The Kite Runner: Final Section

Reading the whole book of The Kite Runner I realized that I enjoyed reading it then I expected. During the third paper clip, there is one part that really struck out to me was the part where Sohrab attempted to commit suicide. In the book it states,

“Home for kids?” he said, his smile fading. “ You mean an orphanage?”

“It would only be for a little while.”

“No,” he said. “No, please”

“Sohrab, it would be just a little while. I promise.”

“You promised you’d never put me in one of those places, Amir agha,” he said. His voice was breaking, tears pooling in his eyes. I felt it like a prick. (pg.341)

Later on in the book it explained how Amir couldn’t talk Sohrab to the U.S. and would have to but Sohrab back in the orphanage first to be able to take him to the U.S. Amir told Sohrab the situation but was very unhappy with it. Sohrab’s unhappiness resulted him of attempting to commit suicide by cutting himself in a bathtub. Sohrab lost a great amount of blood but was able to live. In my opinion, the only reason why Sohrab attempted to commit suicide was because he was put into orphanage before and because in the book it states how the Assef would go to the orphanage and take the kids. Sohrab was unfortunately taken and had a bad experience with Assef because they did stuff to him and was scared. Amir promised Sohrab that he would never put him back to the orphanage, but Sohrab tried to kill himself because he was afraid that Amir will break the promise.

I had a discussion about the conflicts that made the ending, well not so great. I wished the ending was better but there is a reason why it isn’t as good. Mr.Sutherland talked about how Hassan had many conflicts throughout the book and it took a while for Hassan to get over his conflicts. this is the same for Sohrab also. Sohrab had a few conflicts but were pretty intense and it will take him a while to get over his conflicts and move on.