The Kite Runner post 3

"The slingshot made a thwiiiiit sound when Sohrab released the cup. Then Assef was screaming. He put his hand where his left eye had just been a moment ago. Blood oozed between his fingers. Blood and something else, something white and gel-like. (291)

It was really brave of Sohrab to stand up for Amir in his fight with Assef, it was a rematch fight with Assef, to finish what had happened when they were kids. Only this time Hassan was dead and Hassan's son Sohrab stood up for Amir. When Amir found out that the Taliban official who took Sohrab from the orphanage was Assef he should have realized immediately that Assef might have sexually abused Sohrab because he raped Hassan when he was a kid. I was surprised that the Talibans accepted a half German person like Assef to join them because of what they think about Westerners. Hassan would have liked Amir to finish that fight and defend Sohrab, even though that same person over twenty years ago ruined their friendship.

I also felt sorry for Amir when he wanted to go back to his childhood home in Kabul only to find it delapidated and its occupants Taliban officials. When I read that I thought about a phone call my mom recieved from my aunt Nancy saying that my grandparents' farm that my uncle Sam sold to a Chicago White Sox player named Joe Crede last October was now fenced around the entire property. I knew what that felt like seeing something you loved during your childhood fall to pieces. Amir used to think that Kabul was a peaceful town where good things happen, only to discover that Taliban officials lurk around every corner shooting people. Buildings were run down and people were homeless. Amir also discovered that the orphanage that Baba built had been destroyed as well. I understand Amir's emotions completely.