At
least I know I am not the only one who might have water marks on the pages. I agree with Mona when she maid the
comment that the book was very realistic. Even though it had a lot of
foreshadowing you did not know what to actually expect. Like Mona mentioned,
the parallel between past and present was a good tool to help shape the
characters and see how the relationships foiled one an other. I also found
interesting that the biggest sin in the religion is to kill someone while the
Taliban would repeatedly attempt and actually kill people. The book actually
opened my eyes on the Afghan history. I knew there was a war going on but I
never actually knew the specific details about it. The way Afghanistan was
portrayed in the beginning made it seem like this beautiful place contrary to
what it became at the end of the novel and what we all see in pictures of
present day. The similarity between
Hassan and Sohrab also caught my attention as I read the book. It almost seemed
as if Sohrab was placed in the book to show Amir that there is a road to
redemption. It is ironic how Sohrab has so much of Hassan in him but at the
same time as so many aspects of Amir. Sohrab is the perfect mix between Hassan
and Amir. He also represents the mixture of the two bloodlines no longer but
united.
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