The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini is an incredible author who really knows how to tell a story. Throughout the book his straight forward and blunt descriptions of every detail never refrain from shocking you. I also have to say that this book is extremely depressing, to me anyway. It was a page turner and I don't regret reading it. It has a great moral to the story and leaves a lasting impression on the reader.

I assumed from what I've heard about the book that it was rich in style, so I chose to take notes on the authors style and try to feed off of it. However, after the first chapter I changed my direction. Although the book is rich in style, I believe that the author has two or three main styling tools in his writing. Blunt descrptions, importance of past events, and strong connections between people. When I figured these out from the first ten chapters or so, I switched to relating the story to my own life (text to self) because of how descriptive and family/friend oriented it is.

The first large connection I made was Baba to my dad. Page twelve, the begining of chapter three is when I first made the connection. When Amir is describing him as someone who is never doubted, and his booming snores on page 13. This connection helped me vision Baba in my head and understand him more as a character.

The next relation came when Amir is describing Baba's belief that stealing is the worst sin, and that every other sin is of a different variation of theft. The worst variation of theft being murder. I had never made the theft connection to all sins and once I read and understood Baba's belief I couldn't agree more. In my past I have dealt with murder and loss and theft, so making that connection definatly tied me into the book.

To end (since my mom needs the computer) the first part of my "Kite Runner" blog on a happy note, I will pay notice to my connection with the main character, Amir. He is a writer, a story teller. I consider myself a free lance writer but I do enjoy the occasional fairytale and fictional story every now and then. His continuos effort to show his father his writing and make Baba proud of him is a mirror image of my effort to please my parents with my writing. The difference is that my parents do appreciate my writing, and did right away, but I still try to impress them more and more.

I will continue another day, hope everyone likes my thoughts so far! :)