Book Reports On The Kite Runner

In Kite Runner, Takes place in the month of December 2001, and the narrator, who tells his story in the first person, talks about his past lifethat occurred in 1975, when he was twelve years old and growing up in Afghanistan. He does not tell the audience what happened, but talks about the past events that made him who he is right now. He starts of by telling the audience about a call he received last summer from a friend in Pakistan named Rahim Khan. Rahim Khan asks the narrator, whose name is Amir, also the protaganist in this story, to come to Pakistan to see him. When Amir got off the phone, he took a walk through San Francisco, where he lives now. He notices kites flying, and thinks about his past, including his friend Hassan, a boy with
Baba did all the things people said he could not do. Though he had no training as an architect, he designed and built an orphanage. Though people said he had no business sense, he became one of the most successful businessmen in the city. Though nobody thought he would marry well because he wasn’t from a prominent family, he married Amir’s mother, Sofia Akrami, a beautiful, intelligent woman who came from a royal bloodline. While Baba pours himself a glass of whiskey, Amir tells him that a religious teacher at his school the name of Mullah Fatiullah Khan, says it is sinful for Muslims to drink alcohol. Baba tells him that there is only one sin: theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. Murdering a man, for instance, is stealing his life. He calls Mullah Fatiullah Khan and men like him idiots. Amir tries to please Baba by being more like him but rarely feels he is successful. He also admits to feeling responsible for his mother’s death. Since Baba likes soccer, Amir tries to like it as well, but it did not work out well for him. What Amir is good at his poetry and reading, but worries his father does not see these as manly
Amir cried, and his baba was embarrassed in public. Amir later overhears Baba talking to his business associate, Rahim Khan (the man that later calls Amir from Pakistan) Baba says Amir is not like other boys, and he worries that if Amir can’t stand up for himself as a child, he will not be able to do so as an