The Kite That Crashed...Then Soared

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini...what a great book. I loved it. It could've been because i also watched the movie so i kind of had a visual to go off of the whole time and i kinda knew what was coming but the book also offered a lot more than the movie...a more vivid discription that allowed me to really get inside the writers head and understand what he was really thinking about when all of these things were going on in his life.

As i read the book i annotated by relating to the book, and relating it to other things like in the world or to other texts.

I dont really think i liked this annotating very much...i didnt really see the purpose in doing this. As i annotated i realized that the author had similarities to my life but in all it didnt really help...OOOOHHHH! IT DID HELP! haha It did help because right when i was saying that i was remembering things that took place in the book because i refreshed my life and while that happened aspects of the authors life accomponied it. Ok ok ok it does work, but not for everything. For example, when i was trying to relate it to things other than myself i couldnt make very many connections and this frustrated me. I made almost all of the connections to myself and im wondering if that is a bad thing or not because you said that it should be to other texts and to the world.... I wonder if different kinds of books use different ones, like a science book would use more of text to world and maybe a poem book would use more text to text...i will definitely have to explore those options because i only really used text to self.

This book made me the most sad out of the three...because the whole entire time i could just envision these two little kids who had to endure all of these things...but especially Hassan. The poor kid didnt have a good life right out of the whomb...yet out of all of the characters in the book he was the most happy, and what baffles me the most is that this really happened and that makes it even harder to comprehend why he was so happy all the time. I liked that about him though because everyone needs a friend like that, one who can always lighten the mood and knows what to say and how to say it. Amir didnt deserve a friend like that i dont think. Amir never stood up for him and when Hassan needed him most he fled like the coward he was. Poor Hassan didnt need to go through that.... GOSH THAT MADE ME SO PISSED!!!! Im still pissed.

Assef was the perfect shot of the devil and the fact that they met later in life really emphasises his devilish qualities in Amir's life. I hated Assef he had a great life and he had no reason to do the sort of things that he did. I mean usually the kids that turn out to be sociopaths are the ones that had a lot of problems, but he just...was. Thats it, he just was a sociopath, no reason and no excuse. That is the worst.

This book showed the perfect balance of good and evil, and i think had the greatest lesson out of all of the three books. It really showed me that everyone can get a second chance and when you get the oppurtunity to take that second chance, that you need to pounce on it and not let it slip away from you. I havent pounced enough, and i need to start, cause like Amir changed Hassans son's life, i could change someone else's.