Exploring Amir’s Triple Personality from the Psychoanalytic Critical Perspective

Abstract

The Kite Runner is the debut novel by Afghan-American writer Khaled Hosseini. The novel, with the first-person perspective, tells a story of an Afghan child in the United States who makes mistakes as a child and begins to try to redeem his soul as an adult. This paper aims to use Freud’s Theory of Personality Structure to further explore the personality of Amir, the hero in The Kite Runner, from the id, ego and superego, so as to help people better understand the character image of Amir.