User:Jacob-jayala/Draft of The Kite Runner

Plot Summary
Amir, filled with guilt on his birthday, cannot enjoy his gifts. The only thing to him that does not feel like "blood" money is the book given to him by Rahim Khan, his father's friend and the only one Amir felt really understands him. Rahim Khan asks Amir to retrieve Sohrab and bring him to John and Betty Caldwell who own an orphanage. Amir becomes angry; he feels angry and cheated because Rahim Khan lets him know that Hassan was his step-brother. Amir finally rethinks the past events and decides to go to Kabul to get Sohrab. To Kabul, Amir rides in a taxi with Farid, his car driver. One day, Amir asks Farid to find information about John and Betty Caldwell. (305) When Farid returns, he tells Amir that the American couple do not exist.

Memories flash through Amir's mind as he remembers Rahim Khan explaining to him that he must do what is right. One night, while Amir and Sohrab stay in a hotel, Amir wakes up in the middle of the night and finds that Sohrab has disappeared. Amir runs to the hotel manager and asks if he has seen him. The manager does not know where is Sohrab but asks Amir what Sohrab likes. Amir remembers that Sohrab is fascinated with the Shah Faisal, a big mosque, and he goes there.

Themes
The Kite Runner is a story with all the grand "themes of literature and life". It is a "vivid and engaging story that reminds us how long Khaled Hosseini's people have been struggling to triumph over the forces of violence". It is about "friendship and betrayal" and the arbitrary "price of loyalty". Themes of "love, honor, guilt, fear and redemption" are all included in this "extraordinary novel".

Adaptations
The truth of The Kite Runner allowed it to become a film. It is about two boys that let aside their ethnic differences and become friends. Soon, tension within the country of Afghanistan brings war and one of the boys flees but he must return to relive his past. "The Kite Runner Film has shown Afghanistan that there are many problems within their country."