This book is not only extremely interesting and intriguing, it is beginning to get very exciting and making me sit on the edge of my seat while I read it.
This book has started an extremely exciting adventure where Amir is going on a journey to rescue Hassan's son from Kabul, Afghanistan. During this time in the book, the Taliban have taken control of Kabul so it is very dangerous and Rahim Khan asks Amir to retrieve Sohrab from Kabul and take him to safety in Pakistan. The whole trip is just extremely adventurous and exciting and keeps you sitting on the edge of your seat.
In this section of the reading, a lot of aspects and details of the book start to come together and make sense. All of these connections are honestly leaving me in awe of how cleverly Hosseini has written this book to make these connections possible. The first connection occurs when Rahim Khan says that "Ali was sterile" on page 195. This is his way of telling Amir that Baba was the true father of Hassan so Hassan and Amir were actually half brothers. This explains why Baba showed so much affection towards Hassan and why he was so sad when he and Ali left to find other work. The second connection that occurs in this section is when Amir goes back to Kabul and meets up with one of the head leaders of the Taliban to try to retrieve Sahrab and realizes that that leader is Assef. By doing this Hosseini keeps Assef as one of the bad people in the story and it just amazed me at how he did that.
Finally, like many other books, this one is about the maturation of the protagonist. When Amir initially does not want to go retrieve Sohrab it shows how immature he was. However, then he realizes it would be the right thing to do, so he decides he will do it and that shows that he really has matured. That part of the novel really shows how much Amir truly has matured in his lifetime.
Do you think that Amir's decision to try to save Hassan's son is a way for him to try to make amends to Hassan or deal with his own guilt?
ReplyDeleteI struggle with the re-appearance of Assef, as it seems too unlikely, sort of like when Offred just happens to run into Moira again at Jezebel's. While I know why the authors make these plot decisions, it seems just a bit too constructed.
I do think that Amir's decision to try to save Sohrab is a way for him to make ammends to Hassan, because he sights multiple times he sights how he already has "Hassan's blood on his hands" so he doesn't want Sohrab's on his hands too.
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