Studying the dual confrontations in the Kite Runner fiction by Khaled Hosseini

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1 Chabahar Marine and Maritime University

2 university of mazandaran

3 chabahar Marine and Maritime University

10.22126/rp.2023.9046.1763

Abstract

Studying the contrasts and contrasting pairs is one of the main methods of literary structuralism. According to this theory, the human mind divides everything into two categories, good and bad, positive and negative, to understand the world around it. This simple rule is pushed to the hidden layers of the language in the transformation of the mind, and the artist reproduces different fields of contrasts in the meaning of his speech in the creation of a literary work. Dual confrontations are one of the most central themes in Khaled Hosseini's novel The Kite Runner. The author has taken the necessary leaven from it to create a fiction texture. This article has analyzed the confrontations in this novel with a descriptive-analytical method: in the section on ethnic and religious confrontations, the author has been able to point out and indirectly criticize the racist thoughts in the Afghan society by confronting the Sunni Pashtuns against the Shia Hazaras. ; By comparing the free society of America with bigoted Afghanistan in space and time, it expresses its double deprivation in an unequal world. In contrast to the characters of the fiction and the description of people like Amir Pashtun Businessman’s child and Hassan Servant’s child, he deals with the extreme class differences in Afghanistan and by mentioning intra-personal confrontations, such as Amir's mental instability, he points to the confrontation of reason and emotion. In a word, the structure of Kite runner is full of in-depth and superficial oppositions, which can be considered ...

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Research on Fictional Literature

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Available Online from 10 March 2024

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