2014-2015学年第二学期

《英文小说与电影》课程论文 English Novels and Films Title：

院系班级： 师范学院

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My thought of The Kite Runner

——Friendship

Abstract：The Kite Runner is a story that has a moral. “Kite”can stand a great many things,such as family affection,love,friendship,freedom and so on.There is a special kite in everyone’s heart.For Amir,who is the protagonist of The Kite Runner, “kite”is a necessary part of his personality.In case he can’t foreach it, he can’t be a wholesome man.

Keywords: The kite Runner Friendship Trust

Amir is especially timid and recreant. When his servant Hassan who is his best friend was surrounded by rich masters with beating and insulting, Amir, as the most believed fiend by Hassan, cowered in sunless corner and watched silently, he cried but he did not dare to help Hassan. When I saw this moment, I almost heard smashing voice of my heart.

The great trust on great friendship, friendship is the foundation of trust. Everyone has a friend that he trusts most, and it is independent of identity, position and age. For us, this one is almost our family, she is our acquired relative. We call her girlfriend.If it is a man, we called him brother. We believe each other. If one is without friend, the world is wilderness. I can't imagine what I will do if I meet with disaster but my most trusted friend only watches but doesn't help me. Betraying a trust very quick and painful way to terminate a friendship. Nevertheless I believe firmly she won't put me away. When we were senior grade two, there was an earthquake at 3 am. Only she woke up suddenly. She screamed "It's an earthquake". Meanwhile, she ran to my bed and held my hand to run out fast. It may be just several seconds that she running to me, however, just one second is also much rarity when earthquake happens. Nonetheless she didn't release me, she ran to hold my hand instinctively. I believe that a friend in need is a friend indeed. An English writer, called Johnson, said that a man should keep his friendship in constant repair. If you want to share the prize with your friend but not danger, you will lose your friend. Friendship is the love not having a wing. Real friendship needs trust. Friendship is the virtue assisting in governing a country forever, is not that the foolish friend of the crime assistant is too worse than sagacious enemy.

Bibliography

[1]Ralph.Waldo.Emerson. The Expo Extract Solution

[2] Harry Emerson Fosdick (Ancient Greece) Aesop The Travelers and the Hatchet

[3]东鲁古狂生,醉醒石.[M].上海古籍出版社,1985

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（一）

This is a wonderful, beautiful epic of a novel. Set in Afghanistan and the United States between the 1970s to the present day, it is a heartbreaking tale of a young boy, Amir, and his best friend who are torn apart. This is a classic word-of-mouth novel and is sure to become as universally loved as The God of Small Things and The Glass Palace.

Twelve year old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father Baba, one of the richest and most respected merchants in Kabul. He has failed to do so through academia or brawn, but the one area where they connect is the annual kite fighting tournament. Amir is determined not just to win the competition but to run the last kite and bring it home triumphantly, to prove to his father that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan is the best kite runner that Amir has ever seen, and he promises to help him - for Hassan always helps Amir out of trouble. But Hassan is a Shi'a Muslim and this is 1970s Afghanistan. Hassan is taunted and jeered at by Amir's school friends; he is merely a servant living in a shack at the back of Amir's house. So why does Amir feel such envy towards his friend? Then, what happens to Hassan on the afternoon of the tournament is to shatter all their lives, and define their futures.

The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys.

Narrated by Amir, a 40-year-old novelist living in California, The Kite Runner tells the gripping story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir's equally guilt-ridden relationship with the war-torn city of his birth. The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner begins in the final days of King Zahir Shah's 40-year reign and traces the country's fall from a secluded oasis to a tank-strewn battlefield controlled by the Russians and then the trigger-happy Taliban. When

Amir returns to Kabul to rescue Hassan's orphaned child, the personal and the political get tangled together in a plot that is as suspenseful as it is taut with feeling.

The son of an Afghan diplomat whose family received political asylum in the United States

in 1980, Hosseini combines the unflinching realism of a war correspondent with the satisfying emotional pull of master storytellers such as Rohinton Mistry. Like the kite that is its central

image, the story line of this mesmerizing first novel occasionally dips and seems almost to dive to the ground. But Hosseini ultimately keeps everything airborne until his heartrending conclusion in an American picnic park.

--Lisa Alward, Amazon.ca

（二）

For You, a Thousand Times over

I am convinced that few books are as good as this one. To be honest, I hadn’t maintained that this book would appeal me before I read it. However, I was absorbed in the book from the first chapter to the last one. Why this book has appealed to me that much? I asked myself. This book is not my type of reading for only romantic books could draw my attention successfully. Then I came into a conclusion that it is the friendship and familyship fascinated me.

To the world you are one person, but to the person who loves you, you are the world. Amir was Hassan’s world. Amir’s name had been the first word Hassan spoke. Hassan threatened brutal Assef for the sake of Amir. Hassan never failed to run the kite to please Amir. Hassan sacrificed himself for Amir’s house. These are more than a friend would do. Only those who loves you so much could challenge himself to do what Hassan did to Amir.To Hassan, Amir was not only a mere friend but a brother. He loved Amir more than anything else. Even after Amir betrayed him, he still told his son proudly“Agan Amir is my best friend”.Maybe for Hassan “for you, a thousand times over” has another meaning, which is not just kite running for Amir but he will do anything for Amir.

If Hassan could be described as an angel, then Amir was just a person. I did hate Amir for he watched Hassan be raped and did nothing, for he made Hassan leave his born-place, for he aimed Hassan with fruit（even though he actually tried to make himself get punished）. Amir didn’t deserve what Hassan did to him. I thought his meanness caused Hassan’s tragedy. But after I finished the book, I realized it is not Hassan’s tragedy, it is Amir’s. For what he had done to Hassan, he had led a live with regret and suffered endless sleepless nights. His going back to

Afghanistan is not only a journey physically but a journey to atonement. Hassan’s son, his nephew saved, Amir’s sin was finally washed. Like the life of circle, Amir ran kite for his miserable nephew.As Hassan did to him, he said “for you , a thousand times over” to Sohrab.Though the book doesn’t give us an accurate ending whether Sohrab came into life again. I am sure love can cure everything. Only when Sohrab lives a happy life as Hassan hoped can Amir’s sin washed up. The friendship between Hassan and Amir moved me. I believe All the people who read it is going to be touched just as I am. This book does make me think the good and the bad ,what’s

wrong and what’s right, the cruelty of war . Few books can exert an influence on people nowadays, this book sure does.