The Kite Runner: Flashback

"We find the little turtle behind tangles of sweetbrier in the yard. We don't know how it got there and we're too excited to care." (p. 261) Hosseini includes many flashbacks throughout the novel. This serves to reveal more about the character's personalities. The book is also told through the perspective of Amir who is looking back into the past on his memories. Many times when looking back on our lives, it comes to us more in spurts of stories instead of chronological events. Therefore, the flashbacks make the novel more realistic. Flashbacks allow the reader to understand the characters more and make them more life like. The flashbacks can help the reader to better understand the reason behind certain actions that take place as well as learn how things turned out the way that they did. Flashbacks give the novel more description and help depict the changes that have taken place through the course of the novel.