English Literature and Linguistics

The Kite Runner The Kite Runner  is the  first novel  by  Afghan-American  author  Khaled Hosseini . [1] Published in 2003 by  Riverhead Books , it tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the  Wazir Akbar Khan  district of  Kabul , whose closest friend is Hassan. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of  Afghanistan's monarchy  through the  Soviet military intervention , the exodus of  refugees to  Pakistan  and the United States, and the rise of the  Taliban  regime. The Kite Runner First edition cover (US hardback) Author Khaled Hosseini Cover artistHoni WernerCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishGenre Historical fiction Drama Classic Publisher Riverhead Books Publication date May 29, 2003Pages372 ISBN 1-57322-245-3 OCLC 51615359 Dewey Decimal 813/.6 21 LC Class PS3608.O832 K58 2003 Hosseini has commented that he considers  T...

Part I Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood in Kabul, setting of Part I Amir, a well-to-do  Pashtun  boy, and Hassan, a  Hazara  who is the son of Ali, Amir's father's servant, spend their days  kite fighting  in the hitherto peaceful city of Kabul. Hassan is a successful "kite runner" for Amir; he knows where the kite will land without watching it. Both boys are motherless: Amir's mother died in childbirth, while Hassan's mother, Sanaubar, simply abandoned him and Ali. Amir's father, a wealthy merchant Amir affectionately refers to as  Baba,  loves both boys. He makes a point of buying Hassan exactly the same things as Amir, to Amir's annoyance. He even pays to have Hassan's cleft lip surgically corrected. On the other hand, Baba jan is often critical of Amir, considering him weak and lacking in courage, even threatening to physically punish him when he complains about Hassan. Amir finds a kinder fatherly figure in Rahim Khan, Baba's closest f...

STANZA Wise Summary of the poem ( line-by-line explanation ) ( ☣Stanza 1 ) Lines 1-3 LET us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; "We" are being invited on a trip somewhere. Oh, fun! But who am "I"? Am I the reader of "J. Alfred Prufrock," or am I someone else? For the purposes of the poem, you are someone else. Right from the very start, by addressing itself to a fictional person, the poem is announcing that it’s a "dramatic monologue." We know that a "dialogue" is two people talking, so a "monologue" must be one person talking, because "mono" means "one." The poem is "dramatic" because it is written in the voice of a speaker other than the poet. We know this from the title, which tells us that the speaker is a guy named J. Alfred Prufrock – this is his song. (In olden times, poems were called "songs"). It’s not clear ...