Throughout the summer I have read the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, and I lay awake at night thinking about the relationships between the characters.
I had previously seen the movie, so I knew the plot line. However, I realized that the book was much different than the movie. The first paragraph had me hooked. The first part of the book goes into full detail on Amir and Hassan's childhood. The complexity of the relationship is so real, that I felt as these two children had really lived. I notice too often in books that authors tend to skip out on details of characters' relationships, but Hosseini really accomplished something. Every scene within the book just makes each relationship more and more complex.
Being Amir and his father's servants, Hassan and Ali would have done anything for them. Hassan proves this the day of the kite tournament, and several other times throughout the book. When Hassan runs the last kite for Amir, he says, "For you, a thousand times over." Amir meant more to Hassan than anyone ever knew, but the same was not true for how Amir felt about Hassan. Deep down in Amir's heart, he loved Hassan as a brother, but it took until Amir's trip back to Afghanistan for him to realize it. Amir wanted a way to be good again.
I actually liked the movie, but the book is so much better! It is about those relationships and the characters. Hosseint does a great job of making unlikable characters likable.
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