The Kite Runner

     This book, as The Great Gatsby, wasn't an extremely challenging read, but the story complexity and development was brilliant (bravo). I this was the second book that I read, after The Great Gatsby. I made many connections from The Kite Runner to The Great Gatsby. The author wrote about similar societal restrictions as the American 20's. An example would be the right to be associated with certain people like the poor, or in The Kite Runner, Hazaras. Also in Rahim Khan's story about he was also married, it immediately made me think of the quote Daisy made that "Rich girls don't marry poor boys." This is a similar discrimination because the story was that Rahim Khan told showed that he was not allowed to marry a Hazara women, whether he loved her or not. The same goes for the "friendship" between Hassan and Amir. The pressure of the Afghan society pries them apart and essentially tells the that "a Pashtun may not be friends with an Hazara." 

     Other than the relations between the two books, The Kite Runner was a very interesting read. I loved how, as children, Hassan was the recluse in society and Amir was the acceptable one, but later in life the tables turned and all of the feelings that Amir suppressed for so long finally simmered to the surface and Hassan (although deceased) was married with a son and lived on as himself. By the end when Amir rescues Hassan's son, I sort of feel like the circumstances were very unrealistic, which ruined the reality of the book for me. The overall story was really good if that one part didn't seem like such a stretch. But romanticizing with the idea was fun. But really. This book was a fun one to read, especially after seeing the similarities between The Great Gatsby and The Kite Runner. Bravo.