1. The information about Khalid Hosseyni's life and literary activities

2. The meaning concept of teenage.
Adolescence is a very confusing time. As a teenager, choices are made that have a profound impact on the direction of one's life. Sometimes these choices are not always for the best. The Kite Runner addresses how the confusion of adolescence can be the backdrop for choices that we would like to have back. The opening of the novel contains the idea of being "good again." As an older man, Amir travels back to Afghanistan and confronts some of the decisions he made when he was a teenager. He must accept that he did not act righteously when he failed to stand up for Hassan. In the process, Amir discovers the way to "be good again." The novel shows how choices we make as te³enagers play a formative role in our identities. In this way, The Kite Runner is relevant to teens all over the world.
I think that another reason why teenagers would find The Kite Runner relevant would be due to its affirmation of friendship. The issue of friendship confronts the lives of many teenagers. The need to find good friends is an essential part of a teenager's identity. Amir recognizes that Hassan is a good friend. While there was jealousy for a while, Amir ends up acknowledging that the friendship that he and Hassan shared when they were teenagers represented some of the strongest emotions he had experienced in his life. Teenagers who have a friendship like that of Hassan and Amir can recognize the important role it will play in their lives. Those who lack such a friendship can read The Kite Runner to understand what defines the contours of true friendship. Sacrifice, emotional acknowledgement, and loyalty are the components of real camaraderie. Teenagers who struggle with whether their friendships are real and valid can use Hosseini's novel as a reference point to gauge the value of their own associations. The universality of themes such as the power of friendship and the role that choices play in one's identity is a reason why The Kite Runner is relevant to teenagers all over the world.
In the kite runner, the author uses the idea of childhood to shape Amir’s character. As a child Amir spends most of his time trying to get love and attention from baba, doing whatever it takes to get it. The only thing he knows is of his motives and want for baba's acceptance, so he does many things that cause him to guilt later in life. Khaled Hosseini, in The Kite Runner, uses a the portrayal of a conflict filled childhood to shape and influence Amir’s actions in the future.
Amir’s childhood is filled with experiences of guilt, cowardice and forgiveness. You are shaped by what happens in your childhood, and Amir’s childhood is filled with examples of that. When you are a child, you are very impressionable. Amir wanted baba's attention, and when he ignored Hassan’s rape, he figured out that cowardice is rewarded, and there began his experience with guilt. This sets a base for his following actions which cause emotions that follow him through the story. Baba tries to teach Amir about love and bravery, which throughout Amir’s whole life, many of the things he experiences in his childhood follow him through the novel. His actions of cowardice that caused his guilt and his need for forgiveness are finally faced when he returns to his home in Afghanistan.
In the kite runner, the author uses the idea of childhood to shape Amir’s character. As a child Amir spends most of his time trying to get love and attention from baba, doing whatever it takes to get it. The only thing he knows is of his motives and want for baba's acceptance, so he does many things that cause him to guilt later in life. Khaled Hosseini, in The Kite Runner, uses a the portrayal of a conflict filled childhood to shape and influence Amir’s actions in the future.
Amir’s childhood is filled with experiences of guilt, cowardice and forgiveness. You are shaped by what happens in your childhood, and Amir’s childhood is filled with examples of that. When you are a child, you are very impressionable. Amir wanted baba's attention, and when he ignored Hassan’s rape, he figured out that cowardice is rewarded, and there began his experience with guilt. This sets a base for his following actions which cause emotions that follow him through the story. Baba tries to teach Amir about love and bravery, which

Throughout Amir’s whole life, many of the things he experiences in his childhood follow him through the novel. His actions of cowardice that caused his guilt and his need for forgiveness are finally faced when he returns to his home in Afghanistan.

Amir's experience with betrayal, guilt, and cowardice which he first learned in his adolescence shape the story of his life in the rest of the book. If he had been taught different things in his childhood, his motivations and actions in his adult life would have been much different than they were. The author really plays into the idea that what happens in your childhood can shape you and all that you know as he follows Amir, who is guilt driven from what happened in his childhood .
The Kite Runner draws on the tradition of coming-of-age novels, which follow a young protagonist who begins the story as a child, but “comes of age” as a result of the events of the story, ending as a fully mature and enlightened adult. An early example is Homer’s Telemachy, the first four books of The Odyssey that depict Telemachus’s journey from boyhood to manhood, a necessary process in order for him to later help his father defeat their enemies. Hosseini likely drew from more recent coming-of-age stories, such as Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird and J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, two American classics that are narrated after the fictional events take place, and emphasize the protagonists’ internal monologues. Hosseini similarly chooses to situate his story within the mind of Amir, who recounts his story in a memoir-like fashion.
Despite the similarities The Kite Runner shares with many coming-of-age stories, Hosseini plays with the expectations of the genre by presenting a story where Amir fails to come-of-age as a teenager. When faced with the decision to either defend Hassan and be beaten, or abandon Hassan and flee, Amir makes the child-like, fearful choice and essentially freezes his development in the trauma of that moment in the alley. When Amir is able to resume that moment as a thirty-eight-year old man in Afghanistan—by literally fighting Assef, the same person who raped Hassan—he resumes his development and reaches maturity.
Amir’s quest to redeem himself makes up the heart of the novel. Early on, Amir strives to redeem himself in Baba’s eyes, primarily because his mother died giving birth to him, and he feels responsible. To redeem himself to Baba, Amir thinks he must win the kite-tournament and bring Baba the losing kite, both of which are inciting incidents that set the rest of the novel in motion. The more substantial part of Amir’s search for redemption, however, stems from his guilt regarding Hassan. That guilt drives the climactic events of the story, including Amir’s journey to Kabul to find Sohrab and his confrontation with Assef. The moral standard Amir must meet to earn his redemption is set early in the book, when Baba says that a boy who doesn’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything. As a boy, Amir fails to stand up for himself. As an adult, he can only redeem himself by proving he has the courage to stand up for what is right.
In genre studies, a coming-of-age story is a genre of literature, theatre, film, and video game that focuses on the growth of a protagonist from childhood to adulthood, or "coming of age". Coming-of-age stories tend to emphasize dialogue or internal monologue over action, and are often set in the past. The subjects of coming-of-age stories are typically teenagers. The Bildungsroman is a specific subgenre of coming-of-age story.The plot points of coming of age stories are usually emotional changes within the character(s) in question.
Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner (2003) is a tragic account of the lifelong impact of a traumatic experience on the homodiegetic or first-person narrator’s life and mentality. Hosseini’s narrative shows how, through storytelling, the protagonist and narrator, Amir, struggles to come to terms with the double tragedy in his life. His narrative recounts the destruction of Amir’s native land Afghanistan through two main wars in 1970s: the Russian Union occupation, and the Taliban insurgency.
The Kite Runner is an exploration of the protagonist’s struggles to find redemption or forgiveness for wrongdoing in his early adolescent life. As portrayed in his narrative, Amir aims to make up for his past maleficent behaviour toward his own half-brother. The desire for his narrative’s progression is mainly triggered by the morality of possible redemption from a past cardinal sin, as well as by the need to seek forgiveness. Likewise, all other narrative events and situations revolve mostly around the consequences of a remarkable experience in the past.
Accordingly, the enormous power of storytelling, as well as representation of the anthropomorphic, or lifelike, experiences in this narrative, allow the reader to form an emotional attachment to the inhabitants of Hosseini’s fictional world. The act of writing helps Amir handle the evil side of his past life, which has intensely haunted him for three decades and reminded him what he could have done. His narrative of personal experience finally enables him to find atonement through rearrangement of past events. Amir endeavours to weaken the annoying presence of the past through his recollections, inner thoughts, writings, and finally an excursion to Kabul. Apart from his actions throughout the story, his writing also helps him reduce the dismantling impact of the past experience on his mind.
As revealed through his narrative of confession, Amir lived a parallel life in America after his migration as his childhood memories in Kabul vex him consistently. He is repeatedly haunted by the memories related to Hazara Hassan, the son of Baba’s servant, to whose sexual harassment he was once a silent witness. Hassan is a significant character both in the writer’s representation, and in Amir’s life and act of storytelling. According to Sarah O’Brien, Hosseini renders “Afghanistan’s national trauma” through Hassan’s character as he “frames Hassan’s rape and its resultant trauma as an allegory for the turmoil engulfing Afghanistan following a coup in 1973 which toppled the monarchy and precipitated decades of political uncertainty, starting with a communist takeover and the invasion of Russian forces in 1979” . Besides his contextual importance for the writer, Hassan is also a major character in the extradiegetic and diegetic levels or in the levels of narration and action at the same time.

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