Ohh God..Was I satisfied with the end of the story? This was my second time reading The Kite Runner and both times I cried equally. I am more than satisfied with the end of the story. The first time that I read the book I was really upset that the author did not leave us with anymore than knowing that maybe one day everything would have been alright between Amir and Sohrab. This time after I read the book I was amazed at how differently I felt. I overhead some students in my advisory talking about the book's ending and how it was stupid that it ended that way and didn't give us more details or at least a better epilogue. The ending to the story was beautiful if you reread it again. The ending was like having this HUGE weight on your shoulders and then finally out of the blue that weight is lifted and the air comes rushing back to your lungs and you feel like you can do just about anything in the world. The ending had that sort of impression on me. It left me feeling good and actually changed.
The point that I am trying to get at is that in the end of the book the author did not need to even tell us, as readers, what conflicts were resolved if any. We had to get this on our own by the way he put it all together in the end. Of course I got the clue that all the conflicts had ended. Amir was no longer guilty, he no longer was mad at Baba, Rahim, or Ali. He no longer felt that he had to be punished for Hassan and he no longer felt like he was living a life of lies. The truth of his life was running along side him and chasing after the very same thing he once chased after, a father. Now Sohrab was the kite runner and Amir was the kite. This only goes to show you how much an author really is trying to reveal when he writes something as deep and passionate as The Kite Runner.
"But I didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the Valley of Panjsher on my lips. I ran" (page 371).
Kite runner on the whole was very well written, an deep intimate story, and I loved it. I went into this book knowing that many of my friends and family had enjoyed this book. They were not shy in telling me their opinion of the ending, which for the most part were not favorable. So when I finnally got to the end today in homeroom, I wasn't shocked that the book just kind of ended. Much of the story was tied up, mainly the parts including Hassan, ALi, Baba, and Rahim Khan, but the newer characters who were the focus of nearly the entire second halve of the book were not metioned. They were mentioned but what I mean is we don't know what happened to Sohrab and if he warms up to Amir and America. The ending of this book reminds me of the ending of Pirates of the carribian 2, it leaves you ready for the uneeded sequal.
I have mixed feelings about the ending. I think that book was a great book, but the ending just kind of left me with nothing. It was exiting reading the middle of the book and all the surprises and I thought that the end would be just as good, but than when I finished I felt as if Khaled Hosseini just wanted to stop writing it. I wanted to know if Sohrab stayed in America and if the relationship with Soraya, Amir, and Sohrab became stronger. It gives you an ending where you can imagine the conclusion, but it made me think that there will be like a sequel in some way. But than again I like that Hosseini finished with the kite’s because it goes along with the novel’s title as well as the winter of 1975 where Amir started to change. One of the posts asks you what we think the title stands for and while I was reading The Kite Runner I felt that Amir was dedicating the title to Hassan like “mcnugget” posted (in the previous question), but now I feel as if it could be describing both Hassan and Amir. In the ending Amir became the kite runner for Sohrab and I thought that was a great way to circle the whole novel.
Once I found out that Amir and Sobrab were flying the kite together and that they seemed happy it made me feel that it was a good ending. But, after a second I realized that the ending didn't satisfy me as much as the story itself. The book was so interesting and all of the little parts in the book were written so well with so much description which made it seem as if the end happened to fast. I wished that Hosseini would have made it longer so that we can see what Amir's, Soraya’s, and Sohrab's life was like in the near future. I want to know if he talked, did he start having friends, what type of things he enjoyed, and the list goes on. There were so many possible endings in my head, but I don't really know what happened. It makes me think that something bad may have happened since the story line kind of went from good to bad to good to bad. For example when Sohrab takes a bath we picture him happy because he is going to America, but the truth is he wasn't and the horrible accident happened in the bathroom and he almost lost his life. Even though I want to know what happens next I like the fact that Hosseini left the ending a mystery and made me think about what could have possibly happened to Amir, Soraya, and Sohrab.
Oh my friends...if you did not like this book and the ending, I'm afraid we can't be friends anymore...Just joshin' ya! I loved the book both times I read it, cried at all the same parts, smiled at different ones, and the end left me feeling satisfied, like I had eaten just the right amount (I usually eat too much...don't recommend it). I loved, loved, loved this book, the ending, it's characters, the way it was written, the author, everything! I felt like I had a deeper understanding of the human race, the way people are capable of change, they just have to want it, a better understanding of compassion and despair, of guilt and freedom, and what it means to truly have a friendship. Read it and weep my friends!
"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. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight." (371)
I was a little disappointed with the ending, Im not going to lie. I felt kinda rushed. Everything was just quickly capped into an ending without any detail or explanation like the rest of the book. I wanted to know exectly how Sohrab came to America and maybe there were problems getting him onto the plane because the book never exactly said how Amir received papers for him. His wife’s phone is not going to get anybody over sea so easily. I was also expecting Sohrab to say something at the end. That would have had closer for me. It did not matter that Amir and Sohrab were flying kites. There was no meaning for the little boy only for Amir. The ending was not good enough for me because I felt rushed and Sohrab never gave me the closer that I needed.
What I liked about the ending of this book: How Sohrab fulfilled his fathers promise and turned Assef into one-eyed Assef. That Amir confessed what he did in his childhood to Soroya. Finding out that Hassan had told Rahim Kahn what happened to him. The confrontation betweeen Amir and Assef, that Amir stood up for himself and for Hassan (through Sohrab) at last. And because of Assef beating him up, Amir was able to feel cleansed at last. Finding out what had happened to Hassan. That he was happy at least at times, he was married and had a child. And he didn't hate Amir for what he did. The way Amir was finally able to connect with Sohrab thorugh kite flying and running. And Amir saying the word "For you, a thousand times over" to Sohrab. I think overall the ending is slightly weaker than the rest of the book but I did like the way Amir was finally able to connect with Sohrab thorugh kite flying and running. What I didn't like about the ending of this book: I didn’t like how the ending of the book seemed to wind up a little too quickly when compared with the steady pacing in the rest of the story . I also didn’t like Sohrab's suicide attempt and then his silence. This was both very sad and frustrating, just when I thought that there could be a happily ever after" of Amir and Soroya having a complete family at last. I was hoping that Sohrab would bring Amir and Soroya closer together romantically, and not just emotionally. I was also frustrated that Amir first tried to contact the people who had agreed to provide a home for Sohrab instead of deciding that he wanted to keep and adopt the boy more on his own. The open-endedness of the final pages of the book. That we are given a glimmer of hope that Sohrab will recover and maybe there will be a happily ever after" but we readers do not ever get to see it.
The ending was not dramatic and it wasn't anything extremely emotional. But I believe it is the best ending I have ever read in my life. Everything was so unpredictable. A predictable ending would consist of Amir and Hassan meeting each other and finally being able to confront each other with everything that had happened in the pass. A predictable ending would have allowed Sohrab to talk and act like a normal kid again when him and Amir were flying the kite together. As I read this story, things that weren't "suppose" to happen kept happening. I love it! It made the story so good because it's not what you expect. But the ending is satisfying because you it makes you feel like you are not reading a story, but a biography that is entirely true, nothing added. Sometimes endings aren't always happily ever after, so that's why this story seemm so true.
The Kite Runner was a well written book with a great plot. The stories end was a little shorted compared to the rest of the novel. Sohrab finally finished where his father had left off with Amir. He saved his life again like a real friend does. Amir on the other hand made peace with what he had done years ago to Hassan. The part where Amir and Sohrab fly a kite together was a great moment of everything finally coming together. There could have been more detail, but this was a pretty good book.
Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely loved this book. In fact, I even made Paul sit and listen to me read to him. I’m pretty sure he thought I was a dork. Anyway, the ending was slightly disappointing in my eyes. It completely got my hopes up. I was thrilled that Amir and Sohrab flew a kite together (kind of the way Amir and Hassan had done). I was convinced that Sohrab was going to finally talk though. Even if he had just said one word, I would have been satisfied. However, I was excited that he smiled just a little bit. I also wish that the ending wasn’t so rushed. I just felt like Khaled Hosseini spent a lot of time explaining the rest of the novel, and summed up the end in a few pages. Like Senija, I also liked the way Amir became the kite runner for Sohrab in the end.
I loved the book but I though of the ending of the novel was not satisfying as it could have been. It leaves probably the biggest conflict of the second half of the book unanswered. I would want to know if Sohrab liked Amir and Soraya and parents and if he ever talked to them. I think it would have ended better if Khaled Hosseini would have had Sohrab say something to the effect of Amir or Hassan flying and/or running and bringing back the kite. And like everyone else I liked the part where Sohrab smiled, so I guess that's the answer to my question of Sohrab liking Amir and Soraya as his new parents. But as I think back to the book it was a rushed part that barley went into detail and just skipped through the years, instead of dedicating a whole chaper to a single day or event, even though I guess that nothing of real importance happed in those years like it had in the begining or while Amir was in Afghanistan. That might also be a reason that I though that it was not as good as it could have been.
I really really loved the whole entire book except for the ENDING!!! I felt like the ending was just a really quick wrap up and it just left me wanting more. I mean this could turn out to be a good thing if there would be a second part to this novel which I believe will not. I really wanted to know what else was going to happen. Alisa says how this huge weight is lifted off her shoulders but I feel like it wasn't. I wanted him to tell us what Sohrab says, I wanted to know what else they do. I want to see those images in my head of Sohrab and Soraya hanging out together and her finally feeling like a mother. These things would have made the novel's ending much better!
I didn't dislike the ending, but did wish for more. After reading the novel twice, I realized that the story is better being left without a happily-ever-after ending, which is exactly what I wanted. The second time I read the novel I recieved a greater understanding of the relationship between Sohrab and Amir and could somewhat piece the ending together to create my own. This was a wonderful tactic used by the author to enstill a sense of wonder, which, in turn, caused me to imagine the ending myself.
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Ohh God..Was I satisfied with the end of the story? This was my second time reading The Kite Runner and both times I cried equally. I am more than satisfied with the end of the story. The first time that I read the book I was really upset that the author did not leave us with anymore than knowing that maybe one day everything would have been alright between Amir and Sohrab. This time after I read the book I was amazed at how differently I felt. I overhead some students in my advisory talking about the book's ending and how it was stupid that it ended that way and didn't give us more details or at least a better epilogue. The ending to the story was beautiful if you reread it again. The ending was like having this HUGE weight on your shoulders and then finally out of the blue that weight is lifted and the air comes rushing back to your lungs and you feel like you can do just about anything in the world. The ending had that sort of impression on me. It left me feeling good and actually changed.
The point that I am trying to get at is that in the end of the book the author did not need to even tell us, as readers, what conflicts were resolved if any. We had to get this on our own by the way he put it all together in the end. Of course I got the clue that all the conflicts had ended. Amir was no longer guilty, he no longer was mad at Baba, Rahim, or Ali. He no longer felt that he had to be punished for Hassan and he no longer felt like he was living a life of lies. The truth of his life was running along side him and chasing after the very same thing he once chased after, a father. Now Sohrab was the kite runner and Amir was the kite. This only goes to show you how much an author really is trying to reveal when he writes something as deep and passionate as The Kite Runner.
"But I didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the Valley of Panjsher on my lips. I ran" (page 371).
Kite runner on the whole was very well written, an deep intimate story, and I loved it. I went into this book knowing that many of my friends and family had enjoyed this book. They were not shy in telling me their opinion of the ending, which for the most part were not favorable. So when I finnally got to the end today in homeroom, I wasn't shocked that the book just kind of ended. Much of the story was tied up, mainly the parts including Hassan, ALi, Baba, and Rahim Khan, but the newer characters who were the focus of nearly the entire second halve of the book were not metioned. They were mentioned but what I mean is we don't know what happened to Sohrab and if he warms up to Amir and America. The ending of this book reminds me of the ending of Pirates of the carribian 2, it leaves you ready for the uneeded sequal.
I have mixed feelings about the ending. I think that book was a great book, but the ending just kind of left me with nothing. It was exiting reading the middle of the book and all the surprises and I thought that the end would be just as good, but than when I finished I felt as if Khaled Hosseini just wanted to stop writing it. I wanted to know if Sohrab stayed in America and if the relationship with Soraya, Amir, and Sohrab became stronger. It gives you an ending where you can imagine the conclusion, but it made me think that there will be like a sequel in some way. But than again I like that Hosseini finished with the kite’s because it goes along with the novel’s title as well as the winter of 1975 where Amir started to change. One of the posts asks you what we think the title stands for and while I was reading The Kite Runner I felt that Amir was dedicating the title to Hassan like “mcnugget” posted (in the previous question), but now I feel as if it could be describing both Hassan and Amir. In the ending Amir became the kite runner for Sohrab and I thought that was a great way to circle the whole novel.
Once I found out that Amir and Sobrab were flying the kite together and that they seemed happy it made me feel that it was a good ending. But, after a second I realized that the ending didn't satisfy me as much as the story itself. The book was so interesting and all of the little parts in the book were written so well with so much description which made it seem as if the end happened to fast. I wished that Hosseini would have made it longer so that we can see what Amir's, Soraya’s, and Sohrab's life was like in the near future. I want to know if he talked, did he start having friends, what type of things he enjoyed, and the list goes on. There were so many possible endings in my head, but I don't really know what happened. It makes me think that something bad may have happened since the story line kind of went from good to bad to good to bad. For example when Sohrab takes a bath we picture him happy because he is going to America, but the truth is he wasn't and the horrible accident happened in the bathroom and he almost lost his life. Even though I want to know what happens next I like the fact that Hosseini left the ending a mystery and made me think about what could have possibly happened to Amir, Soraya, and Sohrab.
Oh my friends...if you did not like this book and the ending, I'm afraid we can't be friends anymore...Just joshin' ya! I loved the book both times I read it, cried at all the same parts, smiled at different ones, and the end left me feeling satisfied, like I had eaten just the right amount (I usually eat too much...don't recommend it). I loved, loved, loved this book, the ending, it's characters, the way it was written, the author, everything! I felt like I had a deeper understanding of the human race, the way people are capable of change, they just have to want it, a better understanding of compassion and despair, of guilt and freedom, and what it means to truly have a friendship. Read it and weep my friends!
"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. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight." (371)
I was a little disappointed with the ending, Im not going to lie. I felt kinda rushed. Everything was just quickly capped into an ending without any detail or explanation like the rest of the book. I wanted to know exectly how Sohrab came to America and maybe there were problems getting him onto the plane because the book never exactly said how Amir received papers for him. His wife’s phone is not going to get anybody over sea so easily. I was also expecting Sohrab to say something at the end. That would have had closer for me. It did not matter that Amir and Sohrab were flying kites. There was no meaning for the little boy only for Amir. The ending was not good enough for me because I felt rushed and Sohrab never gave me the closer that I needed.
What I liked about the ending of this book:
How Sohrab fulfilled his fathers promise and turned Assef into one-eyed Assef. That Amir confessed what he did in his childhood to Soroya. Finding out that Hassan had told Rahim Kahn what happened to him. The confrontation betweeen Amir and Assef, that Amir stood up for himself and for Hassan (through Sohrab) at last. And because of Assef beating him up, Amir was able to feel cleansed at last. Finding out what had happened to Hassan. That he was happy at least at times, he was married and had a child. And he didn't hate Amir for what he did. The way Amir was finally able to connect with Sohrab thorugh kite flying and running. And Amir saying the word "For you, a thousand times over" to Sohrab. I think overall the ending is slightly weaker than the rest of the book but I did like the way Amir was finally able to connect with Sohrab thorugh kite flying and running.
What I didn't like about the ending of this book:
I didn’t like how the ending of the book seemed to wind up a little too quickly when compared with the steady pacing in the rest of the story . I also didn’t like Sohrab's suicide attempt and then his silence. This was both very sad and frustrating, just when I thought that there could be a happily ever after" of Amir and Soroya having a complete family at last. I was hoping that Sohrab would bring Amir and Soroya closer together romantically, and not just emotionally. I was also frustrated that Amir first tried to contact the people who had agreed to provide a home for Sohrab instead of deciding that he wanted to keep and adopt the boy more on his own. The open-endedness of the final pages of the book. That we are given a glimmer of hope that Sohrab will recover and maybe there will be a happily ever after" but we readers do not ever get to see it.
The ending was not dramatic and it wasn't anything extremely emotional. But I believe it is the best ending I have ever read in my life. Everything was so unpredictable. A predictable ending would consist of Amir and Hassan meeting each other and finally being able to confront each other with everything that had happened in the pass. A predictable ending would have allowed Sohrab to talk and act like a normal kid again when him and Amir were flying the kite together. As I read this story, things that weren't "suppose" to happen kept happening. I love it! It made the story so good because it's not what you expect. But the ending is satisfying because you it makes you feel like you are not reading a story, but a biography that is entirely true, nothing added. Sometimes endings aren't always happily ever after, so that's why this story seemm so true.
The Kite Runner was a well written book with a great plot. The stories end was a little shorted compared to the rest of the novel. Sohrab finally finished where his father had left off with Amir. He saved his life again like a real friend does. Amir on the other hand made peace with what he had done years ago to Hassan. The part where Amir and Sohrab fly a kite together was a great moment of everything finally coming together. There could have been more detail, but this was a pretty good book.
Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely loved this book. In fact, I even made Paul sit and listen to me read to him. I’m pretty sure he thought I was a dork. Anyway, the ending was slightly disappointing in my eyes. It completely got my hopes up. I was thrilled that Amir and Sohrab flew a kite together (kind of the way Amir and Hassan had done). I was convinced that Sohrab was going to finally talk though. Even if he had just said one word, I would have been satisfied. However, I was excited that he smiled just a little bit. I also wish that the ending wasn’t so rushed. I just felt like Khaled Hosseini spent a lot of time explaining the rest of the novel, and summed up the end in a few pages. Like Senija, I also liked the way Amir became the kite runner for Sohrab in the end.
I loved the book but I though of the ending of the novel was not satisfying as it could have been. It leaves probably the biggest conflict of the second half of the book unanswered. I would want to know if Sohrab liked Amir and Soraya and parents and if he ever talked to them. I think it would have ended better if Khaled Hosseini would have had Sohrab say something to the effect of Amir or Hassan flying and/or running and bringing back the kite. And like everyone else I liked the part where Sohrab smiled, so I guess that's the answer to my question of Sohrab liking Amir and Soraya as his new parents. But as I think back to the book it was a rushed part that barley went into detail and just skipped through the years, instead of dedicating a whole chaper to a single day or event, even though I guess that nothing of real importance happed in those years like it had in the begining or while Amir was in Afghanistan. That might also be a reason that I though that it was not as good as it could have been.
I really really loved the whole entire book except for the ENDING!!! I felt like the ending was just a really quick wrap up and it just left me wanting more. I mean this could turn out to be a good thing if there would be a second part to this novel which I believe will not. I really wanted to know what else was going to happen. Alisa says how this huge weight is lifted off her shoulders but I feel like it wasn't. I wanted him to tell us what Sohrab says, I wanted to know what else they do. I want to see those images in my head of Sohrab and Soraya hanging out together and her finally feeling like a mother. These things would have made the novel's ending much better!
I didn't dislike the ending, but did wish for more. After reading the novel twice, I realized that the story is better being left without a happily-ever-after ending, which is exactly what I wanted. The second time I read the novel I recieved a greater understanding of the relationship between Sohrab and Amir and could somewhat piece the ending together to create my own. This was a wonderful tactic used by the author to enstill a sense of wonder, which, in turn, caused me to imagine the ending myself.
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