Kite Runner
Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, is a novel about a friendship between two boys who grow up in Afghanistan during the seventies. Amir is the man character and the protagonist. He is a Sunni Muslim and a Pashtun, and comes from a wealthy family. He becomes best friends with his father's servants son, Hassan. Hassan is a Shi'a Muslim and a Hazara. Even though Hassan's people are the minority ethnic group and oppressed in Afghanistan, Amir and his father Baba treat him as an equal.
Amir has a good childhood in Afghanistan up until a day that changes his life forever. After Amir sees his friend Hassan get attacked by a group of neighborhood bullies, it haunts him until he is an adult. After this occurs Amer feels intense guilt and shame because he did not help his friend, even though Hassan had always been a loyal and true friend to him. When war break out in Afrghanistan Amir and his father flee to America.
When Amir comes to America he goes to school, marries an Afghan woman named Soraya, and becomes a successful writer. But he still can not get over his past regrets. He tries hard to make his father proud of him, but then his father dies of cancer. One day he gets a call from a friend in Pakistan. He decides to go to Pakistan and try to make things right. When he travels to Pakistan he meets his friends who then tells him a secret his father never told him. He learns that Hassan is actually his half brother, and that Hassan was killed by the Taliban. He also learns that Hassan had a son named Sohrab who is now in Kabul. Amir decides to go to Afghanistan and find Sohrab. He finds Sohrab in an orphanage and then adopts him and brings him back to America with him.
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