On the Shelf

This week I was unable to do as much reading as I would have liked too. I have been fairly busy working after school and catching up on school assignments. I was originally planning on finishing Kite Runner by this time but I was unable to achieve this goal. So far, the story has progressed through time fairly quickly, outlining the events between the infamous rape scene and the move to America after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Placing light details of life in America upon the passage of time, it would appear as if the move away from Afghanistan allowed Amir to forget his cowardice and betrayal of his friend Hassan, creating a whole new life where his conscious can finally rest easily. Eventually, Amir marries another fugitive from Afghanistan in America. The day of his proposal to her, she reveals to him that she has had ran away with a previous suitor, marring her purity as an Afghan woman. Soraya’s betrayal of her father and the family name discreetly parallels Amir’s betrayal of his ‘brother’ years before. Though Amir acknowledges he should confess his inner incubus, he decides to withhold the information. Time passes, and Amir’s father passes away from lung cancer and his old family friend from Kabul, Afghanistan requests Amir visit him as he too is dying; Amir boards a plane and returns to his home, reviving his suppressed childhood demons.