On Home Education Concept in "The Kite Runner"
- DOI
- 10.2991/seiem-16.2016.124How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini, Amir, home education concept
- Abstract
The objective of present study was to examine the role home education concept plays in children's personal transformation and how it can affect their growth in the long run. We developed a comparative study of two conflicting home education concepts presented in Afghanistan American writer Khaled Hosseini's novel The Kite Runner and explored their totally different effects on protagonist Amir and how they contributed to Amir's different choices and destinies. Our findings indicate self-centered education concept firmly practiced by Amir's father-Baba posed a great restraint to Amir's personality development and induced distorted moral values, which consequently made Amir end up in sin. On the contrary, man-oriented home education concept followed by Rahim Khan, both a mentor and a moral guide was conducive to Amir's personality development and helped Amir accomplish self-redemption eventually. The results show the significance of man-oriented home education concept to one's personality development and personal transformation.
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- © 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Qingjuan Nie PY - 2016/12 DA - 2016/12 TI - On Home Education Concept in "The Kite Runner" BT - Proceedings of the 2016 International Seminar on Education Innovation and Economic Management (SEIEM 2016) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 485 EP - 488 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/seiem-16.2016.124 DO - 10.2991/seiem-16.2016.124 ID - Nie2016/12 ER -