The beginning of The Kite Runner

The video is the first of our Kite Runner clips, I will post all of them so make sure that you have created your soundtracks!

This one is about the opening of the novel. In this clip we listen to the adult Amir who recalls his childhood, his past of “unatoned sins”. He thinks of the moment in the winter of 1975 when he was twelve years old and his life changed forever. It introduces to the the reader the subject of the narrative. In the novel we note that Amir is in San Francisco watching kite flying. There is an image of a pair of kites “floating side by side”, note its significance. Also note that two of the novel’s major themes – friendship and redemption are introduced right at the start of the book. See that Hosseini uses this brief juxtaposition of past and present and the contrasts of America and Afghanistan to alert readers to the oppositions of time and place which will underpin the story.