The Kite Runner By Amirah: Chapter Analysis

On a similar manner, Amirah shares the same feelings for Ali, but again she keeps her feelings a secret for the purpose of not deviating from the right path that she had drawn for herself. This is seen when the two young souls meet at the gate of the place where they both live, drops of rain are pouring from the sky of London, Amirah steps forward to see that Ali had not taken the new code of the gate. Amirah attempts to control her feelings and struggles to remind herself that what she is thinking about is against her principles saying to herself: “Stop Amirah, just stop, OK? Do yourself a favor and control yourself” (Robert 142). Thus, feelings of love and affection for the other gender are presented by Na’ima Robert as the most difficult

However, Robert, for the purpose of making a clearer idea about Muslims in London, has inserted a number of non-Muslim characters for the purpose of providing a more realistic presentation of Muslim Londoners.

One of the most important issues that are highlighted in the first chapter is the relation of Muslim converts to their Christian relations and family members. By converting to Islam, many new Muslims in Britain and other parts of the world start to face serious difficulties with their relations who deeply refuse Islam as a belief. At this point, many converts struggle to keep stout relations with their relatives; some could succeed to do so while others could not. A very important example of the relations of Muslim characters with non-Muslim ones is seen through Ali’s parental grandmother who strongly refuses her son’s conversion to Islam, especially because by his conversion also his three sons embraced the same belief that go against her desires. This issue is mainly seen through her phone conversation with Ali as when asking him to visit her and at the same time asking questions about Islam and what is says about visiting family members: “Just how long am I going to have to wait before I am blessed with a visit from my grandsons, eh? Doesn’t that religion of yours say anything about the rights of grandparents?” (Robert

When the date of the fashion show approaches Caroline, Rania, Amira, and her other friends meet in Azra’s house and they all enjoy the time of preparations. Happy to see this girly gathering, Amirah appreciates the attendance of Caroline and she describes the preparations as “a real family affair” (127), again this one defends the existence of positive relations between the two religions. Moreover, Ali presents another positive example through his relation with Pablo, his friend from Hertfordshire with whom he is gathered again. Though Ali had attempted to be away from Pablo for a certain period of time because he was not able of controlling himself easily near his Christian friend who shared a life of music and other practices against the Islamic teachings, Ali calls his friend again and rebuilds their own friendship