The Kite Runner Setting Analysis

Yes, I had a strong sense of the time and place in the novel, as Amir explains everything in details. It convoyed when he described the house in the beginning when they lived in Kabul and how large and beautiful it was. Also when they went to America I also had a strong sense of what there life was and how everything changed, the apartment they lived in was small, there income was extremely low they basically had to start from the beginning. Furthermore, when he went back to Afghanistan and everything in the country changed, there was beggars on the streets everywhere, and everything else was different houses were broken down, sounds of the Taliban. I think the setting is crucial become of the uncertainty in Afghanistan at that time and the author really made it clear how the political of upheaval caused problems that led Amir and Baba to move to the USA and therefore leave Hassan behind …show more content…
The readers must know most of the details of where the event is taking places, so they could imagine/ picture it better. Definitely, something would be lost if the descriptions of the setting were deleted from the novel or if the setting has changed. The reader must know that Amir moved to the US because there was a war in Afghanistan. If it has been removed the reader wouldn’t have known that it was dangerous to live there and they would get confused and lost as to why baba would leave his reputation in the society and his son after all and go to the US. Also to know that Hassan died because of the Talibans, just because they think that all Hazara's are