Blog post 5

     So far in my book The Kite Runner I am on page 80 and Amir's hazara, Hassan, has gone missing. It was after the Kite fighting tournemant when Amir won and Hassan ran after the blue kite. Amir was very happy he had won and was happy because his father would finally be proud of him. He is also worried about Hassan because he has not returned with the final defeated kite.
     Amir eventually goes looking for Hassan and with help from some strangers at the Bazaar he finds Hassan trapped in an alley. Their enemies Assef and his friends have trapped Hassan and want the kite. Hassan  did not give it up and Assef does horrible things to Hassan.
     While all this is happening Amir is watching and doesn't help. This shows that Amir is not a very good friend and is too scared to help a person that he has known his entire life. I think this also shows Hassan's character a lot also, it shows how loyal of a friend he is to Amir and shows that he will do anything for him. I do not know much of what happens after this but my guess is that they wont be as good of friends and I think Hassan knows that Amir was watching what happened in the alley. I made this prediction because there was some foreshadowing directly after they won the tournement which was, "I would never see his smiling face again for another 26 years."

Blog Post 4: The Kite Runner

     I have started another book for my reading class Best-Sellers and it is the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. I am not very far into the book, I am on page 57. So far not much has happened but at the point I am at I am learning what a "Kite Runner" is. Every winter in Afghanistan the kids buy kites and fight with them and when the string is cut on one of the kites a team of kite runners is sent to chase it. I found it interesting that winter for them is like our summer break off from school
   
     I think this story is very well written and interesting. It shows what every day life is like in Afghanistan which is very different from life here. So far I would say that my favorite character is the main character Amir. He is different than most kids and you can tell he is a caring person by the way he treats Hassan, his servant. While most people do not treat people like Hassan as their equal, Amir treats him as if he were his own brother, and that is why I like Amir a lot in the story. This is also why I like Hassan because he stands up for Amir also. I want to read further because of the interesting things that have started towards the part that I am at, The monarchy in Afghanistan has been overthrown and I want to see what the rest of the book will be like.