For those who plan to read this novel, I would like to give this advice: if you don't believe in the cleaning function of soul and human nature, then you'd better not read it.
As the author said, "many years have passed, people say that the past can be buried, but I finally understand that this is wrong, because the past will get up on its own." Looking back, I realize that I have been peeking at that deserted path for the past 26 years. "
Amir, the hero of the novel, and Hassan, the son of a servant, grew up together. "People who grow up drinking the same milk are brothers, and this kind of affection is inseparable even if it is time." Although they belong to different sects and have different status, no race, society or religion can erase the long years they spent together. The pure and kind Hassan is unconditionally loyal to Amir. The first word Hassan uttered was "Amir", and Hassan said, "For you, Qian Qian and Qian Qian have done it a million times". However, out of weakness, or cowardice, Amir chose silence in the winter when Hassan was raped and chased kites for him. In order to hide his cowardice and ease his anxiety, Amir chose a more cruel way: he framed Hassan for stealing his watch and some money. "This is exactly what I want. I want to move on, forget the past, forget the past and start over. I want to breathe again. "
Hassan is missing. But the past can never be written off.
This country has been turned upside down. Amir and his father fled war-torn Afghanistan and went to America. There, Amir went to college, set up a stall and met his beloved wife. But the past can't be crossed, and he judges his crimes in his own heart. The second half of the novel is Amir's journey of atonement. He went to Afghanistan to look for Hassan's son.
As an ancient and noble tradition of narrative literature, the novel incorporates Amir's personal purification here. In a sense, literature, like religion, is about inner, individual and self-awareness. The beginning of the novel is the beginning of purification, which connects crime and atonement.
However, just as I was reading this novel with tears in my eyes, a trace of disgust rose from my heart, Ran Ran. Amir, the hero and writer of the novel, showed his writing talent at an early age. He was born to act or pretend, and in his memory, this feeling permeates between the lines of the novel. This is in stark contrast to Hassan's natural purity. In such a beautiful and heartbreaking novel, this feeling is so real and annoying. Perhaps, as soon as the novel was born, the protagonist had his own life, and the author himself could do nothing.
The story of The Kite Runner is told by Amir, and readers are easily influenced by him and lose their critical consciousness of the whole novel. Hassan and The Kite Runner, the harelip teenagers, can't let go of his pure and loyal heart in a country full of evil deeds. Amir deprived him of his spiritual dimension and turned him into a one-dimensional person. This may be the fate of the characters in the novel, which the author himself did not expect.
Of course, this novel is still very rich. Its obvious metaphor, father-Afghanistan, its compassion for this special country, the pain of home country that goes deep into the bone marrow, and the quiet and slow description of pain all give this novel a moving force. But remember, the novel itself cannot replace the purification of people. We come from the secular world and eventually go to the soul. (Zhuang Qiushui)
About the author: khaled hosseini, 1965 was born in Kabul and fled to the United States with his father. Husseini graduated from the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, and now lives in California. The Kite Runner is his first novel. Because of its vivid characters and touching stories, it was well received after publication, won various newcomer awards and jumped to the best-selling list in the United States. Now it is being adapted into a movie by DreamWorks.