How Does Hosseini Use Imagery In The Kite Runner

The Author and His/Her Times: Khaled Hosseini was born on March 4, 1965 in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is fifty-one years old. He is an American novelist and physician. He has published three novels: The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and the Mountains Echoed. A Thousand Splendid Suns is his second best selling novel right after The Kite Runner. Hosseini got inspired on this novel after he finished writing The Kite Runner. Since The Kite Runner was more like a male-domination story, he thought of the idea of writing a story about Afghan women. When he went to Kabul, he saw a lady covered from head to toe with a burqa-clad with many children begging for change. He also had spoken to women in Kabul and their stories were truly heartbreaking.

"But her mind was far away free and fleet hurdling like a speeding a missile beyond Kabul, over craggy brown hills, and over deserts ragged with clumps of sage, past cannons of jagged red rock. And over snowcapped mountains.” (pg. 208) When they tell Laila about Tariq's death, her reaction is portrayed with imagery, she seems that she wasn't there when they were having the conversation. The description is used to show us how devastating the news was Laila. “I’m sorry” Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on. Laila thinks of her own life and all that has happened to her, and she is astonished that she too has survived, that she is alive and sitting in this taxi listening to this man’s story.” Laila's conversation opens her mind that she isn't the only one that has gone through what she has. That there is other people feeling the same pain as she

Usually, when a woman's Husband marries another woman, they hate each other, they can't stand each other. However, because they live with a cruel man that doesn't treat them right. They become friends to escape from Rasheed's cruelty. "I'll die if you go, I'll just die."(36) This quote is foreshadowing because later in the story Nana, Mariam's mom, commits suicide. Her mother committed suicide because she thought that Mariam was going to leave her forever but in reality she just went to go talk to her father. "Like a compass needle that always points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman."(7) This is an example of a simile. This quote is comparing a women to a compass and how men are always blaming things on women. The needle is like the men's finger and north is always a women. "She felt prized by his protectiveness. Treasured and significant."(74) This is an example of irony. It shows us how Mariam feels protected, and in reality Rasheed ends up being abusive towards