The author showed the unlikely friendship between Amir and Hassan. I felt how raw the emotions of the characters are. “For you a thousand times over.” After reading this line from the book, I can’t help but to stop for a while because of the emotions that came rushing through me. “And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. By how the author described pre-war Afghanistan on the first part of the book is really far from what we’re curently seeing on the news now. It focused on Afghanistan and highlighted how the country started to fall. This helped me understand a certain part of history integral to Afghans.
This book gave me a dose of Afghan history, gave me a look as to what Afghanistan look like, gave me Afghan language lessons and a glimpse who Afghans really are. This book provided me a new prospective about how I should see Afghanistan. This is the first book I read about Afghanistan and how the author introduced me to his country is very natural that I felt the pain the Afghans felt when their country was torn. The book itself is an eye-opening for me in regards to Afghanistan, a country where I don’t know much about aside from what I see and read on the news. It was like the author is painting using words and he’s using your mind as the canvass to convey what he wants the readers to know and understand. I was with the people of Afghanistan during it’s glorious and peaceful days when it’s safe to roam the streets without the fear of hearing wails of women and children and seeing them die because of starvation or wounds or seeing burning houses or people being randomly killed in the streets, mingle with people without the fear that who you are talking to is a spy of the Taliban, laugh with the vendors without the fear of being shot in the head and eat kobab without the fear that it will probably be your last meal.įor me the author was very successful in portraying the beauty of Afghanistan not just by how descriptive his words were but also of made me feel the overflow of emotions that he wanted to convey to the readers through his words. When I was reading the book, I didn’t feel like I was just watching the characters. The subplots worked well to with the conclusion of the plot to complete the picture. I can’t describe enough how I adore the writing. “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime…” We follow as secrets over secrets are revealed shedding light to the real connection between Amir and Hassan. We follow as the past didn’t forget Amir, making him come back to Afghanistan to once and for all have a closure and make things right. We follow as he’s still being haunted by the actions that he made during his childhood that changed the life of his friend. We follow as Amir chased his dream in the US and how he started his own family. We follow as the two learned the ropes in the US, how their lifestyle changed and how they became accustomed to a country far different from where they came from. We follow as Amir and his father escaped Afghanistan and moved to the US to start a new life. We follow as the two become separated because of poor choices. We follow as both their lives changed when Afghanistan was attacked by the Russians and years later when Taliban took over.
We follow as Amir growing and always despising Hassan in his thoughts while Hassan continuously serve him dutifully as a friend and as a servant. We follow as Amir always tried to get the approval of his father, a powerful businessman, and how he always try to make his father proud of him. We follow as Amir and their servant’s son, Hassan, grew up, play and learn the art of kite flying, learn and appreciate books, became closer as brothers and fought their bullies together. The book follows Amir’s childhood in the wealthy part of Kabul, Afghanistan living with his father and their servants, father and son, Ali and Hassan, during the early times before war broke in the country. The book is the story of Amir during the 1970 pre–war Afghanistan, followed by the invasion of the Russians in 1979 and the terror that happened afterwards during their nine year occupancy in Afghanistan, the terror and destruction caused by the Taliban in the nineties and the 2000 post-Taliban as the backdrop of the story. And after reading this book, The Kite Runner just made it on that list. I only have two books on that list so far, first being Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Muramaki and second is The Color Purple by Alice Walker.
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I consider a book as one of the best books I’ve read if I don’t know how to start giving it a review, the reason being there are a lot of things that I want to say and I am confused where to start.
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