The Kite Runner - Settings: America / Afghanistan

The Kite Runner - comparing settings: America and Afghanistan

America (page 167)

• "a beautiful Sunday afternoon, the sun sparkled on the water where dozens of miniature boats sailed". 

This description of America describes a calm, "beautiful Sunday afternoon", with the sun "sparkling on the water". Civilians are out and there is a sense of peace.

Use of long vowel sounds "breeze".

Afghanistan (page 170)

• "smoke-filled taxicab"
• "chain-smoking, sweaty"
• "drove nonchalantly and recklessly, averting collisions by the thinnest of margins, all without so much as a pause in the incessant stream of words spewing from his mouth"

All these build a sense of a loud, busy, bustling and restless environment.

Short lexical vocabulary.