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The Kite Runner: Whose Kite and Who's the Runner?

A still from the movie - The Kite Runner Marc Foster directed 2007 American drama film, " The Kite Runner " is based on the famous novel by Khaled Hussaini. The film won the positive reviews from the critics and box-office success. This is quite a fascinating thing about American audience that they always appreciate and enjoy other's suffering, and later put their Army as saviors. However, the present film doesn't have a single American savior; here, the American ideals come to rescue. ** The film is a story of a young Afghani refugee who settles in America and becomes a writer. Because of the novelist protagonist, many people have seen the autobiographical elements in the novel, which Hosseni has always denied. Taliban's ban on Kite flying was one of the motivating factors for Hussaini[1] as he found such ban "unusually cruel". Interstingly, such a good, thoughtful, and creative person did not find killing of thousands of innocent pe...