For you, a thousand times over

This will be the last time I write on the blog about the Kite Runner. I have chosen to use this entry as a summary of the book, as well as a summary of my own emotions and thoughts about the book. What could possibly be a better name for the entry, than the famous quote from the book “For you, a thousand times over”? This one sentence that in so many ways illustrates the deep satisfaction and admiration Hassan feels for Amir. The great failure from Amir, not being able to see the great friend he has in the hare-clipped Hazara boy, going to catch the last fallen kite for him. I feel my eyes watering just by writing this now. Hassan was truly a great human being, which was at the wrong place at the wrong time all his life. And despite his bad luck, he still smiled as though the world had shown him the bright sides only. This is clear to read from the letter he writes to Amir: “(…) The streets are full enough already of hungry orphans and every day I thank Allah that I am alive, not that I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan. (...)” I think this draft from his letter shows us quite well where the focus of Hassan is lying.

Amir is another kettle of fish, entirely. His focus is, exclusively, on himself, and his own needs. He does not care what is going to happen to Ali and Hassan when he purposely accuses Hassan of stealing. Neither does he have the courage to tell Baba what happened to Hassan in that alley, the winter of 1975. But people can change, and that we learn from Amir’s amazing journey to save the now orphaned Hazara boy, his half- nephew Sohrab. This change gives us hope that there still is hope for the Human Race, and that everyone can change for the better.

This book is filled with so many emotions and devotions, between brothers, friends, fathers and sons, and between inhabitants in a whole country, it is for me impossible to say it all in words. This book is an emotional rollercoaster, where you go from laughing to crying in a matter of ten pages, where your whole impression of a character changes in no time, and you end up thrilled, exited and wounded deeply at the same time. This book is brilliant in so many ways, but mostly because it has got sole. It illustrates the sole of two boys so unbelievably different, but so amazingly similar. Thank you, Khaled Hosseini, for a most extraordinary book!

Hassan's letter can be found at page 189 in the book.
The picture is from the Movie, when Amir reads to Hassan. it is from: www.200movies1woman.com/2010/10/09/the-kite-runner