We can see this at the end of his letter “And I dream someday you will return to Kabul to revisit the land of our childhood. This letter represents the embodiment of “For you, a thousand times over” Where it connects to Hassan. They laugh at the stories of all the mischief you and I used to cause!” (216) in this quote we learn that Hassan has somewhat forgiven Amir and doesn’t dislike Amir for not standing up to Assef when Hassan was raped. For example, on 216 we see this come to light when a letter is written from Hassan to Amir “I have told much about you to Farzana jan and Sohrab, about us growing up together and playing games and running in the streets. His new change in his personality gives him the chance and power to love Sohrab uncontrollably as Hassan had loved Amir. Amir is no longer scared to stand up for himself, and does not care if anyone detests him in anyway. He was yelling over his shoulder for you, a thousand times over” (194)Īmir seems to redeem himself later in the book by saving the Soharab, and because of that there is a change in Amir’s personality and attitude.

On page 194 Amir seems to dream of this “Hassan running in the snow, the hem of his green chapan dragging behind him, snow crunching under his black rubber boots. He is left with the feeling down knowing he defrayed Hassan’s unconditional love back in Afghanistan. Later on in the book in Hassan rape scene it shows the reader that Hassan has unconditional love for Amir at this point, Amir doesn’t accept it which makes the area in the book more detrimental to the characters affected in this scene.īut even when Amir tries to run from his problems and attempts to forget his guilt. And it is because of that kite that it’s the basis of the book and to why the book is turned into a character filled with guilt. The first time this quotation appears in the book is when, Hassan tells Amir “For you, a thousand times over” (67) is where he is running after the blue kite. And this is why it’s such an important piece throughout the book, first being used by Hassan on page 67 and was last used by Amir on page 371. “For you, a thousand times over” This quotation is an important quote from The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini because it’s meant to express deep love. He took a step forward, drew closer, like a nervous child coming to terms with its fears.Hey, I know it isn’t great but it isn’t a 52! Take a read please!

His pulse raced madly, and his violent itch to kill grew fiercer, like a sexual urge, at the sight of this sorry corpse. If he were to kill, that’s what would be lying on the ground. What he only dreamt about that other man had done, and there it was. And the inner agitation that had quickened his steps, the horrible fascination that kept him standing there, culminated in one piercing insight that burst from the depths of his being: that man, the one he’d seen with the knife in his fist, he had dared! that man had travelled the distance of his desire, that man had killed! Oh! to stop being a coward, to have the satisfaction at last, to plunge the knife in! And what about him, who’d spent the last ten years desperately wanting to do just that! There was, in the midst of his fevered interest, a measure of self-contempt, of admiration for the other man, and above all the need to see the thing for himself, an unquenchable thirst to drink in the spectacle of the tatter of humanity, the broken puppet, the limp rag, to which a living creature is reduced by the mere stab of a knife. Left on his own, Jacques remained where he was and continued to gaze at the still, slumped heap, which appeared no more than a blurred mass in the dim lamplight cast along the ground. Graham Greene’… on Anatomies, Perspectives, Saint…Ĭategories Categories Tags adaptation American literature Amnesty International BBC Booker Prize books children's literature cinema contemporary literature creative writing English literature fiction French literature gender gothic grief literature memoirs nineteenth century poetry science fiction supernatural twentieth century twenty-first century war BookTweets My Tweets BookTalk on Facebook ‘You must seek him o… on ‘In the screenplay I des… ‘You must seek him o… on Cardiff BookTalk: The Green… ‘When I write… on Writing the City – Rache…Ĭardiff BookTalk Eve… on Richard Adams – Watershi… Britain’s Internal Borderlands – Meredith Miller in conversation with Kevin Morgan.‘Not From an Astronomer’ – a short story by Meredith Miller.FALL RIVER: an interview with Meredith Miller.Simone de Beauvoir’s The Mandarins – 70 Years Later.Toril Moi on The Mandarins: Acknowledging the Other.+ Add your own event Eventbrite Recent Posts

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