Insight Text Guides – The Kite Runner is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive study guide to Khaled Hosseini's novel contains detailed character and chapter analysis and explores genre, structure, themes and language. Essay questions and sample answers help to prepare students for creating written responses to the text.
About the writer: Maude Ashton, BA, Dip Ed, has taught English at secondary and tertiary levels in Australia and abroad. She currently teaches VCE English and Literature at Toorak College, Melbourne.