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The Kite Runner: An Analysis

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If friendship was dependent in a war-torn environment, would it be a good one? Not only is friendship dependent on the environment but also the people involved. In Khaled Hossieni’s The Kite Runner we got to see how war negatively impacted Amir’s past actions and present life. The decisions Amir made reflected himself and the influences of a war-torn environment. Not only did the Taliban negatively affect Amir but the people around him, the environment, and they were the cause of many deaths. As one of the results of the Taliban taking over Kabul, they instigated negative influences among Afghans. One character in particular from The Kite Runner is a prime example of the outcome from the Taliban’s negative influences. As he later became …show more content…

A common fear that most Afghans share is the noise of gunfire and the sight destruction. “The earth shook a little and we heard the rat-a-tat-tat of gunfire” (Hossieni, page 35); As Amir explains the events of gunfire he indirectly says that no one would be able to sleep through the noise because they could feel the vibrations of the loud noises like thunder. Therefore many Afghans had to seek refuge in Pakistan or move to a safer area in Afghanistan; “I always try to imagine these walls to be strong enough to stop the rockets. They never would” (file:///C:/Users/12998/Downloads/Afghanistan_Close_Reading_1.pdf). Eventually many families don’t make it out of Afghanistan alive or together. In conclusion, The Kite Runner opens our eyes to seeing the cold truth of Afghanistan’s harsh truth versus the one we didn’t know existed. I got to understand what some immigrants might’ve gone through to get to America and the true meaning of friendship. Though it took a book about lies, redemption, deception, and love to show me what the world has to offer, I learned quite a few things. Amir’s past did end up biting him back but he tried to fix it and he might’ve redeemed the good he had left. Among further analysis his morals changed with time as he saw things in a different

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