Thesis: Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, acknowledges the physical, psychological, emotional, and cultural tolls on forced border crossing in order to fit in and survive.
TS: To be able to sustain in a foreign country, refugees must put their life on hold in order to survive.
FB: While being a refugee in a new country one must completely postpone their life and suspend regular emotions.
ES1: Stephen Chan (2014) writes about how refugees must change and how they view their country and what is happening to it, “That it has no discernible future. That peace will never come within the space and time they have for species of planning and survival; and that survival demands the suspension of ordinary remorse, guilt, and mourning” (p. 83).
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My Swap Meet Princess” (Hosseini, 2003, p. 140). TB: The despair and hardships that refugees face even works its way into daily their daily life.
ES1: Janine de Giovanni states in her article on refugees that “Even carpet makers will weave in images of refugees, orphans, camps” (p. 1) showing just how much that war and despair has worked its way into everyday life.
ES2: In The Kite Runner, this despair is shown by the owner of the orphanage when he states, “Everything I ever owned I put into running this godforsaken place. You think I don’t have family in Pakistan and Iran? I could have run like everyone else. But I didn't. I stayed. I stayed because of them. He pointed at the door. If I deny one child, he takes ten. So I let him take one and I leave the judging to Allah. I swallow my pride and take his goddamn filthy...dirty money. Then I go to the bazaar and buy food for the children” (Hosseini, 2003, p. 257).
CS: People who are displaced by war and violence completely put their lives on hold and live through insufferable treatment just to