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fredag 1. oktober 2010

The Kite Runner - entry 1

At school we're reading the Kite Runner. I have heard so much about the book, but never read it. Thought I have read Khaled Hosseini's second book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, which is one really amazing book. So I was really looking forward to the Kite Runner. Hosseini is an amazing writer.
I have been sick and very busy lately so I haven't got much time for reading, but as far as I have come, I really like the book. My favorite part until now must be on page ten, where Ali tells the boys about their nurse and her lovely singing voice and he sings for the boys:

On a high mountain I stood,
And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.
O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men,
Bring joy to out sorrowful hearts.


The the paragraph continuos:
"Then he would remind us that there was a brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that not even time could break.
Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. 
Mine was Baba.
His was Amir. My name.


I think this paragraph shows very clearly the bond between the two boys and that the bond is to strong to ever be broken. Thats why I really liked it. It tells us something about the rest of the story, that it will be about those boys, their relationship and their destinies.

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