The Kite Runner

The voyage to Pakistan was a very exciting part of the reading. The parts that have stuck in my memory are when Baba confronted that Russian soldier that was “attached to drug”(117) and was going to rape the refugee woman. Also, the ride in the fuel tank of a Gasoline truck was suspenseful, with the “a baby wailing in the dark; the stench of gasoline, vomit and shit.
My repressed memory from this story was “Hassan’s final sacrifice”(105). When Amir framed Hassan for stealing his watch and money, so he wouldn’t have to live with the guilt of sacrificing Hassan for his kite. Hassan would be left with no choice, except to move away with Ali. The Ironic part of the story was the misfortune of Kamal, who had been a bully and aided in Hassan’s rape. The “fumes”(124) had killed Kamal instead of the baby, but not before he had lost his mother to a stray bullet in Kabul. It was very sad to read about the “Advanced. Inoperable”(156) cancer that Baba had, and he wasted away to skin and bones. But Amir asked him to go “Khastegari”(161) as a last favor, and now he is going marry Soraya.