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The Kite Runner Context
- Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 4, 1965,
and was the oldest of five children. Just as he describes in The Kite
Runner, Kabul was a cosmopolitan city at the time.
- Hosseini has a background in the setting of
The Kite Runner as he was raised in Kabul.
- Hosseini has a background in the setting of
The Kite Runner as he was raised in Kabul.
- Western culture, including movies and literature, mixed
with Afghan traditions, such as kite fighting in the
winter. Lavish parties were normal at the Hosseini
family’s home in the upper-middle class neigborhood of
Wazir Akbar Khan.
- Hosseini has prior and intimate knowledge of
Afghan culture and is therefore able to present
it accurately to the rest of the world. He also
has prior knowledge of what a party should be
like under certain circumstances which reflects
well in chapter 8 in the scene with Amir's
birthday party.
- Hosseini has prior and intimate knowledge of
Afghan culture and is therefore able to present
it accurately to the rest of the world. He also
has prior knowledge of what a party should be
like under certain circumstances which reflects
well in chapter 8 in the scene with Amir's
birthday party.
- Hosseini’s father served as a diplomat with the Afghan Foreign
Ministry, and his mother taught Farsi and history at a local high
school for girls.
- Hosseini's Father's
important role in
society reflects in
Baba's role quite
well.
- Hosseini's Mother's
passion for language
reflects Amir's Mother's
passion for language,
although indifferent ways.
Another difference is that
Amir's mother died in
childbirth while Hosseini's
mother lived past his birth.
- Hosseini's Father's
important role in
society reflects in
Baba's role quite
well.
- Then, in 1970, the Foreign Ministry sent his father to
Iran. While the family only spent a few years there,
Hosseini taught a Hazara man, who worked as a cook
for the family, how to read and write. By this time,
Khaled Hosseini was already reading Persian poetry as
well as American novels, and he began writing his own
short stories.
- This is important as the relationship
between Hosseini and his Hazara servant
reflects in the relationship between Amir
and Hassan. Although Hosseini seems to
have a better relationship then Amir
does.
- This is important as the relationship
between Hosseini and his Hazara servant
reflects in the relationship between Amir
and Hassan. Although Hosseini seems to
have a better relationship then Amir
does.
- They returned to Kabul in 1973, the year
Mohammad Daoud Khan, overthrew his
cousin, Zahir Shah, the Afghan King, in a
coup d’etat. The Afghan Foreign Ministry
relocated the Hosseini family to Paris in
1976. Though they hoped to return to
Afghanistan in 1980, that was not possible
because of a military invasion by the Soviet
Union.
- Hosseini would have been able to
accurately relay the feelings that Amir's
family and friends would have felt at the
time of the war because he himself has
lived it.
- Hosseini would have been able to
accurately relay the feelings that Amir's
family and friends would have felt at the
time of the war because he himself has
lived it.
- Instead, the Hosseinis moved to San Jose, California after
they were granted political asylum in the United States.
Khaled Hosseini went on to graduate from high school in
1984 and attended Santa Clara University, where he
received his bachelor’s degree in Biology in 1988. In 1993, he
earned his Medical degree from University of California, San
Diego, School of Medicine, and in 1996 he completed his
residency at Cedars-Sinai medical Center in Los Angeles,
making him a full-fledged doctor.
- Amir's move to America is exactly what
Hosseini would have had to experience.
Hosseini would have also had to adjust to the
new modernised lifestyle while still trying to
remain endorsed in his heritage. Hosseini has
made Amir go through the education sys tem
like he did, although Amir came out with a
degree in Creative Writing, Hosseini
graduated with a degree in Biology which he
later developed into a medical degree.
- In a 2003 interview with Newsline, Khaled Hosseini
said the passages in the book most resembling his
life are those of Amir and Baba as immigrants in the
United States. When the Hosseinis arrived in
California, they had difficulty adjusting to the new
culture, and for a short time his family lived on
welfare. He also remembers the local flea market
where he and his father worked briefly among other
Afghans, just as Amir and Baba did in the book.
- In a 2003 interview with Newsline, Khaled Hosseini
said the passages in the book most resembling his
life are those of Amir and Baba as immigrants in the
United States. When the Hosseinis arrived in
California, they had difficulty adjusting to the new
culture, and for a short time his family lived on
welfare. He also remembers the local flea market
where he and his father worked briefly among other
Afghans, just as Amir and Baba did in the book.
- Amir's move to America is exactly what
Hosseini would have had to experience.
Hosseini would have also had to adjust to the
new modernised lifestyle while still trying to
remain endorsed in his heritage. Hosseini has
made Amir go through the education sys tem
like he did, although Amir came out with a
degree in Creative Writing, Hosseini
graduated with a degree in Biology which he
later developed into a medical degree.
- Although the period of adjustment passed and
Khaled Hosseini became a successful practicing
doctor in 1996, he felt deeply influenced by what he
recalled of his homeland, and he began writing
"The Kite Runner" in March 2001.
- Although Amir experienced this same adjustment, he still
felt like he was running from his past. Even in America, his
sins were still haunting him. which is why when Rahim Khna
called, he answered and went back to see him 26 years later.
- Although Amir experienced this same adjustment, he still
felt like he was running from his past. Even in America, his
sins were still haunting him. which is why when Rahim Khna
called, he answered and went back to see him 26 years later.
- The movie encountered some problems. The
children who played Hassan, Amir and Sohrab,
and a fourth boy with a smaller role, had to be
moved out of the country. Hassan’s rape scene
in the film, along with Sohrab’s abuse at the
hands of the Taliban, put the young actors and
their families in possible danger, as some
Afghans found the episode insulting.
- After
nearly twenty-seven years, he
returned to Afghanistan to see
what had become of his country
and his people. Like Amir, he
was able to find his father’s old
home, but he also recognized
that war and brutality destroyed
the place where he grew up.
- Hosseini was able to accurately describe the destruction of the
war as he was there to witness it. He, like Amir, mourned for the
loss of his childhood in Kabul which is why he has portrayed
Amir like he has. Amir could possibly have been an outlet to his
horror of what Kabul has become, as well as a way to bring this
injustice to the public's attention.
- Hosseini was able to accurately describe the destruction of the
war as he was there to witness it. He, like Amir, mourned for the
loss of his childhood in Kabul which is why he has portrayed
Amir like he has. Amir could possibly have been an outlet to his
horror of what Kabul has become, as well as a way to bring this
injustice to the public's attention.
- His efforts to bring attention to the plight of
refugees earned him the Humanitarian Award from
the United Nations Refugee Agency in 2006, and he
became a U.S. goodwill envoy to the organization. It
was during a 2007 trip as an envoy that he was
inspired to start his own non-profit group. He
created the Khaled Hosseini Foundation, which
funds projects to empower vulnerable groups in
Afghanistan, such as women and children.
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