“The Kiterunner” Post #4
It was definately worth reading The Kiterunner. Even though it’s really, really long, it is definately a good book. Because it’s so long, there are a lot of different themes and lessons that can be learned from this novel. A lasting understanding that it left me with is how a person who grew up in Afghanistan must feel after all the changes that have taken place there. The book goes from the beginning of Amir’s life, when his home country is still very safe and friendly, to much later in his life when the Taliban invade. The book has showed me that group after group imposed their evil beliefs on Afghanistan, such as one of the beliefs of the Taliban that women should remain inferior to men. Also, the book shows the quick progression of how Afghanistan sees evil acts and crimes committed more and more often. Now what I would like to find out more about is why the Taliban and other groups, such as the Russian military, felt the need to invade that country and harm innocent people. The book only exposes how evil those groups that invaded are, and that kind of leaves me to think that the Afghanis are completely innocent and it is not their fault that the Taliban invaded. It’s possible taht something happened, however, that could have led to the way that evil was imposed.
November 2nd, 2006 at 3:02 pm
Potentially interesting article here from the New York Times Magazine: Taking the Fight to the Taliban.