The novel “The Kite Runner” is a fantastic book written by Khaled Hosseini and published in May of 2003. The book takes the genres of Bildungsroman, and redemption, and the main character speaks in a first person view. The book was written in Los Angeles, and the publisher was Riverhead Books. The narrator is Amir (the main character) and started telling his story 4 days after many decades of his eventful life events.
The plot of the story takes place in 1975 and continues to 2001, first the place of the setting is in Afghanistan but transitions to the United States then to Afghanistan then back. The novel has a relatively small group of characters that remain significant to the story. The Protagonist is Amir, a full blood afghan that has a wealthy family and lives in a large house up in the hills of Kabul. His father, Baba is very known and popular because of his good deeds and donations to the city that they live. His father also has servants that look after the house and cook for Amir and Baba, Rhyam Kahn was the oldest …show more content…
I selected this tittle to review because “The Kite Runner” is hands down my favorite book. The movie was just as amazing as the book but just isn’t my favorite. Most people have a favorite book or movie because it moves them, reflects them, or it’s the funniest. This book is my favorite not only because it moved me greatly, but because I’ve never learned so much from a single book written by a single author. From the book you learn Afghan history and what it means to be a friend and how to love conditionally, but I from The Kite Runner I learned more wisdom than anything, reading this book made me a better person to be around and just overall better than I once was. Doing this assignment gave me a chance to go back and research in depth my favorite book and movie combo, for a productive reason. While researching I learned where the film was shot, who was in it, and how much money went into doing