And now what you've all been waiting for...Kite Runner

So Its the night before school and all through the house every one was panicking, even the mouse.

Ok so this post is long over due, but lets not think of it as procrastination, rather think of it as tactically keeping it fresh in my head.



Now on to specifics about the book

Annotating process: Very similar to the last book-just noted my thoughts or things that sparked my interest. Sometimes I mark every other work, other times it'll be blank pages for awhile.

Plot:Guy has kid, his brother slash servant has kid around same time. Two kids grow up together, one master other servant. Kids enter Kite flying tournament, master kid wins. Servant kid runs after kite for master kid and servant kid is cornered by older kids who rape him while master kid sits and does nothing. Master kid feels guilty, frames servant kid for stealing so that his father kicks them out. Father forgives the servant kid. Servant kid and his dad move away anyways. Master kid and his dad a few years later flea Afghanistan and move to america. Dad works hard to put his kid through high school and most of college. Master kid meets pretty girl. Girl and Kid marry. Father dies. Flash forward several years, Kid is moderatly succsessful author and wife is happy teacher. Kid recieves a call from an old friend of him and his father requesting to see him before he dies. Kid flies out to pakistan to see him, dying friend tells his epic tale since the kid left and says that the servant kid and his wife have been murdered in his hometown and requests that the master kid go save the servants kid from the life of an orphen in Afghanistan. Master kid reluctantly agrees. Master kid gets to old hometown, the orphenage directer says that the terrorists have taking him, master kid arranges meeting with terrorists. Finds the older kid who raped the servant kid is the ringleader. Ringleader changes Master kid to a fight for the child, Ringleader....well words can't describe the ultimite destruction he had on master kid-i guess except the words in the book...then servent kids-Kid? slingshots a brass ball into the eye of the ringleader. Servants Kids Kid [SKK} and Master kid run off and eventually end up in hospital back in pakistan. They leave pakistan to somewhere else where the terrorists wont find them, the Master kid tells servant kid he's temporaraly placing him back in a orphange and the SKK slits his wrists almost bleeding to death. The master kid returns to america with SKK and master kid raise SKK who wont speak and stays sielent. at the end SKK flies a kite with Master kid and there's a slight moment of happieness between the two.

oh and the Master and servant Kid are half brothers.

Characters: Master kid. Amir
Master kids Dad. Baba
Servant Kid. Hassan
Servant kids dad. ali
Old friend of the family. Rahim khan
Rapist. Assef
Master kids wife. Soraya
SKK. Sohrab
and i think thats all i mentioned.

Review: So what did I think of the book, Well I'm not sure. Now I don't mean this as well uhhhhhhh...I guess it was good and all, I mean I've been raised on American, Disney movie endings where, The hero wins, the pets find there way back home, and the democrats take the House and Senate. But this book is different in that I feel anger/sadness toward the author at some points, at the charecters, at the culutre, so much of this book is filled with unfairness and it really breaks my heart. So its hard to say "OMG I love this book" through my tears.
I remember when I finished Nineteen Eighty Four where the ending MCsucks, and I said I hated it; of course I later on recomended the book to anyone who would listen.
So my final feelings on the book are this: Although it is a heartbreaking story, the fact the author was able to write in a manner that struck that hard to my emotions, I would be a idiot to say it wasn't a great book.

Whatever else strikes you: In order of appearance: The number one biggest thing was i bought an audio book, read by the author and it cut out well over half the book. Its interesting to see what the author did and didn't think was important.
To say I didn't like amir in the beginning, is a major understatement.

Why is Baba such and ass in the beginning then turns into this kid understanding person in america, - I think theres something in the book on this but did baba just not have hassan to be nice to so he had to take out his understanding/loving side on amir instead????

Flea market drama would probably get better ratings then Days of Our Lives "Like tears from the reader, So is the 'Gossip at the Flea Market"

I hate it when I find printing errors in books, especially best sellers-Page 177 seventh line.

I think there should be a shadow series to this switch prospecitives between Rahim khan and Soraya so that 1 Rahim khan can bash on his fathers imprefections and 2 so Soraya can vocalize the sexist BS that is Afghan culture.

Taliban= Nazi's in terms of Ethnic cleansing. So we should WWII or Kosovo the crap out of Afghanastan-You got the thumbs up from me bush.

Structure: Lots of repitition. Books broken up into chapters but each chapter has different passages signified by ALL CAPS AT THE BEGINNING of the sentence that fades to regular gramantical stylings.

Style: Itilized important words, sentances, and passsages. never used bold that i can remember.

Themes: Utter sadness.

Figurative Language: first the definition: A technique in writing in which the author temporarily interrupts the order, construction, or meaning of the writing for a particular effect. This interruption takes the form of one or more figures of speech such as hyperbole, irony, or simile. Metaphore: "My legs blocks of concrete, My lungs empty of air, my throat burning." Irony: "In Afghanistan, the ending was all that mattered"-hence why you wrote a 371 page book???

Imagery: O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!

crap sorry I meant

"Buildings that hadn't completely collapsed barely stood,
with caved roofs and walls pierced by rockets shells.
Entire blocks had been obliterated to rubble.
Childern played in the ruins of a windowless building
amid jagged stumps of brick and stone."

Ya Afghanistan, just remember that we'll always be better.
Symbolism: ohhh, i really want to know what the symbolism behind Amir's dreams were, because as of now, I haven't a clue.

Tone: Somber.

and as always,

Thank you for reading.

Dustin Trembath.