Kite Runner Ch. 21-23

“Thougts were flying around my head like a kite.”

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

“I guessed that music wasn’t sinful as long as it played to Taliban ears.”

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

“ He stood on tiptoes, spun gracefully, dipped to his knees, straightened, and spun again. His little hands swiveled at the wrists, his fingers snapped, and his head swung side to side like a pendulum. His feet pounded the floor, the bells jingling in perfect harmony with the beat of the tabla.”

• Allusion

• Simile

• Imagery

• Metaphor

“The sound of my ribs snappig like the tree branches Hassan and I used to break to swordfight like Sinbad in those old movies”

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Allusion

• Imagery

Amir laughing while getting beat up just like Assef laughed as the guard beat him up

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Irony

• Simile

Choose what lense this could best be seen through!

“ his eyes darkened with mascara”

• Marxist

• Femenist

• Archetypal

• Formalist

“Raping children? Flogging women for wearing high heels?”

• Marxist

• Archetypal

• Feminist

“We have some unfinised business, you and I”

• Marxist

• Feminist

• Archetypal

• Formalist

Amir being beat up by Assef and hysterically laughing while every bone in his body was being broken.

• Psychoanalyst

• Marxist

• Feminist

• Formalist

Assef's power still having an effect on Amir later in his life.

• Archetypal

• Formalist

• Marxist

• Feminist