Yesterday I felt highly motivated to finally tidy up my room. I guess everyone knows that- you have been looking for one of your favorite items for ever but it just seems like it is vanished off the face of the earth?! Well, that's what happened to me yesterday- I found one of my favorite books again! I euphorically started reading it one more time :)
The book is called "The Kite Runner". Is is a novel written by Khaled Hosseini in 2003. I've also seen the movie which is really recommandable!
The setting is Kabul, Afghanistan, in the 1970's and the protagonist's name is Amir. He is one of the few kids who can call themselves lucky, as his family, rather his father, is well-off and they live in an amazing domain. Amir's mother died when she gave birth to him, what Amir's father unconciously is blaming is own son for. As this wouldn't be enough, "Baba" claims that his son wouldn't be able to defend himself and that he wouldn't be able at all showing strength, in other words, to be a real man. Amir feels desperate about this fact. Moreover, because his best friend Hassan, who actually belongs to the lower social class, is the braver one of them two. Whenever there is trouble because of the neighbour boys making fun of Amir and especially Hassan, he draws out his slingshot to defend himself and his best friend. Baba notices that Hassan is the one who acts more courageous and praises him. Amir feels more and more ignored by his dad and one day shows him his ability to be strong when he wins the great kite tournament. Hassan is running for Amir's kite as he comes across the neighbourhood's boys. They don't let him go. They are teasing him and punching him when one of them, namely Assef, starts raping him to "teach him a lesson". Nobody knows that this occurence is being observed by Amir, who is too afraid to help Hassan. He is just hiding behind the wall watching this best friend being humiliated. Since this day, everything is changing between them two and their friendship starts tearing apart. Some years later, when the Sovjets would invade Afghanistan, things will never be the same. Amir's life will become an uphill struggle for love, family and especially redemption.
I don't know many of these stories which immediately got me, but this is definitely one of them and I am curious if you can share this feeling with me! So if you have read the book or watched the movie, tell me how you've liked it! Do you also have read books or watched movies you'll never fortget? I wanna know more about it! :-)
Have a nice evening everyone!
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