The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini's novel The Kite Runner is a story that contains Amir, the main character, who tells us that a kite running contest in the winter of 1975 changed his life forever. This contest still haunts him and that it involves something he did to Hassan, whom he calls "the harelipped kite runner." Amir takes us back to his childhood, in the final decades of the monarchy in Afghanistan. His father, Baba, was one of the wealthiest and most charitable Pashtun men in Kabul, where they lived in the Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood. His mother died in childbirth. Amir's closest friend, the harlipped Hassan, was also his servant and a Hazara. He was very close to his father, Ali, who was Baba's servant.

After Amir had cut the last opponent's kite, the kite fell far away. Amir then asked Hassan to go and get it. While Hassan was looking for the kite, Hassan ran into Assef, a big bully, and got raped by him. Amir was watching all of that, and he didn't do anything to stop it. This event led to develop guilt in Amir's heart. After a couple of months, Amir and his dad , Baba, moved to the U.S. because the Taliban took over Aghanistan. Hassan then gets married and has a child of his own, he nemed him Sohrab. the Taliban hated Hazaras, so they killed Hassan and hist wife, but Sohrab ended up in an orphanage. After a couple of years, Amir got married, and went back to visit Afghanistan. He found Sohrab, Hassan's son. Somehow he found out that Hassan was his half brother. Amir then decides to adapt Sohrab, since he doesn't have a child of his own, and make up for the horrible things he had don to his half brother, Hassan.