The Kite Runner character analysis
Essay Topic:
The description of how the characters of Khaled Hosseinis The Kite Runner strongly influence each others lives.
Essay Questions:
In what way the relations between the characters of the novel influence their destinies?
What is the major gap in the father-son relations?
Can a person run away from a personal tragedy if he changes the place he lives in?
Thesis Statement:
The characters of Khaled Hosseinis The Kite Runner reveal how the life of people of the same and of two different cultures has an impact on each other.
Introduction: Khaled Hosseini’s “The Kite Runner” it’s a real story about reality. It has everything: history, friendship, love, life and death, revenge and remorse. This novel can without any doubt be called contemporary classics. Khaled Hosseini does skillfully describes how the life-times of different people are closely connected in something we call life or destiny. The characters reveal how each step one person makes has in impact on the person himself and on its surroundings.
Amir – is the narrator of the novel telling the story of his life. The destiny of a Sunni Muslim and his relation with his father and his surroundings make the reader feel compassion. Amir’s relations with his father are very complicated and strongly influence the formation of his personality. This conflict is taken by Amir throughout his lifetime.
Baba – is Amir’s father who belongs to the upper social group in Kabul. While living in Afghanistan Baba seems to ignore his son as he does not fulfill his expectations. He is a caring man for the society but a distant man to his son.
Hassan – is Amir’s servant with whom Amir as a boy plays together. He seems to truly take Amir as a friend. Nevertheless, Amir is not so much into Hassan due the attention Baba gives to Hassan. Jealousy does not let Amir become a real friend for Hassan and eventually Amir betrays him.
Rahim Khan – is the best friend of Amir’s father Baba. He is the one who takes the role of Amir’s father in the novel as he shows the boy that he believes in him and truly takes care of Amir throughout his life. He trusts Amir.
Assef – is a scoundrel who decided to deceive and enters the Taliban. He wants to be on the side that seems more aggressive, cruel and therefore seems stronger.
Soraya – is the wife of Amir, who strongly influences him. She becomes the only person that Amir can be himself with. She even agrees to adopt a child that is not hers as she can give birth to a child of her own.
Conclusion: The lives of all the characters of the book are in a constant connection with each other and all the decisions made in the childhood result echoing in the present and future life of the characters. Everything the characters do has a national, historical and moral context. This is how a tragic chain of events starting in 1979 start.