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The Kite Runner Book Vs Movie Essay

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The film adaptation of the movie was not as similar to the book as I thought it would be, for example since the beginning of the movie it could be observed that the director of the movie changed the order of the events that occurred in the book. Although the movie had a lot of the details that the book did not have like the culture, daily life, and the environment in Afghanistan the book did have an in sight of how Amir thoughts on all the events that were occurring in his life. In the movie Hassan does not exactly look like a hazara, and he does not have a cleft lip, which Assef teases him about, as well as they do not show Ali’s too often as they showed in the book with his past life, marriage, and his relationship with Hassan. The first issue I found in the movie was that it showed Amir, and what it seemed to be his wife on a river bank, and the reason it is a problem is because in the beginning of the book Amir starts of by getting a call by Hassan, but instead in the …show more content…

After Hassan class Aamir and tells him to come home, as there is a better way to become good again, the scene shifts to his childhood, and the dirt eating scene, and same with this scene I think that it would have been better if that did it like the book and placed it right before the kite running competition as the audience could understand what that event was, and why it was such a huge deal for them. In the movie the way everyone relationship with Amir was illustrated was not exactly as the author wrote in the book, as all the scenes with Amir going to Baba’s room after dinner and baba cutting him off, as it was “adultime” but all they did was talk about soccer and business, while Amir sat outside the door for hours looking at his childhood picture of him being in Baba's arms but holding Rahim Khan’s

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