The Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini

In the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, we see a young boy named Amir. The book starts off with Amir living in Kabul, Afghanistan with his father and his servants. His best friend, Hassan, is also his servant. Hassan and Amir spend a lot of time together and they enter a kite flying competition where Amir will fly the kite and Hassan will be the “kite runner”. Hassan tells Amir he will do anything to get the kite so Amir can make his father proud. Hassan ends up getting raped by a boy named Assef in order to acquire the kite. Amir watches this happens but never does anything or tells anyone about it. Amir is only praised for winning the kite competition. Amir and Hassan’s friendship slowly starts to fall apart and eventually Hassan and his father move away. Hassan’s rape is
Amir and his father immigrate to America and live there. Shortly after the move, Baba is diagnosed with cancer. As he is dying, he tells Amir to marry a woman they have met in America from Afghanistan. Her name is Soraya and her father was a General in Afghanistan. Amir and Soraya try to have children but cannot. Amir gets a call from an old friend in Kabul named Rahim Khan, he asks Amir to come see him in Pakistan because he is ill. Rahim tells Amir that Hassan, Amir also learns about the Taliban occupying Afghanistan. Rahim Khan informs him that Hassan was his half brother and that he was killed but he left behind a son. He also gives Amir a polaroid picture of Hassan all grown up. Amir learns that the boy, Sohrab is in an orphanage in Kabul, he goes to find him and bring him home. When he gets to the orphanage he finds out that Sohrab has