Intertextuality as assimilation of the 'multicultural epic': The Kite Runner
{"Image DocumentName": "Intertextuality as assimilation of the \u2018multicultural epic\u2019: The Kite Runner", "Image ImageDescription": "The storytelling motif and the Hero Tale. Before Soraya and Amir get engaged, she confesses to him that she once ran off with a man to whom she wasn\u2019t married, shaming her parents and bringing a stroke on her mother. She feels that she owes Amir the truth before they marry and is afraid he will change his mind. But Amir knows that he has no grounds to hold Soraya\u2019s past against her. He envies Soraya\u2019s deliverance from her secret and almost reveals his own, but cannot bring himself to do it. Fifteen years later, after Amir has retrieved Sohrab from the clutches of the Taliban and has decided to take him back to America with him, he tells Soraya everything on the telephone: about Hassan parentage, the incident in the alley, the years of deception. As I spoke, I felt something lifting off my chest. [284] From that point on, Amir shuns deception.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}