all throughout those scenes i got a sence of "wow this is epic".Then after all the "epic novella scenes" we see the authors tone of just serenity and calmness, “My body was broken—just how badly I wouldn’t find out until later—but I felt healed, Healed at last. I laughed.” Really to have a storyline like this is a masterpiece in my eyes.

4) The author uses many literary elements. His tone plays great role to the story like i forementioned, the dramatic scenes and tones give the story an epic tone. When Assef tells Wali and Kamal to hold Hassan down, or when Assef tells Amir in the future that he has "unfinished bussiness with him" then beats the crap out of him... or the calm tone like many times Amir and Hassan would be together before the rape. Then there is diction and style, The first person point of view really adds to the fact of legitimacy, and the diction is simple and easy to comprehend what is going on in the story. Setting played a huge role in this book! The location in Afghanistan gives us a jist of what the streets looked like and alleyways in a poor community with bullies etc. The timeframe is important as well, this story takes place when the soviets begin to loose control of Afghanistan to the Taliban which actually makes part of the story happen and flow, and it makes complete sence after we add the situations of what the taliban did to Kabul, and how they treated those people in Afghanistan. Then we see the Authors plot structure, friends getting closer to each other until we hit a climax in the story which is when the rape happens, then exposition or after math, The two friends split, one is left with a bad conscience, then in the exposition a few slightly rising actions occur as the story begins to fold, and resolve. Theme, without it this story could have been told so much differently, The driving passion of redemption is what makes this story flow, without it who knows what would become of Sohrab or Amir.