6/20/2023 0 Comments The kite runner goodreads![]() Hassan is Amir’s unwavering loyal and devoted friend, forever his companion in the kite competitions that are a popular pastime for children in the city. Since his mother died in childbirth, his father is the axis around which his life spins. A complex figure, in equal parts imposing and charming, Amir longs for his father’s attention and approval. ![]() Despite their close friendship and Amir’s objectively much better lot in life, Amir finds himself prickling with jealousy at his Baba’s fondness for Hassan. Hassan is the son of their household servant, and can’t attend school. Within a few decades, nothing will be left ‘the Afghanistan of our youth is long dead.’īut before all of this tragedy unfurls, Amir and Hassan are just kids. Of course, there’s a darkness simmering under the surface, as Afghanistan teeters on the brink of catastrophe – the monarchy falls, the Soviets invade – and, eventually, the tyrannical Taliban seize power. ![]() And Afghanistan of the 60s and 70s has a haze of nostalgia to it – Amir lives a charmed childhood, flying kites, watching Hollywood Westerns, reading adventure stories to his best friend Hassan. ![]() Amir is a young Afghan boy, born to a wealthy merchant father in 1960’s Kabul. ![]()
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