| Since The Kite Runner，the work of Khaled Hosseini, Afghanistan American writer,was published in2003, it has earned great reputation. It has been translated into manydifferent kinds of language and sold over6million copies. And it has taken Amazonranking for131weeks. In recent years, the studies on the novel at home and abroadhave greatly increased, based on Afghanistan culture and its national conditions, and theanalysis of the diversified themes. The care on Afghanistan people, especially on thechildren’s miserable life has made the novel full of humanitarian color, thus the authorhas earned the "Goodwill Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner forRefugees". For the humanitarian color, the novel has been approved of by people allover the world.The title of the novel "the kite runner" leads the readers to think about what thehero "runs" for. The "kite", naturally, is endowed by people with various kinds ofsymbolic meanings. For example, it may symbolize the hope, redemption or past time.This thesis, learning from the research of the predecessors, adopts a different way tostudy and consequently gives a different explanation. It is based on the analysis of thegrowing process of the hero, and its emphasis is on the word "run". The thesis will showwhat he runs for, that is, in Lacan’s words, the "subject"’s establishing and searching forhis way of growing up. Therefore, the thesis will analyze the novel from thepsychological perspective, and apply Lacan’s theory of "three orders of the subject" tothe interpretation of Amir’s growing journey.The thesis is divided into five parts. The first part is the introductions about theauthor and The Kite Runner, the literature review and the interpretation of Lacan’s"subject" theory. Then it will analyze and explain Amir’s establishing and searching forthe "subject" in the basis of Lacan’s "subject" theory, that is, in the "Imaginary", the "Symbolic" and the "Real". Hence the second part is the analysis of the reflection of the"Imaginary" in the hero’s growing process, that is, the analysis of Amir’s primaryestablishing of the "subject" consciously. By the "ideal subject" and the "mirror-image",Amir began to establish the "subject" under the harmonious background, but it turnedout to be an illusion because the establishing was based on the imagination. Then the"subject" started to transfer to the "Symbolic". The third part is the analysis of the"Symbolic" reflected in the growing process of the hero, that is, the analysis of Amir’sfurther establishing of the real "subject". He tried to catch the authority of"the-Name-of-Father" and use the language available to become an independent"subject" who could voice his own words, while in the process, the "subject" met a lotof frustration. Thus he began to explore the root of the failure——"trauma" andreturned to the original and perfect "Real" to re-find the basis of the "complete subject"establishing. But he only found out that the "Real" was "impossible". So in the fourthpart, it is the analysis of the "Real" reflected in his growing process, that is, Amir finallyrecognized the "impossibility" and "nothingness" of the "Real", and this recognitioncaused his psychological insufficiency, which induced the appearance of the "subject"’sunsatisfied "desire", and the "subject" began his forever searching to the "desire".The last part is the conclusion. It concludes and reviews the "subject"’s growingjourney and analyzes the reason why it fails. While the "subject" does not stop withdisappointment, instead, he goes on with his searching. This is just the greatenlightenment for the readers. |
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