FRIENDSHIP AS A NARRATIVE AND VALUE-DRIVEN CORE IN KHALED HOSSEINI'S THE KITE RUNNER
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Keywords: motif, friendship, loyalty, social inequality, Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, narrative analysis.Abstract
Abstract. This thesis presents the results of a study of the friendship motif in Khaled Hosseini's novel The Kite Runner (2003). The study applies close reading and motif analysis to the bond between Amir and Hassan and to the adult relationships between Amir and Rahim Khan and Amir and Soraya. The analysis shows the childhood bond joins unequal forms of attachment shaped by class and ethnic hierarchy, while the adult friendships supply the honesty, recognition, and reciprocity the first bond lacked. The findings define friendship as the instrument of characterization, the engine of plot, and the moral scale of the novel.
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