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As the novel has a personal narration what is the style of its language?

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it is informal, converastional style, similar to dialogue rather than a self-consciously literary style of writing.

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Amir’s narrative voice is fairly consistent across most of the novel. However what is there a development in as he moving from talking about his childhood years to his adult life?

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development in vocabulary and sentence structure

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When relating his childhood, especially in the chapters leading up to Hassan’s attack, he tends to use childlike language for example…….; or a childlike simplicity of description -…..

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“he told on me”

:they clapped for a long time. Afterward, people shook his hand.

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What is the trauma of Hassan’s attack accompanied by in terms of language?

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by a dropping away of the childlike tone

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Turning away from the alley, Amir says, “____________” .He does not use the more familiar word “crying” which we might have expected. Then, having decided that he was a coward because he ran, he tells us that he “_________________”. This is an adult notion with an adult way of expressing it.

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I was weeping

actually aspired to cowardice

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At the end of Chapter 7, as he is held and hugged by Baba, the tone of voice reflects th security he feels in that moment by reverting to a simple childish voice, but this, like the feeling of secrurity Amir feels, does not last and by the start of the next chapter we are back to a more sophisticated prose with complex compound sentences. What does Amir say at the end of the chapter?

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In his arms, I forgot what I’d done. And that was good.

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How does language change at times of stress or extreme anxiety such as the rape scene?

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at these points the sentence structure changes and becomes hesitant and broken to reflect the fragmentation of Amir’s mind.

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Following Sohrabs suicide attempt, the narration enters the present tense, resulting in a more urgent and immediate voice. What quote example?

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“They won’t let me in. I seem them wheel him”

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Describe Hassan’s voice?

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It is written in a style which seems to have a more foreign cadence than either Rahim Khan’s or Amir’s

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Why does Hassan’s voice have a more foreign cadence than either Rahim Khans or Amirs? Sentences such as “I am hopeful one day that I will hold one of your letters in my hands”

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as we can assume that most of his reading would be associated with religion and so has no western influence.

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Hassan is responsible for one of the key motifs of the novel, the phrase…?

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“for you, a thousand times over”

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Why do we understand the transformation that has taken place in Amir?

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as he uses the phrase “for you, a thousand times over” which is a amore spiritual form of language and roots him inAfghanistan

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What are all of Amir’s recollections coloured by?

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by his knowledge of what is to come

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The story is told from a chronological end point so that Amir frequently foreshadows and undercuts events by revealing they will not last. What is an example of this?

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Chapter 5 “that was the winter that Hassan stopped smiling”

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As Amir witnesses the rape, the narrative veers to other stories at other times what does this represent?

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this represents the desire of Amir’s mind to avoid dealing with what he is seeing

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If looking at the Kite Runner as an allegory what would Amir’s journey of redemption become?

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an accompaniment to a description of the trials of the Afghan people; his search for reconciliation can be seen as representative of their search for peace and self determination

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Hassans dream on the day of the kite flying tournament seems to be prophetic of what?

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of the danger which was waiting him in the alley