The Kite Runner Book Review

The Kite Runner

The author of The Kite Runner, Khaled Hossein wrote this amazing book. This book is about a kid named Amir. Amir and his father Baba have a servant named Ali. Ali has a son named Hassan. Hassan and Amir are good friends. Throughout the story, they both go through trouble with a pair of guys with their leader Assef. Time passes by and Amir and Hassan get separated. Amir moves  to America. In America Amir gets his education, wife, and career. Amir returns to his country to settle things. In his old country, he finds everything very different from before. he meets new people there and tries to help a certain some one.

Khaled Hosseini has a very unique style in his writing. His style  He uses plenty of irony, details, and setting. This book is rich with irony. He also puts many detail into the characters and setting. The details that he writes about certain characters gives many feelings towards them. For example, it gives many feelings towards some characters like Hassan and Amir. This makes the book more sentimental and feel like you actually know them. The details towards the setting is amazing. This makes the setting feel like you are there. This is important because it gives a feeling or  mood towards all of Afghanistan. Also, he uses plenty of foreshadowing. the foreshadowing in this book is full of suspense. This makes you want to read more. In many parts, the foreshadowing . He does not exactly write details about the characters, but more describe their personality. This increases the interest into the book. One example of this irony is when Amir is in the hospital in Afghanistan.

The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a harelip.

This is an example of irony. This is irony because Hassan used to  have a harelip in the same spot where Amir now has it. I think this signifies as revenge. Irony plays a big role in this book, there are many more examples.

One key person with many perspectives on him is Amir. Many people have different thought on him. When he was a kid, he stood up for no one and was full of fear. I believe he just wanted to redeem himself to Baba, or just make him proud. Since Amir is trying so hard to redeem himself,he does not care or pay attention much to Hassan. Even though Amir wants to stand up for others and himself, he has a hard time doing it. I do think he is a total selfish not person, but sometimes he is. He thinks about himself first, which at times is not bad but at the same time it is.

This book reminds me of The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. These two books are similar but have some differences. In The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the setting is based on a reservation for Indians. There, the main character is Arnold. Arnold’s parents were alcoholics and the mom did not stand up for Arnold when his dad was drunk. Arnold is best friends with the toughest guy in the reservation named Rowdy. They both have a great relationship. Arnold then moves to a white school which sort of breaks apart their relationship. In this school, he is picked on because he is the only Indian. He start to fall for one of the girls there. He then joins basketball varsity. He starts to get recognition because of varsity basketball.

One thing that really clicked with the similarities is this. Amir used to read Hassan stories or books to him. Their relationship broke because they moved away from each other.While in The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, it is similar. Arnold used to draw pictures, portraits, and scenes for Rowdy to see or give them to him. The reason they sort of stopped talking was because Arnold moved to a different school and stopped talking to him. In both books, for some reason they had a certain hang out by a tree. In The Kite Runner, the tree spot was were Amir would read Hassan the books or stories. The tree spot in The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian was for Arnold to show Rowdy the drawings or to climb the trees. If i could recall, I believe that Arnold also carved their names on the tree just like Amir. One big similarity in both of these books are the main characters. Amir and Arnold are very alike. They both are fearful. For example, Amir is afraid to stand up for others and himself. Arnold is the same, he was afraid of mainly standing up for himself. They both had a best friend that somehow separated. Amir had Hassan, they both separated. Arnold had Rowdy, but they both separated. Finally, they both depended on their best friends. Amir sort of depended on Hassan to stand up for him when in need, and he did stand up for him. Arnold depended on Rowdy for protection or help in school. The Kite Runner and The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian are very similar books, and I recommend both of them.

This book is intended for different audiences depending on maturity. Since many events happen in this book, some of them are some crucial nasty moments in the book. I think this book is intended for eighth graders or high schools, or any adult. This book is very sentimental into the graphic events. This book is not for kids that are immature or too young. They would not understand and praise the reason of this book. They probably would not recognize the irony, foreshadowing, and graphic events. This book is intended for people who are mature. I say this because the events in this are no laughing matter, which immature people would maybe laugh at.

Overall, this book is great. I would definitely recommend this to anyone looking for an interesting book. Two thumbs up and a 9.75 out of 10.