Reading Response Logs: The Kite Runner
“Standing in the kitchen with the receiver to my ear, I knew it wasn’t just Rahim Khan on the line. It was my past of unatoned sins.” (1)
- What could be so horrible that someone decides to leave what they have done in the past for twenty-six years? This tells me that Amir has committed actions he has regretted and it has been haunting him ever since. Hearing Rahim Khan’s voice has reminded him that the past does not stay in the past. The effect of his voice is more than a reminder, but a haunting realization of what he has done. It goes to say that we never know when the past will come for us. For Amir, it was Rahim Khan’s voice that triggered his past.
2. “Hassan never wanted to, but if I asked, …show more content…
“Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them in with your favorite colors.” (21)
- Amir is not living up to his father’s expectations. You can’t have a child and expect it to do exactly as it’s told or to be just like you, they’re not pets. No matter how hard you try and make them as you please, they never seem to come out as you want them. Because children are not clay. Children are going to grow up with their own personality and character because everybody is different.
6.“ I had a mission now. And I wasn’t going to fail Baba. Not this time.” (57)
- Amir has felt that he is always disappointing his father. Ever since he was born and “killed” his mother, he has felt that his father never truly loved him or as if there was something missing in the relationship with his dad. He thinks that Baba hates him for being born. Since they have different interest, it makes it hard to spend quality time together. Baba does not even think Amir is his son because of all the differences they …show more content…
During this time in Afghanistan, life wasn't exactly a walk in the park. Hosseini made it utterly clear of that. In this part of the book, we have already been introduced with the horrors of bombings and assault in the place they call home. Children have been exposed to this horrid environment since the day they took their first breath of gunpowder and bomb debris. This quote, in short, is simple; out of the hundreds of children that were living in the city, not one of them lived a normal life that a child should have. A normal childhood doesn't even come close to the “ childhood” that these kids have endured in their short lifespan. While a child in America is swinging on a swing at the playground, a child in Afghanistan is playing with a marble in the middle of a bomb wreck. It's simple to say these children did not have the chance at a normal
“Standing in the kitchen with the receiver to my ear, I knew it wasn’t just Rahim Khan on the line. It was my past of unatoned sins.” (1)
- What could be so horrible that someone decides to leave what they have done in the past for twenty-six years? This tells me that Amir has committed actions he has regretted and it has been haunting him ever since. Hearing Rahim Khan’s voice has reminded him that the past does not stay in the past. The effect of his voice is more than a reminder, but a haunting realization of what he has done. It goes to say that we never know when the past will come for us. For Amir, it was Rahim Khan’s voice that triggered his past.
2. “Hassan never wanted to, but if I asked, …show more content…
“Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them in with your favorite colors.” (21)
- Amir is not living up to his father’s expectations. You can’t have a child and expect it to do exactly as it’s told or to be just like you, they’re not pets. No matter how hard you try and make them as you please, they never seem to come out as you want them. Because children are not clay. Children are going to grow up with their own personality and character because everybody is different.
6.“ I had a mission now. And I wasn’t going to fail Baba. Not this time.” (57)
- Amir has felt that he is always disappointing his father. Ever since he was born and “killed” his mother, he has felt that his father never truly loved him or as if there was something missing in the relationship with his dad. He thinks that Baba hates him for being born. Since they have different interest, it makes it hard to spend quality time together. Baba does not even think Amir is his son because of all the differences they …show more content…
During this time in Afghanistan, life wasn't exactly a walk in the park. Hosseini made it utterly clear of that. In this part of the book, we have already been introduced with the horrors of bombings and assault in the place they call home. Children have been exposed to this horrid environment since the day they took their first breath of gunpowder and bomb debris. This quote, in short, is simple; out of the hundreds of children that were living in the city, not one of them lived a normal life that a child should have. A normal childhood doesn't even come close to the “ childhood” that these kids have endured in their short lifespan. While a child in America is swinging on a swing at the playground, a child in Afghanistan is playing with a marble in the middle of a bomb wreck. It's simple to say these children did not have the chance at a normal