This is what Hassan said to Amir. He is a loyal servant and sincere friend. In order to protect Amir's eager kite, he silently endured physical abuse; In order to defend Amir's motherland, he was killed by Taliban bullets. He is a teenager chasing kites, and he always knows where the last kite will land.
Amir, in my eyes, is also a teenager chasing kites, but his pursuit is farther and longer, because he is lost in the vast Yuan Ye.
In his happy childhood, he was a skilled kite fighter. He doesn't need to chase kites, but the loyal Hassan always gives them to him. But he also has something he desperately pursues, and that is the proud and approving eyes of his father Akbar. He expects his tall and majestic father to say "Dear Amir" to him with a smile. His mother died during childbirth, and he always felt that his father blamed him for it, because his father always faced him with a cold and serious face. However, during eavesdropping in the study, he heard his father despise his cowardice, but praised Hassan for coming forward. So he began to be frantically eager to prove himself, and at the same time he naturally felt bad feelings and even jealousy towards Hassan, and felt that he was more weak and useless to Hassan. Finally, an Amir's chance to prove himself came, and that was the winter kite competition. In the end, he won the game and won the admiration of his father, but at that moment, Amir's heart lost its tranquility forever. He will recall countless times that in that cold alley, he was afraid of being beaten, perhaps to save the kite of honor. He chose to stand there and watch. He watched Hassan walk away humiliated but cowardly, and tried to hide his ignorance. In order to let himself go on with his life, he even designed to drive Hassan away. However, this past has become the darkest secret in his future life. He is such a cowardly but despicable person. In pursuit of his father's approval, he has been burdened with heavy psychological shackles since then. If he can stand up in that alley, maybe he has become a person recognized by his father Abaza. In fact, what his father wants is not the honor of first place, but to make him a brave and responsible person.
This kind of inner suffering didn't last long, because the calm days were completely broken, and the Russians attacked Afghanistan on a large scale. Amir and his father fled to the United States in the war, left their hometown Kabul and bid farewell to those comfortable and enjoyable lives. In the days of suffering, the father and son became closer. They supported each other through the most painful days and finally survived in America. Without rights and honor, my father grew old step by step and Amir grew up step by step. He gradually forgot how crazy he had been in pursuit of his father's approval. He began to pursue his literary ideal and his love and family in quiet days, and all this went smoothly. Gradually, he forgot his hometown Kabul and the people who suffered in the bullets.
It was not until he received a phone call from his uncle Racine, who brought him a lot of warmth and encouragement since he was a child, that he went to Pakistan to meet his dying uncle. There, he learned the story that Hassan was driven away by him, that he silently guarded his home in the war, that he died tragically for it, and that Hassan was the illegitimate child of his father. Now Hassan's son and nephew are waiting for his rescue in the orphanage in the war. But his cowardly character was exposed again. He rejected this risky behavior. Although he knew he should stand up, he didn't dare. Racine said that "there is a way to be a good man again", which is a very heavy sentence. Tell him to chase kites by himself this time, take the road of pursuing courage, take responsibility for himself, and don't back down again. He finally brought his tortured nephew back to the United States and built a children's hospital for Afghans in the United States. This time he finally knows that no matter where the kite will land, your courage will lead you to find it.
The author said that there is still a period of fierce exchange of fire in Afghanistan. In that quiet and comfortable era, the most lively event was the annual kite competition, and The Kite Runner was everywhere on the roads and fields. Is there a The Kite Runner in Afghanistan now? No, so Afghanistan, this is a desperate place.