Brief introduction of the main characters in The Kite Runner?

Main roles

1. Amir, the protagonist and narrator of the story. Housainy, the author of the novel, admits that this character "didn't lend a helping hand to his best friend", "cowardly" and "unlovable" in most stories of the novel. This character's sympathy is not born, but eventually comes into being in the environment of the third part of the novel.

Amir was born into a wealthy Pashtun family in 1963, and his mother died in childbirth. He liked to write stories in his childhood, and his father's close friend Rahim Khan encouraged him to become a writer. After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, Amir fled to the United States with his father at the age of 18, and then settled in the United States to pursue his dream as a writer.

2. Hassan, Amir's most loyal and intimate friend in his childhood. His face is like porcelain doll's, and he has rabbit lips. Housainy thinks that this character is a "flat figure" in the development of the story, with simple personality and lack of change. He is a "lovely child, and readers will support him and fall in love with him, but he is not complicated".

Hassan has always been loyal to Amir, and was eventually killed by the Taliban to protect Amir's house. As the plot progresses, readers will finally find that Hassan is actually the illegitimate child born by Amir's father and Ali's wife Sanaubar, and Hassan has never known this secret.

According to the local tribal law, this means that Hassan is actually a Pashtun child.

3. Assef, the main villain of the novel. His father is Afghan and his mother is German. He believed in Nazism and advocated that Pashtuns were superior to Hazaras. He became a bully in his neighborhood when he was a teenager, and Amir thought he was a "sociopath".

assef once committed many evils when he was young. He bullied Amir and Hassan, raped Hassan in revenge for Amir, and later gave Amir an autobiography of Adolf Hitler as a birthday present. As an adult, he joined the Taliban and became a leader. He also imprisoned Hassan's son, Solabo, and sexually abused him.

4. Baba, Amir's father, a wealthy businessman. He is willing to give back to the community, help others start their own businesses, and open an orphanage. He is also Hassan's biological father, but this secret has never been known to his two children during his lifetime. He seems to be more partial to Hassan, but always dissatisfied with Amir.

The image of the father in the novel is similar to that of Housainy's own father. Both of them have high social status and do not strictly abide by the religious teachings. In the novel, my father later fled to America with Amir and worked in a gas station. In 1987, shortly after Amir married Soraya, he died of lung cancer.

5. Ali, father's servant Hazara, is considered as Hassan's father. When he was young, his parents died in a traffic accident, and he was adopted by his father's father. Ali had suffered from polio before, so his right leg was disabled, so he was often bullied and tortured by local children. He ended up accidentally touching a mine in Hazarajat and died.

6. Rahim Khan, dad's loyal friend and business partner, is also Amir's life mentor. He encouraged young Amir to pursue literary career. Later, when he was seriously ill, he persuaded Amir, who had settled in the United States, to return to Pakistan, told him the truth about Hassan's life, and let him rescue Hassan's son, Solabo, and finally passed away peacefully.

7. Soraya, a young Afghan woman, met Amir in the United States and became his wife. Housainy portrayed her as an American woman in her initial creation, and later changed her identity to Afghan immigrant at the editor's suggestion to ensure the credibility of the whole story, and the third part of the novel was revised accordingly.

In the final plot of the novel, Soraya is the daughter of Afghan general taheri, who lives in the United States with her parents and hopes to become an English teacher. Before meeting Amir, she eloped with her Afghan boyfriend in Virginia. According to Afghan tradition, she became an innocent woman and no one wanted to marry her.

After she confessed this history to Amir, Amir thought that she had a disgraceful history, and she had no right to accuse her. She still loved her, and finally they got married.

8. Sohrab, Hassan's son, looks very similar to Hassan when he was a child. He was sent to an orphanage after his parents were shot by the Taliban, but he was taken away and imprisoned by assef and became his sex slave. Amir then rescued him and adopted him after all kinds of twists and turns. After arriving in the United States, it was difficult for him to adapt to a brand-new life, and he closed himself up and didn't communicate with others.

9. Sanaubar, Ali's wife and Hassan's mother. Shortly after Hassan was born, she left Ali and wandered around with a group of artists. When Hassan came of age, she came back and found her son. In order to make up for the mistake of leaving, she became a conscientious grandmother and raised Hassan's son Solabo carefully.

1. Farid, an Afghan taxi driver, is a veteran who fought against the Soviet invasion. When Amir returned to Afghanistan to rescue Solabo, he asked him for help. At first, he mistakenly thought that Amir was a black-hearted businessman and returned to Afghanistan to sell his ancestral property for huge profits, so he was dissatisfied with him.

Not long after, he learned Amir's real purpose, and they turned enemies into friends and rescued Solabo together in Kabul. Farid and his wife had seven children, but two of their daughters were killed in a mine explosion, which disabled him from then on. Amir spent the night at his brother's home in farid, and left some money under the straw mat to help them live in poverty.

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Introduction

The Kite Runner (English: The Kite Runner, also translated as "The Kite Runner") is the first novel by khaled hosseini, an Afghan-American writer, and the first English novel written by an Afghan-American writer.

The novel was published by Heyuan Publishing House in the United States in 23. It tells the story in the first person between Amir, a Pashtun teenager from a wealthy district in Kabul, Afghanistan, and Hassan, his childhood friend and father's servant Hazara.

The background of the story covers a series of complicated historical events, including the overthrow of the Afghan monarchy, the Soviet military invasion, Afghan refugees fleeing to Pakistan and the United States, and the rise of the Taliban regime.

The Kite Runner became a bestseller after its publication, and it was widely circulated in various book clubs. It sold more than 7 million copies in the United States and ranked first in The New York Times bestseller for two consecutive years.

Theme

khaled hosseini thinks that novels cover many different themes, while critics pay more attention to "guilt" and "redemption" in novels. In the novel, Amir, as a child, failed to save Hassan from atrocities because of cowardice, and then fell into endless guilt.

Until Amir left Afghanistan, got married and settled in the United States, and became a successful writer, he still couldn't forget the scene at that time. Hassan is willing to sacrifice everything, even his life, for Amir. He is like a Christian saint, and constantly calls on him to atone for his mistakes in Amir's heart.

After Hassan was shot by the Taliban, Amir saved Hassan's son Solabo to pay for his sins. In order to emphasize the "karma" in the whole journey of confession to readers, Housainy adopted many brushstrokes in the plot of the third part of the novel, which echoed the previous ones.

For example, after fighting with assef, Amir's lips were injured and cracked, echoing Hassan's rabbit lips. Nevertheless, some critics believe that the hero has not completely redeemed his sins.

In the novel, Amir's real motivation for betraying his friends as a child stems from his alienation and insecurity in the relationship with his father. The novel focuses on the emotional relationship between parents and children. Housainy once explained that the novel spans several generations, so the relationship between parents and children, complex entanglements and contradictions have become the prominent theme of the novel.

He called The Kite Runner "a story between a father and son" and "a story of love".

In the process of the novel being adapted into a stage play, director Eric Rose thinks that the novel revolves around the theme of "betraying my best friend in order to gain my father's love" and then seeks the salvation of life, which is similar to the theme of Shakespeare's works.

In the whole story, Amir longs for his father's love; Although his father has always loved him, he likes Hassan better and is even willing to pay for plastic surgery for Hassan to repair his rabbit lip.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-The Kite Runner.