the kite runner

This week for outside reading I skipped the Twilight series and continued with The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, that I started a while ago and then quit in the middle. Things in Afghanistan are continuing to get worse. Hassan faces a lot of trouble because he is a Hazara. One day after Khaled wins a kite tournament and Hassan runs and gets the winning kite, Khaled sees some other boys torturing Hassan in an alley. He just stands there and watches because he knows if he tries to help he will get hurt too so he runs home. Although he never tells Hassan, he always seems to know. This causes a lot of tension between them. It eventually gets bad enough that Hassan and Ali move out. This is very hard on Baba, but Khaled is secretly relieved. Baba and Khaled go to America to start a new life. Rahim Khan stays to look over the house. In America Khaled gets married and becomes a writer. Baba is very sick and ends up dying. Rahim Khan is very sick. He calls Khaled to Pakistan and says "there is a way to be good again." Khaled thinks about all the people close to him and all that he has done wrong and decides to go. He gets there and finds Rahim Khan is dying. He tells him that he not only wanted to see him before he dies, but also he has to tell him something important. He says that all the years he had lived in their house he wasn't alone, Hassan was with him. He had thought about writing and telling Khaled that, but he wasn't sure if he would want to know. He asks if he was wrong and the truth would be no, a lie would be yes, so Khaled just says "I don't know." Then Rahim Khan says he is going to ask Khaled to do something for him, but first he will tell him something about Hassan.