Thesis:
While homes have sentimental value that can’t be replaced, people find ways to create new homes because they’ve lost touch with their past homes, have their homes destroyed and taken away, or must adjust to their surroundings and create new homes.
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Losing the connection to your past home is a recurring theme in both Khaled Hosseini 's The Kite Runner and Ernest Hemingway’s A Soldier’s Home. Both of these texts have significant events, both being war, that draws the main character away from the home they were once attached to. In The Kite Runner, after the Russians invade Afghanistan, Amir’s hometown Kabul is completely destroyed and the Taliban continue to cause chaos even to this day. When Amir returns to the rusty gates that guarded his home, he describes the scene as “the house itself was far from the sprawling white mansion I remembered from my childhood. It looked smaller,” (Hosseini 262). Not only did Amir lose the mental attachment to the house as the grand place he grew up in, but he also loses a physical sense of it by seeing it as small and no longer the grand palace he once called his “home”. Amir lost the connection he had to this past home which, in reality, defines homes as a place you can lose your connection to. In a similar way as seen by Krebs in A Soldier’s Home, the main character loses his connection to the home he once loved before going into World War I. This short story gives insight on the struggles of returning from a war and how destroyed a mind can be after witnessing combat, which is seen through the main character Krebs. …show more content…
It’s a story about a man versus himself, and within that conflict we learn that something about the war made Krebs not want to come home. Excitement in Germany attracted his attention away from his real home in America and thus proves that losing a connection to your past home is a universal theme brought up in both The Kite Runner and A Soldier’s Home. Paragraph 2: Another major theme in The Kite Runner is having your home destroyed and/or taken away. …show more content…
Baba and Amir are forced to move out of Afghanistan after the Russians invade and go to America where their lives completely changed. All the hard work Baba put into living a great life in Kabul meant nothing to the Russians, and what took him years to accomplish was basically destroyed in a single day. However, when Amir and Baba later adjust to the American life, Haasan returns to his hut on Baba’s property (out of respect) and takes care of the home, expecting his master’s return. The book says, “Hassan tended to the flowers in the garden, soaked the roots, picked off yellowing leaves, planted rose bushes and painted the walls like he was preparing the house for someone’s return,” (Hosseini 208). Seeing that the house was destroyed, Hassan tended to the house assuming one of his masters out return to it after being forced to leave a home what was rightfully theirs analogous to the American Facebook timeline Like It or Unfriend it, where it says, “America is no longer friends with the Indigenous People 's” (Wayne 1), the author implies that Europeans forced the Natives out of their homes and took the lands that was not rightfully theirs, which was the same case seen in The Kite Runner. Homes attain a certain value by the people who occupy them, but as seen in both of these texts and that value in a home can easily be taken away from destruction. Paragraph 3: Adjusting to your new surrounding and making a new home is heavily seen in The Kite Runner. Amir and Baba make the best of their new lives in America by adjusting to their new environment. Although they moved down the social hierarchy from elite wealthy to gas station attendants, Amir and Baba found ways to cope with their new home in America and even surrounded themselves with people who reminded them of home. Long after their arrival to the new world, Amir is introduced to an Afghan woman named Soraya who he eventually marries and starts a new life
While homes have sentimental value that can’t be replaced, people find ways to create new homes because they’ve lost touch with their past homes, have their homes destroyed and taken away, or must adjust to their surroundings and create new homes.
Paragraph 1:
Losing the connection to your past home is a recurring theme in both Khaled Hosseini 's The Kite Runner and Ernest Hemingway’s A Soldier’s Home. Both of these texts have significant events, both being war, that draws the main character away from the home they were once attached to. In The Kite Runner, after the Russians invade Afghanistan, Amir’s hometown Kabul is completely destroyed and the Taliban continue to cause chaos even to this day. When Amir returns to the rusty gates that guarded his home, he describes the scene as “the house itself was far from the sprawling white mansion I remembered from my childhood. It looked smaller,” (Hosseini 262). Not only did Amir lose the mental attachment to the house as the grand place he grew up in, but he also loses a physical sense of it by seeing it as small and no longer the grand palace he once called his “home”. Amir lost the connection he had to this past home which, in reality, defines homes as a place you can lose your connection to. In a similar way as seen by Krebs in A Soldier’s Home, the main character loses his connection to the home he once loved before going into World War I. This short story gives insight on the struggles of returning from a war and how destroyed a mind can be after witnessing combat, which is seen through the main character Krebs. …show more content…
It’s a story about a man versus himself, and within that conflict we learn that something about the war made Krebs not want to come home. Excitement in Germany attracted his attention away from his real home in America and thus proves that losing a connection to your past home is a universal theme brought up in both The Kite Runner and A Soldier’s Home. Paragraph 2: Another major theme in The Kite Runner is having your home destroyed and/or taken away. …show more content…
Baba and Amir are forced to move out of Afghanistan after the Russians invade and go to America where their lives completely changed. All the hard work Baba put into living a great life in Kabul meant nothing to the Russians, and what took him years to accomplish was basically destroyed in a single day. However, when Amir and Baba later adjust to the American life, Haasan returns to his hut on Baba’s property (out of respect) and takes care of the home, expecting his master’s return. The book says, “Hassan tended to the flowers in the garden, soaked the roots, picked off yellowing leaves, planted rose bushes and painted the walls like he was preparing the house for someone’s return,” (Hosseini 208). Seeing that the house was destroyed, Hassan tended to the house assuming one of his masters out return to it after being forced to leave a home what was rightfully theirs analogous to the American Facebook timeline Like It or Unfriend it, where it says, “America is no longer friends with the Indigenous People 's” (Wayne 1), the author implies that Europeans forced the Natives out of their homes and took the lands that was not rightfully theirs, which was the same case seen in The Kite Runner. Homes attain a certain value by the people who occupy them, but as seen in both of these texts and that value in a home can easily be taken away from destruction. Paragraph 3: Adjusting to your new surrounding and making a new home is heavily seen in The Kite Runner. Amir and Baba make the best of their new lives in America by adjusting to their new environment. Although they moved down the social hierarchy from elite wealthy to gas station attendants, Amir and Baba found ways to cope with their new home in America and even surrounded themselves with people who reminded them of home. Long after their arrival to the new world, Amir is introduced to an Afghan woman named Soraya who he eventually marries and starts a new life