A Guide to The Kite Runner
The basic facts:
Book: Novel
Title: The Kite Runner
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Publication details: Published
in 2003 by Riverhead Books
Setting: Afghanistan (Kabul), Pakistan
(Islamabad) and the United states (California) ranging from 1975 through to
2001.
Narrator: Amir
Point of view: First person (Amir),
tending to be subjective, covering events both in the past and more recently in
his life using flashbacks.
Protagonist: Amir
Antagonist: Assef- Hassan and Sorab’s
rapist.
Central Conflict: The guilt and shame
Amir feels for not trying to stop Hassan being raped, his personal conflict
with this and his attempt at “becoming good again”.
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