Themes

Redemption

”There is a way to be good again”

(Page 239 chapter 18)

 

Devotion

"And suddenly Hassan’s voice whispered in my head: For you a thousand times over."

(Chapter 1 page 2)

Discrimination

"Assef’s blue eyes flicked to Hassan.” Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-noses here. His people pollute our home land, our watan. They dirty our blood "

(Chapter 5 page 44)

Theme write up

    Themes can be analyzed from many ways in the novel “The kite runner”. The most crucial theme should be the redemption of Amir. Amir thinks Baba far away from him because Amir has responsible for his mother’s death. Therefore Amir tries to do anything that can impress Baba; one example is the kite tournament. But the kite tournament also leaves irreparable harm for Hassan, who is later known as the son of Baba. Amir feels guilty about Hassan, because he didn’t help Hassan when he is in danger. Amir doesn’t have the courage to face Hassan, so he framed Hassan and want Hassam disappear in his life. After Amir grows up, he tries to redeem for Hassan but Hassan and his family were killed in the war.

     Hassan’s devotion to Amir is also an important theme. Hassan loves Amir and extremely loyal to him. But Amir doesn’t cherish this relationship. He stands still and watches Assef to rape Hassan. After that He framed Hassan steals his watch.  Even though Amir betrays this devotion of Hassan again and again. Hassan never blames Amir or stop contributing .Hassan is selfless to Amir but Amir does not understand because he is too young. When he eventually regret for what he has done, everything is too late that can never be redeemed.

     Another significant theme is discrimination. Hassan and Ali work as servants and they always discriminated by people because they are Hazaras , which is the lowest class in Afghanistan . This is also the reason why Baba doesn’t admit Hassan as his son. The author gives Hassan the lowest social class that takes the most abuses and terrible experience but at the same time emphasize the strong will power and positive attitude.

 These themes go through the whole novel, make the story impressive , also contains some life lessons what we need to learn.