"The Kite Runner"

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This paper is a review of Khaled Hosseini's bestselling novel, "The Kite Runner". The paper summarizes Hosseini's novel, which is set in Afghanistan and is about how ethnicity affects family and friendships. The paper also describes the friendship that protagonist Amir has with his childhood friend Hassan and the betrayal that Amir tries to right towards the end of the novel. In addition, the paper praises the way in which Hosseini manages to reflect tumultuous events in Afghanistan right up to the rise and rule of the Taliban through the struggles which his characters go through.

From the Paper:

"The Kite Runner, Hosseini's best selling novel, is an intricate story concerned with the way in which family and friendship relationships can be influenced by ethnicity, race or culture. At the core of the novel there is the secret and the feeling of guilt that the protagonist of the novel, Amir, keeps locked inside for his entire life: his betrayal towards his childhood friend, Hassan. Towards the end of the novel, another secret is disclosed and Amir discovers that Hassan was actually Baba's illegitimate son and therefore his half-brother. The relationship between Amir and Hassan reflects the way in which the political and the personal intertwine in the tumultuous lives of the main characters."

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• Works Cited:
• Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. New York: Riverhead Books, 2003.

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