Analasis of The Kite Runner - Book Report/Review Example

12 Apr. The Kite Runner: Analysis: The Kite Runner is a very thought provoking book by Khaled Hosseini. It puts forth a well constructed account of the lifestyle of Afghani people, their culture and their sorrows. The book tells that a person that does not become a friend in need suffers throughout the life unless the sin is paid for. The Kite Runner derives its name from the excellent kite running quality of Hassan, who is Ali’s son. Ali is a servant to Baba, and Baba has a son, Amir. Amir is literate while Hassan is not.

Although both are mates, the two can not make friends because of class difference, though Hassan is extremely loyal to Amir. He is so loyal that he gets raped by Assef to run a kite for Amir, and thus, Amir wins. Baba greets Amir for having won the tournament and he gets a lot of prizes on the celebration party. In his guilt, Amir makes every attempt to escape from Hassan. He even proposes Baba to get new servants, but Baba is too attached with Ali and Hassan to approve of Amir’s proposal. Amir accuses Hassan and Ali of having stolen his wristwatch and money that he received as a present in the celebration party.

Filled with remorse, Ali and Hassan leave them. Then Amir and Baba move over to America as political crisis occur in Afghanistan. There Baba acquires cancer and is near to die when Amir proposes Soraya Taheri. Soraya tells Amir her shameful secret of having escaped with an Afghan man once. Amir accepts her with that but is not courageous enough to tell her his shameful secret. Baba dies of cancer. Rahim Khan tells Amir to save Hassan and Farzana’s son Sohrab in Afghanistan because Hassan and Farzana have died.

He tells Amir that Hassan is his half-brother as Baba had slept with Sanauber, Ali’s wife. Having discovered the secret, Amir leaves for Afghanistan to save Sohrab. Finally, Amir relieves his long cultivated guilt by kite-running for Sohrab as he flies the kite and says, “For you, a thousand times over” (Hosseini) like Hassan had once said for him. The book is written in simple English and is quite easy to understand even. The author has sufficiently covered major political issues in Afghanistan and their impacts on the life of Afghanis.

I had already read sufficiently about the Afghanistan crisis to equip myself with the knowledge of numerous dreadful events that have happened there at different times, yet this book intensified my feelings for the poor Afghanis. This book is particularly meant for juveniles and adolescents, as they get to realize how some events in the childhood haunt a person till late in life until he/she pays in some way for his/her sin. Childhood is an age of ignorance. Children do not take things seriously and tend to escape from their duties like Amir did by not helping Hassan when he was being raped.

Although temporarily Amir escaped the fuss, yet he did it on the cost of a lifelong peace. I would strongly recommend this book for teaching to juveniles. Not only does it narrate an accurate account of the history of Afghanistan, lifestyle of Afghanis and their culture, but also generates a strong moral lesson for the children. Works Cited: Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. Doubleday Canada, 2007. Print.