Q4 Outside Reading Week 7 Post B

This will be my last post for The Kite Runner because I finished it just recently and I dare say it is an amazing book. For everyone who hasn't read it, here's my piece of advice: you should. While originally I never thought it would interest me very much I quickly learned that no matter how different you are from the protagonist or how far apart your worlds are, if the main character was made to be a real person, then you will always find some way to relate to him or her.
Relating to the main character is a very important aspect to liking a book. Amir's character is full of flaws, just like any other person. Even though he grew up in Afghanistan and knows a completely different life than I do, I find that it's easy to sympathize and even empathize with him at times. I know how it sometimes feels that the whole world is against you when all you wanted to do was help. Because of my connection with Amir, I was interested the whole way through.
I learned through Amir's journey, and my journey of reading Amir's story that sometimes bad things happen to good people. It's not always their fault, but the only way to move on is to forgive. And before they can fully forgive anyone else, before can move on with life at all, they have to forgive themselves. Once they do, things may never return to normal ever again, but they just have to wait. They have to wait and take what life gives them. Take all the small things because added together, they will mean so much. "It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. [...] But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting"(371). Things probably will never be the same again, but sometimes they will be even better.