Kite Runner Entry 5

Oh, my god. An absolutely beautiful and heartbreakingly wonderful ending! It is like dawn breaking at last upon Amir's life. Amir decided to take his half-nephew, Sohrab home with him!!! Sohrab was mute for a whole year, and Amir and Soraya tried all they could to get him to talk and to be happy. Finally, as the U.S. begins a war with the Taliban and Amir and his family help with relief efforts, Amir buys a kite. He asks Sohrab if he wishes to run kites with him, but Sohrab is still mute. Amir goes solo, but Sohrab joins him, and Amir shows Sohrab Hassan's favorite move, the lift and dive. Together, they take down their opponent's kite, and Sohrab smiles for the first time. Amir tells Sohrab what Hassan told him many years ago. "For you, a thousand times over."(371). A perfect full-circle ending, with the sunset at the beginning, and sunrise at dawn, near the end of this story. I must say, despite how much I hated actually reading the beginning, I love the ending. If I had to say, I really regret not reading this without stop. If I had not broken up the reading, I probably would not have hated Amir so much. Yet in the end, he has redeemed himself, and I simply just love the end. It is quite true that this is a depressing novel, but the ending is well worth it to read through.