Richard Folsom- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

To be honest, I have not read a novel longer than 100 pages in a while, and I thought that this book would be lame and boring just because most of the ones I have read were actually lame and boring. I started reading it and was hooked after the first ten pages.

It was really interesting in how the author put the story together. A bunch of conflicts leading to another that one conflict started. Hassan had great qualities that made him... Hassan, and no one could destroy those qualities. He stood by Amir's side despite the many difficulties he had gone through his entire life; even after he moved to America which gives him the quality of integrity. Hassan was the definition of loyalty. When Hassan was beat up and raped by Assef and his buddies, Amir did not talk to him for a while. Hassan probably knew he was there watching for a bit, but he stilled remained loyal. Until death, he was loyal to Amir. He did not even have to take care of his house while Baba and Amir were gone, but he did anyways. If Hassan did not take care of the house, he would have been still alive along with his wife and have a happy family. Hassan was just too extremely loyal. Hassan was tested by Amir many times, and it did not make Hassan one bit less loyal to Amir. He was also a forgiving person. Hassan forgave his long-lost mother for deserting him before he could remember what she looked like.

pg. 219
"They told Hassan they would be moving in to supposedly keep it safe until I return. Hassan protested again. So they took him to the street."

On the other hand, while in America, Amir created the illusion that his problems were gone at his original homeland. Everything was going well for him. He feared that he might screw up stuff with his father and everything else if he told the whole truth of what happened with Hassan. Amir was on a the guild-trip in most of the story. Towards the end of the novel, Amir prays to his God that he had not prayed to for a while because of his father's beliefs which makes me think that Amir probably thought he had no one else to turn to, so screw it, if God is there, then I hope he hears this prayer. He eventually learned how to forgive people and how to forgive himself, but he was pretty old by the time he did. Despite what Amir went through, Amir still received the better end of the deal between him and Hassan. Amir was still alive.

Then, that brings the thought; What if Amir did not frame Hassan making him and his father leave? Maybe Baba would have told Amir and Hassan the whole story of how things went down, and a happy melancholic song would mark the end of the story with a happily ever after cliche after that. Things would have not been so dramatic, and everyone involved could be relieved that there were no more secrets. That would be an alternate fantasy side of it though because it was difficult to tell the truth.