blog #3

During my summer break I decided to read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosnei, it was an addictive piece of work. The story involves a young boy named Amir who is best friends with his servants son Hassan in post Taliban Afghanistan. Hassan and Amir are constantly teased by a youg boy named Assef who hates Hassan for being a Hazzara and Amir for befriending him. During his childhood, Amir desperately tries to gain his fathers love and acceptance knowing that his father does not accept his childs behavior.Amir also loves to write, because it brings him closer to his dead mother. Hassan and Amir enjoy many activities together mainly flying kites, yearly they compete in a kite running contest. In the winter of the late 1970s the contest once again reappear. As The contes goes on and the boys are in first place the kite goes along the boundries, Hassan goes after the kite in hopes of retriving it. On the way he confronts Assef and his gang where they then rape him. Amir goes off to try and find Hassan and catches Assef in the act, shocked Amir hides while watching until they finally finish. Hassan and Amir then meet up again and they leave the alley. After the incident Amir notices Hassans weird behavior. Amir becomes guilty because he did not do anything to stop Hassan from being raped. Fee up, Amir plants money under Alis' bed and tells his father.Baba begs Ali not to go but he refuses Ali confronts Amirs dad about the money and decides to quit working for Baba. It would be the final time Amir would ever see Ali and Hassan. Over the years Amir and Baba manage to flee Afghanistan because of the revolution. They settle in fremont where Amir goes to and graduates high school and college. Baba and Amir get jobs in a local flea market. Babas health soon begins to decline and they find he has ubtreatable cancer. Amir then meets Soraya, another Afghan girl whom he takes a liking to.Amir asks for Sorayas hand in marriage, while they talk Soraya mentions that she had once ran away from home and tells Amir she does not want any secrets between the two bringing up old feelings about the incident with Hassan. They then get married, after months of marriage Baba dies. Amir struggles at first to overcome his grief. After years of being away from Afghanistan, Amir receives a call from babas old friend Rahim Khan in Pakistan urging him to come quickly. He informs him about his own sickness and that Hassan had a family and all are dead but his son Sohrab and that he is in an orphanage. Amir then agrees to find  and bring Hassans son to Pakistan so that he may be put in an orphange that will benefit him. He does it as a favor to Hassan. So he sets off to find  Sohrab in Afghanistan. Amir searches all over the Afghani orphanages until he discovers that Sohrab as sold to a Taliban member. Amir then finds Sohrab at a soccer match, where he discovers his old enemy Assef the boy who raped Hassan. Assef then confronts Amir about the past and demands payback. After he begins to attack Amir breaking ribs, punching teeth out, etc. Sohrab is then rescued and taken by Amir and his friend a taxi driver. Amir is rushed to a hospital, after a week or two amir desperately attempt to connect with sohrab but sohrab is unwilling to respond. After a while Amir checks himself out of the hospital, he and Sohrab begin their journey to pakistan Amir finds out that he must take Sohrab to America after Rahim Khan tells himn that there really wasnt an orphanage that would take Sohrab After Amir makes a  visit to the embassy, where they tell him bringing Sohrab to America is nealy impossible. Amir, heartbroken informs sohrab that he must stay in an orphanage for a while until Amir can bring him back. Sohrab refuses to go and becomes upset. They decide to take a rest at a nearby hotel, where sohrab attempts suicide yet survives. Beforethe attempt, Amir discover he actually can take sohrab home to America with him. AS Sohrab heals, Amir informs him of the discover and that  once he recovers they can leave. After Sohrab heals they head off to America where Amirs wife begins to set up a room for him. Sohrab becomes depressed in America and refuses to talk. In hopes of cheering him up Amir takes him to a kite running contest but yet it has little effect on sohrab thus ending the book.