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=The Kite Runner =

The Kite Runner Group Aye Win, Jie Lin, Xue Ling Mao, Fane Li Li, Lint Lint Kyaw

Table of Contents
I. Biography of the author II. Introduction of the book III. Plot (summary) IV. Setting V. History of Kabul VI. History of kites and kite running VII. Characters VIII. Point of view IX. Themes X. Conflicts XI. Movie


 * I. BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">KHALED HOSSEINI was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat with the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and History at a high school in Kabul. In 1976, the Afghan Foreign Ministry relocated Hosseini family to Paris. They were ready to return to Kabul in 1980, but by then Afghanistan had already witnessed the invasion of the Soviet army. The Hosseini's were granted politically in the United States. In September of 1980, Hosseini's family moved to San Jose, California. Hosseini graduated from high school in 1984 and enrolled at Santa Clara University where he earned a bachelor's degree in Biology in 1988. Then following year, he entered the University of California-San Diego's School of Medicine, where he earned a Medical Degree in 1993. He completed his residency at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. While in medical practice, Hosseini began writing his first novel, The Kite Runner. In 2003,the book was published and has since become an international bestseller, published in 48 countries. In 2006 he was named a goodwill envoy to UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency. His second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns was published in May of 2007. Currently, A Thousand Splendid Suns is published in 25 countries. He lives in northern California.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">II. INTRODUCTION OF THE BOOK **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Kite Runner,by Khaled Hosseini was published in 2003. The Kite Runner was said to be the first novel written in English by an Afghan writer, and the book appeared on many book club reading lists. The novel is set in Afghanistan from the late 1970 to 1980 and the start of the Soviet occupation, then in the Afghan community in Fremont, California from the 1980s to the early 2000s, and finally in contemporary Afghanistan during the Taliban regime. The kite runner is the story of family relationships between a father and a son, and between two brothers, how they deal with guilt and forgiveness, and how they deal with the political and social transformations of Afghanistan from the 1970s to 2001. The kite runner opens in 2001.The adult narrator, Amir, lives in San Francisco and is remembering his past, thinking about a boyhood friend whom he has betrayed. The action of the story then moves backward in time to the narrator's early life in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he is the only child of a privileged merchant. Amir's closest friend is his playmate and servant Hassan, a poor illiterate boy who is a member of the Hazara ethnic minority. The kite runner deals with the themes of identity, loyalty, courage, and deception. As the protagonist Amir grows to adulthood, he must come to terms with his past wrongs and adjust to a new culture after leaving Afghanistan for the United States.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">III. PLOT **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Amir, a well-to-do Pasthun boy, and Hassan, a Hazara and the son of Amir's father's servant, Ali, spend their days in a peaceful Kabul, kite fighting, roaming the streets and being boys. Amir’s father ( Baba, "daddy") loves both the boys, but seems critical of Amir for not being manly enough. Amir also fears his father blames him for his mother’s death during childbirth. However, he has a kind father figure in the form of Rahim Khan, Baba’s friend, who understands Amir better, and is supportive of his interest in writing stories. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assef, a notoriously mean and violent older boy with sadistic manners, blames Amir for socializing with a Hazara, which is, according to Assef, an inferior race that should only live in hazarajat. He prepares to attack Amir with his brass knukles, but Hassan bravely stands up to him, threatening to shoot out Assef's left eye with his slingshot. Assef and his friends back off, but Assef says he will take revenge. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hassan is a good kite runner for Amir, knowing where the kite will land without even watching it. One game day, Amir wins the local tournament, and finally Baba is proud. Hassan goes to run the last cut kite, a great trophy for Amir saying that "For you, a thousand times over." Unfortunately, Hassan runs into Assef and his two friends. Hassan refuses to give up Amir's kite, so Assef applied his revenge, assaulting and raping him. Wondering why Hassan is taking so long, Amir searches for Hassan and hides when he hears Assef's voice. He witnesses the rape but is too scared to help him. Afterwards, for some time Hassan and Amir keep a distance from each other. Amir reacts indifferently because he feels ashamed, and is frustrated by Hassan's loyality behavior. Already jealous of Baba's love for Hassan, he worries if Baba knew how bravely Hassan defended Amir's kite, and how cowardly Amir acted, that Baba's love for Hassan would grow even more. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To force Hassan to leave, Amir accused him of a thief, and Hassan falsely confesses. Baba forgives him, despite the fact that, as he explained earlier, he believes that "there is no evil act more than stealing." Hassan and his father Ali, to Baba's extreme sadness, leave anyway. Hassan's departure frees Amir of the daily reminder of his cowardice and betrayal, but he still lives in their shadow and his guilt. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Five years later, the Russians invade Afghanistan; Amir and Baba escape to Peshawar, Pakistan and then to Fremont, California, where Amir and Baba, who lived in luxury in an expansive mansion in Afghanistan, settle in a run-down apartment and Baba begins work at a gas station. Amir eventually 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 a refugee girl called Soraya Taheri and her family; Soraya's father, who was a high-ranking officer in Afghanistan, has contempt of Amir's literary aspiration. Baba is diagnosed with a cancer cell 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 after that Baba dies. Amir and Soraya learn that they cannot have children. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Amir embarks on a successful career as a novelist. Fifteen years after his wedding, Amir receives a call from Rahim Khan, who is dying from an illness. Rahim Khan asks Amir to come to Pakistan. He enigmatically tells Amir "there is a way to be good again." Amir goes. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From Rahim Khan, Amir learns the fates of Ali and Hassan. Ali was killed by a land mine. Hassan had a wife and a son, named Sohrab, and had returned to Baba’s house as a caretaker at Rahim Khan’s request. One day the Taliban ordered him to give it up and leave, but he refused, and was murdered, along with his wife. Rahim Khan reveals that Ali was not really Hassan's father. Hassan was actually the son of Baba, therefore Amir's half-brother. Finally, Rahim Khan tells Amir that the true reason he has called Amir to Pakistan is to go to Kabul to rescue Hassan's son, Sohrab, from an orphanage. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Amir returns to Taliban controlled Kabul with a guide, Farid, and searches for Sohrab at the orphanage. In order to enter Taliban territory, Amir, who is normally clean shaven,put on a fake beard and moustache, because otherwise the Taliban would apply Sharia punishment against him. However, he does not find Sohrab where he was supposed to be: the director of the orphanage tells them that a Taliban official comes often, brings cash and usually takes a girl back with him. Once in a while however, he takes a boy, recently Sohrab. The director tells Amir to go to a soccer match and the man wearing the John Lennon glasses is the man who took Sohrab. Farid manages to secure an appointment with the speaker at his home, by saying that he and Amir have "personal business" with him. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At the house, Amir has his meeting with the man in sunglasses who says the man who does the speeches is not available, due to the fact that he is participating in wrongful acts of adultery. The man in sunglasses is eventually revealed to be his childhood nemesis, Assef. Assef is aware of Amir's identity from the very beginning, but Amir doesn't realize who he's sitting across from until Assef starts asking about Ali, Baba and Hassan. Sohrab is being kept at the home where he is made to dance dressed in women's clothes, and it seems Assef might have been raping him. Assef agrees to relinquish him, but only for a price - cruelly beating Amir. However, Amir is saved when Sohrab uses his slingshot to shoot out Assef's left eye, fulfilling the threat his father had made many years before. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Amir tells Sohrab of his plans to take him back to America and possibly adopt him, and promises that he will never be sent to an orphanage again. After almost having to break that promise and Sohrab attempting suicide, Amir manages to take him back to the United States and introduces him to his wife. However, Sohrab is emotionally damaged and refuses to speak or even glance at Soraya. This continues until his frozen emotions are warmed when Amir talks about good events about his father, Hassan, while kite flying. Amir shows off some of Hassan’s skills, and Sohrab begins to interact with Amir again. In the end Sohrab only shows a half smile, but Amir takes to it with all his heart as he runs the kite for Sohrab, saying, "For you, a thousand times over".


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">IV. SETTING **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The story begins in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, in roughly the present. However, the narrator flashes back to Kabul, Afghanistan, where the narrator (Amir) grew up. The first chapters are mostly set there, in and around the luxurious house of his childhood with Hassan (his half-brother, but Amir didn’t know that). Later, the family must flee the country because the war begun. They escape to Pakistan. Then they move to the United States, specifically California, and much of the story is set there, as they try to make their home in a new land. Late in the book, narrator returns to Afghanistan. He tries to bring Hassan’s son, Sohrab back to the United States and Amir run the kite for him.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">V. HISTORY OF KABUL **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kabul, the multicultural capital of Afghanistan and the largest city of the country, is situated 1,800m above-sea-level in a valley, wedged between the Hindu Kush mountains along the Kabul River. Kabul city is one of the 15 districts of Kabul Province and itself has been divided to 18 city districts or boroughs. Kabul has long been of strategic importance because of its proximity to the Khyber Pass and the city is more than 3500 years old. In 1504, the first Mughal emperor, Babur, made it the capital of his empire. Many years later, Timur Shah, the son of Ahmad Shah Durrani, transferred the capital of Afghanistan from Kandahar to Kabul in 1776. The kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini takes place in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the United States from 1975.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**VI.** **HSTORY OF THE KITE**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The exact date and origin of the kite is not known but it is believed that they were flown in China more than two thousand years ago. One legend suggests that when a Chinese farmer tied a string to his hat to keep it from blowing away in a strong wind, the first kite was born. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A Chinese kite depicting an opera Mask.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The history says that the kite had its origin on the East, more specifically in China. It's used at first by adults, for serious activities such as exchange news during battles and other. Today in the East, kites still has religious significant, believed to “cast away bad spirits” <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In Japan is called “tako”, which means octopus. Considered as art, kites are made with several shapes and sizes some so big that would need several people to be lifted up.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The kite was first invented and popularized approximately 2,800 years ago in China, where materials ideal for kite building were readily available: silk fabric for sail material, fine, high strengthed silk for flying line, and resistant bamboo for a strong, lightweight framework. Alternatively, kite author Clive Hart and kite expert Tal Streeter hold that kites existed far before that time. The kite was said to be the invention of the famous 5th century BCE Chinese philosophers Mozi and LuBan. By at least 549 CE paper kites were being flown, as it was recorded in that year a paper kite was used as a message for a rescue mission. Ancient and medieval Chinese sources list other uses of kites for measuring distances, testing the wind,lifting men,and communication for military operations. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In Malaysia the kites are lifted up by people with serious problems. They lift their kite as higher possible, cutting the line, believing this would flee them from their problems giving a chance to begin a new life. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Back in China, the ninth day of September is the “Kite’s day”. Male adults and children walk their way to the hills to lift their kites. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In Iraq kites are lifted at night, carrying lamps attached to them, to make believe they have full the sky with artificial stars. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At the pacific Islands, kites are made of banana leafs and used on fishing. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On 1752, Benjamin Franklin attached a key on a kite, attracting a ray, originating the theory that ended up creating the lightning rod. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In Brazil, the kites would have been brought by the Portuguese’s. First seen at the state of Maralhao located at the northeast, in fact maranhao is also another name indicated to kite for that reason. Kites were also used by the slaves at Quilombo de Palmares as signalizes, which also indicates that kites were also known in Africa. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Today, unfortunately kites are also used at the favelas by kids under age who work for the drug dealers as a way to alert them about the cops; no doubt this is a very sad way to use such a fun toy. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A kite consists of these basic parts:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">The Spine.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">The Spar.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">The Frame.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">The Cover.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">The Bridle.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">The Flying Line.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">The Tail.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">The Reel.

**VII. CHARACTERS**


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Amir :** The narrator of the novel, born in 1963, in Kabul, who begins as a well-to-do boy in monarchical Afghanistan and later migrates to America following the invasion the soviet. Amir is Hassan's half-brother; however, Amir does not learn of their relationship until much later in his life. Hassan never learns of the relationship.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Hassan :** a childhood friend of Amir, although Amir never explicitly admitted to this. He is described as having a China doll face and green eyes. Hassan is first thought to be the son of Ali (Baba's servant and inexplicit childhood friend) and Sanaubar; later in the story, Hassan is revealed to be the illegitimate son of Baba and Sanaubar. Hassan died without ever knowing about the truth of his paternity.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Assef :** a sadistic, sociopathic teenage rapist from Amir's neighborhood in Kabul, antagonist. He is described as being exceptionally handsome, blonde and blue-eyed. As a teenager, he rapes Hassan. As an adult he repeatedly rapes Hassan's son, Sohrab, and numerous other young children of both sexes. Assef is the son of a German mother and Afghan father. He is a Nazi sympathizer and has a hatred of Hazaras, giving a book about his "idol" adolf Hitler to Amir for his thirteenth birthday. Many years later, he becomes an executioner and pedophile, when he is a part of the Taliban. Sohrab severely damages one of Assef's eyes during Assef's fight with Amir.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Baba :** The father of Amir and Hassan. He is said to be born in the year 1933. He is described as a big, strong, healthy looking man with wild brown hair and beard. He loves throwing parties, and is known for his strength. Baba is a successful business man and a benevolent force in the community, helping many other people establish businesses for themselves and constructing an orphanage. During the book, Baba seems to be a bit disappointed in his son Amir, who he wishes to be as much of a man as he is (but his son only reads books and lets others fight off bullies for him). After leaving Afghanistan for America, he ages quickly and dies at fifty-three, in 1987, of cancer. He lives long enough, though, to see his son Amir marry a young Afghan woman called Soraya. Many people attend his funeral.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Ali :** Baba's servant and inexplicit childhood friend. He is initially thought to be the father of Hassan. Before the events of the novel, he had been struck with polio, rendering his right leg useless. Because of this, Ali was constantly tormented by children in the town. He was killed by a land mine after Baba and Amir left Afghanistan.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Rahim Khan :** Baba's business partner and best friend in Afghanistan, later he was the one who tells Amir about Hassan's actual father. Amir liked him as a child, and Rahim Khan is also the one who invited Amir back to Afghanistan to pick up Sohrab. Later in the story, Rahim Khan goes off alone leaving a letter to Amir telling him not to find him. He dies peacefully knowing he has successfully made Amir the man Baba wanted him to be.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Soraya :** an Afghan young woman living in Fremont California. She marries Amir. Soraya wants to become a teacher. Before marrying Amir, she ran away with an Afghan boyfriend in Virginia, which, according to Afghan tradition, made her unsuitable for marriage. Because Amir also had his own regrets, he loved and married her anyway. Soraya desperately wants to have children but cannot conceive a child, attributed to "Unexplained Infertility".
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Sohrab :** son of Hassan, traumatized and repeatedly raped by Assef; Rahim Khan contacts Amir later in life in an attempt to get him to come back to Afghanistan to find Sohrab. In the end, he is adopted by Amir.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Sanaubar :** Ali's wife who gives birth to Hassan as a result of an affair with Baba. She then leaves home to pursue the life of a gypsy. She might have become involved with an Afghan army soldier who nostalgically describes her "sugary little cunt" to Hassan; whether this is true or whether the soldier was just making fun of the Hazara is never established. She later returns to Hassan in his adulthood to make up for her neglect of him when he was a child, providing a grandmother figure for Sohrab who nicknames her "Sasa".
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Farid :** bitter driver who is initially abrasive toward Amir but later befriends him. Farid's two daughters were killed by a land mine years back, a disaster in which he also lost some of his fingers. Farid is Amir's means of transport, information, and knowledge of current Afghanistan when he returns.

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">VIII. Point of view **
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The story appears in first person(I) point of view, as Amir tells the story of his life, especially his childhood. This point of view gives the feeling of a memoir or, more appropriately, a confession. Amir recalls all events honestly and accurately, though the events of childhood still hold the thoughts and emotions of a young boy, rather than an adult man. This point of view works well for the novel, as Amir's main quest is that of absolution form the guilt he feels because of his inaction during Hassan's attack by Assef. The flashback into Amir's childhood occurs as a mixture of dialogue and narrative. The personal drama of the characters against the backdrop of the modern history of Afghanistan, sketching the political and economic toll of the instability of various regimes in Afghanistan; from the end of the monarchy to the Soviet-backed government of the 1980s to the fundamentalist Taliban government of the 1990s. The action closes after the fall of the Taliban and alludes to the rise of Hamid Karzai as leader of a new Afghan government in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001. the kite runner is made in Afghanistan and the U.S from the 1970s to 2002, presents a story of intertwined personal conflicts and tragedies against a historical background of national and cultural trauma. The early chapters tell much about the richness of Afghan culture as experienced by the young Amir and Hassan in the Afghan capital, Kabul. The novel's account of the culture of Kabul informs the reader about everything from the melon sellers in the bazaar to the cosmopolitan social and intellectual lives of Kabul elite society during the monarchy, to the traditional pastimes of Afghan children. Detailed descriptions treat the reader to such events as a large extended-family outing to a lake and the annual winter kite tournament of Kabul. Subsequent political developments, however, appear to curtail these relative freedoms, as the Soviet's invasion.

<span class="IL_SPAN" style="line-height: 1.5;">Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years. (p.1) Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name. looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened the winter of 1975 and also all that followed was already laid in those first words. (p.11) "Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. Do you understands that?" (p.17)
 * **Quotes**


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">IX. Themes **

> redeems himself with love. Their relationship shows loyalty and trust to a real brotherly bond even they are in unequal society, Sunni and Shi’a Muslims. > for Hassan, an illegitimate son as a servant but was in many ways more like Baba than Amir was. Later in the book, the relationship between Soraya and her father General Taheri. As a girl the independent Soraya had rebelled against her strict, traditional father. Then, the relationship between Sohrab and Hassan, Hassan is a good father before his death because Sohrab begin to open up to Amir’s redemption when Amir talks about good events about Hassan and shows off some of Hassan’s skills. > saving and adopting Hassan’s son Sohrab. Baba tries to redeem himself to Hassan for hiding his own son as a servant by giving love as to > Amir and made surgery for Hassan’s lip.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Betrayal:** In The Kite Runner betrayal is developed in two ways: social betrayal and personal betrayal. Social betrayal refers to the way the Afghan society treats the Hazara people. Fro instance in this book we have two Hazaras character which are Ali and Hassan. They are servants in Amir's house. Ali often is the point of joke for the people in the Wazir Akbar Khan district because of the deformation in one of his legs. Hassan was also the point of joke because of his mother's bad reputation among the district. In other hand personal betrayal refers to the relationship between Hassan and Amir. This second character naturally felt the social differences between he and Hassan. In spite that they were friends Amir develops some jealousness when he sees that his father shows affection towards Hassan.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Cowardice:** Amir the main character in this novel shows cowardice in front of other boys. Hassan is the one that defends Amir when some other boys attack him. In other hand Amir shows cowardice when he couldn't help Hassan when he was raped by Hassef.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Guilt:** this theme is present in Baba and Amir. First Baba feels guilty for not being a responsible father with Hassan and Amir. He never told them that they were brothers. He will somehow feel guilt for having his own son as a servant. Amir display guilt when inside he felt sorry for lying to his father when he said that Hassan has robed his swatch.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Honor:** honor is always displayed in this book. Baba keeps in secret the blood ties that existed between Hassan and Amir because of honor. He may have lost his reputation if this secret will be known among Kabul. In other hand Amir shows honor when he decided to go back to Kabul and take Hassan's son to live with him to The United States.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Friendship:** The friendship is a very important theme in the kite runner. The novel shows the relationship between Amir and Hassan. Amir feels superior and jealous to Hassan however Hassan shows loyalty to Amir, “For you a thousand times over”. Amir betrayals Hassan but he
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Father and Son relationships:** The kite runner involve relationships between fathers and their children. The central relationships is between Baba and Amir. Amir struggles to win his father’s affections and Baba tries to love a son who is nothing like him. Baba hide his natural affection
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Redemption:** In the kite runner, Amir redeem himself to Baba throughout his childhood for killing his mother during childbirth and for growing up a disappointing son who was unlike Baba himself. After adult, Amir spends his life trying to redeem himself for his betrayal to Hassan by
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Kite Running:** Kite running is another theme that shows up in this novel. The kites were the key for Amir to remember his past. Also the kites were representation of Hassan and Amir' s friendship once. Kite running becomes a main point when the course of the events changed after the kite tournament. Amir and Hassan's friendship fell apart, and they separated each other.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">X. Conflicts **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Man Vs Self:** Amir trying to fight the cowardice in himself to stand up to Baba, to ask for Baba’s love, instead of to be the writer, to be the athlete or competitive merchant that Baba would like to be. Amir try to step out for Hassan the way he would stood up for Amir all those times in the past and accept whatever would happen to Amir.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Man Vs Society:** Amir and Hassan try to handle their relationship, friendship in unequal society because Amir is Pashtun, Sunni Muslim and Hassan is Hazara, Shi’a Muslim.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Shi’a Vs Sunni Muslim:** Hazaras were Mogul descendants, Shi’a Muslims that a little like Chinese people had tried to rise against the Pashtuns, Sunni Muslims in the 19th Century and had been quelled with unspeakable violence by Pashtuns.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Man Vs War:** Afghanistan faces against both the Russians and Taliban. Early in the novel, the Russians have invaded Afghanistan that cause several people to flee to Pakistan for safety. Later in the novel, the Taliban have taken control of Afghanistan, tearing apart the country and threatening the livelihood of the people.

**XI. Movie of Kite runner:**
In 2007, Khaled Hosseini’s first novel, the kite runner was released as a American drama film directed by Marc Forster and screenplay by David Benioff based on the novel. Marc Forster is born in November 1969 and he is best known for directing the films Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland, Stranger than Fiction, The Kite Runner, Quantum of Solace and World War Z. The Kite Runner movie is released on December 14, 2007 and it was released on DVD on March 25, 2008. Its running time is 128 minutes and it made on a budget of $20 million, the film earned $73.2 million worldwide and became a box office success and received many awards.


 * The Stars in the Kite Runner movie are:**

 Khalid Abdalla as Adult Amir Qadiri  Zekeria Ebrahimi as Young Amir  Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada as Young Hassan  Homayoun Ershadi as the Agha Sahib (Baba)  Atossa Leoni as Soraya  Shaun Toub as Rahim Khan  Saïd Taghmaoui as Farid  Abdul Salaam Yusoufzai as Assef  Elham Ehsas as Young Assef  Ali Danish Bakhtyari as Sohrab  Maimoona Ghezal as Jamila Taheri  Qadir Farookh as General Taheri  Khaled Hosseini (cameo) as Doctor in the park  Camilo Cuervo as a Taliban Soldier

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