Kite Runner :: Literary Analysis, Khaled Hosseini

Silence is like pushing the off button on life (Hosseini 361). In the novel increase Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, Amir is an exceptional model as to how ignoring life mess later cause a unlike conclusion. The even sot of his friend, and later revealed half(prenominal) brother, being raped affected his life towards the end of the story. Throughout the novel, mevery differences come up like customs, everyday objects, and punishments that ar not the same(p) as the United States. This book gives a verbal view tier as to how the two diverse locations (the United States and Afghanistan) are not even close to being similar at any point in their residents lives. Kite Runner gives the privileged citizens of the United States situations that most might not even consider acceptable living environments and conditions. usage serve as a signifi commodet stand out as to why Afghanistan and America are not on the same rapscallion in many instances. For example, Afghanista n permits men the right to more than one married woman because Babas second cousin, Homayoun, family consisted of two wives (82). Americas men are only supposed to be married to one women or else it is considered polygamy. If any American man was married to more than one woman at the time then it would be unacceptable and the punishment would most in all likelihood be jail. In the story Amir describes the traditional family dinner he has that consists of eating on the floor while sharing the meal on a common platter in groups (85).However, most Americans eat dinner with their family at a dinning room table and drive home their own one-on-one plates of food. A life changing moment for Amir was when he asked his suffer to ask General Taheri for his daughters hand in wedding ceremony (161). Usually in America the fathers do not have to see to it upon the marriage for it to even take place. In other words, Amir would have asked General Taheri himself or he would not have cared ab out the fathers assessment and just went straight to popping the question to Soraya, General Taheris daughter. tradition are what make everyone distinct from each other but it can also cause a discrepancy if they are to unrelated and scornful to one another. The fact that the two places think unconstructively of each other is make apparent in various snippets of the novel.