Kite Runner

Few stories are written well enough to make the reader empathize with the characters. Kite Runner is one of those.

The beauty of Kite Runner lies in the rendering of its characters, detailed finely and realistically. Amir is the character in transformation with whom the story moves, at times representing human weaknesses, of jealousy and cowardice and at others valor and compassion. He justifies the thought that 'Some transformations happen in minutes, and others take a lifetime'. Hassan on the other hand is the undercurrent in the story's flow, that bringd it the tension and depth. He represents loyalty and maturity, with a very straight and simple outlook to life.

Amir wallowed for a lifetime, in his own guilt of not being courageous enough to stop Hassan from being savaged. This was a story of Amir's journey to finally learning to stand up for those he cared about.

For me the best moment of kite runner came towards the end when Amir runs after the kite to get it for Hassan's son Shohrab and turns back to say, "for you a thousand times over".