AcknowledgementsThanks for giving me the chance to accomplish my paper as well as make a conclusion for my four years’ education. I have gained much more knowledge than I have supposed from writing this paper.I would give my sincere thanks to my supervisor, Ms. Shi, a respectable, responsible and resourceful scholar, who has provided me with valuable guidance in every stage of the writing of this thesis. Without her enlightening instruction, impressive kindness and patience, I could not have finished my thesis.Also, I want to give my thanks to other teachers and my classmates who have given me much help. Thank you!AbstractKhaled Hosseini, is an Afghan-born American writer, whose first work The Kite Runner, attach much interest of the readers from all over the world. Hosseini depicts these afghans lived in the different background and its traditional culture, deeply revealing the tyranny of the Taliban and the extreme racial and religious discrimination in this Muslim country. There have been quantities of searching about this novel at home and abroad, most of them are about the studying on the cultural identity, characterization, growth and self-redemption. This thesis unfolds afghan’s national culture and the Afghanistan people’s miserable life, thus we can know the veiled country clearly. My paper has 3 parts: introduction, the main body and conclusion. The first part introduces the writer, the work and its searching situation. The second part is the main body, which has 3 chapters. The first chapter introduces the symbolism including its definition, development and function in the literature work. The second chapter reveals Afghanistan’s battlefield and its poor condition by analyzing these dif...
