Media Techniques Used In The Kite Runner

During her speech at Virginia Tech, Zizi Papacharissi discussed the evolving industry of modern media. She argued that the recent blend of news, fact, drama, opinion, and emotion is responsible for the social and political consequences of the internet. Specifically, she was effective in her presentation by emotionally connecting to the audience, defining the evolution of news over time, and describing how social media networks can act as a news sharing mechanism.

Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is a fictional narrative about a man who grew up in Afghanistan. Hosseini uses his personal experience from his childhood there, and other general knowledge about the area, to tackle issues of the Middle East that western culture often ignores. Every page of this novel is rhetorically rich with devices like diction, analogy, and realism. There is a short anecdote, beginning on page three and concluding on the top of page four, that embodies many of these great rhetorical strategies that Hosseini employs.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a novel centered around an Afghan boy named Amir and his coming of age during the end of Afghanistan’s monarchy and the invasion of the Soviet Union’s troops. Although there are major political events essential to the story, The Kite Runner is not about politics, it is about Amir and his challenges with love, violence, and family. While reading, the use of literary theory and its six different critical lenses is a helpful way to analyze and understand the novel better. Literary theory is, essentially, the views or opinions about what a text means, as well as the description, analysis, and interpretation of a literary work. Readers can also use critical lenses to find different ways to view or interpret

This chapter focuses mostly on the kite running tournament and the friendship of Amir and Hassan. In Kabul, winter is one of the best times of the year. The school has been closed and the kite running tournaments have begun. Baba buys both Amir and Hassan there kites from a man in shop in preparation for the tournament. At this time, Amir feels jealous of Hassan that he cannot receive any sort of present from Baba just for himself.

According to Andrew Hoskins, the author of “Journalism And September 11 2001,” Barbie Zelizer, a professor of research, focuses on the cultural dimensions of journalism and she states that, “to press photographic depictions of ‘collective looking’ and considers how various visualizations of bearing witness to the site of the attack performed a therapeutic role” (135). Despite most of the American populace not being there to witness the destruction of the World Trade Center and the massive loss of life, citizens felt like they were at the scene and could heavily relate to the disaster. Not only was the September 11th attacks something that Americans had never experienced before, it was also something that journalists – people who see horrific and heinous things in their profession – had not experienced as well. In Memorium: New York City, the movie directed by Grey Brad, proclaimed September 11, 2001 as “the most documented event in history.” Even though In Memorium is a documentary about 9/11, the investigative journalism that took place still plays a huge role in American government and politics.

Sanganeria 1 Innayat Nain Sanganeria Kanika Dang Eng, Thesis paper 8th November 2015 THESIS PAPER, THE KITE RUNNER Khaled Hosseini in his novel The Kite Runner illustrates how one seeks for redemption for the sins committed in the past. The Kite Runner is a heartbreaking story of two young boys and how the choices made in the past, changed their lives forever. Love, loss and betrayal are some of the themes in the novel which have been portrayed with a lot of sensitivity.

The Kite Runner is a book written as fiction yet possibly read as reality; some readers might even question the veracity of the events narrated throughout the story before realizing its categorization as a novel. This comes exclusively due to the story’s evident partial factual basis, even when said facts only reside in the Afghan and American history cited in the book. But how different can readers truly interpret the text? Knowledge of the novel’s internal and external context can help a reader understand more about the book, and hence possibly even find new hidden meaning in passages that were before just fiction; however, the writer’s understanding of his readers might also help him guide said audience towards a specific message. Is the

Themes in the Novel “For you, a thousand times over” (Hosseini 2). This quote appears in the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Hassan tells Amir the quote repeatedly because he is loyal to Amir. Amir tells Sobrah, Hassan’s son, the quote because he is trying to earn his trust. Hassan and Amir work through the themes of, families bring comfort and conflict, defining moments and finding my way, and man’s inhumanity to man.

Khaled Hosseini: Doctor, Author, Founder Many people stereotype countries such as Afghanistan due to the lack of conversation about the nonviolent citizens living on less than one dollar a day (“The Kite Runner”). One author, Khaled Hosseini, is known for writing literature that depicts the innocent people in war torn countries, and the harsh conditions they live in. Hosseini is not only the author of the New York Times Bestseller The Kite Runner, he is also a public figure providing assistance to refugees. As the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, he aids the women and children of Afghanistan.

The Kite Runner has three main parts to the story, it begins with Amir, a man who lives in California who refers back to his childhood memories in Kabul, Afghanistan. These memories affect him and mold him into the man he is. Amir as a child lived in Kabul with his father Baba, who Amir had a troubled relationship with. He had two servants Ali and his son Hassan. The relationship between them is more of a family rather that of servants.

In the novel, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the plot is constructed in a circular structure. The structure of the novel emphasizes how big events can drastically change someone’s life; in addition Hosseini characterizes Amir in a morally ambiguous way, displaying how Amir matures as a person but fail to learn how to stand up for himself. allowing a person like Amir to redeem himself and in many ways fail to learn from his past mistakes. This circular structure of the story provides Amir an opportunity to redeem himself from the selfish and cruel ways he treats Hassan as a child.

Amir is someone who has looked despair in it’s two dark, black eyes. While he has been in such revolting and mentally scarring situations, the boy has learned his fair share of life lessons that not only reflect on the power of emotion back in his hometown of Kabul, but also in the American cities of Boston, Fresno and beyond. Because of his striking efforts to come clean and truly redeem himself, Amir can be compared to many others who have saved themselves from terror; such as notorious NBA player Chris Herren. While Herren had many people who doubted him and his mental capacity to control addiction, he never failed to leave those who did not believe in him astounded with how his career could stand strong through his perils at the end of

Kite Runner The author of the Kite Runner is Khaled Hoesseini. He was born in 1965 in Afghanistan and then moved to America. Whilst living in America, he published novels one of which is the Kite Runner. The Kite Runner novel is a novel which depicted the Afghanistan condition from fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan trough the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the rise of the Taliban regime (Kurilah, 2009)

The last documentary style which is performative is one of the most powerful styles because it deals with pathos and helps persuade the audience. An example for this is when the families of Iraq are emotionally distraught due to the attack they unfairly received and in contrast to this the music the soldiers use to listen when killing, this satirical act makes the audience feel pity towards the Iraqis and questions towards the American government. These styles are effective for the intended audience as it shows historical relevance and provides insight about the

Afghanistan has long history being the central of wars and terrorism (AmirDabbaghian and Solimany, 2015). Amir has been using conflicts in Afghanistan – as well as his haunted past memories – as pretexts for unwilling to return to Afghanistan; the truth is, however, Amir embraces America from heart. His loyalty and attachment to America could be mirrored from him political and international relations viewpoints. Through personal direct encounters and second-hand information, Amir narrates the atrocities of the Soviet Union and the Taliban in Afghanistan. While Amir has made explicit his hostility to these invaders of Afghanistan, he intuitively omitted of the invasion of Northern Alliance and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of America, which according to Noor (2004), mainly aimed to combat against the Soviet Union, instead of providing aid in restoring the peace in Afghanistan.