The kite runner honors blog

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini was a mesmerizing story about two boys from Afghanistan that though they were friends they were from two different worlds. Living there whole life as a secret this book tells the story about these two boys Amir and Hassan, using loyalty, symbols and flashbacks to help you understand their story better.


This book shows many literary devices to help better understand the book symbols, flashbacks, and conflict/tragedy.

The symbol in this story was the kite . The kite was a symbol used very often in this story "kite running" was a big deal in afghanistan it was their national sport. Amir and Hassan took place in this sport quite often. There were two people for one kite, one person was the kite runner the other was the kite cutter. The object of the sport was to cut down your oppents kite last one standing wins. Amir and Hassan took place in this sport quite often. This made Baba, Amir's father very happy and Amir would do anything to make his farther proud. So the kite in this story represents "a trophy" cause without it Amir felt he didnt have his farthers approval.

Another theme used in the book was the use of flashbacks, the author would it to flashback to different parts of the story like when Amir went looking for Hassan to find that he had been cornered by assef, " Hassan hurled the rock. It struck Assef in the forehead. Assef Yelped as he flung himself at Hassan, knocking him to the ground"....A memory " Did you know Hassan and you fed from the same breast? Did you know that Amir agha? Sakina, her was.... there are plenty examples of flashbacks in this book but that was just one that started the whole conflict of the story.

One of the most important themes in this story was conflict and tragedy. The conflict and tragedy of this story was with Amir, Hassan, Baba, and Assef. Assef was one of the main people causing conflict in the story but the main conflict that changed the rest of the story was when after Hassan and Amir won the "kite running" contest he followed the kite to see where it had landed. While getting there he runs into assef and his crew. Assef gave Hassan an ultimatum either give him the kite or suffer the consoquences. Being the loyal friend that he was he didn't give them the kite cause he knew how much the kite meant to Amir. Amir not to far behind witnessed the whole thing not doing anything to stop them from hurting Hassan, he kept quite about it just to make his farther proud, this was the betrayal that hurt their relationship. After that Hasssan never smiled again. At the end of the story Assef comes back in the scence as Amir goes back to Afganistan to rescue Hassan son after Hassan and his wife get killed. Another tragedy in the book was when Hassan and his father left out of Baba's house, after the whole incident that happen with Hassan and Assef, another betrayal from Amir was he planted a watch under Hassan's pillow so it would seem like it was stolen. Not knowing he was doing this to his brother he felt bad later on, Because after that he never saw him alive again. He never got to tell him he was sorry for everything, so he triedvto make it up by saving his son from Assef.

Although there were more litererary devices these are the ones that stood out to me as important aspects of the storyand if you do deceide to read this book I hope you enjoy it. as advice i would recomend you read the book then you can watch the movie because the movie leaves out things that you would know was in the book.