The Lion's Pride Volume 11 (Winter 2019) | Page 40

The Kite Runner Purpose Essay: Immigration
Serena Chiara Rizzi
This essay is about immigration: its up and downs, laws that were
passed to help/keep people out, and the novel, The Kite Runner, by
Khaled Hosseini, which echoes real situations where people emigrate
from their countries at war.
“The land of the free,” a famous line in the U.S. National Anthem,
“reflects the history, struggles, and traditions of a nation and its people
and serves as an expression of national identity” (Oishimaya Sen, 2017).
The United States is supposed to be a land where people seek refuge
from wars or come to fulfill their lifetime dreams, but this is not possible
for everybody now with all the new laws of immigration that our current
president has set up to keep most of the people from entering the land of
the free. It seems that this nation is no longer free; people have difficulty
entering the land where all dreams come true. These people are called
immigrants. Immigration has its up and downs; many laws are passed to
keep people out, and the novel, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
echoes real situations where people emigrate from their countries at war.
Immigration is the process of people permanently immigrating to a
foreign country, in most cases the U.S., where a lot of jobs are offered,
and pay is better from where people originally come from. There are
some positive and negative things about immigration. The positives are
that immigrants “take up jobs [in the states] that many do not want,” like
agriculture (PBS, Q13 news). Since there are not so many immigrants