post six

This week for outside reading i read The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. The author wrote this story about his own life and he is the main character in it. He lives in Afghanistan with his father and two servants. Ali, the first servant was adopted by Khaled's grandfather when he was just a baby. The other servant is Ali's son Hassan, who is Khaled's age. Neither of them have mothers. Khaleds mother died during child birth, and Hassan's ran away. The boys play together, but Khaled doesn't consider them friends because they are from different parts of Afghanistan. They spend every day together. Hassan doesn't go to school because he helps out around the house, but when Khaled returns every day he reads to him. Sometimes Khaled will tell Hassan to do something, like shooting things out of his sling shot, but Hassan always takes the blame. Also Khaled sometimes plays tricks on Hassan because he is not as educated as him. Ali often worries about Khaled because he doesn't stand up for himself and he doesn't like sports. He would rather read and write. Khaled enjoys the time he gets to spend with his father, even though it doesn't happen often. There are some things Hassan is better at than Khaled, and he gets very jealous. One day Khaled writes his own story about a poor man whos tears turn into pearls and it makes him very selfish. Then at the end of the story the man is standing on top of a pile of pearls holding a knife with his dead wife at his feet. Then Hassan asks why he would make himself cry for real when he cut just cut an onion to get tears. This makes Kahled very angry because Hassan is illiterate and he doesn't think he should question him.