Read and consider The Kite Runner and how a single character experiences such a rift and becomes cut off from “home,” whether that home is the character’s birthplace, family, homeland, or another special place. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the character’s experience with exile is both alienating and enriching and how this experience illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole. Incorporate two ideas or quotations from How to Read Literature Like a Professor into the essay as commentary. Do not merely summarize the plot.

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