story with sound grammar and interesting style. But the most impressive thing about your story is that it has irony. You may not even know what that word means. But you will someday. It is something that some writers reach for their entire careers and never attain. You have achieved it with your first story.
My door is and always will be open to you, Amir jan. I shall hear any story you have to tell. Bravo. Your friend, Rahim4
Rahim Khan is correct. Amir terms of encouraging him to pursue writing are more important and more valuable than anything else. Inspired by Racine Khan, Amir insists on writing, writing for the future, paving the way. As a father figure, Racine Amir Khan not only concerned about the interests of Amir’ error also showed strong endurance. Most importantly, he never forgot to remind Amir doing a good person. On the growth path Amir, Rahim Khan is the father, a friend, it is a guide.
2. Negative Initiation Guides
Entirely different with what he claimed himself in public places, in fact, Amir’s father was a thief. Seemed like a strong and great people, he is actually tortured past sins. Hasan’s mother was having an affair with his father, Hassan is his illegitimate son. Because of his dignity and social status, his father Hassan is not publicly admit neither his son, nor his desire openly Ai Hasang way. Because of his wealth hurt Amir Successor group, half socially acceptable. When he saw Amir, he saw himself and his guilt. Therefore, the father does not like Amir. Almost no communication lies between father and son. Occasionally, when the father leisure, recreation at the lake with them. However, my father always reluctant to talk:
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We sat at a picnic table on the banks of the lake, just Baba and me, eating boiled eggs with kofta sandwiches — meatballs and pickles wrapped in naan. The water was a deep blue and sunlight glittered on its looking glass-clear surface. On Fridays, the lake was bustling with families out for a day in the sun. But it was midweek and there was only Baba and me, us and a couple of longhaired, bearded tourists — “hippies”,I’d heard them called. They were sitting on the dock, feet dangling in the water, fishing poles in hand. I asked Baba why they grew their hair long, but Baba grunted, didn’t answer. He was preparing his speech for the next day, flipping through a havoc of handwritten pages, making notes here and there with a pencil. I bit into my egg and asked Baba if it was true what a boy in school had told me, that if you ate a piece of eggshell, you’d have to pee it out. Baba grunted again.
I took a bite of my sandwich. One of the yellow-haired tourists laughed and slapped the other one on the back. In the distance, across the lake, a truck lumbered around a corner on the hill. Sunlight twinkled in its side-view mirror.
“I think I have cancer,” I said. Baba lifted his head from the pages flapping in the breeze. Told me I could get the soda myself, all I had to do was look in the trunk of the car.5
As a father, he was cold and sloppy. Do not care about the feelings of his son, whether it is curious or something else. He did not share the dragonfly and patience. Crime to refuse the exchange, Amir father trying to change, because there is a son buried in reading than he had hoped. He Amir reported football team. Eventually, his efforts ended in failure. In Afghanistan, it was the Warriors movement. When they watch the game, the tragedy happened. A player fell down from the horse; horseshoe-like rain fell on him. Player’s tragic dead. Amir
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finally burst into tears. My father did not comfort Amir, he again remained silent, but the disgust was palpable. This look makes official Amir disappointed, killing his father and recognized the courage to fight.
In short, the father can not provide the required Amir love, not to mention as a loving father to guide the Mill. From this perspective, the father is a passive guide.
B. Darkness within Amir’s mind
In this stage, there are some dark features in Amir’s mind, which lead to the consequent story.
1. Selfishness
In the novel, Amir is tortured by his selfishness. Amir loves literature, but do not like politics, business, and his father’s favorite football these three topics and the necessity of a man, he should have considered. Once a year father let Amir see the Buzkashi game, he was trampled under its feet, Amir began to cry, which made his father down. Dad let Amir participated in soccer, and trying to teach him to defend himself, but failed. Amir found a way to first place in the kite competition, this night is the best witness to win his father’s love. In the winter kite tournament, Amir won the game, but Hasan was besieged and become diabolical, demonic, Hitler-like figure, Assef’s victim. Amir Hassan was beaten and witnessed the whole process of being raped, but the only thing he has done is to get the blue kite, he was both painful and contradictory.
2. Jealousness
In the novel, Amir is jealous of Hassan so he could not see well. He is
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jealous that in his father’s eyes it seems that there is only Hassan. “I put my sights on our rooftop, found Baba and Rahim Khan sitting on a bench, both dressed in sweater, drinking tea. Baba waved. Icouldn’t said that if he waved to me or Hassan.”6 From this point, we can clearly know that Amir is jealous of Hassan, even though he is just Amir’s servant. This is the vivid description, showing us what is happening in the child’s mind a good example. Hassan is Hazara, his servant, lived in a humble state little mud hut with his father, Ali. However, Hassan has the privilege to be loved, which is not consistent with his identity and stay consistent.
Baba never missed Hassan’s birthday. For a while, he used to ask Hassan what he wanted, but he gave up doing that because Hassan was always too modest to actually suggest a present. So every winter Baba picked something out himself. He bought him a Japanese toy truck one year, an electric locomotive and train track set another year. The previous year, Baba had surprised Hassan with a leather cowboy hat just like the one Clint Eastwood wore in the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly-which had unseated The Magnificent Sevenas our favorite Western.7
Amir also jealous to the fact that Baba summoned a plastic surgeon to fix Hassan’s harelip, which he thought Hassan did not deserve.
3. Lies
Compared to Hassan’s loyalty, Amir lies to him. He pretend to be a friend of Hassan when he actually always trying to show superiority over him. When he was asked by father and Ali about the things after the kite tournament, Amir refused to tell the truth in order to cover up his cowardice
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After all these happening, Amir hid himself from Hassan like prevent from facing his guilty. So he told another lie. He framed up Hassan stolen his watch and money. Hassan left eventually. These lies broke Hassan’s heart as well as Amir him self’s.
4. Betrayal
“Betrayal is the breaking or violation of a presumptive contract, trust, or confidence that produces moral and psychological conflict within a relationship among individuals, between organizations or between individuals and organizations.”8
As brothers, Amir betrayed Hassan. “Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir.”9 This seems to form the basis of a future thing. Hassan is the world’s center first started my morn, while the center of the world is my Baba, until his death. When living in a single-parent family, Amir is eager to get his father’s attention and envies Hassan, his father stows Hassan claims conductive arrangements like cosmetic surgery for his cleft lip. Amir and Hassan’s betrayal after the Kite Championship runner-up occurred. This betrayal affected their lives, leaving deep remorse after Amir had lived in the rest of his life. Hassan always the best kite runner, he was in this annual event and has been finally defeated the other kite runners.
As a master, Amir betrayed his loyal servant. He didn’t step out to stop his servant, Hassan, who’s trying to protect his honor being bullied. He even refused to tell the truth.
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