Anaysis
Point 18: So how do we read the novel?
12/01/2014 21:40
There are hundreds of key elements to this novel that engage the reader and allow the meaning of the novel to be surrounded in a collage of colourful imagery. However, there are tremendously significant...
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Point 17: Character
12/01/2014 21:39
In the novel, what is white and pure tended to fade in the obsidian abyss of disdain. Innocence fell flat on its face as white was succumbed by black’s violence, joining the two to create a hazy grey veil around nearly every character. To elaborate, this veil of uncertainty...
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Point 13: Irony
12/01/2014 21:38
To the attentive eye, one could easily notice a vibe of irony in between the lines of the first-person central narrative. The major component that acts as a glue for both the time frame and storyline is the reverse-dramatic irony. Consistent as can be, the reverse-dramatic irony...
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Point 12: Theme
12/01/2014 21:37
Familiar with the saying, “Everything happens for a reason”? Often it is used in religious contexts as it echoes, “He has a plan,” in the deep undertones of this ordinary axiom. For an author, the divine creator of his or her work, this adage has extraordinary relevance as it hints...
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Point 11: Motif
12/01/2014 21:34
A significant aspect of the novel is the resurfacing of the haunting past. It seems that despite Amir physically escaping any form of confrontation in his youth, he sees his boyhood fears emerge from the stygian shadows to release torment on his drowning spirit. One of the tools...
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Point 10: Place
12/01/2014 21:33
In 1965, the author, Khaled Hosseini, was born to the aristocracy of Afghanistan. He spent eleven years within the monarchy-governed country with his mother, a teacher of Farsi, and his father, a prominent diplomat, before relocating to France. Four years later, the red wave of...
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Point 8 and 9: Time Frame and Time Management
12/01/2014 21:32
In agony, it will be one’s worst enemy. In happiness, it will flee beyond anyone’s grasp. In frustration and anger, it will heal one’s fatal wounds. Time: its charm and grace is often indescribable like the sunshine’s refulgence. Time: its repugnance frightens the guilty and...
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Point 5: Point of View
12/01/2014 21:30
The novel demands a narrative voice that resonates and appeals with the audience with ease. This narrative voice must function as a vessel that transports the reader throughout multiple decades of action and history in a swift whirlwind of litany. In conjunction with that thought,...
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Point 3 and 7: Mood and Narrative Attitude
12/01/2014 21:29
It is resoundingly clear as a bell: Amir, the narrator, lives with his hands forever stained with vermillion blood as he endures the unparalleled Hell of guilt. This guilt is consistently present throughout the novel until he is freed from this type of purgatory with his amendment...
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Point 2: Tone
12/01/2014 21:27
The tone of the novel personified by the main character, Amir, is tremendously sour in taste, as it harps on the stomach-turning struggles of the third-world, war-stricken country, Afghanistan, and its tortured inhabitants. Often the voice of the narrator, Amir, is tainted with a...
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