Khaled Hosseini: A Character Analysis

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Khaled Hosseini is such a captivating writer that it triggers me to want to read more. Throughout reading the book my emotional experience while reading it was depressing, anger, curious, astonished, and contented. Many emotions occurred as I continued to read the book like when Amir found Hassan being sexaully abused by Assef and he did nothing to help him other than staring at the horrendous scene and then ran off. Another scene is when Amir went to find Sohrab and a fight broke out between Assef and Amir. Sohrab saved Amir by using a slingshot aiming it at Assef's left eye and shot the solid brass ball into it making him bleed. The physicality both Amir and Hassan experience are both cruel and it made me angry because of Assef's actions towards them. He truly deserved what Sohrab did to him and that made me so contented that he was injured because he deserved it. …show more content…
I love how he transitions his time and setting in the novel so that the book is not boring. The two characters that mostly made me emotional is Hassan and his son because he was such a sweet, caring, and good person. He did not deserve to have such a sudden death and so did his wife. Hassan and Sohrab stuck up for Amir at the time of need but to redeem his unatoned sin to Hassan he is helping Sohrab in guilt and respect. It crushed me when Hassan died so suddenly because I felt that he should of been alive to see his son grow up. I really despise the Taliban regime throughout the whole book, other character in the book like Baba, Rahim Khan, Soraya, General Taheri, and Farid are all people that I

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