Third Kite Runner Post

I wasn't in class today for any discussions, which means that this post isn't going to be about anything like that. Thank goodness!
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The last section of the book is, in my opinion, the most filled with raw, visible emotion. In the other parts of the story the emotions are all in the background, hiding in the depths of the many words and sentences, creating a sort of ominous depression to mask the finer points of shame and guilt. In this section of The Kite Runner, our mentally badgered protagonist, Amir, finds a way to atone for his sins- saving his nephew.

At first he's unwilling- he's frightened of seeing this boy who looks so much like Hassan, his half-brother that he saw get raped. He knows that as soon as he sees Sohrab, Hassan's son, all of his past emotions will flood back and make his life hell again. Just as well, he doesn't want to see Kabul, his home, and how much it has degraded since his departure long ago. Eventually he makes up his mind, however, and begins the long trek to find the boy.

Around this point in the book we find out that Sohrab has been sexually abused by the same man who raped Hassan- Assef. Once Amir takes Sohrab away from Assef's clutches, he begins to try to find a way to get his nephew out of Kabul and into America, where he can adopt him... however, at one point, he makes the mistake of telling Sohrab that he may have to stay in an orphanage for a little while before.

Sohrab tries to commit suicide, and every tiny emotion from the story that had been building up suddenly releases itself onto the pages. It tells about how Amir is screaming and screaming and doesn't stop even when the ambulance comes.

The orphanage never happens. Amir takes Sohrab back to America with him and he adopts him and makes him his own child. Sohrab doesn't smile for a while, until the very end when Amir takes him kite fighting and runs the kite for him when they win. It's a happy ending, which is rare for the kind of tragic book that Kite Runner is.