#khalid hosseini

[youstillsaiditsname]

i think i loved you, but i guess i'll never really know

joan tierney / death cab for cutie / sylvie baumgartel / the crane wives / @araekni / khalid hosseini / lev st valentine / wendy cope / richard siken (reordered)

#web weaving #joan tierney #death cab for cutie #sylvie baumgartel #the crane wives #araekni #khalid hosseini #lev st valentine #wendy cope #richard siken #love #loss #grief #it's about. not knowing if it ever really was love. and not having the time to figure it out #do i really love you or do i love the memory of you. did i really love you. was it just love or Love #i didnt know then and now i will never know and every night i am dancing with your ghost in the hope that one day it will tell me

[suheib]

“ I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctors where it hurts, only that it does.”

-Khalid Hosseini

#khalid hosseini #poetry #hurt/comfort #poetrylovers #writing #bookstagram

[amarmonerkotha]

Haven't finished "a thousand splendid suns" yet but the book definitely finished me

#a thousand splendid suns #khalid hosseini #the kite runner

[luckystarinsky]

When Khaled Hosseini wrote “a man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't likes a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.” And when he wrote “Learn this once and learn it well, my daughter. Like a compass needle always points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman.”

#Khalid Hosseini #franz kafka #quote of the day #bestquotes #spilledink #spilled words #literature #best quotes #dead poets society #Charles bukowski

[wandereralix]

I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.

- Khalid Hosseini

#khalid hosseini #writing #wander #love #quotes #words #aesthetic #dark academia #poetry #spilled poetry #the kite runner #and the mountains echoed #a thousand splendid Suns #pain #joy #without pain #writer #writers community

[justadeadpoet]

"Everybody wants Jack," Laila said to Mariam. "That's what it is. Everybody wants Jack to rescue them from disaster. But there is no Jack. Jack is not coming back. Jack is dead"

~ A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini

#love poetry #love quotes #love notes to no one #titanic #relatable quotes #lovesick #long reads #book quotes #books #literature #lit #khalid hosseini #my love #blog post #jack and rose

[uvwsm]

when khalid hosseini wrote

-i was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.

[shawredasar]

~Khalid Husseini, The Kite Runner

#khalid hosseini #literature #art #words #poetic #english #lit #the kite runner #excerpts

[thekeyof-a]

Book Review: The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a novel is narrated by a male protagonist Amir, who represents the perspective of privilege while battling his dynamic with his servant Hassan, a loyal lower-class boy of the same age. The context of the story sets off in Afghanistan, 1975, where the early years of Amir’s life are recalled. But, due to the Russian invasion, his family flees to America until Amir returns to his roots during the Taliban regime to confront his past and seek redemption.

Timeline

The vast duration of the timeline set in the novel creates an opportunity for Hosseini to alter the gradual maturity of his writing in reference to his aging protagonist. And as complex is such an opportunity, the beauty of the novel is Hosseini’s success in capturing such an integral element. The audience grows in tandem with Amir’s foolish nativity, his pettiness or childlike selfish nature. We experience with him the illusion that there’s ease from cowardice since we

watch its consequence manifest as guilt and evolve while he does. The magnificence of such growth is the usage of a first-person narrative and the kind of intimacy that creates to offer the reader a chance to age along with Amir.

First-Person Narrative

But that is not merely the limit of the kind of scope that a first-person narrative may propose. Hosseini takes advantage of this proximity crafted in order to further embed the audience into a moral conflict. As simple as it is to instead narrate the same story from the victim’s perspective and gain a sympathetic tear from its readers – it creates a different turmoil to bear witness the victim through the eyes of the perpetrator and yet be able to comprehend his cowardice.

The relationship between Amir and the victim in question – Hassan is painstakingly curated and experienced during the introduction of the novel. Even with the class barrier between the children, there is one factor that is not lost and never is – love. As recited more times than once, a promise held between the boy’s states, “For you, a thousand times over.”Hassan’s fluency in his devotion to Amir is through his unwavering loyalty, whereas Amir’s is as his motivation to face his self-preservation instinct in favour of putting another at priority. The hopelessness of Hosseini’s writing is how these two languages are failed to align in time, which is why Amir learns to reattempt it when presented with a new opportunity.

Afghani Culture

An aspect of Hosseini’s craft that encourages a holistic indulgence from the reader is through his depiction of numerous nuances of the lifestyle and culture in Afghanistan. For instance, on relocating to America with his father, Amir is faced with a cultural disparity after his father has an outbreak in a grocery store. On being asked for identification as assurance for future payback, his father is astonished by the lack of trust in the foreign country. Amir explains that in Kabul, “Hassan and I would take a wooden stick to the bread maker. He’d carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he’d pull for us from the tandoor’s roaring flames. At the end of the month, my father paid him for the number of notches on the stick. That was it. No questions. No ID.”

Amir is able to conform to the contrast in culture but watches his father’s struggle on having lived far longer within the bounds of immense trust present in Afghani culture. It is through moments such as this, that Hosseini is able to embed Afghani culture within the novel so intricately that during their lives abroad, the loss of familiarity stings the reader as well. This method of communicating a struggle within fiction is highly effective in invoking a

personal sentiment from the reader to another’s turmoil.

Moreover, with a fictional account of such political as well as cultural themes prevalent in Afghanistan, Hosseini provides the apt candidate for an educator. His work debunks biases against the locals of Afghanistan using universal struggles to gain the empathy of his readers. It humanizes the struggles of the locals, sheds light on political injustices, and impeccably educates through Amir’s story. Hosseini manages to write his characters as such raw human beings that religion or cultural difference holds trivial value in comparison.

Duality of Reality

While acknowledging Hosseini’s alternative perspective while approaching his work, it is worthy to note his views on reality and how The Kite Runner brings out those snippets. It is not that Hosseini denies the readers a brutal and raw depiction of the universal realities told in the story, but additionally how he is able to soften or cushion those burdens by giving vitality to the trivial beauties life has to offer as well. This is a balance often in literature since there is either extreme idealism or shattering reality.

To illustrate such a claim, it is observed that with the brutality of the events that transpire in the novel, Hosseini still closes with an opening of optimism. Amir states, “Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird’s flight. But I’ll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting.” As stated by a quote on the back of the hardcover by The Times, “Hosseini is truly a gifted teller of tales…he’s not afraid to pull every string in your heart to make it sing”. To pull every string in your heart is to be able to evoke sentimentality to reality, and to make it sing is to bring a snippet of beauty that is offered with hope: a hope that is not ideal or definitive but

present.

Full Circle

Found in more than just The Kite Runner of Hosseini’s work is the art of coming full circle while writing a plot. This is a method that does not necessarily give the ending to a definitive close but instead ties the cross-section of a larger story, introduced by the beginning.

Hosseini does not only tie up the larger plot, but brings back various plot ends that may appear seamless and manages to either keep those ends loose but acknowledged or satiated. To take a direct example, such as the title “The Kite Runner” itself, the novel uses a cultural festivity such as kite running to mark an integral turn of events for the protagonist. It is from that moment forward that the protagonist’s fatal flaw is revealed, and for the remainder of the novel – dealt with. 

When Amir is almost robbed of his final chance at redemption, an opportunity blooms. His gain of this opportunity is not effortless, and in the turmoil to retrieve it, it almost seems lost once again. With that, a moment of revisiting the innocent play of kite running is what recharges a sense of hope once again – full circle. With this, not only does the larger plot reunite, but Amir once again brings a dialogue of love between him and Hassan, now for a new priority, Sohrab. He sets off weightlessly running to say, “For you, a thousand times over.”

Feminine Male Protagonist

A striking feature of the male protagonist here is his inability to live up to the approval of his father’s masculine standards. Amir is established to posses irrevocable feminine traits that (in the context of the novel) are deemed unfavourable. As the official son of his father, his identity approval.

Merely at the start of the novel itself, Amir admits, “Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name. Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975-and all that followed- was already laid in those first words.”

The approval denied from Amir was diverted to Hassan, which manifested into envy. It is vital to account that Hassan’s effortless masculine traits are countered by his feminine one of unwavering loyalty (specifically toward Amir). And similarly, how Amir’s feminine traits are countered by his overwhelming envy, which leads to competitive selfishness (using his privilege to put himself above Hassan). 

It is from this; the readers are given a complex understanding of what motivates these characters in their choices and the play between toxic masculinity to the illusion of weakness in feminine nature. The voice of a male to narrate this battle is a perspective rarely witnessed in literature and is why Amir stands out. 

Especially why Amir and his dynamic with Hassan is so rich and provocative to the narrative.Overall, Hosseini’s work is commendable regarding the depth and portrayal of aspects mentioned. The Kite Runner offers more than just a story, but an experience, a learning, and most of all, feeling.

#the kite runner #khalid hosseini #book review

[cloudyjulyy]

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals all d details for itself.

-Kite Runner

#kite runner #writing #books & libraries #quotes #khalid hosseini

[dawnwithkrrr]

I did ruin all of it by subsiding for things I knew wouldn't sync in

I did break through my own heart to claim one of theirs

scraped my skin to withstand the scrapes in their mind

changed it over, to fit and find a place in their fist

a man's heart is a wretched wretched place

it doesn't expand to make space, it seeks you to fold in

and again, I protected by continuing

#love and redemption #giving up #soft girl #poets corner #bodyshamers #dead poets aesthetic #khalid hosseini #trauma #intimacy #harassment mention #idk what else to tag

[originalityreigns]

#khalid hosseini #love #art #quotes #print

[moodywritersblog]

when Khaled Hosseini said "Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting" we all felt it.

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[amarmonerkotha]

Asked my teacher for the book "A thousand splendid suns" to read and she so readily agreed to let me borrow ittt!!

#the favorite oneee #already healing #a thousand splendid suns #khalid hosseini

[thewiredsignary]

#quotes #khalid hosseini #be kind my neighbor #explore #cupcakes #artists on tumblr #sad aesthetic

[anythingbutbeauty]

The past claws it's way out.

-Khalid Hossesini, the kite runner

#life quotes #khalid hosseini #Kite runner #kite runner