Book report-The Kite Runner
A book review of The Kite Runner
A book review of The Kite RunnerClass 1 马凌峰0131124025“For you, a thousand times over.” This is the most famous sentence in the book The Kite Runner, and this is the reason why I want to read this book, because I think this sentence is really beautiful. And this is the first time for me to read a book written by an author from Afghanistan. By coincidence, this book is the Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini’s maiden work.The story is about two Afghani boys: Amir, a well-to-do Pashtun boy, and Hassan, a Hazara who is the son of Ali, Amir's father's servant. Although Hassan’s father was a servant, they were like brothers. They spent their days kite fighting in the hitherto peaceful city of Kabul. Hassan was a successful “kite runner” for Amir; he knew where the kite would land without watching it. Amir's father, a wealthy merchant Amir affectionately refers to as Baba, loves both boys, but is often critical of Amir, considering him weak and lacking in courage. Amir finds a kinder fatherly figure in Rahim Khan, Baba's closest friend, who understands him and supports his interest in writing.Assef, a notorious violent older boy, mocks Amir for socializing with a Hazara, which is, according to Assef, an inferior race whose members belong only in Hazarajat. One day, he prepares to attack Amir with brass knuckles, but Hassan defends Amir, threatening to shoot outAssef's eye with his slingshot. Assef backs off but swears to get revenge.In 1979, five years later, the Soviet Union militarily intervenes in Afghanistan. Amir and Baba escape to Peshawar, Pakistan, and then to Fremont, California, where they settle in a run-down apartment. Baba begins work at a gas station. After graduating from high school, Amir takes classes at a local community college to develop his writing skills. Every Sunday, Baba and Amir make extra money selling used goods at a flea market in San Jose. There, Amir meets fellow refugee Soraya Taheri and her family. Baba is diagnosed with terminal cancer but is still capable of granting Amir one last favor: he asks Soraya's father's permission for Amir to marry her. He agrees and the two marry. Shortly thereafter Baba dies. Amir and Soraya settle down in a happy marriage, but to their sorrow they learn that they cannot have children.Amir embarks on a successful career as a novelist. Fifteen years after his wedding, Amir receives a call from Rahim Khan, who is dying, asking him to come to Peshawar. He enigmatically tells Amir, "There is a way to be good again." Amir goes.From Rahim Khan, Amir learns that Ali was killed by a land mine and that Hassan and his wife were killed after Hassan refused to allow the Taliban to confiscate Baba and Amir's house in Kabul. Rahim Khan further reveals that Ali, being sterile, was not Hassan's biological father. Hassan was actually Baba's son and Amir's half-brother. Finally, he tellsAmir that the reason he called Amir to Pakistan was to rescue Sohrab, Hassan's son, from an orphanage in Kabul.Amir, accompanied by Farid, an Afghan taxi driver and veteran of the war with the Soviets, searches for Sohrab. They learn that a Taliban official comes to the orphanage often, brings cash, and usually takes a girl away with him. Occasionally he chooses a boy, recently Sohrab. The director tells Amir how to find the official, and Farid secures an appointment at his home by claiming to have "personal business" with him.Amir meets the man, who turns out to be Assef. Sohrab is being kept at his house, where he is sexually abused and made to dance dressed in women's clothes. Assef agrees to relinquish him, but only for a price: severely beating Amir. Sohrab interrupts the beating by using his slingshot to shoot out Assef's left eye, fulfilling Hassan's threat made many years before.Amir tells Sohrab of his plans to take him back to America and possibly adopt him. However, American authorities demand evidence of Sohrab's orphan status. Amir tells Sohrab that he may have to temporarily break his promise until the paperwork is completed, and Sohrab attempts suicide. Amir eventually manages to take him back to the United States. After his adoption, Sohrab refuses to interact with Amir or Soraya until the former reminisces about Hassan and kites and shows off some ofHassan's tricks. In the end, Sohrab only gives a lopsided smile, but Amir takes it with all his heart as he run s the kite for Sohrab, saying, “For you, a thousand times over.”All the words above are the main contents of this book. After reading this book, lots of people think that Amir didn’t regard Hassan as a friend because he saw the sexual assault happen right before him, but he didn’t manage to stop it! After that, Amir even tried to change the servant in order to give Hassan the gate! These behaviors make me feel disgusted, but when I read through the part that Amir felt so much guilty for this unfortunate thing, I begin to have the feeling of sympathy. As I see from the book, Amir is a man lack of courage. He wasn’t brave enough to stop the bad thing happened on Hassan; he wasn’t brave enough to express his apology to Hassan. Luckily, he did what he had to do: he saved the little Sohrab—Hassan’s only child from being maltreated by Assef and took him back to America. Amir had owed Hassan an apology many years ago, and he finally said it: “For you, a thousand times over.”Then there is an evil character I want to talk about, he is Assef. I think Assef is quite meaningful to Amir. If he doesn’t exist, Amir will spend his life peacefully with Hassan, Baba and Sohrab. The only quality he doesn’t possess is courage. Just because the existence of Assef in Amir’s life, he has the chance to complete his character. In some ways, Assef is a demon in Amir’s soul. He assaulted Hassan and Sohrab toshow how cruel the society is to Amir. The demon was not destroyed until Amir rescued Sohrab and Sohrab used his slingshot to shoot out Assef's left eye. After that, I think the old, poor-spirited Amir had gone and a new, brave Amir came to life.Men do err, but it can be big, it can be small. Some mistakes only take an apology like “I’m sorry”or “Not on purpose”to have others’forgiveness; some of them require your whole life to do penance. As an old saying goes: “One false step brings everlasting grief.”This book teaches me to make the right choice and to face the reality fearlessly. There will always be something precious to you needs your protection.。
the kite runner读后感追风筝的人 英文300词
This novel’s name is “the kite runner”. As it known to all, we will encounter a lot of difficulties, even hardship. Different people may have different ways to deal with them. After reading the kite runner, I was deeply moved by Amir’s life and the way h e deal with difficulties.Twelve-year-old Afghanistan childe Amir and servant Hassan grew up together, just like two brothers. However, after a kite race, a tragic thing happened. Amir felt guilty and dejected for his cowardice and forced Hassan to leave. Soon, he followed his father to flee to America. Amir, as an adult, could never forgive his betrayal of Hassan. In order to forgive himself, Amir set foot on the hometown again, after a gap of more than 20 years, hoping to meet his unfortunate friend, but found a shocking lie. The nightmare of childhood came back again. The story is so cruel and beautiful that the author Outlines the essence and redemption of human nature in a warm and delicate way, which makes people deeply moved.Maybe all of us more or less had done something as Amir did before, we may feel miserable for that. But there is no use to cry over spilt milk. The crucial thing is we need to face them and think about how to fix it.A beautiful novel, a friendship without a future, a heartbreaking story...... This moving and extraordinary book also describes the fragile relationship between father and son, man and god, individual and state. These stories of loyalty and kinship make this the most lyrical, moving and unexpected book of 2005.“The past doesn't disappear with the passing of time, it grows with the passing of time. For you, a thousand times over. For you, every moment of childhood will be re-played. I saved myself for you. I pray for you for the rest of my life.”。
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A Book Report of a Thousand Splendid SunsWenjing Shi Translation 152 1507042034Brief IntroductionA Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. It is his second, following his bestselling 2003 debut, The Kite Runner. Mariam is an illegitimate child, and suffers from both the stigma surrounding her birth along with the abuse she faces throughout her marriage. Laila, born a generation later, is comparatively privileged during her youth until their lives intersect and she is also forced to accept a marriage proposal from Rasheed, Mariam's husband.The author Hosseini has remarked that he regards the novel as a "mother-daughter story" in contrast to The Kite Runner, which he considers a "father-son story".It continues some of the themes used in his previous work, such as the familial aspects, but focuses primarily on female characters and their roles in Afghan society.The Author ＆BackgroundKhaled Hosseini ( born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician. After graduating from college, he worked as a doctor in California, an occupation that he likened to "an arranged marriage". He has published three novels, most notably his 2003 debut The Kite Runner, all of which are at least partially set in Afghanistan and feature an Afghan as the protagonist. Following the success of The Kite Runner he retired from medicine to write full-time. Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. His father worked as a diplomat, and when Hosseini was 11 years old, the family moved to France; four years later, they applied for asylum in the United States, where he later became a citizen. Hosseini did notreturn to Afghanistan until 2001 at the age of 36, where he "felt like a tourist in his own country".Hosseini visited Afghanistan in 2003, and "heard so many stories about what happened to women, the tragedies that they had endured, the difficulties, the gender-based violence that they had suffered, the discrimination, the being barred from active life during the Taliban, having their movement restricted, being banned essentially from practicing their legal, social rights, political rights".This motivated him to write a novel centered on two Afghan women.TitleThe title of the book comes from a line in the Josephine Davis translation of the poem "Kabul", by the 17th-century Iranian poet Saib Tabrizi:"Every street of Kabul is enthralling to the eyeThrough the bazaars, caravans of Egypt passOne could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofsAnd the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls"In an interview, Khaled Hosseini explains, "I was searching for English translations of poems about Kabul, for use in a scene where a character bemoans leaving his beloved city, when I found this particular verse. I realized that I had found not only the right line for the scene, but also an evocative title in the phrase 'a thousand splendid suns,' which appears in the next-to-last stanza."SummaryThe novel centers around two women, Mariam and Laila, how their lives become intertwined after a series of drastic events, and their subsequent friendship and support for each other in the backdrop of Kabul in the 20th and 21st century. It is splitinto four parts that focus on individual stories: Part one is about Mariam, part two is on Laila, part three is on the relationship between the two women, and Laila's life with Tariq is in part four. The last section also happens to be the only part written in the present tense.Mariam lives in a kolba on the outskirts of Herat with her embittered mother. Jalil, her father, is a wealthy businessman who owns a cinema and lives in the town with three wives and nine children. Mariam is his illegitimate daughter,and she is prohibited to live with them, but Jalil visits her every Thursday. On her fifteenth birthday, Mariam wants her father to take her to see Pinocchio at his movie theater, against the pleas of her mother. When he does not show up, she hikes into town and goes to his house. He refuses to see her, and she ends up sleeping on the street. In the morning, Mariam returns home to find that her mother has committed suicide out of fear that her daughter had deserted her. Mariam is then taken to live in her father's house. Jalil arranges for her to be married to Rasheed, a shoemaker from Kabul who isthirty-years her senior. In Kabul, Mariam becomes pregnant seven successive times, but is never able to carry a child to term. This is a sad, disquieting reality for both Rasheed and Mariam. Ultimately Rasheed grows more and more despondent over his wife's inability to have a child and particularly a son. As their marriage wears on Rasheed gradually becomes more and more abusive.Part Two introduces Laila. She is a girl growing up in Kabul who is close friends with Tariq, a boy living in her neighborhood. They eventually develop a romantic relationship despite being aware of the social boundaries between men and women in Afghan society. War comes to Afghanistan, and Kabul is bombarded by rocket attacks. Tariq's family decides to leave the city, and the emotional farewell between Laila and Tariq culminates with them making love. Laila's family also decides to leave Kabul, but as they are packing a rocket destroys the house, killing her parents and severely injuring Laila. Laila is subsequently taken in by Rasheed and Mariam.After recovering from her injuries, Laila discovers that she is pregnant with Tariq's child. After being informed by Abdul Sharif that Tariq has died, she agrees to marry Rasheed, a man eager to have a young and attractive second wife in hopes of having a son with her. When Laila gives birth to a daughter, Aziza, Rasheed is displeased and suspicious. This results in him becoming abusive towards Laila. Mariam and Laila eventually become confidants and best friends. They plan to run away from Rasheed and leave Kabul but are caught at the bus station. Rasheed beats them and deprives them of water for several days, almost killing Aziza.A few years later, Laila gives birth to Zalmai, Rasheed's son. The Taliban has risen to power and imposed harsh rules on the Afghan population, prohibiting women from appearing in public without a male relative. There is a drought, and living conditions in Kabul become poor. Rasheed's workshop burns down, and he is forced to take jobs for which he is ill-suited. He sends Aziza to an orphanage. Laila endures a number of beatings from the Taliban when caught alone on the streets in attempts to visit her daughter.Then one day Tariq appears outside the house, and he and Laila are reunited. Laila realizes that Rasheed had hired Abdul Sharif to inform her about Tariq's fake death, so that he could marry her. When Rasheed returns home from work, Zalmai tells his father about the visitor. Rasheed starts to savagely beat Laila. He nearly strangles her, but Mariam intervenes and kills Rasheed with a shovel. Afterwards, Mariam confesses to killing Rasheed in order to draw attention away from Laila and Tariq. Mariam is publicly executed, allowing Laila and Tariq to leave for Pakistan with Aziza and Zalmai. They spend their days working at a guest house in Murree, a summer retreat.After the fall of the Taliban, Laila and Tariq return to Afghanistan. They stop in the village where Mariam was raised, and discover a package that Mariam's father left behind for her: a videotape of Pinocchio, a small sack of money, and a letter. Laila reads the letter and discovers that Jalil had regretted sending Mariam away. Laila andTariq return to Kabul and use the money to fix up the orphanage, where Laila starts working as a teacher. Laila is pregnant with her third child, and if it is a girl, Laila has already named her Mariam.CommentsAfter reading the novel,I am deeply touched and shocked.I am touched by the patience and suffering of Mariam and the friendship between Mariam and Laila.I am shocked by the violence and abuse of Rasheed.It is a beautiful, heart-wrenching story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely bond and an indestructible love. Although Mariam and Laila suffer many pains, yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism. In the end it is love that triumphs over death and destruction.Love may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you consider the war-ravaged landscape of Afghanistan. But that is the emotion—subterranean, powerful, beautiful, illicit, and infinitely patient—that suffuses the pages of Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns. As in his best-selling first novel,The Kite Runner, Hosseini movingly examines the connections between unlikely friends, the fissures that open up between parents and children, the intransigence of quiet hearts. Nowadays,there are still many wars in this land threatening the lives of the people stay there.And I wonder how will these Afghan women do, and more important, what can WE do.Style ＆TechniqueA Thousand Splendid Suns received significant praise from reviewers, with Publishers Weekly calling it "a powerful, harrowing depiction of Afghanistan"and USA Today describing the prose as "achingly beautiful".Lisa See of The New York Times attributed the book's success to Hosseini "understanding the power of emotion as few other popular writers do".Natasha Walter from The Guardian wrote, "Hosseini is skilled at telling a certain kind of story, in which events that may seem unbearable - violence, misery and abuse - are made readable. He doesn't gloss over the horrors his characters live through, but something about his direct, explanatory style and the sense that you are moving towards a redemptive ending makes the whole narrative, for all its tragedies, slip down rather easily."。
the kiterunner
The Kite RunnerKhaled Hosseini (born March 4, 1965) is a novelist and physician originally from Afghanistan. He is currently living in the United States, where he is a citizen. His 2003 debut novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, selling in more than 12 million copies worldwide. His second, A Thousand Splendid Suns, was released on May 22, 2007. In 2008, the book was the bestselling novel in the UK (as of April 11, 2008), with more than 700,000 copies sold.Hosseini was born in Kabul where his father worked for the Afghanistan Foreign Ministry. In 1970, Hosseini and his family moved to Tehran, Iran, where his father worked for the Embassy of Afghanistan. In 1973, Hosseini's family returned to Kabul, and Hosseini's youngest brother was born in July of that year.In 1976, Hosseini's father obtained a job in Paris, France and moved the family there. They chose not to return to Afghanistan because PDPA had seized power through a bloody coup in April 1978. Instead, in 1980 they sought political asylum in the United States and made their residence in San Jose, California.Hosseini graduated from Independence High School in San Jose in 1984 and enrolled at Santa Clara University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 1988. The following year, he entered the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, where he earned his M.D. in 1993. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in 1996. He practiced medicine until a year and a half after the release of The Kite Runner.Hosseini is currently a Goodwill Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). He lives in Northern California with his wife, Roya, and their two children.When Khaled Hosseini was a child, he read a great deal of Persian poetry as well as Persian translations of novels ranging from Alice in Wonderland to Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer series. Hosseini's memories of peaceful pre-Soviet era Afghanistan, "I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan" as well as his personal experiences with Afghanistan's Hazara people, led to the writing of his first novel, The Kite Runner. One Hazara man, named Hossein Khan, worked for the Hosseinis when they were living in Iran. When Khaled Hosseini was in third grade, he taught Khan to read and write. Although his relationship with Hossein Khan was brief and rather formal, Hosseini's fond memories of this relationship served as an inspiration for the relationship between Hassan and Amir in The Kite Runner.The novel was the number three best seller for 2005 in the United States, according to Nielsen BookScan. The Kite Runner was also produced as an audiobook read by the author. The Kite Runner has been adapted into a film of the same name released in December, 2007.Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns (ISBN 1-59448-950-5), the story of two women of Afghanistan, Mariam and Laila, whose lives become entwined, was released by Riverhead Books on May 22, 2007, simultaneous with the Simon & Schuster audiobook. Movie rights have been acquired by producer Scott Rudin and Columbia Pictures.Here is how the story goes.Amir lives with his father, in Kabul, Afghanistan. His mother, who had died during his birth, had left behind a collection of Sufi literature. From early childhood, Amir likes to read stories from her books to his servant and playmate, Hassan. While Amir is privileged and able to go to school, Hassan is busy with housework. However, in their free time they are good friends. To commemorate these happy times, Amir carves their names on a pomegranate tree.Living in a single-parent home, Amir yearns for his father’s attention and gets jealous of Hassan when his father bestows favors on Hassan and arranged a cosmetic surgery for his harelip. Amir’s desire for his father’s affection also stems from his father’s indifference toward his son’s interest in books. When it is time for the local kite-flying contest, Amir gets excited because he knows that his father will be watching him with genuine interest.Hassan is excited about the contest, too, and after Amir wins, Hassan runs and catches the prizewinning kite for his friend. Unfortunately, the neighborhood bully, Assef, and his companions stop Hassan and demand the kite from him. Hassan does not surrender the kite and is physically assaulted and raped by Assef. Amir sees the assault but, fearing confrontation with the bully, does nothing—an act of betrayal that will affect Amir into adulthood and forever change his relationship with Hassan. Both Amir and Hassan know the social gap that defines their identities. In Afghan culture, Amir is a Pashtun and Hassan is a Hazara, which makes him a servant. Religious difference also sets them apart, even though they both are Muslim: Amir is Sunni, and Hassan is Shia. Pashtuns, the majority ethnic group in Afghanistan, make fun of Hazaras, a minority ethnic group, treating them as pariahs. Children taunt Hassan’s father, Ali, as “a slant-eyed donkey,” and Assef insults Hassan as a“flat-nosed” Hazara who does not belong in Afghanistan.Amir is not disturbed with his servant-master friendship until the kite incident. Even as a twelve-year-old kid, he is old enough to know that he has not been good. Hassan’s presence reminds him of his own guilt, so he asks his father to get new servants. Baba refuses but, instead, frames Hassan, accusing him of theft; Hassan and his father leave Kabul. A few years later, because of the Russian invasion, Baba and Amir secretly leave Kabul, too. They cross the border into Pakistan after a difficult journey and emigrate to the United States.Baba adjusts to the cultural and economic challenges of living in the United States and is happy with Amir’s educational success. Amir had majored in English to pursue a writing career, his childhood dream. On weekends, he helps his father sell at the local flea market, where he meets Soraya, the daughter of an expatriate Afghan general. Amir and Soraya soon fall in love, and Amir’s father makes lavish arrangements for a grand wedding. Baba, who has been suffering from cancer, dies one month after the wedding.Amir and Soraya are happy together, but they remain childless for many years. Twenty years later Amir is a successful novelist in the United States. An old friend of his father, Rahim Khan, calls Amir on the phone and invites him to Pakistan. Amir meets him and soon learns that Baba had sold his home to Rahim. Rahim had then brought back Hassan and his family to live with him. Unfortunately, in Rahim’s absence, Talibs had come to the house and shot Hassan and his wife; their son, Sohrab, ended up in an orphanage.Rahim also reveals that Hassan was actually Baba’s son, and Amir’s half-brother. Amir is outraged by this belated discovery, but he also recalls his own guilt. Thus, he embarks on a dangerous journey to Afghanistan to atone his past sins and to rescue Sohrab, his nephew.Afghanistan is now under the oppressive control of the Taliban. After a great deal of searching, Amir meets a Talib, who agrees to arrange a meeting with Sohrab. Amir goes to the appointed place and recognizes Assef, the neighborhood bully from their younger days, who is now a Talib; Assef practically owns Sohrab. Assef says he will release Sohrab only if Amir will engage in one-on-one physical combat with him, and win. In this mismatched fight, Amir is seriously injured. Sohrab hits Assef in the eye with something fired from his slingshot, and Amir and Sohrab manage to escape. Sohrab and Amir flee to Pakistan, and Amir is hospitalized. He plans to return to the United States with Sohrab after he recovers from his injuries, but because he is not a legal guardian of the child, he cannot obtain a U.S. visa for him. A lawyer advises Amir tolegally adopt Sohrab, it would be necessary to place Sohrab in an orphanage. When Amir reveals this plan to Sohrab, the child is devastated and feels betrayed; Amir had promised him that he would never send him to an orphanage. Sohrab attempts suicide, and Amir finds his nephew’s body in the bathroom, covered with blood. Amir screams for help and vows to become a devout Muslim if God will spare Sohrab’s life. Sohrab lives, but he no longer talks or smiles.Finally, Amir is able to return to the United States with Sohrab after Soraya obtains a humanitarian visa for the child. The couple do their best to make Sohrab happy in his new home, and Amir forbids his father-in-law from ever referring to Sohrab as a Hazara. Later, Sohrab shows signs of a faint smile as Amir runs after a prizewinning kite.The vision of the world that Hosseini offers is one where political and psychological identities are complex realities that individuals must navigate with nuanced understanding. Contrary to the vision of globalization where individuals are reduced to accepting a borderless world, the modern setting is one where identity on political and personal levels are delicate.Amir might have emigrated to America, but there is nothing absolute in his decision. He finds himself a product of the globalized world, where one foot is in one reality and the other foot is in another. This delicate construction of identity iswhat drives him to return to Afghanistan. The nation of Afghanistan is shown to be equally complex. From ruler to ruler, ravaging destruction to ravaging destruction, Afghanistan's identity is far from clear. Amir comes to recognize that his father holds a complex identity, while Soraya's narrative is far from clear andconcise. Even young people like Sohrab experience intricacies in the formation of their identities. The globalized world that Hosseini renders is one where modern individuals are forced to embrace complexity and ambiguity as a part of their being in the world. It is in this regard where a statement about globalization is present. The globalized world is far from simple and "easy." Rather, it is a series of complex and bifurcating narratives that force individuals to widen their scope of understanding and compassion as they strive to better understand one another and themselves. This is a lesson that Amir experiences in his own development.The Kite Runner was published in 2003 to nearly unanimous praise. Said to be the first novel written in English by an Afghan, the novel was instantly popular. Its first printing was fifty thousand copies, it has been featured on the reading lists of countless book clubs, and foreign rights to the novel have been sold in at least ten countries.Reviewers admired the novel for its straightforward storytelling, its convincing character studies, and for its startling account of the human toll of the violence that has accompanied Afghanistan's turbulent political scene in the last thirty years. In his review in World Literature Today, Ronny Noor remarks, "This lucidly written and often touching novel gives a vivid picture of not only the Russian atrocities but also those of the Northern Alliance and the Taliban." A brief review in Publishers Weekly credited the novel with providing "an incisive, perceptive examination of recent Afghan history and its ramifications in both America and the Middle East," and called it "a complete work of literature that succeeds in exploring the culture of a previously obscure nation that has become a pivot point in the global politics of the new millennium." The novel was noted for its detailed portrayal of a friendship between two boys that tenuously spans class and ethnic lines.The Kite Runner is being marketed as not just the first novel by its author, Khaled Hosseini, a medical doctor, but the first novel of its kind: an Afghan novel written in English. That, however, is the least of the achievements of this accomplished if not quite flawless debut work which has been hailed as “a haunting morality tale” and “a stirring tale of loyalty and betrayal.” Despite being occasionally melodramatic an d overly symmetrical, The Kite Runner is a modestly told, quietly ambitious, story of its narrator- protagonist’s journey from his rather comfortable life in Kabul in the 1970’s to his and his father’s fleeing the country in 1981 and beginning life anew as struggling immigrants in Fremont, California, and, following marriage and the publication of his own first novel, his fateful return to Taliban-run Afghanistan in 2001, where he will atone for a past wrong.Hosseini successfully sketches not just his characters and their complex social situation, but more importantly the psycho-pathology of their relationship: the petty cruelties that privilege invites, the risk of these escalating into betrayals withfar-reaching consequences, and the way loving devotion can become masochistic submission. Hosseini proves especially adept in placing Amir’s story in the larger Afghan context and in making each an allegory of the other. And while his taking his story just past September 11, 2001, seems forced, more an editorial decision than an authorial choice, subsequent events make The Kite Runner not only more timely but more necessary as American interest shifts from Afghanistan to Iraq.Perhaps what garnered Hosseini's first novel, The Kite Runner, so much early praise, aside from the political relevance of its subject matter when the book was published in 2003, is its successful intertwining of the personal and the political. The novel has an ambitious agenda: to sketch the maturation of its protagonist from a callow boy beguiled by mythical stories of heroes and to portray the political situation of contemporary Afghanistan. The novel begins to show how the personal and the political affect one another through the peculiar relationship between Amir and Hassan. Indeed, James O'Brien, in his review in the Times Literary Supplement, argues, "this muddled, unbalanced and ultimately tragic relationship" between the privileged Amir and the servant Hassan "lying at the heart of The Kite Runner and echoing the betrayals and power shifts that begin to shape the country shortly after the story begins." Through the course of the novel, Amir's personal quest takes him on a decades-long journey from his birth country to the United States and finally back to his country of origin. In passing through this transforming crucible, Amir not only atones for past personal failings but also embraces a hopeful ideal of citizenship capable of upholding principles of liberty and human rights even in the face of repressive, fascist systems.While the dynamics of these relationships remain central to the story, in later chapters, the political events outside the limits of the family circle propel the story's action. The first hint of this transition occurs when Amir and Hassan have an encounter with a violent older boy named Assef, who wants to persecute Hassan for being a Hazara. Assef, who believes Hitler was an ideal leader, tells Amir that he is betraying his Pashtun heritage by treating a Hazara boy as his close friend. While Assef's bigotry outrages Amir, Amir is unable to think of a response. Ultimately, Hassan stands up to Assef and his lackeys; when Assef and his lackeys threaten to hurt the two younger boys, it is Hassan, not Amir, who saves them both by using his slingshot to drive the bullies away.The boys'second encounter with Assef is much less victorious. Ironically, the encounter occurs immediately after Amir wins the kite-running tournament, which Amir believes is his chance finally to live up to his father's expectations:There was no other viable option. I was going to win, and I was going to run that last kite. Then I'd bring it home and show it to Baba. Show him once and for all that hisson was worthy. Then maybe my life as a ghost in this house would finally be over. I let myself dream: I imagined conversation and laughter over dinner instead of silence broken only by the clinking of the silverware and the occasional grunt.This book does make me think the good and the bad, what’s wrong and what’s right, the cruelty of war . Few books can exert an influence on people nowadays, this book sure does.。
The-kite-runner追风筝的人英文PPT介绍
Today, I want to introduce a book:The kite runner
The son of Amir's father's servant
The son of a wealthy businessman
Hassan and Amir are closest childhood friends.Hassan is really loyal to Amir and he would like to do anything for Amir without any reason .
• now what can he do for Hassan is to take his son to America and regard him as his son.and they always fly kite together .
• After I read the book,I think everyone has his kite .We must and have to be brave to take the responsibilities.One should never be too selfish.Just like Hassan,we can learn to be loyal. Friendship never end.
• However ,Amir saw this ,but because of fear ,he did not save his friend. After that Amir felt guilty ,it is hard to face his friend .
追风筝的人读后感The Kite Runner(英专阅读课作业)
Amir’s marriage
In the beginning his father-in-law did not agree with the wedding , but Amir married to the captain’s daughter at the last.
Amir’s marriage is happy , but they don’t have any child.
Part One Amir's father loves both Amir and Hassan but seems critical of Amir for not being manly enough.So the relationship between the father and the son isn't that close.Fortunately,Rahim understands Amir well and supports Amir's dream of being a writer.
Amir wins the local tournament, and finally Baba's praise. Hassan goes to run the last cut kite but is raped by Assef on the way back. Although Amir witnesses the rape, he is too scared to intervene.
The Kite Runner
In this vacation, I read a book which is The Kite Runner. The book is a long story and I have not to finish it. I only read half. Although the book is interesting and I want to finish it, the book is English and there are too many words that I have not seen. So I went to watch the movie about this book.The protagnist is a man called Amir who lived in Afghanistan. He had a servent called Hassan. Hussan is a kind boy. He always beard Amir's mistakes and he realized Amir as his best friend. But Amir did not like Hussan because his father love Hussan more than himself such as that his father often said "Dear Hussan" instead of "Dear Amir" . One day, Hussan was injued because he help Amir pick the kite which won the kite match. Then their friendship become bad. On his thirteen's birthday, he falsely accused Hussan steal his watch and money. Although his father said he had forgave Hussan. Hussan's father still went away with Hussan. After this Afghanistan happened war and Amir and his father went to United States. Amir cannot forgive himself and he went to Afghanistan to help Hussan who was his friend. Whether you believe it or not, Hussan is Amir's brother whose mother was not Amir's mother. Then he saved Sohrab, Hussan's son went to United States. At last he played with Sohrab in the U.S.A , especialy playing kite.In this book I like Rahim best. Though he is not the protanist in this book, he often praised Amir. In fact children need more complement to support his grown in the childhood. I do not like Amir at the age of thirteen. Hussan often help him, including Hussan was injured and Hussan protect the kite. But Hussan had not protect Hussan from fighting. Amir let Hussan go.This book tell me it is a sad story. I have learn it a lot. First, if you have friends, do not let them be injured since you. Because this kind of firend want to help you, what ever the thing is good for them or bad for them. Second, when you do something that is a mistake, try your best to save. Or you want to save after and later. That mean you must lost something.At last, everybody have right to make his ideal. somebody got it and somebody lost it. But when you try your best to catch it, it is you best treasures and wealth in your life. ColinBook Report of“The Kite Runner”This winter vacation I read a world-famous novel called “The Kite Runner”, which is written by Khaled Hosseini from Kabul, Afghanistan. The story is based on the reality of Kabul’s society at the time, and has made readers all over the world moved, including me. It is a sad and heartbreaking story between two boys, a master named Amir and his servant’s son named Hassan, a Haraza, the kite runner and the best friend who has fed from the same breast as Amir. Amir won the local kite-fighting tournament and Hassan promised to help him pick up the blue kite. But Amir made a wrong decision to run away when Hassan was in trouble instead of protecting him. From then on he felt guilty and annoyed when Hassan was around him, and sent Hassan and his father away by cheating. Then Amir and his father are forced to flee to America. Ten years after Amir’s marriage, he returned to his hometown for redemption. He felt astonished that Hassan was his brother and was killed by Taliban army. He felt remorseful and panic at the end of the story.The beginning of this bad-ending story is rich in warmth of brotherhood. But later, an event to shatter their lives occurred on the afternoon in the winter of 1975. Amir loved his father, but his father was cold to him in response while paying more attention to Hassan. Therefore, Amir was jealous of Hassan in some way. That maybe one of the reasons of escaping at the time of Hassan was bullied. At that time, Amir just wanted to utilize Hassan for father’s favor instead of saving Hassan from danger. If Amir’s father treated him and Hassan in the same attitude, maybe Amir wouldn’t have such a wicked idea and be afraid of helping him.Moreover, Amir’s father had cheated his son for almost 40 years that Hassan was Amir’s brother, not only his friend and servant. In short, the blame is not only belong to Amir, but also his father.Kite is such a beautiful thing which is always reminds me about my childhood, but this writer has given it a sorrowful image. This unforgettable story is worth reading.BY Chairmey。
The Kite Runner(原版)
Human Nature and Redemption——Thoughts on Reading The Kite RunnerName:周仙Class:英语三班Number:122214101320 Score:_____I . AbstractThough the plot of Khaled Hosseini's novel The Kite Runner is simple, it has attracted millions of readers all over the world. By describing and analyzing the "betrayal", "guilt", and "redemption" of the main characters of the novel, the author conveys us a good understanding of the theme——human nature. He believes that man is born to be good and kind-hearted, although he may sometimes become immoral in the "bad" environments and commit all kinds of sins. However, once he realizes the mistakes he has made, he will try his best to get his soul redeemed and return to good again. Just as Rahim Khan in the book says:"There is a way to be good again. "II. IntroductionThe Kite Runner is Khaled Hosseini's first novel[1], and it is a wonderful story set in Afghanistan and the United States between the 1970s to the present day. It mainly tells about the stories of a young boy Amir, and his best friend Hassan , who are torn apart at last. The whole story is narrated by Amir, the main character of the novel.In this book, the author shows us the human weakness, betrayal, and redemption in different levels. The main characters involved in the theme "human nature and redemption" are Amir and Baba(Amir's father).III. Different Types of Redemption1. The Redemption of AmirThe twelve-year-old Amir, whose Baba is a big gun in that area, grows up with his closest friend, Hassan, a servant in his house. As Hassan is illiterate and harelipped, Amir often teases him. In spite of that, Hassan always takes the blame for those faults of Amir and never complaints. On the contrary, Amir watched Hassan being raped by others without giving any help to his friend. Instead, he ran way. After fifteen minutes, Hassan met him:" He had the blue kite in his hands: that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say my eyes didn't scan it for any rips. His chapan had mud smudges down the front and his shirt was ripped just below collar. He stopped.Swayed on his feet like he was going to collapse. Then he steadied himself.Handed me the kite. " (Hosseini, 100)[2].In fact, the blue kite is a sign of Amir's betrayal of Hassan[3]. It indicates that Amir is too cowardly to protect his friend when he faces the event. After that incident, Amir couldn't treat Hassan as usual as before since he couldn't overcome the guilt inside his heart after seeing what has happened to Hassan.He beat him, he threw pomegranates at him, and he was no longer willing to be his friend, even though Hassan still treated him like before. Every time Amir saw Hassan, the sense of guilt always reminded him of that incident. So it led him to betray Hassan again——forcing Hassan to leave by framing him as a thief. Finally, Hassan falsely confessed and left with his father, which made Amir more guilty.Things begin to change after knowing that Hassan is his half-blooded brother. Amir feels very regretful for what he has done to Hassan. In order to atone for hiscrime, he finally decided to take a risk to save Hassan's son, Sohrab, from the neighborhood bully Assef. This is where redemption was found in the book. As the most important character, Amir in the novel began by betraying someone, but at the end, he got the chance of redemption.At the end of the story, Amir was flying a kite with Sohrab, he said to Sohrab, “For you, a thousand times over! [4]”. Those words, which Hassan had said to him before, move the readers deeply.2. The Redemption of BabaIn this novel, many deeds need forgiveness; many individuals seek redemption, and at the end, they all find it. Besides the redemption of Amir, there is also the redemption of his father.Amir's father, a wealthy merchant, loves both his boys. As a successful businessman, he aids the community by creating businesses for others and building a new orphanage. He is always kind to others without asking for a reward. However, as a father, he is often critical of Amir, considering him weak and lacking in courage. He seldom shows directly his love to his son. Maybe it is because that he is also the biological father of Hassan that he hides from both of his children. As a friend, he did something unforgivable to his servant, Ali——having an affair with his wife, Sanaubar and giving birth to a son, Hassan secretly.In his eyes, Amir is lack of something that will contribute to him to become a real man[5]. He can't be brave enough to face difficulties and achieve what he has made. It seems that this is a kind of prejudice to Amir. On the contrary, because the mistakes he has made to Ali's family, h e seems to focus more on Hassan and try to get his soul redeemed. No wonder Amir always wants to get all his Baba's love, which causes the jealousy of him and the later tragedies.In the annual kite flying tournament, Amir is determined not just to win thecompetition but to prove to his Baba that he has the makings of a man. He is eager to earn Baba's praise. He witnesses the humiliation of Hassan hut he doesn't show up. He knows that if he fails to bring home the kite, Baba would be less proud of him. He feels incredibly guilty but knows his cowardice would destroy any hopes for Baba's affections, so he keeps quiet about the incident.Apart from that, Amir begins to believe that life would be easier if Hassan were not around, so he puts a watch and some money in Hassan's room hoping that Baba will make him leave; Hassan falsely confesses when confronted by Baba. Although Baba believes "there is no act more wretched than stealing", he forgives him. To Baba's sorrow, Hassan and Ali leave anyway and forever.To some extent, Amir's wrong behaviours are based on Baba's prejudice and ignorance. If only he has treated his two sons equally, things will not happen.Five years later, Baba and Amir escape to California. Baba is diagnosed with terminal cancer but is still capable of granting Amir one last favor before he dies: he asks Soraya's father's permission for Amir to marry her. At last, his way of redemption comes to an end.IV. ConclusionIn the book The Kite Runner, we can see that e veryone has his kite and everyone is a kite runner at the same time. We have to take the responsibilities that belong to us and admit the errors we made. It is never late to redeem ourselves and follow our heart. Just as the author says;"There is a way to be good again."V. References[1]Hosseini, Khaled (September–December 2004). "The Kite Runner". World Literature Today[2]Jain, Saudamini (May 24, 2013). "COVER STORY: the Afghan story teller Khaled Hosseini".[3]Khaled Hosseini discusses The Kite Runner on the BBC World Book Club[4]Schwarzbaum, Lisa (January 9, 2008). "The Kite Runner webite[5]卡勒德·胡赛尼《追风筝的人》2003。
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. His father, a diplomat, moved the whole family from Iran back to Kabul in 1973.In the same year,his mother gave birth to his younger brother and Khaled’s childhood came to an end due to the coup in the country. In the light of unstability in Afghanistan,they eventually emigrated to California and have never gone back since then. In 2003, Khaled published his first book named “The Kite Runner”,impressing millions of readers. The book debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times’ bestseller list and has remained at the top of the list for more than 80 weeks. The Kite Runnner, which has been filmed,is considered to be a book people’re willing to share most all over the world. Born in a rich family ,Amir was the son of a prestigious local businessman.Amir had a sevant as well as close friend named Hassan who was the steward’s
son.The two boys shared a lot of things in common.They were both raised in the same household and neither of them had mothers.And most importantly,they were both fond of flying kites.But on the other hand,there were also some aspects in which they were totally different.Hassan was courageous and loyal while Amir was coward. Amir always wanted to get all his father’s love so that he became envious of his father’s kindness to Hassan.Amir’s selfishness led to Hassan’s rove in the foreign lands.Half year later,the war broke out ,Amir and his father were forced to leave for America.There,Amir became a well-known writer,completely forgetting what he had done to Hassan.It was a call from his father’s friend that changed Amir’s life. From the man,he knew a big secret about his father and the nearly forgotten friend Hassan.Hassan wasn’t the steward’s son and they had the same father.The man encouraged Amir to go back to his hometown,finding the orphan of Hassan and making up for what he had down.Eventully Amir ,together with his guiltiness ,returned to Afghanistan which was a hell controlled by the Taliban.At the end of the story,Amir found Hassan’s son at the risk of losing his life,taking him back to America and bringing him up. ”For you, a thousand times over,”the story ended with this word said by Amir to his nephew,leaving great imagination to the audience.
After I read the whole story,I was absolutely shocked by the friendship between the two boys.Hassan was so loyal to Amir that he even didn’t mind Amir’s harm and died for protecting Amir’s house.Maybe Amir was the most fortunate person in the world for he had such a perfect friend who was willing to do anything for him. I am ashamed of Amir’s cowardliness as well as admire Hassan’s loyalness.Personally speaking,the ending of the story is imperfect.Nevertheless,the transformation of Amir has left great impression on me.”For you,a thousand times over,”Amir tried his best to compensate for Hassan. Love,fear,guiltiness,salvation are all mixed in the novel which covers most of the important topics in the literature.So theret’s no wonder that the book has won too many awards and the write has become famous overnight. At last,I want to say,we should cherish what we have and appreciate those
who are always with together to lead an unregretful life.。