An Ethical Literary Analysis Of And The Mountains Echoed

Khaled Hosseini, an Afghanistani American writer, has achieved great reputation for his masterpiece, And the Mountains Echoed, which perfectly shows his writing techniques and unique innovation. This is a novel which spans 60 years of Afghan history and takes partings and reunions of three generations of Pari family for clues. Husseini shows all of people a different Afghan and a shocking Islamic world with different periods and different areas.This paper entirely shows growth process of different characters from the perspective of ethical literary criticism. And it interprets the theme of the works with three different ethical terms, that is, ethical identity, ethical consciousness and ethical selection. In the novel, the deficiency and abandonment of ethical identity and the loss of identity for refugees lead to the ethical consciousness awakening for the characters, which makes love and responsibility subliming. Finally, characters make firm ethical selections in the course of pursuing ethical consciousness. Ethics and morality reflected in the novel are involved in life experience of modern humans. In particular, when they get trapped into ethical predicament, they can put duty in the top place and reflect ethical value of their own. In And the Mountains Echoed, everyone is able to find his position, where they can give up in bad condition and learn to insist in the duty and eventually, they can get happiness. Above all, people can perform their own ethical responsibility to themselves, to others, to society and to country. It is essential for everyone never to escape and abandon and at last, they can make the right ethical selection under the instruction of right rational will.