“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...” (Hosseini). Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner was a book that truly helped me develop intellectually and caused me to feel more “mentally alive” through changing my thought process, and opening my eyes to different ways of thinking.
The first time I read Hosseini's The Kite Runner, I was only in the sixth grade. Although I did not know it at the time, this book would have a great impact on my life. Growing up in a small town in Minnesota, I had not been exposed to many other cultures or ways of life. I remember being shocked that there was such a great divide in other countries between religion and economic status.