Post B # 4

"'The war is over, Hassan,'" I said. 'There's going to be peace, Inshallah, and happiness and calm. No more rockets, no more killing, no more funerals!' [...] A few weeks later, the Taliban banned kite fighting. And two years later, in 1998, they massacred the Hazaras in Mazar-i-Sharaf (213)."

This quote both disappointed and angered me. First of all, Amir and Hassan have not seen each other for probably twenty years now. What he said was just fake, just like he always has been. The last time Amir saw Hassan, he was with his dad, watching him cry because he had been falsely accused of stealing his watch. Now they reunite, and Amir says something false like that. I can see he obviously hasn't learned anything, or changed any. I don't even think that Amir and Hassan should have met up again. He let him get raped, for god's sake! If I were Hassan, I would not want anything to do with him.

I was not happy when Amir got married. He doesn't deserve to have a wife. He doesn't deserve someone as good as Soraya. It was a horrible thing that Soraya was sterile, but I think that it was meant to be that way because he also doesn't deserve to have someone carry on his name.

Amir is not a good protagonist, or person for that matter. I have talked to people about him, and nobody I've talked to likes him. The protagonist is supposed to be the hero, someone who the reader roots for, not some person who lies to their best friends.