How far do you agree with the view that The Kite Runner is a celebration of the bond of brotherhood?
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billyydaviss (student)
How far do you agree with the view that The Kite Runner is a celebration of the bond of brotherhood?
Brotherhood is a strong theme throughout the book and there is evidence supporting that it is a celebration of the bond of brotherhood but also that it isn’t.
I think that The Kite Runner could be seen as a celebration of the bond of the brotherhood because of the relationship between Amir and Hassan. Although there are signs of disloyalty by Amir there are also signs of ‘brotherly love’ between them.
Amir shows that he cares for Hassan when he says “then he [Ali] would remind us that there was a brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that not even time could break. Hassan and I fed from the same breasts.” In this quote Amir implies that because he and Hassan fed from the same breast, they are like brothers. This shows that he does see a connection between he and Hassan. However, this is ironic because they are brothers in a way because they share the same father.
When Amir says “But we were kids who had learned to crawl together, and no history, ethnicity, society, or religion was going to change that either. I spent most of the first twelve years of my life playing with Hassan”, it shows us that Amir does love Hassan and they are close, however later on in the book he contradicts this statement when he forces Hassan away.
Ten years after Amir leaves Hassan he says “I wish Hassan had been with us today”, this tells us that although he drove Hassan away, he misses him and wishes things had turn out differently.
We know that Amir’s memories with Hassan are his happiest memories as when Baba asks Amir to think of something good, Amir has an analepsis of a memory with Hassan.
