So I just got done reading The kite runner, chapter 7

Did that just happen... what the fuck.. how is this in schools..

 

it was pretty hot right

 

I LOVED that book.

 

it gives me hardons

 

hell no

 

"The book begins near the end of the story and is told mostly in retrospect. The narrator, Amir is the son of a wealthy Afghanistan man in the 1970s. His family is very privileged, they live in a beautiful house in a suburb of Kabul. A servant family of Hazaras take care of he and his father, as his mother died while giving birth to him. The servant family also has a son, nearly the same age and the two boys grow up together, sharing a happy life. They play together often, the privileged son reading to the other boy, but Amir is also sometimes cruel to him as close friends sometimes are. One day when the boys are about 12, after a kite flying contest (an annual festival) Hassan, the servant boy is beaten and raped by some other privileged boys. Amir followed him and sees what happens, but does nothing to help Hassan. This betrayal haunts him for his whole life, and he never forgets or forgives himself for not doing or saying anything to anyone.

Because he cannot live with his guilt, Amir lies to his father that Hassan has stolen something from him. The servant family moves away in shame.

Then, the Taliban moves in to Afghanistan and the war begins. Amir and his father flee the country in secret. They arrive in America with only a few things and find an Afghan community in San Francisco. They live like paupers, but Amir is able to attend college and becomes a writer, much to his father's chagrin. He meets an Afghan woman he wants to marry and his father gives them his blessing before he dies. Amir never tells his wife of the betrayal of Hassan.

Amir and his wife try many times to have children, but even after fertility treatments, are unable to conceive. Then he receives a phone call from an old friend of his father's, who says he must come at once to see him in Pakistan, he is near death and has something to show him. (This is where we first came in to the story at the beginning of the book.)

Amir travels to see the old friend and he shows him a picture and gives him a letter from Hassan. The old man tells him that he is too late, that Hassan is dead, but he has a son, the boy in the picture. He also tells him that Hassan was his brother, the illegitimate son of Amir's father and the servant woman. He tells him he must go and save his nephew from the horrible orphanage in Afghanistan. Amir travels through the war-torn country to find the boy. He sees the horror of what was his beloved homeland.

Amir finds the boy at the home of the head Taliban - who just so happens to be the boy, now grown up, that raped and beat his friend Hassan. There is a terrible fight and Sohrab, his nephew ends up saving Amir's life and they flee to Pakistan.

Sohrab is a very delicate and frightened young boy who had also been abused by the Taliban leader. He is very wary of Amir and his intentions, and even tries to kill himself. Amir is finally able to get the boy to America, but Sohrab is too damaged emotionally. In the end, we see Amir trying to engage his nephew in the art of kite flying, for which his father, Hassan was so gifted."
http://www.thebookspoiler.com/Spoilers/kiterunner.html