The Kite Runner describes the wonderful childhood of Amir, the hero, and Hassan, the servant, playing together and taking part in a kite-chasing competition. Until one day, Amir chose to avoid Hassan when he needed him most because of his timidity and cowardice, which led to Hassan being bullied. The moral condemnation in his heart made Amir afraid to face Hassan. In order to escape his guilt, Amir framed Hassan with tricks, which led to Hassan's exile. The good times didn't last long. Soon after, war broke out in Afghanistan. Amir fled with his father and finally came to the United States. Amir studied in the United States, got married, and the past events in Afghanistan seemed to have passed, until the war broke out in Afghanistan and his father's friend Rahim Khan called on his deathbed. Childhood scenes emerged, and Rahim Khan uncovered the secret buried for many years. Hassan was Amir's half-brother, and Amir's betrayal and betrayal of Hassan were well known. Rahim Khan hoped that Amir could go back to Afghanistan and do something to atone for himself. With a deep sense of guilt about his betrayal, Amir embarked on a dangerous road back to Afghanistan. Back to my hometown, everything in those days no longer exists, and the war destroyed everything in Afghanistan. Amir found Hassan's son Solabo, hoping to bring him to the United States to raise him and alleviate his guilt of betrayal. In the end, Amir tried all kinds of twists and turns to finally bring Solabo to the United States. The wound caused by Amir's "deception" took a little time to heal, the sky flew a kite again, and Solabo's indifferent eyes began to shine.
In the process of reading this novel, I closed the book several times and meditated for Hassan and Amir's wonderful childhood and the blue sky in my memory. Other people's stories, their own feelings, and nostalgia for the past leaked out uncontrollably, and when Hassan left, he cried inexplicably.
Generally speaking, this novel can be divided into two parts, with leaving Peshawar as the boundary. The first half describes the memories of childhood, which makes people feel emotional and can't help but recall their childhood. The second half has a feeling of theme, which is written for Americans. The story is too strong and gives me the feeling that it is a novel. Then in the second half of the book, an American Afghan is imagining and shaping Afghanistan in order to knead it into a hamburger that is easy for American readers to digest, and a lot of tomato sauce is smeared to make people feel delicious and cry. In the first half, the author indulged his feelings, as if he just wanted to recall the wonderful childhood with a pen, but it touched me enough. In the second half, some of them were pale and not emotional enough, which seemed to be written to please American readers. It was too coincidental, too obvious story, too explicit theme (well, it seemed to be chaotic), and it felt a bit like a dog's tail was followed by a mink.
Other feelings:
Before that, I knew too little about the history of Afghanistan. In my impression, it was a place where wars were frequent, people's lives were miserable, and the government was poor, barren and backward. Unexpectedly, following the footsteps of the author, we took a look at the real Afghanistan, which was once rich, full of laughter and laughter, and there was once a set of agreed rules, and Ceng Heping was also rich. Terrible war, destroyed some, there has become synonymous with barren, war. Of course, this impression may also be a misunderstanding, but there is no first-hand information to clarify. Therefore, I admire the author's greatness even more and tell us a "real" Afghanistan with my own feelings. At present, many people have misunderstandings about Chinese mainland, the root of which is that they don't understand it. Perhaps it is the lack of excellent writers who can understand the situation in the mainland and tell it in a way acceptable to the outside world!
every civilization has its own morality, and the world doesn't have to follow western rules. Amir's father could be a successful businessman in Afghanistan, but he ran into a wall everywhere in the United States. He can't accept the American set of rules. He and those Afghans have recognized some rules and feel that many things are taken for granted, but this is not necessarily the case in the eyes of Americans. I think the rule is good as long as it is accepted by both parties. There is no need to have only one rule. In the eyes of Europeans and Americans, Arab countries are too autocratic and people's lives are miserable. However, if Arabs accept this difference, some people are willing to accept inferiority, and being in a superior class does not go too far. It seems that it is not a bad thing!