The Kite Runner didn’t seem like a fiction novel to me. The details and specifics Khaled Hosseini included made the story feel incredibly real. The dates and accuracy of war really added to the book.
In the beginning, I detested Amir for how he had treated Hassan. I detested him as much as Amir detested himself. Hosseini created Amir’s character very intensely and carefully. He made sure the reader would know Amir did not like himself as much as the reader shouldn’t.
The biggest turn around in the story, for me, was not when Amir decided to save Sohrab, but when Sohrab was in the hospital and Amir prayed for the first time in fifteen years – When Amir realizes there is a God. “I see now that Baba was wrong, there is a God, there always had been.” So much detail went in throughout the story about how Baba did not believe in God. And finally, in the end, Amir believes He exists. It seemed to sum the story into a whole. That God exists and forgiveness can be found and one can be good again.
I don't know if I've ever hated a character more than I hated Amir...yet I found him sympathetic too. This is a testament to Hosseini, I agree.
ReplyDeleteLove your last thought. I think it's awesome that if feels like the details are real, not fiction.