The Kite Runner

To say that I have one single favorite book, would be a lie, however, I can say that one of my favorite books, and the one that has made the biggest impact on me was The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. I had to read this book my senior year of high school, and I was 17 years old at the time. At that time in my life reading was not something that was important to me, and I hated being told that I had to read books for classes. I thought that this book would be just like all the other books that I was told “I had to read”, however, this book was so different. There was so much raw emotion that this book had, and I was instantly pulled into it. I had never read a book about the Middle East before, and the only thing that I knew about it at that point was what I was hearing on the news about the war. But this told a different story, as do Hosseini’s other novels. Not to say that this book does not cover the subject of war, because it definitely does, but it doesn’t start out completely war torn, and it has so much more to it than the war aspect. Since reading this book, I have read all of his other books, and I can honestly say that they have all had an impact on my life, and has made me open my eyes to the things

It became more than just words and phrases, and become real in a sense. It gave me a feeling, and understanding that I hadn’t had to that extent before. To me that is what makes literature so great, being able to have those experiences and learning how to appreciate them for what they really are, and to help you to appreciate what you already have that you may not have seen clearly before. They help you to see the story within, and really how all of us have a story to tell that is different, but just as