Forrrrrrrr sho

The Kite Runner was definitely worth reading and I highly recommend it to people that need a good book to read.  The story really left me with what trust and friendship actually are.  From this book it enforced that trust is necessary for friendship to occur.  The term friendship, was redefined through this book as well. 

The relationship between Hassan and Amir was that they were like brothers in the beginning of the book, however Amir was afraid to call Hassan his friend because he was a Hazara.  To me this definitely means that their relationship was not true friendship.  Amir treated Hassan poorly, watched him get raped without helping him, and framed him for stealing money.  With all this going on in their childhoods they didn’t seem to be friends at all.  However, once they are separated and realize all of the great times they had together, realize that they are brothers, and yearn to see each other again, their relationship has been revised to a level of friendship that they had never reached before, even though they weren’t seeing each other at all.  Another part of this change in their relationship is that when Amir learns of Hassan’s death and is willing to travel to Kabul, which was very treacherous, to retrieve Hassan’s son, Sohrab.  This shows Amir’s hopes for forgiveness from Hassan and that they shall remain close, in spirit.

After reading The Kite Runner I am now much more interested in world affairs.  I feel ashamed that I didn’t know all of the horrors taking place in Afghanistan and how hard it was to live there.  This book has encouraged me to learn more about such oppressed places and how people can help them.