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But nonetheless I picked it up and was quickly pulled in by the writing and the need to know, what happened. THe writer touches up on so many deep universal feelings.
I'm not one for sad movies, or sad books, so I most never choose that type of story, but sometimes a story is just a beautiful story and it doesn't need to be so easily categorized. I would say this book is well written, interesting, informative, but mostly a gutwrenchingly beautiful story.
.how gut-wrenchingly beautiful this book would be I never would have picked it up. THe real ride was through my own heart.
In the end I was happy that I found this sad, heartwarming story. It's far too emotionally involving for me.
I was taken on a ride through a foreign land that I had never had the slightest interest in.
The book was good but Amazon sent me the wrong edition and printing.I only wanted a 1st edition and 1st printing of the book in hardback, I wish I could return it for the book version I ordered and wanted.
but, I think that cutting out the majority of Amir's time in the middle east was a disservice to the movie watchers who did not read the book. I recommend the book first and the movie second. Simply, this is a GREAT story.I am hoping that, by now, many or most of you have read this amazing book. My review will not outline the storyline of this book/movie, rather touch on what I saw were the differences between the movie and the book, due to the Lit Flicks Challenge.I believe, in order to try to condense the story into a reasonable timeframe for a movie, there were a considerable amount of critical parts of the story that were left out of the movie.
He is a man of great honor and pride. I actually thought that it was a true story when I was reading it (silly me). This is a story about honor and bravery. We are so fortunate to be Americans (well, that is for the American readers of this post.
However, you will appreciate the movie so much more. So, I am giving it a 9.5 out of 10. He didn't "fit the bill" for me. I understand Hollywood and their need to package up movies into a certain timeframe. As such, he carries such a great amount of shame for falling less than what he believes are his father's expectations of him. The story is about a boy, Amir, and his life in Afghanistan and later in the United States of America. This is the story of a man's journey to right the biggest wrong of his past. He was a good actor and did a good job, but I wanted somebody a little more rugged.I did like to be able to view the physical difference in the Hazara boys, as it was hard to visualize in my mind but easier to understand in the movie.In the event that you haven't read the book, nor seen the movie.
Specifically, the amount of time that Amir spent in hospitals and what Sohrab had to go through while Amir recovered was, for me, a very important part of the story.The casting of Baba disappointed me. by the way, the movie is done in subtitles for the majority of the film. Amir is not the brave, strong man that his father, Baba is. This is also the story of a country and a culture that has died and shall never be resurrected to what it once was. This doesn't surprise me because that's how I usually feel. silly me.Oh, there are A LOT of foreign language words in this book. Amir's father, Baba, is, BY FAR, my favorite character in the book. If you read the book first, you may want to have the internet handy to check the meaning of certain words.
Although, I must say that he did a fine job and played the role well. This story is about holding onto traditions and customs in a new country and a new life. Also, some knowledge on the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and The Taliban rule in Afghanistan would be helpful.Sher's "Out of Ten" Scale:Once I had a better understanding of the history, the area, and the language, I was gobbling up this book. That travel had so much impact on Amir and they don't properly reflect in the movie what happened in there.I was also disappointed in the casting of Amir. I had a friend who helped me to translate them. Hosseini makes a cameo appearance at the end of the movie in the park scene.
it adds a lot to the story. I know I've got some readers from other countries, too).
Especially with our for men and women fighting over there, I think that it's a book that we should all pick up and read, if we can. The actor who portrayed Baba was WAY TOO SHORT and diminutive for my liking.
I absolutely LOVED it. It is a great story, but it is also a sad story, in my opinion.
I couldn't focus on the movie at that point because I was so busy watching him. The movie neglected to show more about the struggling that Baba and Amir went through in the United States.The movie really shortchanged the viewers on how Amir fell in love with Soraya.The part of the book where they travel inside the gas tank of the truck to escape Afghanistan is not shown in the movie as it was written in the book.
He is a man who seemed larger than life, to Amir. I LOVE BABA and I pictured him in my mind as this big, towering, powerful man.
Amir is saved from a worse beating by Sohrab who shots a gold ball into the eye of his Taliban captor.A heart-wrenching story of friendship, betrayal, class differences and trying to make amends for past mistakes. However, this is not just any Taliban leader, but rather one of the bullies who tormented Hassan and Amir as children. Amir feels guilty about exiling his friend away, but then the Soviet invasion intervened and because of his families wealth, Amir comes to America with his father.Still he never forgot Hassan or the guilt that he had over letting him be raped and then sending him to an uncertain future. This is not a novel to be read by the light hearted or those who hate to cry and is a great novel for discussion of human motivation and the frail nature of loyalties and the struggle between selflessness and selfishness. Sadly, he learns that Hassan and his wife have been executed in the street by the Taliban, but the whereabouts of Hassan's song Sohrab are unknown at first. The story revolves around two best friends Amir and Hassan, Amir's family has enough money to be comfortable and he befriends Hassan a Hazara boy with a cleft lip who under the class structure in Afghanistan is beneath him.
Hassan and his father fade into the shadows of the story after Amir allows Hassan who is also a servant to Amir's father take the blame for actions he committed. A fight ensues and the Taliban leader splits Amir's lip giving him a hare-lip like the one that cursed Hassan for his life. The relationship between the two is more like that of two brothers rather than mere friends, Hassan even saves Amir from a viscous beating at the hands of neighborhood bullies, however when it is time for Amir to return the favor, cowardice and perhaps his own pride compels him not to take the beating to save his friend-brother Hassan from being rapped by a gang of brutal thugs. Amir becomes consumed with finding his former friends son and this quest leads him into the clutches of a Taliban leader, who is holding Sohrab hostage. By allowing this to happen, Amir illustrates that the class structure in Afghanistan is alive and well and that perhaps the brotherly bond that the reader thinks existed wasn't as strong as we thought.
This tornado of guilt leads Amir back to a drastically changed Afghanistan under the firm hand of the Taliban in search of Amir.
I finished it in less than a week and my class hasn't even started yet. I don't usually read fiction; however, The Kite Runner is a requirement for my English class this summer. I decided to get a head start on the book since I tend to lose interest in novels and didn't want to fall behind in my class. This amazing story is about a relationship between a son, Amir, and father and a boy and his best friend. You will not be dissapointed. They're so many mixed feelings that you'll have while reading this story, you'll feel sorry for him, dislike him and fall in love with him. The story is over a twenty-year span. This is by far one of the best novels I have read in a long time.
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