Character Trait Note #1: Amir fits the character trait of Cowardly because of how he cannot stand up for himself or others sometimes, mostly when he was younger. This quote shows how Amir is a coward because he would not stand up to Assef and help Hassan. Instead, he ran away and pretended that he was never there. Another example of Amir’s cowardice was when Baba would persuade him to act a certain way and how he wanted to be a writer, but Baba wouldn’t let him. He always wanted to impress Baba and he was a coward because he didn’t profess his true feelings or what he felt about what he wanted to do.
Syntax emphasizes situations to reader to help them better understand the book. In the Kiterunner, author Khaled Hosseini uses syntax to emphasize to the reader, how the magnitude and how awful it is that Hassan is being raped. The main character Amir has just won the Kite tournament, and has sent Hassan(a Hazara servant) to run down the last kite. Hours pass and Amir begins to worry about Hassan, and heads off to look for him. After anxiously looking and calling for Hassan, Amin turns down an alley.
In the beginning of the book, we see little moments that have a significant impact on Amir and Hassan. We may not think of it as a big deal but we learn later in the book that made a significant change in the characters. Amir witnesses Hassan, his best friend, getting violated by the bully, Assef and doesn’t help him. He just runs away and doesn’t tell anyone about what he saw. “And there’s nothing sinful about teaching a lesson to a disrespectful donkey”.
When writing a novel authors must think not only about what they are about to write, but why they are going to write it. They have to select diction that will convey their inner thoughts and emotions. There is a need of imagery to pull the reader into the story so they will not lose their drive to read. Tone must constantly shift in order to keep the reader so engaged that they are determined to read until it all makes sense. From the longest to the shortest sentence, there is a reason -- called syntax-- why that sentence is there.
Dorothy L Sayers once said, ‘Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.” Syntax is a set of rules in a language that dictates how words from different parts of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought. In Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie, combines simple sentences and enumeration in order to initiate understanding of his difficult Native up bringing with his audience. In the essay, Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie, syntax is utilized to reflect his purpose by communicating meaning and keeping the reader's attention throughout his descriptions of struggle that he endured while learning to read.
For instance, the author uses grim diction and ellipsis to show suspense and to portray the horrific actions that occurred. Elie Wiesel was able to use ellipses and specific diction to display the time in which he got beaten 25 times for meddling in Idek’s affair with a Polish girl. “‘One… two…,’ he counted. He took his time between each stroke. Only
Amir bewedded to an Afghan woman, Soraya, but before marriage there was concern about her past. When she was younger she ran away with a man without her father's approval, which to the afghan culture was just unheard of. Soraya came back but she had brought shame to her parents for what she had done. Baba says to Amir “It may be unfair, but what happened in a few days, sometimes even in a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime…” (Hosseini 142).
6. This quote directly shows the connection between the major ideas in this books and the small stories and pieces of text that are found within this book. In this quote, the author writes, “We are at our most perfect when we have something to push against.” This sentence relates to the bigger idea in the book that competition is a prerequisite to genius. When you are competing for something, you are always at full capacity because you have a desire to do something, something to work for. When you are in this state, genius has to have a better chance of popping through because genius is a showing of the best and brightest ideas that we have to offer and these ideas can really only be unlocked when we are putting forth our best effort, which is triggered by competition.
Humans were created as a mixture of both good and evil, filled with both purity and sin. Thus, humans can identify as morally ambiguous, allowing them to be a mix of the two extremes. This personality type is used in many works of literature and intrigues readers because of its relatability. Khaled Hosseini invents many morally ambiguous characters in his novel, The Kite Runner, allowing readers to connect with characters more deeply. Amir, the main character, can be viewed as morally ambiguous, as shown through the teasing of Hassan, witnessing Hassan’s rape, and his sacrifices for Sohrab in the novel’s conclusion.
When Amir goes to kabul to save Sohrab he finds that the man keeping the boy is none other than Assef, Amir and Hassan’s (Sohrab’s father) childhood tormenter. Amir asks to leave with Sohrab but Assef insists that he and Amir must fight to the death in order for them to leave. Amir having never been in a fight, begins to get beaten badly. His jaw is mutilated, he’s covered in blood, and his ribs are broken, yet as he continues to get beaten he begins “ Laughing and laughing.
The novel, The Kite Runner, tells a story about two incredibly strong and courageous boys, who have to find their way back from a dreadful thing which they thought they could never forget. The two boys are guided by their father, Baba, who is also looking for forgivness in himself. In the end, all of the boys find redemption for their wrongdoings. One of the boys, Hassan, shows extreme courage from the very beginning of the book.
The Kite Runner – Quotation Analysis Quotation Context Significance 1 “[….] It’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.” (Hosseini, 1) This line is spoken by Amir to the readers after receiving a call from his father’s close friend named Rahim Khan from Afghanistan.
As regular people we know that when we damage someone we love, we try to find redemption in any way possible. Fear, pride and many other factors play in the act of doing what is considered to be morally right. In Khaled Husseini’s The Kite Runner, the protagonist, Amir, deals with a situation where he is confronted by deciding weather to help a dear friend or ignore a harsh situation. All of this leads to the author using symbolism, irony and imagery. Irony is found in many ways of literature, and the book The Kite Runner is one of them.
The quote from The Great Gatsby “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” by F. Scott Fitzgerald is proven true in the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. The characters, events that occur and overall theme help prove that once a person makes it past the bad, they are easily pulled back in. Amir is one of the characters that proves this true. He has an action filled childhood with many twists and turns. As he grows up, the action never seems to cease as he is faced with conflict after conflict.
The Kite Runner is a book written as fiction yet possibly read as reality; some readers might even question the veracity of the events narrated throughout the story before realizing its categorization as a novel. This comes exclusively due to the story’s evident partial factual basis, even when said facts only reside in the Afghan and American history cited in the book. But how different can readers truly interpret the text? Knowledge of the novel’s internal and external context can help a reader understand more about the book, and hence possibly even find new hidden meaning in passages that were before just fiction; however, the writer’s understanding of his readers might also help him guide said audience towards a specific message. Is the
