OUTSIDE READING QUATER 4, Week 1- Post B

Dear Amir,
You are the narrator/main character in the novel Kite Runner. I have only read two chapters but so far what i have read is very good. The novel starts off by you saying, "I became what i am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975 [...] That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, i've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws it's way out. Looking back now, i realize i have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty six years"(1). You talk about your good friend Hassan who has a face of a Chinese doll chiseled from hardwood. The face is marred by the harelip as through “the Chinese doll maker’s instrument may have slipped"(3). You live in a big house in Aphganistan in which Hassan and his father Ali live next door in a mud hut. I learned that you and Hassan had done everything together from the beginning. Your first words were Baba (Dad) but Hassan's was your name. So far you believe that the foundation for what happened in 1975 and all that followed was already laid in their first words. So far, i cannot wait to keep reading!
Sincerely,
Claire O'Neill