A Study of Symbolism in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner
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Abstract
The research work examines the symbols used in Khaled Hosseini’s novel The
Kite Runner to explore the division among the two ethnic groups of people in
Afghanistan namely Pasthun (Sunni) and Hazara (Shia) and the Russian interest over
Afghanistan. The decade-long war resulted killing of thousands of people and the
panic psychology in the citizen. Moreover, the research also depicts the dislocated
identity of Asian immigrants in America. Since war trauma and the desire for freedom
are the major themes of the novel, the story centres around explaining how the
symbols used by the writer in the book have portrayed all these realities. Basically,
the kite, the kite fighting and the kite flying are taken into the discussion for the study
in the research. The problem of the study is that how the symbols used by the writer
contribute for the establishment of his major ideas. For this symbolism has been used
as a theoretical approach for discussion throughout the research.