THE KITE RUNNER

The Kite sprinter by Khaled Hosseini

The Kite sprinter by Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner is a novel of conflict, and the conflicts range from warring armies, factions, worldviews, and ethnic groups to the conflicts between individuals, fathers and sons and Amir and Baba in particular. Underlying many of these conflicts, perhaps all is the conflict between the masculine and the feminine (Hosseini, 2004).

Characters of the Novel

Amir: The protagonist and narrator

Hassan: A servant boy

Baba: Amir's father

Ali: Hassan's father

Rahim Khan: Baba's enterprise partner

Assef: A young bully, later a Taliban official

Sohrab: Hassan's orphaned son

Soraya: Amir's ...