The Kite Runner Essay

“The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini takes place in Kabul, Afghanistan where a young boy named Amir lives with his father Baba, and two servants Ali, Baba’s best friend, and his son Hassan. Even though Ali and Hassan are Hazara’s, an ethnic minority in Afganistan, Amir and Hassan are inseparable. Growing up, Amir's friends, Assef, Wali, and Kamal judge Amir for hanging out with a Hazara such as Hassan, but there relationship remains until the next winter. Winters in Afghanistan were known as kite-competition season in which boys would fight with kites and runners would go and chase after the lost kites. This particular year Amir won the kite competition. Being a kind friend, Hassan went to go run for the last kite to give to Amir, but he gets
While in Pakistan Rahim Khan informs Amir that he had asked Hassan and his wife Farzana to come live with him along with his child Sohrab. Amir later finds out that the Taliban killed Hassan and Farzana, sent Sohrab to an orphanage, and that him and Hassan were actually half-brothers. After Amir recovered from the news, Rahim Khan asked Amir to go to the orphanage where Sohrab is staying and take him to a couple that will take good care of him. When Amir goes to the orphanage, Sohrab isn’t there. The couple informs Amir that a Taliban officer took him and how to get a hold of him. The day later Amir has already set up a meeting with the man who took Sohrab and it turned out to be Assef. They make a wager in that whomever walks out alive can keep Sohrab. Thanks to Sohrab’s help Amir wins. Amir informs Soraya that he would like to take Sohrab back to the US to adopt, but it is found almost impossible. During this time Sohrab tried to kill himself, but survives, and is very closed off. The story ends with Amir and Sohrab flying kites together just as him and Hassan had once