About the Kite Runner and discussion questions: http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/kite_runner.html
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo – 2005
http://www.preface.calpoly.edu/2005/index.html
Michigan State University “One Book, One Community” – 2005
http://www.onebook.msu.edu/OneBookOneCommunity-MichiganStateUniversity.html
The following using the Kite Runner from this web page: http://homepages.gac.edu/~fister/onebook.html
College of the Redwoods -(2007)
Creighton University - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini; My Freshman Year by Rebekah Nathan; Surely You're Joking by Richard Feynman; Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (2007); instructors choose one of the four for their section of a first term seminar
Niagara University(2007)
University of North Carolina, Wilmington - The Kite Runner (2007) .pdf on how to use it in the classroom
UNC Wilmington events fall 2007
"There has long been concern about angry reaction in Afghanistan to the screen adaptation of the novel, particularly a pivotal scene in which a boy is raped. In late November, Paramount Pictures, the film studio that released “The Kite Runner,” spirited the film’s four young actors out of Kabul to the United Arab Emirates for their own safety.
Mr. Ahmadi said the novel, by the Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini, had not been banned. The novel is written in English, which most Afghans cannot read."
We read this in our book group a couple years ago. Now we're considering it as a summer read for our peer educators at Rollins College. Since I read it, the movie has come out... so there's even more buzz than there used to be. I'm going to collect resources about this book and the movie and the author here."THIS powerful first novel, by an Afghan physician now living in California, tells a story of fierce cruelty and fierce yet redeeming love. Both transform the life of Amir, Khaled Hosseini's privileged young narrator, who comes of age during the last peaceful days of the monarchy, just before his country's revolution and its invasion by Russian forces.
But political events, even as dramatic as the ones that are presented in ''The Kite Runner,'' are only a part of this story. A more personal plot, arising from Amir's close friendship with Hassan, the son of his father's servant, turns out to be the thread that ties the book together. The fragility of this relationship, symbolized by the kites the boys fly together, is tested as they watch their old way of life disappear."
