The Kite Runner, is a book I would recommend to those who have a deep understanding on history and other aspects which lay in this book. It is very important to keep in mind that even the most simplest of sentences has very deep meaning to it. For example, a few years after losing his father, he is asked if he remembers what his father (Baba) looks like, and this is his response:
I thought of Baba’s thick neck, his black eyes, his unruly brown hair.. “I remember what he looked like.. What he smelled like too”. (p. 333, the Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini)
This is the prime example we can put in front of ourselves whilst analysing his behaviour. He sometimes, does act bad towards others, but on the inside, he is just a man broken by emotion. This is spread from a very young age, from birth, to be exact. His mom has passed away during his birth, and he always blamed himself for it because his father looked tired and depressed most of the time. He even thought that if he would win the Kite Festival with his friend, Hussan, he would finally make his father proud and forgive him for such a terrible fate which has struck him at a very young age.
This book, does however, give you lessons: Prime one being, that you shouldn’t blame yourself for everything, only when time is right. This book, is full of grief, during the Afghan war, and there, the father of his friend Hussan kills himself because of how messed up the situation got (from what I can remember they were in a house basement with no food or water, and that is why it happened), and this example leads us to another lesson, be like a balloon, when pushed underwater (the variable for bad fate), turn away and begin on a new page.
- Iaroslav Serg Pyrozhok