“The Kite Runner” is a book by Khaled Hosseini published in 2004 and is an important story to tell the friendship of two very different children and the tragic background of the war in Afghanistan. In this article, we explain why it is such an important book. In 2007, a film was also made from the book. “The Kite Runner” plots
Amir was an Afghan child who lived in Kabul with his father Baba receiving constant visits from Rahim Khan, best friend of his father who has now become one of the family. Ali, who lived in the neighboring shed, was the Hazara servant who had a son named Hassan with whom Amir had grown up by becoming friends and ignoring as much as possible the fact that one was master and the other servant. However, Hassan had a servile attitude towards Amir who was still his master but also his best friend. It all changed when Amir and Hassan took part in the annual kite competition. Amir I participate above all to make Baba proud of him and he succeeded by winning. “The Kite Runner”, the film based on the novel by Hosseini
“The Kite Runner” is a 2007 film directed by Marc Forster, based on Khaled Hosseini’s best seller of the same name. The ending
The final part of “The Kite Runner” has a double meaning: on the one hand Amir rediscovers the desire to be happy again while playing with kites with Sohrab, on the other Sohrab begins to overcome the horrors that he has lived. Amir’s lightheartedness in rediscovering that childlike side in himself by playing with the kite and running calmly as he did in Kabul; on the other hand, the despair, melancholy and sadness of Sohrab who was traumatized by his past but who in the end still manages to raise a small smile that fills Amir’s heart with joy. The strength of a book
“The Kite Runner” is a small masterpiece: moving, full of profound meanings in many fields from the personal to the ethnic-cultural one, it admirably summarizes the condition of a country and, while it is both a coming-of-age novel and a denunciation novel, which manages to enter the reader’s heart. The force of denunciation of this book is effective, all the more so if we consider the first person in whom it is written. A novel that begins with a great denial because, says the author through Amir’s mouth, it is not true “that you can bury the past” and another sentence introduces us to the climate, a sentence that RahimKhan said before hanging up, “Almost an afterthought. There is a way to be good again ”. “The darkness beyond the hedge”, because Harper Lee’s book is still relevant today
After 60 years, “The darkness beyond the hedge” continues to be relevant, especially with the Black Lives Matter movement that claims its values. Khaled Hosseini
The son of a diplomat and a teacher, he was born in 1965 in Kabul and later moved with his family to the United States, where he studied medicine, practicing as a doctor for a few years. He is now one of the most read and loved writers of the last decade, author of three bestselling novels, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns and And The Echo Answered, which have sold 4 million copies in Italy and 38 million throughout the world. Hosseini is also an envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and has created the Khaled Hosseini Foundation. He lives with his wife and two children in San Jose, California.
