Character Poem

Amir is living in America; San Fransisco 2001
He his living in his home; living the past
Reminiscing the past years in Afghanistan
Reminiscing the war; the Taliban's Regime

The loss of his best friend
The humiliation he went through inside; for leaving his friend
Someone who likes kites; who's sees them as a symbol of hope
The past life he dreams about

The rape he witnessed
The fights he went through; both inside and out
Amir who stands tall; who loves life
Who sees the opportunity in love

Found Poem

Taliban officials come knocking at the door
Looking for a hazara family; looking for the truth
Telling them the truth doesn't work
They accuse him of lying and tell him to move out
Hassan refuses to move; refuses the warning
Again they scream; again he puts his foot down
The neighbors tell the same story; but again the Taliban says he lies
He protests the Taliban soldiers
They bring him to middle of the street and shoot him
Farzana comes yelling and attacks the soldiers
Panicking she hits them
They shoot her too; they claim self defense

Free Verse

The kite flies high
The kite stands tall
As a symbol it stands alone
As the kite races through the sky

The kite that was stopped from flying
The hope that was lost to war
The kite lost to a regime of evil
Lost to the Taliban's lying

The kite standing alone in the sky
The kite used like a lighthouse
The kite used to cry on
The kite that use to fly

Bio Poem

Amir
Lost; ashamed; disappointed; grieving
Friend of Hassan; Baba; and Sohrab
Feels ashamed and hated
Feels he needs to be punished for his actions
Amir who is consumed by guilt
For letting his friend down and walking away
The wall that he has built
The one who has no mother
Who's only true passion is kite flying
Who rescues his Friends son from the clutches of Assef

Ode Poem...

Ode to redemption
Ode to being wanted
Finding the inner truth
Finding our inner struggle
Finding our inner truth
Doing whats right and Doing whats good

Ballad Poem...

forced out of my home land by the soviet army
i flea my country to the united states to seek a new life
from the shadows comes a friend and offers amends
after twenty six years, i can finally avenge my past
the man knows me well and is shape like a knife
back to Afghanistan i must go, i must cast

back to my home city of Kabul
i meet with Hassans son Shorab and amend my sympathy
i seek the truth inside, by in the dark i hide
the monster assef is in my midst
Sohrab with one swing, now he is dead

i see the past and how it has affect my actions
i see now the poor Hassan with the look of the lamb
the look of nothing in his eyes after being degraded
after being humiliated in front of me
oh what twenty six years can do the mind
play its evil tricks that i see

i rescued his son, sohrab is safe
the thoughts of the past in which his mind race
thoughts death and hate pushed into his face
acceptance and love he feels he will never see
he cuts him self to watch himself bleed

the hospital i race with sohrab in my arms
i pray to god he is alive
i fall asleep in the chair and dream of nothing but death
i am awoken by the doctor who says he is fine
oh thank the gods he is alright

back to my home, back to my life
the reflections of the pat are as shape as a knife
the love to hate and the hate you love
will all leave us some day like a flying dove

Project...Song Lyrics relating to The Kite Runner...

I choose the song "What Have We Done" by The Veer Union. Only because of how the verses remind me of the rape scene in the Kiter Runner, and how Amir ran away. This song is a prime example of redemption, which is one of the main themes of the novel. The more powerful example of Amir’s search for redemption comes from his guilt regarding Hassan. That guilt that drives onwards to the climactic events of the novel, including Amir’s journey to Kabul to find Sohrab. The moral standard that Amir must meet to earn his redemption is set early in the book, when Baba says that "a boy who doesn’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything." As a boy, Amir fails to stand up for himself, like most scared individuals. As an adult, he can only redeem himself by proving he has the courage to stand up for what is right.


"Why do we hurt each other?
We all bleed the same color
Can't we help we one another?
Open up our narrow minds
(Open up our narrow minds)"

This is great excerpt from the song which can relate to the novel strongly. The first verse. "Why do we hurt each other? Why did Assef hurt Hassan by raping him? Why did Sohrab cut his wrist? Why did Amir hurt himself by carrying his guilt with him for years? The answer lies with in the power struggle between the more powerful and the most vulnerable.
The second verse, "we all bleed the same color." Assef raped Hassan because he disrespected him, Amir beat him self up because of his guilt for not helping Hassan. If everyone is the same, and every ones bleeds the same, than why do these characters show signs of fear, rejection, hate, and abandonment towards each other.
The last two versus, Can't we help we one another? Open up our narrow minds. These are also great quotes because why didn't Amir help Hassan, why can't Sohrab feel like his parent will accept him? The answer is shame, which plagues us all, which haunts our dreams and follows us every where. Amir was ashamed and scared to step up and Sohrab feels ashamed of the sexual torment he went through.







"Snow falls in September
April feels like December
Has hope left here forever?
Open up our narrow minds

Why do we hurt each other?
We all bleed the same color
Can't we help we one another?
Open up our narrow minds
(Open up our narrow minds)

CHORUS:
What have we done(what have we done?)
Why do we watch the world that we have wasted?
how long until we've all erased it?
what have we done? (what have we done?)
Can't you see...start the picking up the pieces
Before the ground just falls beneath us
Open up our narrow minds

We've hoped for someone to trust and
in the end we pay the price for that
we all need to be unbroken
open up our narrow minds

SMOKE fills the air we're breathing
We'll choke until the end is nearing
don't we know it isn't clearing
Open up our narrow minds
(Open up our narrow minds)

CHORUS AGAIN

Why are we confused?
the Warnings are true
this world is used
and we all need to
Open up our narrow minds

what have we done(what have we done)
why do we(4x)

CHORUS AGAIN

What have we done(what have we done)
(We've hoped for someone to trust and)
in the end we pay the price for that
what have we done(what have we done)
we all need to be unbroken
open up our narrow minds

what have we done(what have we done)
SMOKE fills the air we're breathing
We'll choke until the end is nearing
what have we done(what have we done)
don't we know it isn't clearing
Open up our narrow minds

open up our narrow minds(3x)"

The Kite Runner #8

Amir and Sohrab arrive in Islamabad. They talk a little about their parents, and Sohrab asks if God will send him to hell for what he did to Assef. Amir says Assef deserved more than he got, and Hassan would have been proud of Sohrab for saving Amir’s life. Sohrab says he is very glad his parents cannot see him. The sexual abuse he suffered makes him feel unclean and sinful. "But that's what I'm saying to you... That there are bad people in this world, and sometimes bad people stay bad, sometimes you have to stand up to them." The next day, Amir goes to the American embassy to try and adopt Sohrab, the man there tells Amir the adoption will be almost impossible. Without death certificates, there is no way to prove Sohrab is an orphan.
Sohrab is rushed to the emergency room. In the hospital waiting area, Amir uses a sheet as a prayer rug and prays for the first time in more than fifteen years. Eventually he falls asleep and dreams of Sohrab in the bloody water and the razor blade he used to cut himself. Amir and Sohrab arrive in San Francisco in August 2001. General Taheri and Jamila come over for dinner, and while Soraya and Jamila set the table, Amir tells General Taheri about the Taliban and Kabul. General Taheri goes around Sohrab at first but finally asks why Amir brought back a Hazara boy.

The Kite Runner #7

The author dose a great job at explaining the context behind the story thus far. In that, how he feels broken but proud. Amir, who was beaten badly by Assef, feels as though he deserved the beating because of how he ran from the raping of his best friend. “My body was broken—just how badly I wouldn’t find out until later—but I felt healed. Healed at last. I laughed.” pg.289. This happens during Amir’s discussion with Assef as he tries to find Sohrab in Chapter 22. Assef beats Amir with brass knuckles, breaking Amir’s ribs, splitting his lip and busting his jaw badly. He also breaks the bone beneath his left eye, but because Amir feels he deserves this, he feels satisfaction. He thinks he should have accepted the beating from Assef years ago, when he was given the choice of saving Hassan—and likely getting physically hurt—or letting Assef rape Hassan. Since that time, Amir has struggled with his guilt, and has torn himself up inside. He feels that since he was never punished for his transgression. Ever since Amir has been looking for some type of justice, so that way he can accept what he did. Amir’s guilt lasted until his fight with Assef, which despite the physical pain, made him feel psychologically healed. Thus, while Assef beat him, he began to laugh.

The Mighty

The mighty stand tall in the fields
The mighty stand for their beliefs
The mighty stop but do not yield
To the mighty they stand counting sheep
To the might the rich beg for love
To the mighty the poor, so strut with hell
To the mighty pride flies like a dove
To the mighty the hate rings out like a bell

The Kite Runner...#6

At the end of chapter 16 the soviets have moved out of Kabul, and the Taliban moved in. In 1996, the Taliban put a end to the daily fighting, they won the war. When Khaled came home he found Hassan in the kitchen listening to the radio. He said, "The war is over...there is going to be peace." No more rockets going off, gunshots or killing they thought. Hassan did not care. After what had happende to him nothing was the same. His friend had left him the filed, he ran away while Hassan was being raped, when he could have stopped it. So to Hassan it dose not matter if the war is over or not, because to him or to any other rape victim, the internal battle is never over. The Taliban two weeks later banned kite fighting and tow years later massacred the Hazaras in Mazar-i-Sharif.