‘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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  • @FirstRateTutors
    @FirstRateTutors Жыл бұрын

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  • @cactus7764
    @cactus77645 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @FirstRateTutors

    @FirstRateTutors

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for clarifying, much appreciated :-)

  • @balochworld6269

    @balochworld6269

    4 жыл бұрын

    May I ask in which syllabus this novel is included

  • @misan2002

    @misan2002

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@balochworld6269 A level AQA

  • @jiminahx

    @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 :)

  • @elenab8205
    @elenab82055 жыл бұрын

    this saved me from having to read an entire book before school starts so thanks

  • @FirstRateTutors

    @FirstRateTutors

    5 жыл бұрын

    You're welcome, we are so glad that the video helped!

  • @sharanyap3057

    @sharanyap3057

    4 жыл бұрын

    It would be lovely if you would actually read it as the book is extraordinarily beautiful

  • @sarahhobbs6756

    @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

    @MuhammadUsama-po4vf

    4 жыл бұрын

    Tomorrow is my exam😑

  • @lizavanderveen5581

    @lizavanderveen5581

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@sharanyap3057 you're joking right 🙈 It's a really depressing book.

  • @IterSoni
    @IterSoni4 жыл бұрын

    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

    @dragobro0456

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @misan2002
    @misan20023 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @mikeyemery1130
    @mikeyemery11302 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Adjay722
    @Adjay7225 жыл бұрын

    This summary video was way better than the others on the internet! Thank you so much

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    @FirstRateTutors

    5 жыл бұрын

    You're welcome! Please give the video a thumbs up and share with anyone else who might find it useful and educational. Thank you!

  • @neelasmeetadas4634
    @neelasmeetadas46343 жыл бұрын

    For you a thousand times over ❤️ this book is actually good

  • @beyond_height
    @beyond_height5 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @FirstRateTutors

    @FirstRateTutors

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you and all the best with your exams!

  • @zoeholt2519
    @zoeholt25194 жыл бұрын

    You just saved my grade. Thank you

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    @FirstRateTutors

    4 жыл бұрын

    Glad to have been of help! Best wishes!

  • @cakertaker_1013
    @cakertaker_10133 жыл бұрын

    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)

  • @rafaelespinoza1515
    @rafaelespinoza15155 жыл бұрын

    This is great!! Hopefully I can use it for my AP Lit test tomorrow

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    @mollymeyer9640

    2 жыл бұрын

    me watching this three days before my AP lit test

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    @alejandroherrera1850

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mollymeyer9640 me watching it 8 hours before

  • @FBrapidreview
    @FBrapidreview3 жыл бұрын

    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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    @FirstRateTutors

    3 жыл бұрын

    You're welcome! :-)

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    @yuikinemura78875 жыл бұрын

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    4 ай бұрын

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  • @kimberlys8422
    @kimberlys84222 жыл бұрын

    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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    @FirstRateTutors

    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.

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    @jessicanoelle78063 жыл бұрын

    not me crying over a book summary video

  • @melancholic931
    @melancholic9312 жыл бұрын

    U complete the whole summary and issues in a smooth way...thanks...

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    @FirstRateTutors

    2 жыл бұрын

    You're welcome! :-)

  • @axelode45
    @axelode454 жыл бұрын

    This was very useful, great summary!

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    @FirstRateTutors

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's amazing, thank you for your feedback and all the best in your revision!

  • @abdulhadikhan1275
    @abdulhadikhan1275 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for such a good overview of this book and also for saving my time

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    @FirstRateTutors

    Жыл бұрын

    You're welcome!

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    @karthikakakkath77053 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much.. This is a really helpful video ❤️

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    @FirstRateTutors

    3 жыл бұрын

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    @hollowbamboo86492 жыл бұрын

    Excellent presentation. It was really helpful thanks for your effort

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    @FirstRateTutors

    2 жыл бұрын

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    @hamzaali-official47592 жыл бұрын

    One of the best interpretation.Thanks

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    @FirstRateTutors

    2 жыл бұрын

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    @pycsor10005 жыл бұрын

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    @FirstRateTutors

    5 жыл бұрын

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    5 жыл бұрын

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    @a.syedallauddin88884 жыл бұрын

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    @FirstRateTutors

    4 жыл бұрын

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  • @tanned1991
    @tanned19915 жыл бұрын

    Good explanation, very helpful

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    @FirstRateTutors

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, glad you found it useful!

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    @digitalnerd61135 жыл бұрын

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  • @bibimohamed5689
    @bibimohamed56894 жыл бұрын

    I watched this moving and it will forever stay with me. The young boy's rape scene was heart breaking.

  • @FirstRateTutors

    @FirstRateTutors

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's a very moving story indeed.

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  • @seokjun13yoon
    @seokjun13yoon2 жыл бұрын

    0:26 Context 3:21 Summary 7:39 Characters 8:39 Themes 9:56 Analysis and Symbols

  • @badira419
    @badira4194 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @FirstRateTutors

    @FirstRateTutors

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for clarifying this, that's really useful information! Glad that this video helped!

  • @obiechan8994

    @obiechan8994

    4 жыл бұрын

    *Pashtun

  • @kathleen88863

    @kathleen88863

    9 ай бұрын

    All German people are violent?

  • @samuelbualteng6297
    @samuelbualteng62975 ай бұрын

    Thank you❤

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    @FirstRateTutors

    5 ай бұрын

    You're welcome 😊

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    @samuelbualteng6297

    5 ай бұрын

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    @RaiqiyaAli-bu3jp2 ай бұрын

    It's informative video... Thank you ❤

  • @FirstRateTutors

    @FirstRateTutors

    2 ай бұрын

    Welcome 😊

  • @eumarise8272
    @eumarise82722 жыл бұрын

    Reading this over the holidays before year 12 :)

  • @amnabibi3552
    @amnabibi35524 жыл бұрын

    Such an awsome book ..i really enjoy it..

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    @FirstRateTutors

    4 жыл бұрын

    The book is epic... one of our favourite ever reads.

  • @mustafahussein6746
    @mustafahussein67464 жыл бұрын

    Lifesaver!!! I have an exam about this book in 20min and i have not read a page😆

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    @FirstRateTutors

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh my! Good luck, hope this helped! :-)

  • @salvatorepagdades

    @salvatorepagdades

    3 жыл бұрын

    Did you fail?

  • @ephemerys2115

    @ephemerys2115

    2 жыл бұрын

    Did you pass?

  • @Sunarthi_B19EE073
    @Sunarthi_B19EE073 Жыл бұрын

    It's very useful. I hope I will score good. Thanks Barbara !!!

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    @FirstRateTutors

    Жыл бұрын

    You're welcome and good luck! 😄

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    @Sunarthi_B19EE073

    Жыл бұрын

    @@FirstRateTutors Thanks. It's done and I wrote pretty well. 😇

  • @bendouthett2762
    @bendouthett27624 жыл бұрын

    Love the book

  • @deigamohamed707
    @deigamohamed707 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you ❤👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

  • @_lodemu_1160
    @_lodemu_11602 жыл бұрын

    great video!

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    @FirstRateTutors

    2 жыл бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it

  • @vih
    @vih3 жыл бұрын

    Thank!

  • @sabrinayang5824
    @sabrinayang58244 жыл бұрын

    THIS is so helpful thank you!!! 🙏 🙏🙏👍👍👍

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    @FirstRateTutors

    4 жыл бұрын

    You're welcome, glad you found it helpful!

  • @athulyacs2148
    @athulyacs21484 жыл бұрын

    I red that novel recently ,such a meaningful story

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    @FirstRateTutors

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's a beautiful story. We hope our video summary did it justice :-)

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    @304legends7 Жыл бұрын

    Such a good video! What mic are you using?

  • @reemagurjar8372
    @reemagurjar83724 жыл бұрын

    Thanku mam very useful

  • @FirstRateTutors

    @FirstRateTutors

    4 жыл бұрын

    You're welcome, glad it helped!

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    @redeyegll10 ай бұрын

    Still saving people to this day

  • @Fiction_Beast
    @Fiction_Beast4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @misan2002
    @misan20023 жыл бұрын

    correction: Khaled Hosseini went to Paris from Afghanistan because his dad was assigned to a diplomatic post at the Embassy in Paris,

  • @abdelazeezsobh6899
    @abdelazeezsobh68994 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @hinamustan9853
    @hinamustan98533 жыл бұрын

    Thumbs up 👍

  • @rogerfilerable
    @rogerfilerable2 жыл бұрын

    only atonement can set you free

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    @arusubas1133 Жыл бұрын

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    Жыл бұрын

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    @dylan-eq8vw2 жыл бұрын

    pov ur watching this the day b4 an english assignment is due…

  • @alostorafootball692
    @alostorafootball6922 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒 But. Pleas write character

  • @lamiaammari7926
    @lamiaammari79264 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @FirstRateTutors

    @FirstRateTutors

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for clarifying, really appreciate it! :-)

  • @ocean3057
    @ocean30574 жыл бұрын

    It's BABA not Papa

  • @mysfect7294
    @mysfect72943 жыл бұрын

    What is Amir bad at?

  • @draincel
    @draincel2 жыл бұрын

    I HAVE A TEST TOMORROW IF I DON'T PASS ITS OVER

  • @FirstRateTutors

    @FirstRateTutors

    2 жыл бұрын

    Good luck!

  • @maik867
    @maik8673 жыл бұрын

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    @sanjanasoemeer7200

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me

  • @AbdulHamid-qu1wl
    @AbdulHamid-qu1wl2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @meshalition
    @meshalition10 ай бұрын

    Common mistake, Afghanistan is not in the Middle East but rather in Central Asia!

  • @tristanlassiter8464
    @tristanlassiter84643 жыл бұрын

    Amir didn't hide a hide money under Hassan's pillow, it was a watch.

  • @kate8608

    @kate8608

    3 жыл бұрын

    a watch and some money

  • @Cosmopotamian
    @Cosmopotamian2 жыл бұрын

    Just a little correction. :) Afghanistan is not part of the Middle East.

  • @Tr4sh_can34
    @Tr4sh_can343 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @kranzie5745
    @kranzie57454 жыл бұрын

    He hid his watch under Hassan's pillow not money

  • @michelleibram4294

    @michelleibram4294

    4 жыл бұрын

    Krantzie well he hid his watch AND money

  • @JC-hu3yj

    @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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  • @samyselim7075
    @samyselim70752 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @edvartleikasendeleon7299
    @edvartleikasendeleon72992 жыл бұрын

    BabA

  • @simrangill2352
    @simrangill23522 жыл бұрын

    AFGHANISTAN IS NOT IN THE MIDDLE EAST!

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  • @reianaradmanesh750

    @reianaradmanesh750

    2 жыл бұрын

    its central asian

  • @anija8704
    @anija87043 жыл бұрын

    please drink some water

  • @arkscrew
    @arkscrew Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @SparkyCobra
    @SparkyCobra2 жыл бұрын

    I’m sorry…. this summary is horrible. It leaves out so many important details… even for a summary, this is too vague