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    A story of friendship, rape, betrayal and redemption, but there is one question that persists… is it true? The book, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, is about an Afghan boy named Amir and his servant Hassan. Hassan comes from an ethnic group known as the Hazara that is, according to the book, generally mistreated and at a disadvantage from birth. Hassan is always a loyal friend to Amir, while Amir only hangs out with Hassan when nobody else is around. Amir realizes this when Assef, a bully that

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    CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION The Kite Runner is a daily piece book depicting the common issues of the lives of parents and children. The Kite Runner is the first novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. Published by Riverhead Books, it tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, whose closest friend is Hassan, his father's young Hazara servant. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of Afghanistan's monarchy through the Soviet

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    Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, put together a magnificent piece of literature. His book about the life of a young Afghani boy tells the story about how he tries to redeem his young self. The root of all his troubles is his slave, who doubles as his best friend. His slave is mistreated because he looks different and this alone causes trouble for the boy. He fails to stand up for himself and his slave and with that, a ton of guilt falls on his conscious. This boy sends his whole adult

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    The Kite Runner Americans often think of the middle as a wild and almost barbaric place. Since the 2001, 9/11 attacks, stereotypes and racism has arose towards the arab world and the arab people. I myself am no exception. In an airport I do sometimes look at a man in a turban or woman in a hijab with concern. However we understand very little of the culture of the middle east. We usually think of how we have been wronged and hardly ever consider the awful treatment that is often shown to arabs

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    Synopsis of The Kite Runner The film The Kite Runner, directed by Marc Forster and produced by Paramount Pictures in 2007, was a film based on the novel with the exact same name written by Khaled Hosseini. The title represents the merry days of Afghanistan before the Soviet Invasion, as kite running was a major hobby of the children of Kabul. This is because the main character has such a childhood at the beginning of the film and that the plot deeply revolves around this. Kite running continues

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    The Kite Runner, an Afghan Novel The Kite Runner is a novel written by author Khaled Hosseini. The novel is set in the early 1970’s in the Afghan city of Kabul. It is a story of both friendship and destruction. The destruction of relationships as well as political destruction. The story is being narrated by the main character Amir who recalls memories of his childhood and growing up in Afghanistan. He recounts events of his upbringing, his family, and his friendships. Through Amir’s narration

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    information, each with their own benefits and drawbacks. As a result of this, whenever a creative work is adapted into a new medium, the source material is altered to ensure optimal communication of the original work’s ideas. After reading the novel The Kite Runner by Khald Hosseini and analyzing the merits and faults of the film adaptation, it can be concluded that the adaptation deserves praise. This assertion is based on the success of three elements employed by the filmmakers when converting the novel

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    homework I had to read this book called "The Kite Runner". I really enjoyed the book so I think that you should promote it as a book that everyone in Laurel should read. The reasons for this are: 1. It leaves a great emotional impact, 2. The desriptions of the events are very vivid, and 3. The story has a happy but mysterious ending. The story is about an Amir and his best friend Hassan, who gets raped by a sociopathic bully after refusing to give up a kite he won in a contest. The scene of Hassan being

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    The book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is marked as a must read for many schools. It is not simply a good book, but a book that deeply touches every reader’s souls. Hosseini’s detailed writing portrays a realistic emotions that can echo with the readers. Everyone has a story of the past that is fresh in your brain and you try to save it. Whether it is for a redemption or aspiration, you become a kite runner. The Kite Runner begins with a flashback to the narrator’s childhood in 1975. Amir

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    The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, is a story about the life of Amir, a young, wealthy boy that lives in Afghanistan, later to become a middle class man living in America. The Kite Runner describes many characteristics of life in Afghanistan. Such as, the tensions between the Pashtuns and Hazara, and the large role of religion in their culture. By reading this book, the reader can get an inside look into the culture of Afghanistan, this provides a new outlook at this otherwise exotic country. While

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