The Kite Runner: Week 1, Post B

Dear Khaled Hosseini, 

So far, your book, "The Kite Runner", has been very good and I am really enjoying reading it. I love how in the first few chapters, you give the readers an idea of what the dynamics among characters are before you start telling us the plot. It gives us a really good base before we start finding out the plot and learning even more about the characters. This is a really good way to start a novel, in my opinion. Ever since I heard about your book and how culturally interesting it was, I've wanted to read it. I can tell from these first few chapters that I'm going to like it a lot. It should be really interesting to read, and I can't wait to find out what happens. 

My favorite part of the first few chapters was when Amir was reflecting on his friendship with Hassan. "But we were kids who had learned to crawl together, and no history, ethnicity, society, or religion was going to change that either" (22). This gave me a really good sense of what the book might be about: religious, social, and ethnic conflicts between Hassan and Amir, two boys in Afghanistan who grew up together, who had always been friends and who couldn't live without each other. Still, Amir had problems getting over the fact that Hassan was Amir and Baba (Amir's famous and rich father)'s servant, and that Hassan was a Hazaran Shi'a. I like how they are still best friends after all of their differences listed and talked about in the first couple chapters.