( This resource, from the Brisbane Rape and Incest Survivors Support Center, on The Soviet Union left and Western countries failed to help the country].ĭiscuss rape as a means of exerting power or control over someone else. … A lot of Afghans feel that’s what happened [after A lot of fellow Afghans feel like that’s what happened to their country, if you substitute Afghanistan for Hassan.Īfter Hassan has served his purpose and found what Amir wanted, the kite, then Amir kind of stands by and watches him be attacked without intervening. In the alley as having “a metaphoric quality to it, and the rape scene. When asked what his favorite symbol in the novel is (kites, aside), Khaled Hosseini describes the scene In the alley in Chapter 7, but, as always, use your discretion in sharing them with students. The ideas and resources that follow aim to help students make sense of what happens Note to teacher: “The Kite Runner” contains sensitive subject matter that might not be appropriate for all students. How do you teach this novel? Tell us below. Stability, as United States troops pull out - the book provides a window into Afghanistan as a place not only of war, but of honor, innocence and beauty.īelow we offer five ways you might use New York Times content to approach this text with students. In classrooms across the country and the world.Īnd as Afghanistan figures prominently in world news - the Taliban still casts a shadow on the country’s And read it they do the novel is taught (and challenged)

In fact, in anĪugust 2014 Times interview, the Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai named “The Kite Runner” one The human aspects of the story transcend time and place, and the challenges and choices the narrator grapples with as a young man make “The Kite Runner” a compelling read for teenagers. Of how her neighbors interacted with their Guatemalan gardeners. “the arbitrary violence of the Taliban reminded her of the deportation of her parents and neighbors in Toulouse to Nazi concentration camps.” Her fellow book club member, Nancy Hertzberg, was reminded To Yvonne Campbell, a reader in Palm Beach, Fla., Since its publication, the novel has struck a chord with diverse audiences, becoming a surprise hit in paperback, largely through word of mouth and book clubs. Of fierce cruelty and fierce yet redeeming love.” He goes on to write, “Both transform the life of Amir, Khaled Hosseini’s privileged young narrator, who comes of age during the last peacefulĭays of the monarchy, just before his country’s revolution and its invasion by Russian forces.” In the original Times review of “The Kite Runner,” published in 2003, Edward Hower describes the novel as telling “a story Teaching ideas based on New York Times content.

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