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    Study Guide: The Kite Runner (A BookCaps Study Guide)
    Study Guide: The Kite Runner (A BookCaps Study Guide)
    Study Guide: The Kite Runner (A BookCaps Study Guide)
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    Study Guide: The Kite Runner (A BookCaps Study Guide)

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    The perfect companion to Khaled Hosseini’s "The Kite Runner," this study guide contains a chapter by chapter analysis of the book, a summary of the plot, and a guide to major characters and themes.

    BookCap Study Guides do not contain text from the actual book, and are not meant to be purchased as alternatives to reading the book.

    We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.

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    Release dateDec 8, 2011
    ISBN9781466151604
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    We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.Visit www.bookcaps.com to see more of our books, or contact us with any questions.

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      Study Guide - BookCaps

      Khaled Hossini’s

      The Kite Runner

      By BookCaps Study Guides

      © 2011 by Golgotha Press, Inc.

      Published at SmashWords

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      Historical Context

      Khaled Hosseini was born in Afghanistan in 1965. He is one of five children born to upper-middle class parents in the posh neighborhood of Wazir Akbar Khan. His father was a diplomat for the Afghan Foreign Ministry, and his mother was a teacher at an all-girls high school. His father was sent to Iran in 1970, and while there Hosseini taught the family’s cook, a Hazara man, how to read and write. It was around this same time that he began to write his own short stories, and reading Persian poetry as well as American novels. The family was moved around many times over the next decade due to turmoil between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. They eventually ended up in San Jose, California and were granted political asylum. Hosseini went on to graduate high school and receive a medical degree from University of California, San Diego. He was officially a doctor after completing his residency at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

      Hosseini started practicing medicine though he kept writing, as well. He started writing his first novel, The Kite Runner in 2001 because he felt like he had a story to tell about his early life in Afghanistan and the turmoil that surrounds that time. While the book is not autobiographical most characters are representative of people who Hosseini knew in his life, and many of the experiences of the characters closely represent experiences that Hosseini himself has had; especially the experiences of the characters after they come to America. The Kite Runner was published in 2003, in the midst of the US war in Afghanistan, and was an instant success. The novel earned Hosseini many awards and was made into a movie in 2007. Hosseini’s second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns was also instantly successful, and Hosseini continues to write today.

      Plot

      As a young boy in Kabul, Amir comes from a very wealthy background and lives in an extravagant home with his father Baba and their servants, Ali and his son Hassan. Neither Amir nor Hassan have mothers as Amir’s died during childbirth and Hassan’s left soon after he was born. The two boys become best friends, but there is a small amount of tension as Hassan is of a lower ethnic class known as Hazara which is often discriminated against. Throughout a series of events that cause some jealousy and discomfort in the friendship of the two boys, Hassan and Ali leave the home. When the Taliban begins to take over Baba and Amir escape to America. It is a struggle for Baba to adapt to living in America and he works very

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