The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner

Ashley Noh

This story was recommended by my mom, when she read this book at the library. She told me some backgrounds of this book, which was in Afghanistan. When I heard it, I was happy and thoroughly grateful, that I was not born in Afghanistan, because there were many wars in that place and I know that war is a dreadful thing that must not happen. So this is my connection with this book.

In this book there is a boy named Amir. He has a rich father who is very wealthy, so that he has a boy about the same age as Amir as a servant. However, Amir thinks that his father is treating the servant, Hassan better than him. One day, Amir and Hassan go to a kiting competition and he wins the game. So Amir calls on Hassan to fetch the kite that he won. But on his way, Hassan gets raped by Amir’s enemy Assef. Because of this Hassan goes away, and do not become a servant to Amir.

As years passed, Amir has raised a family, and get’s called from his father’s best friend from Afghanistan. When he gets there he hears really surprising news that his father had kept in the whole time. His father was married 2 times and one of his sons was Amir, and the other one was Hassan. Surprised, Amir was eager to find Hassan, but eventually, he hears a sad new that he died because of the Taleban, a group of people who conquered Afghanistan after the Soviet Union. However, Hassan had a boy, Sorap, who was now Taleban’s servant. Amir goes to find him and faces with bewilderment, because he sees Assef who is now a high position in Taleban. He fights with Assef, and at last, Sorap who was good at shooting with rubber guns, shoots Asseff’s eyes. And he runs away with Amir. And they live together. One day, they have a kiting competition too. But now Sorap flies the kite, and Amir caches the kite. At this point the story ends.

I think that the author in this book is telling the relationships between somebody, by the kite competition when somebody flies the kite and someone catching the kite. Because first when Hassan to fetches the kite, it is saying, that person is believing you and relying on the person flying the kite. And at the last part, when Sorap flies the kite, and Amir caches the kite, Amir is relying on Sorap. This is one of my best books that I have read recently. I knew the feelings of the Afghanistan history and the growth of one kid living in that coountry.

I hope everyone would read it!!!!