the kite runner #4

For outside reading I continued with The Kite Runner. This week while I was reading i realized I have been calling Amir, Khaled, which is the authors name in real life. The story is based on his life and Amir is his character. Amir goes to the mans house to find Sohrab and realizes it was a boy who was very mean to him as a kid and who also tormented Hassan. The man brings Sohrab in and orders him to dance. Then he makes the gaurds leave the room and makes them promise not to come in no matter what they hear, and they of course obey. Then the man says him and Amir will fight to the death. Only one of them will remain alive after, and that's who will take Sohrab. He pulls out his brass knuckles and starts beating Amir. Sohrab realizes there is no way Amir will win so he pulls out his sling shot and shoots the mans eye out. Then they can make their escape. Amir searches for the orphanage for Sohrab and realizes it never existed. He calls his wife back in America and they agree to adopt him. They face many complications with getting the adoption to go through. Amir had promised Sohrab he wouldn't have to go back to an orphanage, but that might be the only way to adopt him if he stays for a year. Sohrab is very upset at this news, but they both go to sleep. A few hours later Amir wakes up to someone on the phone telling him the adoption will go through and Sohrab can return to America with them. He goes to find him to tell him the news and finds him laying on the bathroom floor with blood all over. He brings him right to the hospital. When Sohrab wakes up he tells Amir he should've just left him there to die, even after the news that he will be able to return to America with him. Once he is healed they go home to the U.S. Amir does all he can to re-gain Sohrab's trust, but he remains silent. Even a year after returning home Sohrab still won't talk or do anything, he is still disapointed that Amir was going to send him away, his one request was to never go back to an orphanage. One day at a picnic there are kites for sale and Amir gets them for Sohrab. They fly them and for the first time Sohrab looks like he's enjoying himself. This is how the novel ends, although everything is not fixed, it's getting better. Amir realizes all of his mistakes and tries to become a better person and Sohrab is making progress in his new home.