The Kite Runner

Title: The Kite Runner

Author: Khaled Hosseini

Edition: Paperback by Bloomsbury UK 2011

Year: 2004

Pages: 344

Rating: 5

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For you, a thousand times over!

That was very heartbreaking.

I could literally see pieces of my heart scattering on the floor of my classroom. I couldn't believe I finished this at school and had to push back the tears.

I think it's relevant and appropriate to insert Churin's review. I deeply, in a level you can't imagine, find both The Kite Runner and The Grave of Fireflies related, just like Churin does. The difference is, she hates this book and I do the opposite.

See. This book was written in a manipulative way to bring the vivid imagination into readers' minds about the violence Amir has seen all his life, probably more than anyone else. The conflict of Taliban and Afghanistan, Sunni and Shi'a, and also a glimpse of USA we see seemingly are justifications of what this book is trying to tell us. It's certainly about friendship, family, religion, and humanity. But I could find another thing that I cannot explain. Something on this book that made me want to crawl under my bed. Probably the redemption of Amir itself, or the kinship. But thing that I feel most relatable is realization.

Why do you think this book is manipulative? You may ask. To read something as brutal and as traumatic as Amir and Hassan's childhood is a good way to wreck our mind. To put such coincidence events in this book is a good move to bound one thing to another. Those sound bad, but I could always find excuses for my doubts over this book and that's amazing. I can be very biased with most people's reviews, but even though there are majority of people that don't like this book, I find myself liking it so much.

I oversee the way people are talking here. I oversee the unrealistic parts. I oversee every flaw exist on this book. And I only live up for how good the writing and the plot actually are.

Hassan is probably one of the most precious characters I have ever read Everything about him screams innocence. I see why there's discrimination to Hazara people. I'm a muslim and have taught about this topic a bit. I'm saying that I understand why, not that I am a pro Shi'a muslim but neither am I against it. Just seeing why the society dumps him and his family easily, and the fact that Amir and Baba still accepts ALi and Hassan warms my heart.

Baba is a though man. Amir has to learn through a rough way, but in a digest, he grows up as a man he dreamed he would be. Or at least, he doesn't when it comes to his dreams. Because guilt and sorrow is still slumped inside his throat, he suffocates. It's very tragic how Amir thinks that physical punishment that could nearly take his life he considered as a reedem for what he's done. He's a very good man but trapped and scared. I am glad seeing how his character development grows. How he's an adult but is still fearsome. How he finally pushes his fear and stepped into a way that might jeopardize his life. He took it. I was fucking weeping and if I could roll on the floor, I would.

I don't know how to talk about this book any further without spoiling the entire story, so I might have to stop here. With my dangling feeling and unfinished weep. I will leave from here, trying to persuade you to read this masterpiece of classic.

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