The Kite Runner Identity Analysis

Identity
The novels A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews, and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini tell the story of Amir and Nomi, and the journey they went through to figure out their identity. In A Complicated Kindness, the protagonist Nomi Nickel is a Mennonite who has grown up in a town called Easter Village in Canada. Amir, from The Kite Runner lives in Afghanistan before the Soviet Union invaded the country, and then moves to the United States of America. The culture they grew up in, their families, the challenges they faced and the choices they made shaped the identities of Amir and Nomi to whom they had became at the end of the novel.

In A Complicated Kindness the Nickels are a religious Mennonite family who are surrounded by strict …show more content…
Though Nomi does not agree with the community’s rules, she is also influenced by her sister’s decisions too. Tash drank alcohol and hung out a lot with her boyfriend, Ian, even until five or six in the morning. However, this did not seem to trouble Naomi’s parents. Tash had said, “We’re a national joke. We’re the joke town in the joke province in the joke country. Everybody mocks us . . .” (Toews, 71). Following in her sister’s footsteps, Nomi begins to despise her community too. Nomi rebels against all of the rules of the Mennonite community, and everyone who lives there. She loathes that she is not able to do things that regular teenagers do like drugs, smoking and having sex. Since the Mennonite community restricts from several things a regular teenager is able to do, Nomi begins to rebel against her community. Since Nomi has already begun to rebel against the community she also begins taking drugs, having sex and drinking alcohol. Aside from turning to those outlets, she eventually stops attending church shortly after Tash and Trudie are excommunicated. The only source of happiness that Naomi has is her boyfriend, Travis. Travis and Nomi go driving together and smoke together, but things soon change. Nomi thinks that she is a valued girlfriend, but she soon realizes that she was only being used for entertainment, sex and drugs. Nomi becomes even more rebellious when she decides to burn Travis’ truck. Burning Travis’s truck and not attending Sunday church eventually leads to Nomi’s excommunication. The mouth comes over after the truck burning incident and says, “ Lack of attendance, said The Mouth. And other various . . . we can’t have church members setting fires . . . and . . . He glanced at me briefly” (Toews, 235). It shows in A Complicated Kindness that her family, in which she followed in the footstpes of her mother and sister, shapes the

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