Injustice of Drinking

The injustice that the characters face in this novel have to do with alcoholism. Alcoholism has done nothing but caused problems throughout the whole story. Because of alcohol the main characters family and friend face problems that are caused by alcohol. All his life has been laid out previously for him by alcohol. His mother and father are heavy alcoholics and it doesn’t say this in the novel but what I think is that while he was in his mothers womb she was drinkintg. This has lead to his seizures he has his whole life because he has brain damage. He got this brain damage because of the fact that he was born with too much brain fluid. The doctors had to operate and didn’t think he would survive the surgery, but if he did he would suffer brain damage and he did survive and now has to pay. With the seizures, they bring more brain damage to him and now he stutters and has a lisp at the age of fourteen. The beverage that his mother and father drink have brought pain into his life and now he suffers from this injustice issue.

By Kyle Peter

Repairing The Damage

The damage caused in “The Kite Runner” is barely repaired for the characters in the shadow of the injustice and the problems caused by characters that were involved with the injustice. Amir has done little about the damage that he has caused by not sticking up for Hassan in his childhood. The only thing he has done has taken Hassan’s son to America from Pakistan to live with him. Hassan can’t really do anything to repair the damage done because of the fact that he was murdered in Pakistan and has left his son everything that wasn’t taken from the house, which was what he was killed for. All of this in my opinion could have been avoided if Amir would have helped Hassan when he was younger and maybe he would still be alive in America with Amir.

By Kyle Peter

Coping With Problems

The Characters of the novel “The Kite Runner” are having troubles dealing with the problems of  the injustice of racism in their country. Amir is dealing with the situation in a more evasive way while Hassan is dealing with the problems more of a head on approach.  Amir actually avoids conflict caused by the injustice that is involved with this novel and in the process doesn’t care about who he effects include his friend/ servant Hassan who has only treated Amir as a friend. Hassan is dealing with the problems created more differently.  Hassan isn’t afraid to stick up for himself or his friend Amir when it calls for it he defends himself with whatever he gots and with every last drop of energy.

By Kyle Peter

how the harm the characters experience gets repaired throughout the book

In The Kite Runner Amir expereinces alot of harm in the winter of 1975 when Hassan is raped by Assef which was mostly caused  because Amir didn’t say anything. After that Amir and Hassan’s friendship is entirely different because Amir mostly trys to avoid Hassan at all times but, Hassan is trying so hard to make it better whether it be him trying to get Amir to read to him to wanting him to come and get Naan from the store. After about 3 months of this Amir finally decides to restore the friendship between them by asking Hassa to go up to the hill where they always use to read to try  to read again for the first time in a long time…and that is how the characters in the  Kite Runner are repair the harm they have caused.

Repair

In The Kite Runner, there is not much opportunity to right past wrongs, but the main character does what he can. At the end of the book, every single character introduced in the first five or so chapters is dead, except for Amir. At the end, Afghanistan is left in ruins, controlled by the Taliban. People are killed in the streets on a daily basis, and brutal excecutions are the norm. Also, Assef has risen to a position of power. If you know the character, you know this is bad. Also, Hassan is revealed to have been Amir’s half brother. He is then revealed to be dead.

There is, however, some repair. As it turns out, Hassan had a son named Sohrab, who is still stuck in Afghanistan. Amir does all he can to get him out of the country. It seems that Sohrab will have to stay in an orphanage again, but not for long. Amir then takes a nap. Sohrab takes a razor to his wrist.  Amir wakes up, takes a phone call, and finds out that Sohrab will not actually have to stay at an orphanage. He then finds Sohrab, bleeding. They manage to save his life, but he refuses to talk for a full year. Amir then takes him kite running, which seems to make him happy. The book then ends. Overall, there does not seem to be a whole lot of repair for anyone other than Amir, and possibly Sohrab. Also, Assef gets shot in the eye.

As a final statement, the book was good. The tone was fairly dark, and it seemed to get very dark very quickly in spots. It certainly wasn’t a light read, and I mean that in every sense of the term. It is a total of 400 pages, and I felt that it could have been wrapped up with a happy, conclusive ending at 300. Another thing to consider is that the ending is very open. It is almost stated that Sohrab gets better, but we don’t know if he ever fully recovers. Still, the characters seem kind of happy at the end, all things considering. Well, the ones who weren’t dead, anyway.

– Caleb MacInnes

Solving their problems

In “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini, the characters in the novel don’t seem to actually have many chances to told their problems. Pretty much all the characters you know in the first chapters are dead, except Amir, of course. Amir wasn’t able to fix his problem, which I believe was feeling extremely guilty for not doing anything when Hassan got raped. After Amir comes back to Afghanistan from America, he finds Hassan, his apparent half brother, to be dead. Hassan actually had a son though, who Amir thinks he could save from the terrible conditionof Afghanistan. But of course its not that easy, along with Amir getting beat up by the person who raped Hassam, Sohrab (Hassam’s son) can’t leave Afghanistan without his parents, who’re dead. He cannot be adopted either, for there’s no proof that his parents are actually dead (but they are, I assure it), so to be adopted, Sohrab has to be go to an orphanage. At this orphanage, Sohrab slits his wrists, so after a quick trip to the hospital, they’re finally able to leave. Sohrab doesn’t talk anymore, but in the end, the book was actually pretty good. I think it’s worth making a movie about…if there isn’t already one made.  So overall, I don’t think their problems have really been solved…everyone just died and Amir maybe got rid of most of his guilt.

solving problems

i dont thinkt the problems in “the kite runner” were completley solved. in the end Amir goes back to Afghanistan and finds out Hassan who apparently is his half brother was shot by soviets. he also finds out that Hassan had a son. so to make everything “better” Amir wants to adopt Sohrab Hassans son. he ends up adopting Sohrab after being put in the hospital by Assef who ends up losing an eye from Sohrab, then Sohrab cuts his wrists attemting to kill himself. Amir comes to get him and finds him bleeding out in the tubhe ends up being alright and they go to America.although Sohrab doesn’t really say to much.

kyle hogg

Coping with their problems….

In the book “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Housseini, characters I believe are coping well with their problems. Then again, only a few I believe are coping well. A small group in Afghanistan just went and killed the king, in the hopes to change the autocratic government into a democracy ruled government. You’d think this would be a problem, but most of the people don’t even care, seems that they wouldn’t mind the change. But one character, Hassan, actually got raped recently… I honestly think he’s going to be scarred for life about that… The main character, Amir, actually watched it, which also would be quite scaring, and where I am in the book, Russia is starting an invasion, so I don’t believe people are going to get any better with any problems they’re having.

-Hoolio Sanchez

Characters Coping with their Problems

In The Kite Runner  Amir is faced with a choice; a choice that will decide how Hassan’s and his friendship will be in the future. Well Amir is doing the annual Kite Tournament, but this year he actually won so he wanted to take home the opponent’s kite that he beat and when Hassan gets the kite, Assef and his goons ask him for it but Hassan says ” Amir agha won the tournament and I ran this kite for him. I ran it fairly. This is his kite.” (pg77) So after this Assef ask Hassan that if Amir was in this position that would he do the same thing for Hassan. Hassan than says that him and Amir are friends and Assef just laughs and says ” You pathetic fool! Someday you’ll wake up from your little fantasy and learn just how good of a friend he is. Now, bas! Enough of this. Give us that kite.” At that point Hassan threatens  them with a rock and Assef steps back and give Hassan one last chance but, Hassan decides to cock his arm readying to throw the  rock and Assef says ” Whatever you wish.” and starts to take his coat off and Amir decides to say something but then doesn’t.  Assef charges at Hassan and  gets hit with the rock but tackles Hassan to the ground and Assef’s goons go and pin him to the ground and then…….Assef starts rapeing Hassan!!! At this point Amir is deciding on whether to say something or run like a coward and to no surprise Amir  runs and hides. After that day Hassan and Amir’ friendship was never the same and Hassan was never the same.

By: Kristjan

Reaction of social injustice

In the book “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Housseini, the different characters react to the issue of social injustice in quite different ways. The Pashtuns are pretty much just keeping the Hazara as a servant class. Obviously, the Hazara are not going to be very happy about that. The Pashtuns probably don’t care about their feelings, but not to say there aren’t some Pashtuns who do treat them like people, and somewhat equal. The Hazara I believe are eventually going to “stick to the man” sooner or later in the book, which pretty much means they’re going to fight back for equality. Then again, the fact being that the Pashtuns are higher, that probably means they’ll be able to defeat the Hazara. But anyway, I believe the Hazara aren’t happy, most of the Pashtuns don’t care, and stuff going to happen soon.

-Hoolio Sanchez