A review by erinecarroll
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

5.0

This novel was so powerful and thought provoking. It makes you think about everything we have here in America and not to take anything for granted.

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This novel was so well written that it almost seemed like a memoir. The author was so in touch with his characters, at times I really thought that it was nonfiction and that the author was Amir. The novel was so heart wrenching and really made me think. Here we are in America with all our fancy things and we don't have to worry about the things that Afghan children had to worry about or still worry about. It broke my heart how at the end of the book Sohrab was so afraid of going back to an orphanage and that the people there would hurt him that he would rather take his own life. There is a quote near the end of the book that says "There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood." That part made me so sad thinking that innocent children are being subjected to things like sexual abuse and poverty. The part in the book where Amir describes Taliban ruled Afghanistan as a place that stones adulterers, rapes children, flogging women for wearing high heels, and massacring Hazaras made me sick to think that people really witnessed this on a day to day basis. Hosseini made me feel so connected to the characters that when Hassan was raped or when Baba, Ali, and Hassan died it made me feel like they were my family or like I knew them and their tragedy or deaths made it feel so real for me. I think that Hosseini did an amazing job with this book and really shows America or other privileged countries what goes on in the world.