The Kite Runner - Creative Writing - Rationale

The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini, tells the story of two childrens: Amir and Hassan.
They get separe by the destiny, when the soviet invasion hit Afganistan. Years later Amir will come back to the country where he was born, to rectify all what he did wrong, and safe Hassan's son, Sohrab.

My work will be linked to book, because I will tell what Rahim Khan, a friend of Baba and Amir, lived during the soviet invation and the taliban government in Afganistan. I will do this because the book doesnt't tell anything about this period of the history. The book narrates after all this happen.

In this case, my goal is to tell the experience of Rahim Khan during the war in Afganistan, and how were his feelings during conflict.

For this I will use the text type of a diary, to narrate the events in a first person perspective. Also it will write in a semi-formal language.

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The Kite Runner - Creative Writing - Rahim Khan Diary

24/12/1979

Today is Christmas. The last week I bought a present for Amir jan. It´s a story book for childrens.
The stories of the book have a very simple vocabulary, and it´s not really an interesting tale as the books he likes to read. But the importance of the book is not what it is, it's the message it leaves.
I know that he might don't like it, but he has to understand that Hassan is not different to him. Baba told me that he is not with them now. That´s bad. I hope the book helps.
If only he knew the true...

25/12/1979

Neither the book nor Allah can help us now.

The "reds" invaded us, showing up no mercy, not even on Christmas night. They advanced in Kabul with tanks, and a great army, shooting everyone who was fighting with them, killing everyone who was afraid of them.

I couldn't be able to give Amir his present. He is leaving the country by now. There's no future in Afganistan for him now. Maybe America is better. Hope I can meet them there as soon as possible.

1/1/1980

I can't leave Afganistan, at least by now.

The russian army is killing everyone in the frontier with Pakistan, after the massive emigration of the first day of the invasion.

I have been in my house since Baba and Amir left Kabul. Fortunately I have supplies to survive some weeks. 

28/4/1980

All the supplies I had are gone. Despite I have been getting more supplies by exchanging goods at the black market, this time I got nothing. 

The dealers doesn't want money. Nowadays, in our situation, money is just a worthless piece of paper. They want bullets. Fortunately a had plenty of it. 

Before all this mess, I liked going to the forest, away from the sound of the city. I liked to hunt. The only thing I used to hear there, was my shot. Now I hear shots everyday in the streets.

Today all the forest all gone, thanks to the Soviets. And what is more important, I'm running out of bullets.

Maybe is time to go out. 

11/6/1996

Some people died fighting the invaders. There are people that lost all his hope, and just committed suicide. 

I prefer to be optimistic.

Yesterday I spend some time taking care of Baba's house. With the talibans in the control of the country, I believe that everything will be like it was before.

Last week I went to a hazara village to find Hassan. I spend a long time looking for him.

The family must be all together when Baba and Amir jan come back.

Hassan has grown up. He told me the reason of his departure from Baba's house. I knew Amir was bad. That book I bought was suppose to help him. But now the book can help Hassan. With it he can learn to read and write. 

After all what happend he is still loyal to Amir. He will take care of the house with his son, Sohrab.

12/11/2001

The talibans are not better than the Russians.

The last day, they enter to the house, and beat me until I was unconscious

When I woke up Hassan and his wife were dead. They also kidnapped Sohrab.

It was foolish to be optimistic. I must go to Pakistan. I feel sick, after they beat me. 

I can’t rescue Sohrab, but I now who can do it.

He have to know that there’s a way to be good again.

He have to know too many things.

Hope the letter Hassan wrote to him can help.

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The Kite Runner - Chapter 22 Reflection

• Differences:

1. If we read the book, we can know what was Amir thinking in the scene. He was having lots of flash backs, while he is trying to convince Assef to take Sohrab (the son of Hassan) with him. For example, when he first saw Sohrab, he reminds him, how Hassan was when he was a child
2. Also in the book, Amir gets much more damaged after he fights Assef. While in the book, he get broken bones all around his body, in the movie Amir just get damaged eye.
3. In the book, Assef tells Amir how he survived in the jail, and how he decided to help the talibans in Afganistan. In the movie, Assef dont say anything about this.

• Similarities:

1. What happend in the chapter, is exactly what the movie show to us. However the movie make a summary of the chapter, leaving behind some details. (For example: What was Amir thinking in that moment)
2. Some of the phrases that the characters say in the movie, are exactly what they say in the book.
3. The clothes that the characters are wearing in the movie are very similar to what is described in the book, specially Assef, who is wearing a white suit, with his "John Lennon" glasses on.