Sunday 30 September 2018

"The Kite Runner" - Book Review

“For you, a thousand times over.” – Hassan


How ridiculous it feels to tell someone and prove it, and how hurting it is to someone that by doing all good thing what you get is hate, or hate is big word though, we can call it abhorrence. We believe that by doing bad things you will get bad results, but what about those who does good through out their life and then even got bad fruits. This means god is unjust. The story is upon growing life of two children Amir and Hassan. On the tree it is written that, “Amir and Hassan, Sultans of Kabul.” I don’t believe this sentence.


“The Kite Runner”, first novel by an Afghan born American novelist Khaled Hosseini, which was published in 2003. The setting of the novel is mostly in Afghanistan and in America. Reading this novel is like roller – coaster ride, though at some point events are predictable. It also includes the Soviet and Taliban attack on Afghanistan and also an attack on twin towers. All characters are developed very strongly. The book gives some shocks also, it doesn’t go as we expect but that is what the real story is, which don’t go as you want.

Friendship, the bond without  shackles. A relationship which has been created without any force and by our own choice. But here the friendship is also same as love, one sided. Amir never thought Hassan as his friend and on the other hand for Hassan no one is as important as Amir. There is pain from both the side but of different kind. Weather to call it jealousy or pain but Amir has done something which changed the life of everyone.

There is struggle, struggle between master and servant, loyalty and necessity, legitimate and illegitimate, privileged and unprivileged, humanity and religion, fear and truth, Pashtuns and Hazaras, coward and brave, pure and impure, and struggle between life and death. With these struggles of human there is something else which also is suffering, the whole Afghanistan. The fundamentalists has make the country lifeless. Every where people living there don't know when and how they are going to die. Living with constant fear is like the candle which is burning from both the side. Then even they are living in hope of getting freedom and life again. The situation of country can not be worst than this that professor has become beggar. In short some snake has made whole Afghanistan poisonous that taking breath is also dangerous.

With these all turmoil life of Afghanistan, Amir and Sohrab is going on. With these ups and downs they are there to see their life. I am not going to tell you that who is Sohrab may be it will lead you to read the book.

There is one line in novel, "There is a way to be good again." Yes there is a way to stop regretting and start taking actions, there is a way to have good life again, there is a way to be just human and nothing else. There is always a way, there always will be. The only need is to just find out that way and walk towards it with guts in heart and one day you will get results.

Thank you.

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