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How Does Hosseini Use Realism In The Kite Runner

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For a book to be great, an author has to connect to his/her audience. For Hosseini, using the literary devise realism is a way for him to not only connect with his readers, but also engage them in learning about events that are sometimes horrific, but to many people very real. For many readers, the terrors of the book come from the most accurate, realistic events. For example, there is a scene where a man is stoned to death by a Taliban (rulers of the time) as a "show" during halftime of a soccer game, and Hosseini describes the after works as followed, "The man in the hole was now a mangled mess of blood and shredded rags. His head slumped forward, chin on chest...when it was all over the bloodied corpse had been unceremoniously tossed into the backs of red …show more content…

Another disappointing, but important scene in Hosseini's novel. People need to see that the world is not all rainbows and sun shines. They need to understand the most horrifying realities of the world. Having to read about young kids walking the streets parentless, homeless, and begging for help is in fact nauseating, but very effective in getting the readers to feel for the citizens of Afghanistan. As the book farther progresses, Amir recalls a quote he heard saying, "There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood" (Hosseini 318). Sad. Sad is this quote telling us that there are kids deprived of something everyone should have. Amir and Fharid go looking for this lost boy, and along their journey images of bombings, executions, beatings, rape, and poverty flood their brains. This savagery is the stuff that, living in the country we do, is shielded from our minds. Yes, we hear bad news, but we don't really what is actually happening. What people like Amir, Rahim Khan, and all the Afghan citizens have to live through every day. And these are the reasons The Kite Runner is so great. The blindfolds are ripped from the readers' eyes, and the world is seen for how it is. The truth is

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