<The Kite Runner>

I've read 100 pages of this book so far. It's published in 2003. The author is Khaled Hosseini. It was in Afghanistan during 1970s. The main character is the son of a reach person in their town. His name is Amir Agha and he has a friend and also his servant, Hassan. Hassan was a harelipped boy. They always played together and Hassan was really interested in listening to stories written by Amir.But because Hassan was a Hazara boy so Amir didn't paly with him when some other people are there. Amir didn't like to play around with other kids and just liked to write some stories but his father, Agha Sahib didn't like to read his son's stories. And because Amir's mom died to give her son life, Agha Sahib was kind of hate Amir. He thought that his boy should play around with other kids and he didn't even look at Amir's writting for a long time. But one of his friends, Rahim Khan enjoyed Amir's stories a lot and encouraged him a lot to keep going.
One day Amir and Hassan went out and met a bad kid called Assef who usually torture other kids by his knuckle. Hassan made that boy run away with his hands shaking. He was a really good kid and didn't do that to somebody else. Soon came Hassan's birthday and Agha Sahib called a surger and fixed Hassan's lip so Hassan and his father Ali were so grateful to Sahib.
During the winter time there was a kite fighting event. Amir wanted to improve the relationship between his father and him. With Hassan's help, Amir won the event finally. But Hassan was blocked by Assef and two other kids. They hit him and raped him. Amir was right there but he hid and didn't come out and help Hassan just because Hassan was a Hazara. Hassan sacrified for the relationship between Amir and Sahib. And Amir eventually drew his father's attention and his father was really treating him well at that time. On Amir's birthday party, there are a lot of people went there and Assef went there as well. Amir felt so embarrased to see Assef and receive Assef's gift.
In my opinion, this book is really perfect and I love to read a book to tell the truth of the history. I don't think Hassan's terrible fade was caused by Amir or Assef. Sahib had to take a lot of responsibility for that. He treated his son bad so his son wanted to darg his attention a lot and then came the tragedy for Hassan. And the second reason I think is the racial discrimination. It's still a huge problem now and it must be even huger at that time. It gave everybody the concept that Pashtuns are nobler than Hazaras. It's not really Assef's fault to have that kind of mind. It's all the bad of racial discrimination.