The Pomegranate Tree In The Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini

The clear motif from the artwork is the pomegrante tree due to the present figure of a plant and it’s containing fruit of pomegranates. To branch out from just it’s literal piece, names of the characters who represent the parts of the tree are on there. Such as, Hassan being the roots of the figure because he is loyal and still in the relationship. While Amir is the fruit of the tree through his sourness towards Hassan. Therefore, In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the pomegranate tree is used to demonstrate how Amir and Hassan’s friendship is put on view through the different parts that signify them when the motif is set out in the text.

Analyzing quotes from the book can be done in order to further examine the understanding of the motif

Beginning with the first one; Amir and Hassan found a pomegranate tree near a cemetery and they hang out there ever since finding it. One day they go and carve there names on it, formalizing that the plant ¨belongs¨ to them. That afternoon, while Amir reads to Hassan he notices, “sitting cross-legged, sunlight and shadows of pomegranate leaves dancing on [Hassan’s] face … as he read him stories he couldn’t read for himself” (28). This gives a preview of what is about to happen later on in the text from Amir’s sourness towards Hassan slowly making it’s appearance through the shadows of the pomegranate leaves casting on him. With an example coming after the quote of Amir’s unpleasant side striking in by the way he is laughing at Hassan’s lack of literacy. Yet again he displays this part of himself when he does not come to Hassan to help him in any way shape or form after he had been sexually assulted and Amir had known the

Anyhow, when Hassan leaves Baba’s house, Ali dies, Hassan starts own life, obtains a wife, and then a son, he decides to write letters for Amir so he can catch on things from being away in the United States. Unfortunately, Rahim Khan has to give it to him because Hassan is no longer alive, but once he receives the letter he reads, “Do you remember how we used to sit under the pomegranate tree … .The droughts have dried the hill and the tree hasn’t borne fruit in years, but Sohrab and I still sit under its shade and I read to him from the _Shahnamah_” (217). This can mean that because Amir has been apart from Hassan and they both started their separate lives, Amir couldn’t think much about him meaning that his unpleasant side towards Hassan is not there because of it. Hense the pomegranates not growing from tree in years while the roots from the tree are still intact, signifying that Hassan’s desire in keeping his part of the friendship has remain. Aside from that, Amir gets to see this tree in person when he goes to Afghanistan because of Rahim Khan’s call. Once he tells Amir he wants him to save Hassan’s kid (Sohrab) so he can obtain a better life, Amir doesn’t hide and goes on his way to do so. Traveling to help, he and his driver stop at his old house, so Amir can see it along with the