Write About the Ways Hosseini Opens the Story in Chapter 1

Write about the ways Hosseini opens the story in chapter 1 Chapter 1 opens with a un experiencen first person narrative. We are not introduced to the storyteller until the end of Chapter 2, emeer. The effects of this remaining unnamed makes us concentrate on what the narrator is introducing us to. He is the central character of this story is coloured by Amirs personal reactions and emotions. It opens with I became what I am today and ending with the same focus. The result of this referring back to the first line exposes a situation that has happened between the previous(prenominal) and the present. It has changed him in a substantial way.Hosseini doesnt let us know what has made him his way however he every(prenominal)udes this with the imagery and brief information of the bypast of which Amir already foreshadows, building dramatic tension. Hosseini uses dates to open the story December 2001 to locate the present as he immediately refers back to the past in flashbacks. We know t his because he says in the winter of 1975. Its been twenty-six years since the event that he has been referring back to, so there has been time for Amir to think everything over. Hosseini uses pathetic illusion to open the story on a frigid overcast which mirrors the mood of the character and the scene.The imagery of this helps us understand that something unpleasant has happened because of the weather is also unpleasant. Flashbacks more than often than not fill the whole story underlining that somewhere after the event, Amir already knows what has happened which he is telling us. In chapter 1, we are immediately pulled back to a more recent time last summer where he got a call from Rahim Khan from Pakistan. He knew it wasnt Rahim Khan but his un-atoned sins of his past. The call from the past makes it seems like something deathly coming after him. In the first paragraph in chapter 1, the past is personified.Amir can bury it but it claws its way out like the call, he cant hide f rom the past as it comes to haunt him. Hosseini uses personification to exaggerate the past of Amir that invokes imagery of something dead rising from its grave. It also shows that Amir has been hiding from his past but on this very day, he cant really escape from it. Back into the present Amir takes a walk at the Northern edge prospering Gate park, San Francisco where he saw 2 blue kites which reminded him of Afghanistan, his past. The juxtaposition is clear here of USA and Afghanistan which are two very opposing countries.A metropolis with a Golden Gate Bridge with miniature boats in the lake. At night, sparkling lights cover the bridge. Compared to the memories of Afghanistan now war torn, corrupt and run by the Taliban. Hosseini advisedly displays this juxtaposition to reveal the massive differences between them. Hosseini introduces Hassan as the harelipped kite runner This identifies Hassan as the Kite Runner of the title showing the significance of this character against all the other characters been mentioned. He also mentions kites in the story reinforcing the Novels Title The Kite Runner.The effect of him seeing these kites is what triggers his memories of Afghanistan and Hassan. Hassans voice is heard by Amir For you, A gee times over. Hassan would do anything for Amir. Hosseini shows this to represent his kindness and how Amir feels about him, portraying comradeship. The language that Hosseini uses in chapter one is informal mimicking a real animation person in the story. This is also a reflection of a biographical fictive story as the character is going through his life in flashbacks which are embedded for the stories to come.An after thought comes into Amirs mind from the phone call Theres a way to be good again the phone call macrocosm displayed as the past that is claws its way out and then the call saying theres a way to be good again makes us think of his sins hes unexpended behind that needs to be atoned. It displays the narrator as gui lty and sorry for his past. Also, it invokes the theme of this story of Redemption and something that revolves around his friend, Hassan. Hosseini writes chapter 1 short and brief but sets the scenes, dates and introduces characters. Also, addressing the massive themes played throughout of this story. Friendship and Redemption.