Monday, November 1, 2010

Kite Runner: Reflection

       So, we are reading this book in class called the kite runner. To tell you at first I thought the book was not interesting. The first couple of chapters made no sense to me, but its just that the book is very difficult to comprehend. The annotations that we are assigned to do help a lot though. Anyway, back to the book.
      Amir seems to be having this relationship or friendship with Hassan, but Amir seems to be a *#@4% to    Hassan at times. Hassan is the servant of Amir's dad, but does that mean that Amir must not accept Hassan as a friend? In the book the Father Baba was talking to this guy, and then Amir states that he didn't even think of Hassan as a friend! Well from the way they hang out and do stuff together you would think they would be the best of friends, but Amir denies it.
      Hassan also does not say that he is friends with Amir, but he is much nicer to Hassan. But, I also think of the narrator's point of view. It is described in Amir's eyes, but if we say it through Hassan eyes maybe things would be different. What Hassan does is care. He has this sort of care for Amir that I don't even see Amir having for Hassan. He wakes up and cooks him breakfast, and never does anything mean; he even takes the blame for something Amir did.
      This is what really stood out to me throughout the first section  of the book. What does the relationship of these two main characters tell about their lives and the relationship they share? That really drives most of the conflict between the story. I mean, there are many other relationships between the story but none seem to play it out in action like Amir and Hassans' relationship.
     My last words on the book are that it is a very heartbreaking book And I barley read the first third of the book! I really do like the way the plot is taking place. Throughout the whole story new events that occur bring out some untold truths about characters. The book is surprising, heartbreaking, but a novel needed to have a literate sense of truth and being able to comprehend it to drive the plot of the story.

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