Book Review

Childhood, Afghanistan. He and Hassan who is a son of servant, they were together and together all the childhood time. As the writer says in the book “When we were children, Hassan and I used to climb the poplar trees in the driveway of my father’s house and annoy our neighbors by reflecting sunlight into their homes with a shard of mirror. We would sit across from each other on a pair of high branches, our naked feet dangling, our trouser pockets filled with dried mulberries and walnuts. We took turns with the mirror as we ate mulberries, pelted each other with them, giggling, laughing….” They always fly the kite together. However, Hassan is the runner for pick the kite back every time when they won the game. And this becomes a pain in Amir’s heart, forever. When Hassan went for catch the blue kite back for Amir, meantime in order to protect Amir’s kite, he suffered sodomy, but Amir watched all the thing happened and he run away instead of step forward. The worse thing Amir did was trumped-up the missing watch to set Hassan up. Turns out, they do not have a good relationship like before any more. Time moved on, Amir moved to the United States, but the guilty full of his deep heart duo to Hassan, and later he was aware of the family’s secret that Hassan is his half-brother. In order to get back ‘once again become a good way’ Amir back to Afghanistan, while Hassan is dead, after a tons of difficulties and dangers, Amir rescued the only son of Hassan, Sohrab, back to the United States. Amir fly kites with Sohrab to warm the lonely child, meantime he seemed to have heard of ‘for you, thousands of times!’ in the back. He saw Sohrab’s lips smile, and he really began to aware salvation…
I start to read to this book for home assignment, I mere get through this book in couple of days, nevertheless, I couldn’t put it down once I started and I was totally absorbed in the setting of this book. And I will definitely spend time to plough through it again later. It is such a wonderful book. It is so hard to depict friendship, servant hood, and brotherhood at the same time, but Hosseini did it successfully!