Favorite Writing

Title: The Kite Runner
Author: Khaled Hosseini

Excerpt:
"One day last summer, my friend Rahim Khan called from Pakistan. He asked me to come see him. 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. After I hung up, I went for a walk along Spreckels Lake on the northern edge of Golden Gate Park. The early-afternoon sun sparkled on the water where dozens of miniature boats sailed, propelled by a crisp breeze. Then I glanced up and saw a pair of kites, red with long blue tails, soaring in the sky. They danced high above the trees on the west end of the park, over the windmills, floating side by side like a pair of eyes looking down on San Francisco, the city I now call home. And suddenly Hassan’s voice whispered in my head: For you, a thousand times over. Hassan the harelipped kite runner..."

Thoughts:
The Kite Runner, is an excellent story of family values, friendship, survival, suffrage and redemption. The book that was given to me to read my sophomore year here at San Jose State University was among one of my favorite class assignments that semester during English 1B. The author, Khaled Hosseini, wrote the book quite masterfully in order to draw you into a part of the middle eastern culture very different in aspects to that of what you might know. The story of a young boy’s struggle to find his place in a society where status defines everything and stepping outside your caste is often rare and frowned upon. Not to frequent will a book come along that will cause me to sit down, ignore phone calls and move chapter to chapter with great ease but I would have to say this book did just that. With stage plays and even a motion picture done about this book it can be said that The Kite Runner, is truly going to reach many people and will hopefully become a classic read for whomever likes it.