So I stayed up until 3am last night finishing the silly book! I don't know what got into me, but I think I just needed to feel a sense of accomplishment. I've been catching up from our trip to Texas, and I still have so much to do. As soon as I get something under way, it seems like something else needs attention. I figured a book can not become un-read, so I decided this would be a neat thing to accomplish! All that to say... I'M FINISHED!!!!
What a great book! Definitely disturbing much of the way through, but totally enlightening as I consider the lives of people across the globe. I've been trying to think about my favorite line of the book, and so far, I think it's this:
"'That's the real Afghanistan, Agha sahib. That's the Afghanistan I know. You? You've always been a tourist here, you just didn't know it.'" (p. 222)
I mean, can you imagine coming to the conclusion that someone speaking to you in this way was totally right on and that you couldn't deny it any longer? Can you imagine going through your entire childhood into your mid-life and realizing all of a sudden that you never really understood the lives of MOST of the people around you? Do any of you feel like you've already experienced things like this? I mean, it could happen here in America just as well as anywhere else--it would just look different, I guess.
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I finished the book a little while ago. I thought it was excellent. It took me back to Modern Novel class in high school and how many different things can be dissected in the story. The different ways people relate to each other, symbolism, foreshadowing...so many things I never appreciated when forced to read a book in high school. Ha!
oh man guys! I have barely started!! We're going on the mission trip this week, so hopefully I get some great reading time. :)
I finished the book last week and have been trying to figure out what I want to say. I agree, the book was very disturbing. I was so saddened by how Amir treated Hassan, even though deep down he truly did love him. He just didn't know how, or that it was ok, or really how to be strong. It took Amir a long time to figure that out and that included going back to Afghanistan and seeing where he really grew up...the Afghanistan that had been there the whole time.
One thought I had: How must it have felt to live a lie your entire life (Baba)? Luckily, Amir learned the truth and realized that he had to tell someone about the wrong decisions he had made in his childhood to gain peace in his life.
finished!!! what a great book!! i'll post more later....
In reply to your question, Phyll, I think that in a way we might experience that.
I just think about how I've always lived in a middle-class neighborhood- around middle-class friends, etc. but that there are parts of america that are really really different from what i'm used to... and even different parts of Columbia! And I don't even notice the other parts. I'm oblvious. But i dont want to be.
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