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Symbolism in "The Kite Runner" "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini is a story about a young boy, Amir who commits many sins in his childhood but he later goes back to redeem them. This book mostly focuses on betrayal because Amir betrays his best friend, Hassan. The author uses many symbols throughout the book for an example he uses a pomegranate tree to symbolize friendship, and he uses kites to symbolize loyalty, and freedom. A pomegranate tree symbolizes the friendship between Amir and Hassan. Amir recalls that "One summer day I used one of Ali's kitchen knives to carve our names on the pomegranate tree: 'Amir and Hassan, the sultans of Kabul.'" (31) Amir always reads many stories to Hassan while they eat sweet pomegranates after school. They always climb up the tree and read books. Those words made it formal that the tree was a token of their friendship. When...

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