Rossi 1 Luke Rossi Mrs. Miller English II, Period 6 23 October 2024 Breathlessness in?The Kite Runner? During the late 1990s, the Taliban took over Afghanistan, sending Afghanistan into a new era. where the people lived in constant fear of the Taliban?s rule, sending Afghanistan into a new era. where they enforce strict rules on the women, forcing them to wear hijabs and removing their education. The. Khaled Hosseini, a brave novelist, wrote the book, Kite Runner, to show the next. generation the horrors of what was happening in Afghanistan, as the Taliban invaded. Breathlessness in?The Kite Runner? represents Amir?s emotional progression overcoming his. guilt from the betrayal of Hassan. Sending Afghanistan into a constant era of fear and depression. Limiting …show more content…
All of a sudden, his lungs started to screamed at him to breathe, but he couldn?t. Amir?s thoughts described it as?You open your mouth? Open it so wide your jaws crack. You order your lungs to draw air, now, you need air, you need it. now. I am a sassy. But your airways ignore you? Hosseini 121. This shows him being unable to breathe as a striking moment at the start of many of Amir?s issues, causing him a great amount of stress, and. making him think he might die. This could have made him rethink the fear. explain why he couldn?t breathe. Why would this make him rethink due to fear? When Amir heard Hassan's name mentioned, his guilt from his past stole his breath away. from him. He felt a hand clamping around him and choking him. ? ? Hosseini 200. This shows Rossi 2 him feeling an incredible amount of guilt about what he did to Hassan, even the mention of his. name struck a great deal of stress directly into Amir?s brain. So much guilt, it strikes him like a. bullet, he cannot breathe, so much so that he cannot even think straight. * replace saying that it feels like he cannot breathe with something else about his emotions