Tuesday, November 23, 2010

overal review

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a great,mind-boggling book. It is historical fiction but the detail in this story makes it feel as if it happened in real life.This book is bascaly about two friends that have to endure and go through obstacles with their friendship and life at Kabul. This book involves a lot of regret,anger,twist,and sadness. In my opinion, it is really depressing and it go me very frustrated.Warning there will be spoilers...this is just a Spoiler Alert!

(8)Two characters that interested me are Hassan and Amir. What interested me the most is their strange relationship. Amir wasn’t intentionally mean to Hassan, I mean he was just a kid. I think he was mostly jealous of Hassan because he had gotten a lot of attention and praise from Baba and also because of Hassan’s kind attitude. He was also jealous because Hassan was so brave and defended him. Amir couldn’t do that , he couldn’t even defend himself. He forced Hassan to do things he didn’t want to do like throwing rocks at a dog with a slingshot,but yet Hassan did them. In this story, I could feel the love Hassan had towards Amir because he never got mad at him like when Amir threw pomegranates at him and would apologize for things he didn’t do like stealing the watch(wich he didn’t steal) and would do things for him just so Amir could be happy. Amir got me frustrated because he didn’t defend his best friend and found many ways to make Hassan look guilty. He didn’t do anything to try and prevent Assef from raping Hassan,he just stood there and watched,he could have at least gone to get help. The only reason Hassan got raped was because he wouldn’t give up Amir’s kite. He made Hassan look guilty by framing him with the watch. He told his dad that he found he watch under Hassan’s pillow so his dad got mad but forgave him right away. This made Amir a little more angry and jealous because when they decided to leave,he didn’t even go and say goodbye. The guilt followed Amir all through out his life,he tried to repress it but it still came back sooner or later. Also, carma got him because he got whooped by Assef and felt the guilt when he found out Hassan died and he couldn’t do anything about it or have the chance to fix things. I think adopting Sohrab was a type of forgiveness or time to make things right but if it weren’t for Rakhim’s set up,Amir would have never taken in Sohrab because he is selfish.

(4)The authors style of writing has a lot of twist and turns that keeps the reader on the edge of their seat. His style of writing is very exhilarating and it kept me hooked.It taught me a lot about Afghanistan,like the wars they have to go through,poverty,change,etc. This story brings out a lot of emotions in people so be prepared to cry and use tissues or get so angry that u need to cuss or hit someone. This book got me really mad at the end because it didn’t end the way I wanted it 2 end. It had a super sad ending,I expected a happy ending. This books shows you the reality about life,it’s not always happy and doesn’t always end so great like in television shows and it makes you face the truth about reality. Like for example, the war thats going on in Afghanistan leaves a numerous amount of children without parents,shelter,food ,or clothes. Also, a lot of innocent people are killed during this process and they also have to witness their loved ones die one by one.An example of this is,”..was that I was lonely.By then most of my friends and relatives had either been killed or had escaped the country to Pakistan or Iran.”This is just one of example of one persons life. There are way more painful ones,like Sohrab his dad got shot and so did his mom,he had no more family left so he was forced to go to an orphanage. When someone took him for adoption,they sexually abused him and made him do cruel things like do monkey dances. When he was in the orphanage he would go through hunger and loneliness because the orphanages were poor and couldn’t afford a proper amount of provisions.This book style was very informative,exciting,frustrating,and sad I give it a 5/5.

(2) I would recommend this book to people who are interested in life in Afghanistan or people who are searching for a book that includes a lot of confusion and excitement and a book that involves reality. I would recommend this book to many people because after reading this magnificent book it deserves to be read by others. If other people read this,I think it will raise a little awareness about what the people in Afghanistan are going through and that we can help out. We can help out by donating food and money. Also, do something about people killing innocent people. I admit that the book wasn’t so great in the beginning,but once I got farther it started to interest me and make sense. I also thought it was going to involve a lot of religion and stuff like that, I wasn’t too happy about that because I ‘m not into religious things. This book is also for people that hate happy endings because it’s not reality. In real life, you don’t live happily ever after, life still goes on even after you get married. This book changed how I viewed Afghanistan because I would buy into others opinions and things that I saw on television. This book can also help friendship because it can give you a reality check on how someone is there one day and gone the other, so you need to respect and love them because you never know when you might lose them for good. i personally think, you should read the book more than twice so you can a better understanding and some morals out of it because once you revise something more than once you start to unravel some new ideas.I strongly recommend this book to everyone!!!!! It’s one of the best books i’ve read.!!!

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