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    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner"
    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner"
    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner"
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    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner"

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    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateFeb 15, 2019
    ISBN9780028666365
    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner"

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      A Study Guide (New Edition) for Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" - Gale

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      The Kite Runner

      Khaled Hosseini

      2003

      Introduction

      Khaled Hosseini's debut novel, The Kite Runner—recognized as the first English-language novel by an Afghan writer—became a sensation after its publication in 2003, providing a window into one of the world's most intense hotspots, Afghanistan, in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and American-assisted military action against the reigning Taliban. The novel picks up in Kabul in the 1960s, during the childhood of Amir, the narrator. Amir has a brotherly relationship with the son of his father's servant, Hassan, but their ethnic differences—the masters being Pashtun, the servants Hazara—foster discrepancies in their perspectives and self-understanding. In time, a tragedy, hinted at from the first page, changes Amir's and Hassan's lives forever.

      Afghanistan shares a language, Farsi—now called Dari in Afghanistan—and thus a literary culture with its neighbor to the west, Iran; the classic literature is often referred to as Persian, from the name of Iran until the early twentieth century. It was Persian literature that first inspired Hosseini to write stories in Farsi as a boy, and only after his family's immigration to America when he was fifteen did he come to read and write in English. Partly following the pattern of Hosseini's life, The Kite Runner turns midway through the novel toward life for Afghan immigrants in California, before returning for a harrowing look into Afghanistan under the Taliban. Farsi words are scattered throughout, making the book a compelling introduction to both a culture and a language. Readers should be aware that the novel includes a depiction of, and ensuing references to, sexual violation of a preadolescent boy by an older boy, making it best suited to mature readers.

      Author Biography

      Hosseini was born on March 4, 1965, in Kabul, Afghanistan, the first of five children of a diplomat and a teacher of Persian literature who lived in comfortable circumstances in the progressive Wazir Akbar Khan district. Many of Amir's experiences in The Kite Runner have their echoes in Hosseini's life. Under his mother's influence, Hosseini adored classical Persian poetry, and he furthered his knowledge and appreciation when his father worked for the Afghan embassy in Tehran, Iran; meanwhile, he started writing stories in the nations' shared language of Farsi. The young Hosseini also enjoyed Indian and American films and the Afghan boys' sport of kite fighting. He began to expand his worldview by getting to know the family's Hazara cook and starting to better recognize the injustices of a society in which Hazaras largely made up the servant class.

      The family's lives changed little with the 1973 coup that saw the deposed king's cousin establish a republic; Hosseini's father was sent, with his family, to Paris in 1976. However, after a Communist coup two years later, the Soviet military arrived in late 1979, and, unable to safely return to Afghanistan, the family sought asylum in the United States. They arrived in San Jose in 1980, with Hosseini speaking no English. Having lost most of their possessions, the family was reduced to living off welfare and the proceeds from merchandizing at a local flea market, which was host to a notable Afghan refugee community.

      After being embarrassed by the arrival of a Boy Scout troop bringing donations of canned food and used toys and clothes while Afghani guests were visiting around Christmastime,

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