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Kite Runner Flashcards
Flashcards do conjunto (10)
- 1Betray theme - The betrayal of a loyal friend by a wealthier, more corrupt "master". Amir's and Baba's feelings of guilt drive much of the novel's action. The central betrayal -- Amir watches and does nothing as Hassan is raped by Assef. Amir worsens the betrayal by driving Ali and Hassan from the household. Betrayal of a best friend and servant - Ali, Hassan's father by fathering a child (Hassan) with Ali's wife Sanaubar. Amir and Baba also lead to quests for redemption as Baba leads a principled, charitable life, and Amir rescues Sohrab from Assef."He knew. He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing."
Repetition - 2Redemption - Amir's greatest struggle was to redeem himself t Babe for "killing" his mother during childbirth, and for growing up a disappointing son who was unlike Baba himself. After Hassan's rape, Amir spends the rest of his life trying to redeem himself for the betraying his loyal friend which ultimately culminates in Amir's return to Afghanistan and his attempts to save and adopt Hassan's son Sohrab. Amir is also able to find some kind of redemption in his bloody fight with Assed (Hassan's rapist), and hi adoption of Sohrab. Hosseini subtly connects these personal quests for redemption to Afghanistan itself. Despite its violent and corrupted past, Hosseini hopes for a redemption for his country someday."Because the truth of it was, I always felt like Baba hated me a little. And why not? After all, I had killed his beloved wife, his beautiful princess, hadn't I?
Rhetorical Question - 3Rape - occurs several times as the ultimate act of violence and violence that drastically changes the lives of both the characters and the country. The central act is Amir watching Hassan's rape by Assef. There are more peripheral instances of rape - Bab saves a woman from being raped by a Russian soldier. These examples ink the theme with "rape" of Afghanistan by violence and war. The rape of Sohrab is never shown, but it reflects Hassan's horror and his role as a "sacrificial lamb" - but with Sohrab, unlike Hassan, Amir is finally about to stand up to Assef and prevent more violence. As Babe told the young Amir, the only real crime is theft, and rape is a theft of safety and selfhood, the ultimate violence and violation."Nothing was free in this world. Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba. Was it a fair price? The answer floated to my consious mind before I could thwart it."
- 4Amir - The protagonist of the novel, a wealthy boy who grows up in Kabul, Afghanistan along with his father, Baba. Amir abuses his privileges over his servant and loyal friend, Hassan, and fails to then come to his aid when Hassan is raped by local bullies after a kite-flying tournament.Baba - Amir's father who works hard and succeeds at all of his endeavors, but stands by his strict moral principles. Baba's great sin is committing adultery with Ali's wife, and he is Hassan's real father. Baba's many works of charity and the orphanage he builds are part of his attempts to redeem himself.
- 5Hassan - Amir's childhood playmate companion, a Hazara boy with a cleft lip. Hassan is an excellent kite runner, and intelligent, but illiterate because of his social class. He is always loyal to Amir, even when Amir betrays him. Hassan eventually marries Farzana, and has a son named Sohrab.Sohrab - Hassan's son, a boy who is sent to an orphanage when Hassan and Farzana are killed. He is then taken from the orphanage and sexually abused by Assef, until Amir comes for him and brings him back to America. Sohrab is a symbol of all the terrible things that have happened to both the characters and the country of Afghanistan, but he also offers a chance for hope and redemption.
- 6Ali - Hassan's father, a Hazara who was orphaned as a boy and then taken in by Baba's father and raised as Baba's playmate and servant. The lower half of Ali's face is paralyzed, and he was crippled in one leg by polio, but Ali remains cheerful and kind.Assef - The antagonist of the novel, sadistic boy who idolizes Hitler, torments children with his brass knuckles, and later rapes Hassan. As an adult Assed joins the Taliban, where he is given free reign to exercise his violent and pedophilic nature.
- 7Rahim Khan - Baba's close friend and business associate, a kind man who often seems to understand the young Amir better than Baba does. Rahim Khan encourages Amir's writing and as an old man he summons Amir back to Afghanistan for a chance to redeem himself by rescuing Sohrab from Afghanistan.Kamal - one of Aseef's cronies, a boy who is late raped by four men and then dies on the journey to Pakistan.
- 8Symbols Kites - for Amir they act as symbols of both his childhood happiness and his betrayal of Hassan. When he tries to remember something happy in the fuel truck, Ami immediately thinks of his carefree days flying kites with Hassan. After Hassan's rape, however, kites become a reminder of Amir's betrayal and guilt. Novel's political theme - kites represent Afghanistan's "glory days" of the monarchy, as kite-flying is later banned by Taliban. At the end of Amir flies a kite with Sohrab, symbolizing hope for redemption for both Amir's sins and Afghanistan's.-
- 9Monsters in the lake - the morning of the kite-fighting tournament, Hassan tells Amir about a dream he had about the two of them at Lake Ghargha. In the dream, there is a huge crowd of scared people as there is a monster in the lake. Then they both prove that there is no monster and everyone cheers and renames the lake "Lake of Amir and Hassan, Sultans of Kabul." Hassan tells Amir "There's no monster, just a beautiful day." Tragedy - same day Hassan gets raped by Assef and there was a monster, but the novel allows for several interpretations of just what the monster in the lake could be - Assef, Amir's jealousy and desire for Baba's approval, or Amir himself.-
- 10Cleft lip - Hassan's cleft lip is his most defining physical features and a symbol of the economic and social disparity between Hassan and Amir, as Ali doesn't have money to pay for the surgery. Baba ends up paying for the surgery, where the cleft lip then becomes a symbol of Baba's secret parental love for Hassan. Novel's climax - Assef splits Amir's lip into two with his brass knuckles, giving Amir a deformity much like Hassan's/ This symbolizes that Amir has become someone like Hassan at last - brave and willing to stand up for someone else - and so Amir can find some redemption in the injury.
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- NCEA Level 2 English FlashCards sobre Kite Runner Flashcards , criado por Harsimran Kaur em 17-10-2016.
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- Harsimran Kaur · out 2016
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