RJ4 施得翔

The book I chose is "The Kite Runner". The author is Khaled Hosseini who is an immigrant from Afghanistan and lives in America now.

This book is started with an intimate friendship between two boys- Amir and Hassan. They grew up, lived and played together, though their relationship was master and servant. It seems that the peaceful life will last forever until the misery happened when Amir was 12 years old. Unfortunately, at the critical moment of the misery Amir chose to betray his friend. After that, the two good friends were apart from each other forever.

Until now, there is a sentence-"For you, a thousand times over." in the book impressed me most. It was expressed by Hassan to show his loyalty and dedication without any repayment. The loyalty of Hassan contrast sharply with the cowardice of Amir. Nevertheless, maybe facing the misery is too hard for a child. After all, lack courage to face the reality is always a weakness of human nature.

Another importance factor constructs this book is "inequity". As a non-Afghan, I can understand hardly why the status of some races is still lower than others in 21th century. I do not think this kind of things would happen in this modern society. Apparently my thinking is innocent. After reading almost the half of this book, I am looking forward to read the rest of it.