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.