Time and Sequence in The Kite Runner
Use of Time and Sequence in 'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini.
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- Created on: 09-05-16 17:05
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- Time and Sequence in the Kite Runner
- Storytelling
- The story is a retrospective,so is set in a different time than it is told.
- "December 2001"
- "Winter of 1975"
- "Looking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years."
- "March 1981."
- "Fremont, California, 1980s."
- "One Tiuesday morning last September."
- "Four days ago... In March 2002."
- Because it is a retrospective,Amir's account may be biased/ clouded by emotions of the past.
- "I because what I am today at the age of twelve."
- "I stood there panting, sweating, wishing things had turned out some other way."
- "I was that monster."
- Amir's description of characters may be biased because of his guilt.
- "[Hassan's] almost perfectly round face."
- "I can never tell Baba from the bear."
- The story is a retrospective,so is set in a different time than it is told.
- Interrupted narrative
- When Amir cannot cope with what's happening, the story is interrupted with short anecdotes.
- "A Memory: did you monks that you and Hassan's fed from the same breast?"
- "A Dream: I am lost in a snowstorm"
- "Tomorrow is the first day Dhul-Hijjah."
- The narrative is interrupted when Amir damns himself and when he redeems himself.
- "He has gel in his hair and a Clarke Gable moustache."
- When Amir cannot cope with what's happening, the story is interrupted with short anecdotes.
- Tenses
- The narrative switches from past to present tense at certain times to make it seems more immediate and tense.
- "They wont't let me in."
- "He is peering down at me."
- The narrative switches from past to present tense at certain times to make it seems more immediate and tense.
- Time setting
- Amir's adult life is set during a difficult time in Afghanistan and America.
- "In 1988... [the Taliban] massacred the Hazaras."
- "Last September, the Twin Towers came crumbling down.
- "Kabul is a dangerous place."
- Amir's childhood is set during a period of upheaval in Afghanistan.
- July 17th 1973... Daoud Khan ended the King's forty year reign in a bloodless coup."
- "For the next couple of years the words economic development... danced on a lot of people's lips in Kabul."
- "Russian tanks would roll onto the very same streets where Hassan's and I played."
- Amir's adult life is set during a difficult time in Afghanistan and America.
- Storytelling
- Time setting
- Amir's adult life is set during a difficult time in Afghanistan and America.
- "In 1988... [the Taliban] massacred the Hazaras."
- "Last September, the Twin Towers came crumbling down.
- "Kabul is a dangerous place."
- Amir's childhood is set during a period of upheaval in Afghanistan.
- July 17th 1973... Daoud Khan ended the King's forty year reign in a bloodless coup."
- "For the next couple of years the words economic development... danced on a lot of people's lips in Kabul."
- "Russian tanks would roll onto the very same streets where Hassan's and I played."
- Amir's adult life is set during a difficult time in Afghanistan and America.
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