Wednesday, February 20, 2008

The Kite Runner

In The Kite Runner, I couldn't even imagain what Baba and Amir went through. To make that transition in there lives had to be hard. Amir belives that his relationship with Baba is stronger than ever. Amir and Hassan's friendship is going down hill. Not knowing his life was about to change dramaticly, Amir keeps treating Hassan unfriendly. He still hasn't admitted to seeing Hassan geting rapped. Ali asked Amir why Hassan is sleeping so much lately. Ali asks Amir,"'Did something happen to him, Amir agha? Something he's not telling me?'" (Hosseine 81) and Amir replies back "'How should I know'" (Hosseine 81). You know Amir is bothered by this because when everyone was asleep Amir wispered "'I watched Hassan get raped'"(Hosseine 86). Hearing this outloud made Amir think about the lie he was living. Amir also took a watch from one of his birtday presents and hid it under Hassan's bed so it looked like he stole it from Amir. When that conflict occured the big news of Ali and Hassan moving shifted the story a little. After fourty years of knowing eachother they packed and moved away. When the time came, Amir and Baba had to move too. The Russians were invading and the journey from Kabul to Pakistan was a rough one. Finding themselves in a fairly large truck with others, Amir had a hard time with his car sickness.I couldn't imagine the smell. Vomit and feces...ugh! It's very hard for me to imagin all of this! I have never moved away before and not only are they moving but the reason they are moving is scary. When they arrived to America, their lives changed but their culture stayed with them.

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