Review to Kite Runner Book Review

I found a book review on Amazon from Publisher's Weekly which I agree with for the most part. They describe the characters like Amir as "sensitive [and] insecure" which is right on the mark. But they say the theme is "how childhood choices can affect our adult lives", I semi-agree with this. Really I think the book is more about how Amir was pressured into his choice. But his choice did follow him into adulthood. The review is also right about the fact that the story is political and also a personal story about forgiveness.

The Kite Runner

I have to be honest I was thinking of dropping this book at the very beginning, only the reassurance that it gets better from others who had read it kept me reading. And now I am so glad I didn't drop the book. It is very depressing at points but I like the fact that it is real. Not a so fake it- never-would-happen-in-real-life ending, but a believable ending that was just happy enough. The book had so many aspects to it, like the political angle, the ideas of forgiveness, when Amir forgives himself for all his bad deeds and also when Hassan forgives him, this is not in the book but it is implied when Amir reads Hassan's letters. Also the idea of peer pressure, or maybe influence is a better word, because Amir never actually called Hassan his friend due to the fact that his ideas were pressured or influenced by the society at that time. I think my favorite part of the book was when Amir and Sohrab were bonding because it was like he was fixing all the awful things that happened so many years ago. I think so how it was not only fear but maybe a little bit of jealousy which caused all the teasing and mistakes Amir made. And I know this sounds cliche but doesn't jealousy get the best of all of us? I feel Amir was right to feel bad about what he let happen to Hassan, but maybe he took it too far. I mean he let it get into his thoughts almost all the time and made himself feel almost unworthy of being happy. I don't think I would have changed anything about the book because everything matched so perfectly if you changed one detail the whole thing would collapse.