追风筝的人英语PPT课件
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The Kite Runner 请在此入您自己的内容
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Contents
• 1、Brief introduction of the author • 2、Brief introduction of the book • 3、Introductions of the main roles • 4、Some sentences I want to mention
Looking at The Kite Runner as a story about culture, however, misses what the book is really about. This is a novel about humanity. This is a story about friendship, loyalty, cruelty, longing for acceptance, redemption and survival. The core story could be set in any culture because it deals with issues that are universal
Diego, School of Medicine, where he earned his
M.D. in 1993. He completed his residency in
internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center in Los Angeles in 1996. He practiced
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Kabul, and Hassan, the son of Amir's father's
servant. As children in the relatively stable
Afghanistan of the early 1970s, the boys are
inseparable. They spend idyllic days running
medicine until a year and a half after the
release of The Kite Runner .
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The Kite Runner ,His first novel,was an international bestseller, published in thirty-eight countries. In 2006 he was named a goodwill envoy to UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency. He lives in northern California. His second, A Thousand Splendid Suns, was released on May 22, 2007. In 2008, the book was the bestselling novel in the UK (as of April 11, 2008), with more than 700,000 copies sold.
kites and telling stories of mystical places
and powerful warriors until an unspeakable
event changes the nature of their relationship
forever, and eventually cements their bond in
ways neither boy could have ever predicted.
Even after Amir and his father flee to America,
Amir.remains haunted by his cowardly actions
and disloyalty. In part, it is these demons and
the sometimes impossible quest for forgiveness
that bring him back to his war-torn native land
after it comes under Tal. iban rule.
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The Theme The Kite Runner is a story with all the grand "themes of literature and life". It is a "vivid and engaging story that reminds us how long Khaled Hosseini's people have been struggling to triumph
over the forces of violence". It is about "friendship and betrayal" and the arbitrary "price of loyalty". Themes of
School in San Jose in 1984 and enrolled at Santa
Clara University, where he earned a bachelor's
degree in biology in 1988. The following year,
he entered the University of California, San
to you • 5、The reason I introduce the book
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Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan,
and moved to the United States in 1980.
Hosseini graduated from Independence High