Monday, April 18, 2005
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner is a story of love, betrayal, and redemption set in Afghanistan between the end of the monarchy and somewhere close to present day.
Secrets run through this story; secrets that change lives in the keeping or the telling.
Amir loves his father and is always looking for approval and love returned. His father seems to be always comparing Amir to other boys and finding him lacking. Even Hassan, a servant boy, gets more positive attention from Amir's father than Amir does. Through harrowing situation after situation the father and son make their way out of Afghanistan and to the US where their lives are changed although they remain the inner people that they were before. There is a time where Amir stops worshipping his father and starts to love and respect him for the human being that he was.
Secrets run through this story; secrets that change lives in the keeping or the telling.
Amir loves his father and is always looking for approval and love returned. His father seems to be always comparing Amir to other boys and finding him lacking. Even Hassan, a servant boy, gets more positive attention from Amir's father than Amir does. Through harrowing situation after situation the father and son make their way out of Afghanistan and to the US where their lives are changed although they remain the inner people that they were before. There is a time where Amir stops worshipping his father and starts to love and respect him for the human being that he was.
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