As finishing up the given section of the Story “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini the responses and questions that came to mind were solid ideas that sent me in a curious mood, wanting to read on and ask further and deeper questions.
“The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini was published in 2003. The Kite Runner is the story of strained family relationships between a father and a son, and between two brothers, how they deal with guilt and forgiveness, and how they weather the political and social transformations of Afghanistan from the 1970s to 2001.“
What had jumped out on me while reading the first couple of chapters of this story were my impressions towards the characters in the story, and the impressions the characters had upon themselves and each other. To start it off, what mostly caught my attention through this section of the book was the so called “relationship between Amir and Hassan. The first question that comes to mind is. “Did Amir even care about Hassan in terms of being friends or just kids who grew up together.'? Or did he just see him as an outsider and treated him like dirt because of popularity and terms of fitting in. At the begging of the story it seems that Amir respected Hassan as he was an adult, but as a child he tried his hardest to not get into a serious friendship with Hassan. Leaving Hassan to struggle and fight on his own in times when Hassan needed Amir the most. On the other hand, Hassan stuck up for Amir when in trouble and in need of help.
After getting around the end of the check point, I started to notice the changes in Amir's behavior and the way he began to blame Hassan for his mistakes. As if it was always Hassan's fault for the way he was treated and blamed. As a result, if Amir was mad he wouldn't blame anyone but Hassan. If he felt that his father didn't except him for any apparent reason, he seemed to always get jealous and result in harming another or trying to eliminate and competition (although Hassan had never been a threat.) The main question that always leads from this point is gonna always be the same. “Why”? Why doesn't Hassan give up his loyalty to Amir. He got set-up for stealing Amir's birthday gifts and understood it was a result of what Amir had done to him. Yet he still didn't confront Amir for his behavior and lies. He only agrees that he was the one that stole Amir's gifts. Over all that has happened why didn't Hassan take the final move towards Amir?
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