THE KITE RUNNER ppt

the novel's content
• The Kite Runner follows the story of Amir, the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul, and Hassan, the son of Amir’s father’s servant.As children in the relatively stable Afghanistan of the early 1970s, the boys are inseparable. It is an incredible story of friendship, perseverance, loyalty, hope, and redemption .
about author
• Hosseini was born in Kabul where his father worked for the Afghanistan Foreign Ministry. • When Khaled Hosseini was a child, he read a great deal of Persian poetry as well as Persian translations of novels ranging from Alice in Wonderland to Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer series. Hosseini's memories of peaceful preSoviet(前苏联） era Afghanistan, "I 前苏联） 前苏联 have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan" as well as his personal experiences with Afghanistan's Hazara people, led to the writing of his first novel, The Kite Runner.
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In the end ,Sohrab, only shows a lopsided smile, but Amir takes to it with all his heart as he runs the kite for Sohrab, saying,
"For you, a thousand times over."(为你， 千千万万遍）
• 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.
• his story is also a personal journey for Amir and the internal and external conflicts he must face to show his true qualities on the road to redemption and what it truly means to be a loyal friend. Hosseini proves this through the symbolism used in his novel to really leave his readers with a true sense of what emotions and experiences the characters lived through. The symbols that really allow the reader to connect and relate to the story and uncowenku.baidu.comer the rich morals are the kite, the monster on the lake that showed up in Hassan’s dream, and the kite contest Amir and Hassan joined together.
the kite runner
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• The Kite Runner （追风筝的人） is a novel by the author Khaled Hosseini. Published in 2003 by Bloomsbury Publishing plc, it is Hosseini's first novel,and was adapted into a film of the same name in 2007. • The Kite Runner received the South African Boeke Prize in 2004. It was the first best seller for 2005 in the United States, according to Nielsen BookScan. It was also voted the Reading Group Book of the Year for 2006 and 2007 and headed a list of 60 titles submitted by entrants to the Penguin/Orange Reading Group prize (UK).