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“A loyal Hazara. Loyal as a dog,”Assef said…”But before you sacrifice yourself for him, think about this: Would he do the same for you? Have you ever wondered why he never includes you in any games when he has guests? Why he only plays with you when no one else is around? I’ll tell you why, Hazara. Because to him, you’re nothing but an ugly pet. Something he can play with when he’s bored something he can kick when he’s angry. Don’t ever fool yourself and think you’re something more.” “Amir Agha and I are friends,” Hassan said…”Friends?” Assef said laughing. “You pathetic fool! Someday you’ll wake up from little fantasy and learn just how good of a friend he is. (Page-72)

True, I hadn’t made Ali step on the land mine, and I hadn’t brought the Taliban to the house to shoot Hassan. But I had driven Hassan and Ali out of the house. Was it too far-fetched to imagine that things might have turned out differently if they hadn’t? But I had to imagine that things might have turned out differently if I hadn’t? Maybe Baba would have brought him to America. Maybe Hassan would have had a home of his own now, a job, a family, a life in a country where no one cared that he was a Hazara, where most people didn’t even know what a Hazara was. (Page-226)

I loved the whole book!

What I didn't like was the ending. I started out not wanting to read this book at all, but Reading through it I loved all the dram; I just didn't agree with the sudden boring ending like really. Are you F****** kidding me. I could not believe my eyes I was reading and because of the extra section I thought I had a whole nother chapter before I was done-Wrong!

This book had so many twist too it. I really enjoyed it , but the ending was like half cliff hanger half ending. The ending seemed rushed compared to the rest of the book. I thought something else was going to happen especially because in the book Amir said:

"Little did I know, that would be the last time In a year that I would hear Sohrab Speak."

But Sohrab still didn't speak in the end he just smiled. If I'm not mistaken!

Khaled Hosseni like I said before did an amazing job ending this book. In my personal outlook on this book, it seems like this book is one of those books where the ending is never really told. It just hangs over a cliff, and you create the ending.

I'm not sure if Amir found a resolution, I'm not sure I'm not sure if in the end did Amir really repent his sins. Its very unclear, there's no doubt in my mind that Amir as a person has improved everything about himself.

My favorite part of this book was when Amir got married. Amir has grown along ways, when I was reading and then amir said to his father go ask for her hand in married I got a little scared. I though that the general was going to say no for some odd reason but he didn't.

My second favorite Part was when little Sohrab busted Assefs eye with the marble thing he truly is a little Hassam, AWWWWW.

My third and last favorite part was when Amir left all that money for the money he was staying with in Pakistan.

What I wish would have happened was I wish that Hassan and Amir as adults would have met, and that they both would have sons the same age to play with.

One thing I thought would have happened was I thought that when Assef said:

"Amir and I have unfinished business...No matter what you hear dont open the door"

I thought Assef was going to rape Amir.

This week I'm commenting on Karissa's Post, on over controlling parents.

One of the same excuses my mom has been giving me about the reason she won't let me go is because she doesn't have any information about it and doesn't know who runs it, where it is, blah blah blah. However, each time she says this, I give her more and more information...She also agreed with me on the fact that if parents don't let their kids do anything, they'll most likely end up rebelling later on. Her mom even agreed with me. I told her i would keep asking if I could come with them  but I don't know what to do to change her mind. If you have any ideas let me know. ......maybe I'll ask my dad if I can go next week. He's a lot more reasonable... -Karissa Coleman

I feel the exactly same way,my mom and dad don't want me getting into any trouble. But my mom is just way to over protective. Aren't dads supposed to be the over protective ones. But my dads not. He lets me go allot of places, as long as he knows its safe. When I go somewhere and my dad gives me permission i really don't want to disappointment him for anything so I don't do anything wrong I just mind my own business. But when my barely lets me go out, my mind starts thinking about all of bad things just out of spite for her.

I agree, i do think that the reason kids rebel is because they don't have enough freedom. But girls who get pregnant obviously where given freedom and look what happens. I think parents should give there children freedom, but still be parents.

Humans werent' put on this earth to be picture perfect beings, not all. Non of us are perfect, in m opinion i don't think you can call "life","life" wothough knowing that in life your given obstacles and thats how you improve yourself, in life.

Teenage years are some of the most important years in your lofe just becuase you learn so much about yourself. I believe you can do better as an adult if you make more mistakes as a child, becuase you have older people to better guide you, to clean up the mess you made. Whereas an adult making a mistake they have to correct it all on there own.

Are police officers good or bad?

Today in class I decided to subscribe to a newspaper thing where I look at new update, I subscribed too two news feed. One about the Bay Area and one about the US. When I was just skimping around looking at cool titles to write about I saw too many post about "Oakland Police officers", and accompanied by those three words where the words "death" or "dead".

Reading certain articles make me so very mad. All these articles remind me of the Oscar Grant shot ting. I'm not going to get into the Oscar Grant shooting all I am going to say is I do not agree with the verdict given. Police officers are not supposed to shoot unless there is a threat. Sometimes the people they kill are threats but I've heard f so many cases where people have been beaten, raped, and killed by Police officers. With ought; government officials that are supposed to keep our; cities together the world would be so crazy, but when is it okay for a regular pedestrian to be afraid of the Police.

A lot of innocent people are being hurt for no reason. When I see police I look away I do not even like to deal with police officers. Have you ever notice when a firefighter drives by all of the children wave, but that does not happen when police officers drive by. People do not even acknowledge police officers nicely. I hear so many kids talking about how they want to be police officers to help people but in my opinion I do not think that police officers necessarily help people. I think in the last couple of months in Oakland police officers have hurt more people than they have helped.

I feel really bad for the families of police officers, just because sometimes when police officers die, more people are glad they’re dead than when there alive. Not too long ago in East Oakland a police officer was murdered and so many people where happy about that. I know that when Johannes Miserly gets out of Jail if he does not have security people he will be murdered and I bet they have a peaceful happy rally in Downtown Oakland.

I'm not going to say that all police are good I can say that individual police are good, I'm not going to group the whole police force as Good.

When I first began this book I did not like it at all. While reading this book I got really into it and did not want to read it or annotate it. I thought it was very boring but, it's actually really interesting.

In class we were having a debate about weather or not it was right for Amir to watch Hassan get raped. Alot of people said what was this little kid going to do against these big oh fifteen year old. But I was saying so what, he should have still saved his best friend. Now in this second section we've found out that Hassan and Amir are really bothers. HOW CRAZY RIGHT. Who would have thought. That's what made me even more angrier than before, the fact that Hassan and Amir were brothers and Amir sat and watched. That's just straight wrong in my opinion how could a real friend do such a thing.

On the other side I think that it was really wrong for Baba to sleep with the Hazara lady. The fact that he knew the two were brothers and did not say anything just makes him a horrible father. I think that both of the boys life would have been much better if they had both known.

Knew I understand why Baba treated Hassan better than Amir, because that was his real son. If he ever had a son he would want him to be just like Hassan. For Amir's whole life he begged to be the dream son Baba always wanted, but in reality Baba already had a dream son and his name was Hassan. Know matter what Amir Baba was never really going to love him.

Another topic brought up in the class discussion was why can't amir have any children. Even though the book said that its really Soraya who's having the baby issues. I think that it is Amir's Karma, for not being a great friend. Because in the end Amir and Baba were just alike; so in my opinion I think he would have just a horrible dad just like his own father.

What do you find funny?

This week I decided to do a response post to Kathryn’s blog on America and Oil.

So far the kite runner is an okay book. I’m not particularly found of books that have characters who rape each other. I really don’t like the fact that a little boy was raped in this book at all. It’s really disturbing in my opinion. When reading this book I have a lot of questions for the author himself:

1) Is this book based of a true story?
2) Is the book about you?
3) What was your emotional state writing this book?
4) Have you ever been raped by another man as a child
5) What made you want to write this book?

I noticed this books language is somewhat hard but somewhat simple to understand. I like the fact the Hassan and Amir are friends, just because it’s rare that a rich boy and a peasant would play together in public. I know! In this book it stated that Hassan and Amir only play together in private and Hassan is never invited to play with Amir when other children are around. But obliviously they play together in public a lot. Assef and his friends see that, Baba, and Kamal all see this. The only problem with the characters themselves is Amir.

Amir is a spoiled brat that really only cares for himself. I wish Amir was more like Hassan, a strong boy who may not have the richest but appreciates life. Amir doesn’t always realize how mean he is too Hassan. I do understand that it is hard not having a father who doesn’t love you but still. Amir spends way too much of his time trying to make his father proud - because he so called “killed” his mother.

Amir believes anything any adult tells him too, his teachers and his Baba. Amir has to realize that he can’t be the “perfect” son. In the back of my mind I think Baba truly wants a son like Hassan, strong, fearless, and modest. Even though I don’t like Amir I think the two boys are a great match for each other. Ones weakness makes up for ones strength.