解读《追风筝的人》中的象征主义

Acknowledgements

Thanks for giving me the chance to accomplish my paper as well as make a conclusion for my four years’ education. I have gained much more knowledge than I have supposed from writing this paper.

I would give my sincere thanks to my supervisor, Ms. Shi, a respectable, responsible and resourceful scholar, who has provided me with valuable guidance in every stage of the writing of this thesis. Without her enlightening instruction, impressive kindness and patience, I could not have finished my thesis.

Also, I want to give my thanks to other teachers and my classmates who have given me much help. Thank you!

Abstract

Khaled Hosseini, is an Afghan-born American writer, whose first work The Kite Runner, attach much interest of the readers from all over

the world. Hosseini depicts these afghans lived in the different background and its traditional culture, deeply revealing the tyranny

of the Taliban and the extreme racial and religious discrimination in this Muslim country. There have been quantities of searching about

this novel at home and abroad, most of them are about the studying on the cultural identity, characterization, growth and self-redemption. This thesis unfolds afghan’s national culture and the Afghanistan people’s miserable life, thus we can know the veiled country clearly. My paper has 3 parts: introduction, the main body and conclusion. The first part introduces the writer, the work and its searching situation. The second part is the main body, which has 3 chapters.

The first chapter introduces the symbolism including its definition, development and function in the literature work. The second chapter reveals Afghanistan’s battlefield and its poor condition by

analyzing these different symbols in The Kite Runner. The last

chapter analyses the writing reason by stating the author’s writing background. The last part summarizes these analysis of the second part, indicating the overall symbolic meanings, that is Afghanistan

‘s people’s expectation to the freedom and the peace.

Key Words: The Kite Runner; Khaled Hosseini; Afghanistan; Taliban; symbolism

摘要

《追风筝的人》是卡勒德胡赛尼的第一部作品，也是第一部由阿富汗裔作家创

在不同背景下的阿富汗人民的生活状态以及阿富汗的传统文化，深刻揭示了塔利班的暴政以及这个穆斯林国家的极端的种族和宗教歧视。国内外对这本书的研究不计其数，其中大部分都是对于文化身份，人物刻画以及成长和自我救赎等主题的研究。本文通过分析小说中频繁出现的象征对象来揭露阿富汗民族文化，以及处于水深火热的阿富汗人民的的生活境况，以便我们更深入地了解这个面纱民族。本文有三个部分组成：介绍、正文和结论。第一部分主要是作者生平，和作品介绍，以及作品的研究状况。第二部分是论文的主体，主要分成三个章节，第一章介绍象征主义，包括它的定义和发展以及在文学作品中的功能，第二章是通过分析《追风筝的人》中的不同的象征对象来揭露阿富汗的战乱和穷苦现状，第三章是通过作者的时代背景来分析自小说的创作缘由。最后一部分是总结前文分析，表述《追风筝的人》中的所有象征对象的总体意义，即阿富汗人民对自由，对和平的向往。

关键字:追风筝的人；卡勒德胡赛尼；阿富汗；面纱民族；象征主义

Contents

TOC \o "1-3" \h \z \u 1. Introduction 1

2. Symbolism and Its Function 3

2.1 Symbolism 4

2.2 The Function of Symbolism in Literary Work 5

3. An Interpretation of Symbolism in The Kite Runner 6

3.1 Afghan: The Hell Massed with Poverty, War and Racial Discrimination 6

3.1.1 The Sky 7

3.1.2 The public 8

3.2 Hasan: The Scapegoat with Kindness Between the Society and the Family 8

3.2.1 The Scapegoat Between Political Scene and Religious Conflict 9 3.2.2 The Scapegoat of Aamir and His Father’s Persona 9

3.3 Kite: The Object Standing for Hope, Dignity, Redemption and Destiny 11

3.3.1 The Kite Moving to the Chasm 12

3.3.2 The Kite Leading to Freedom and Self-redemption 13

3.4 The Analysis of the symbols of Pomegranate, Slingshot and Harelip 14

4. The Analysis of The Kite Runner with Hosseini’s period 15

4.1 The Endless War and the Racial Discrimination 15

4.2 The Loss for the National Culture Heritage 17

5. Conclusion 18

Bibliography 20