the kite runner

I'm currently about 300 pages in The Kite Runner, and it's really good. The main character, Amir, watched his best friend Hassan get raped earlier in the book,so he feels really bad about himself because he did nothing about it. The desciption of the bad dude raping Hassan is graphic and shocking. I didn't expect anyone to get raped i a book I thought to be about kites. Apparently, kite running is when you battle kites in the air, someone cuts the other person's kite, and goes after the kite while it floats away. Which raises the question why don't these kids have balls to play baseball orsoccer with? I mean most of the other kids in other countries play soccer or something. But I guess flying kites is the most exciting thing to do in Afghanistan. Maybe that's why they're so angry all the time? I'm no doctor but it's an idea. Which reminds me how bad I am at flying kites. I can remember trying once with my dad to fly a homemade one. It was not fun at all. Maybe because it wasn't very windy at all, or maybe I just suck at it, but I would never get as excited about as these kids the my book do. So Amir finds out that Hassan had a son and has to go back to his hometown to save him from the Taliban. That's as far as I am right now, hopefully he gets the kid back.

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