‘The Kite Runner’ by Khaled Hosseini: context, themes, characters! | Narrator: Barbara Njau
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Pressed for time? Here is a summary on all you need to know about Khaled Hosseini’s novel, ‘The Kite Runner’ In this video, we summarise the novel’s plot, its main characters and the themes that you need to be aware of when it comes to analysing this novel.
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very useful! one little note when you mention that Hassan and Ali are sent away, if you re-read that chapter you'll find that Ali learns about the rape and then wants to leave on his own accordance stating that he doesn't want to stay anymore.
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5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for clarifying, much appreciated :-)
@balochworld6269
4 жыл бұрын
May I ask in which syllabus this novel is included
@misan2002
3 жыл бұрын
@@balochworld6269 A level AQA
@jiminahx
2 жыл бұрын
to add onto that, baba actually excused hassan for ‘stealing’ the watch and begged them to stay - even though earlier in the novel he told amir that thieving is the worst kind of sin - because he doesn’t believe that hassan actually did it :)
this saved me from having to read an entire book before school starts so thanks
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@sharanyap3057
4 жыл бұрын
It would be lovely if you would actually read it as the book is extraordinarily beautiful
@sarahhobbs6756
4 жыл бұрын
@@sharanyap3057 the book is absolutely amazing and even though this video is extremely helpful it leaves out a lot of Important details that you must read to know.
@MuhammadUsama-po4vf
4 жыл бұрын
Tomorrow is my exam😑
@lizavanderveen5581
4 жыл бұрын
@@sharanyap3057 you're joking right 🙈 It's a really depressing book.
1 0:35 2 1:10 3 3:34 4 4:30 5 5:07 6 5:36 7 5:47 8 5:54 9 6:31 10 6:45 11 7:11 12 7:21 characters 13 7:56 14 7:58 15 8:14 themes past 8:41 political events 9:21 hassans cleft lip 10:10 kites 10:31
@dragobro0456
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you
4:58 they aren't sent away. they leave on their own accord. and also at that point it's implied that Ali knows what happened to Hassan and how Amir didn't help him
Just to let you know, Hassan and Amir weren't kicked out the house. Baba forgave them but Amir and Hassan decided to leave even though baba insisted them to stay.
This summary video was way better than the others on the internet! Thank you so much
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For you a thousand times over ❤️ this book is actually good
Brilliant summary and explanation of themes the novel has. It saves a lot of time of people preparing for competitive exams. I'm grateful to you for this.
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5 жыл бұрын
Thank you and all the best with your exams!
You just saved my grade. Thank you
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4 жыл бұрын
Glad to have been of help! Best wishes!
Lovely, I ended up reading this story on my own and I'm just hoping that someone one of these days does a passionate literary in depth analysis on the book because it's such a good story (mainly because it makes me cry XD)
This is great!! Hopefully I can use it for my AP Lit test tomorrow
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2 жыл бұрын
me watching this three days before my AP lit test
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2 жыл бұрын
@@mollymeyer9640 me watching it 8 hours before
I have read this novel recently and I really loved the story. Full of emotions, thrill and surprises. thanks for the review!
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this video was so helpful!! definitely recommend using it for help
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4 ай бұрын
Ik you graduated alr huh bro
I picked this book up at a thrift store and reading it, I shed tears. I don't want to spoil anyone who hasn't read the book; but it is moving and heartbreaking and haunting,
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2 жыл бұрын
Agreed - it's extremely moving and haunting! You should consider also reading his other book, "A Thousand Splendid Suns". If you loved this book, you will adore this follow up novel.
not me crying over a book summary video
U complete the whole summary and issues in a smooth way...thanks...
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This was very useful, great summary!
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That's amazing, thank you for your feedback and all the best in your revision!
Thank you for such a good overview of this book and also for saving my time
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Thank you so much.. This is a really helpful video ❤️
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One of the best interpretation.Thanks
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Good explanation, very helpful
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amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!
I watched this moving and it will forever stay with me. The young boy's rape scene was heart breaking.
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It's a very moving story indeed.
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0:26 Context 3:21 Summary 7:39 Characters 8:39 Themes 9:56 Analysis and Symbols
It's very helpful. Thank you..&one little note that one of the bullying boy or the antagonist in the "Kite Runner "named as Assef. He is half paston &so, he had a contempt to Hassan from childhood. Also he is half German, so he had a violence like Hitler.
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4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for clarifying this, that's really useful information! Glad that this video helped!
@obiechan8994
4 жыл бұрын
*Pashtun
@kathleen88863
9 ай бұрын
All German people are violent?
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5 ай бұрын
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It's informative video... Thank you ❤
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2 ай бұрын
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Reading this over the holidays before year 12 :)
Such an awsome book ..i really enjoy it..
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4 жыл бұрын
The book is epic... one of our favourite ever reads.
Lifesaver!!! I have an exam about this book in 20min and i have not read a page😆
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4 жыл бұрын
Oh my! Good luck, hope this helped! :-)
@salvatorepagdades
3 жыл бұрын
Did you fail?
@ephemerys2115
2 жыл бұрын
Did you pass?
It's very useful. I hope I will score good. Thanks Barbara !!!
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Жыл бұрын
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great video!
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4 жыл бұрын
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I red that novel recently ,such a meaningful story
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4 жыл бұрын
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Such a good video! What mic are you using?
Thanku mam very useful
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Still saving people to this day
Husseini is a pashtun writing the voice of a Hazara whom the pashtuns see as enemies and inferior. It is like if a white man writes the voice of Hassan as a black person. All the powerful characters are pashtuns and all the submissive, naive are hazaras. I dont know how people would feel if a white man wrote a novel today about black people and painting them as submissive, flat, lame, hare-lipped, no sense of changing their situation? This is the most horrifyingly one sided novel I have ever read. since it is written for the western audience who know nothing about the Hazara-Pashtun history, they assume to see Pashtun as rounded characters (heroic, bad, savior, kind, rebels etc..) while Hazaras as nothing but submissive, accepting and naive... The reality is far from that. In fact, Hazaras are porportionally more educated in the country. Husseini as a Pashtun is obviously biased and harbours tacit and subconscious racism.
correction: Khaled Hosseini went to Paris from Afghanistan because his dad was assigned to a diplomatic post at the Embassy in Paris,
Khaled Hosseini tells us a vivid and engaging story that reminds us of how long his people have been fighting to triumph over the forces of violence, forces that continue to threaten them even today. The Kite Runner Novel By Khaled Hosseini (PDF-Book-Summary-Review-Online Reading-Download): www.toevolution.com/file/view/637326/the-kite-runner-novel-by-khaled-hosseini-pdf-book-summary-review-online-reading-download
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pov ur watching this the day b4 an english assignment is due…
Thank you very much🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒 But. Pleas write character
Niiiiice👏👏👏 But ali amd hassan were not sent away ali decided that they should go because of the rape and what amir did Suhrab tries to suicide not because what happened to him in afghanistan but because ir said that he will leave him in an orphanage and came back to get him
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4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for clarifying, really appreciate it! :-)
It's BABA not Papa
What is Amir bad at?
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2 жыл бұрын
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Iemand nederlands?
@sanjanasoemeer7200
3 жыл бұрын
Me
The author of the book attempts to explain ethnicity problems in Afghanistan. Baba iconizes Pashtun and Hasan iconizes Hazara, the two ethnic groups in Afghanistan. But that main point is missing in this summary! Mohammad Daud was a fascist oriented Afghan. When Asef quotes him, the author tries to explain that Afghans treat Hazaras the way German Fascists treated Jews.
Common mistake, Afghanistan is not in the Middle East but rather in Central Asia!
Amir didn't hide a hide money under Hassan's pillow, it was a watch.
@kate8608
3 жыл бұрын
a watch and some money
Just a little correction. :) Afghanistan is not part of the Middle East.
The 1960s wasn't a great time for all in Afghanistan. There was a lot of descrimination. My grandparents could barely get water due to the goverment restriction based on their ethnicity.
He hid his watch under Hassan's pillow not money
@michelleibram4294
4 жыл бұрын
Krantzie well he hid his watch AND money
@JC-hu3yj
4 жыл бұрын
Krantzie Read the book Ch. 9: Amir his both WATCH and CASH under the MATTRESS (not pillow).
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Afghanistan is in Central Asia, not the Middle East. Also, the suggestion that Amir is a symbol of Afghanistan is too simplistic and reductive. Your recap of the historical context is full of errors. The king was not backed by the USSR. Otherwise, not bad.
BabA
AFGHANISTAN IS NOT IN THE MIDDLE EAST!
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@reianaradmanesh750
2 жыл бұрын
its central asian
please drink some water
So sorry to point out but the sssssss sound you make while speaking is so damn annoying. I couldn't concentrate even for a minute.
I’m sorry…. this summary is horrible. It leaves out so many important details… even for a summary, this is too vague