Kite Runner

Kite Runner

James Walton   Mrs. Ryan   Period 3, English 4 Brit lit   December 9th, 2008   The Kite Runner   It was disappointing to see the climax of the book turned into an action scene. In the book Amir meets with a Taliban official in seek of his nephew, the Taliban official is his old friend Assef. Now in the movie, Assef immediately confronts Amir, rather than supply the viewer with details of Assef’s new Taliban led life. The book tells us how Assef bans his guards from the room, “no matter what you hear, don’t come in!”(287) Assef then says “When it’s all done, only one of us will walk out of this room alive. If it’s him, you let him pass!” informing them about the fight about to take place between the two. However, in the movie Assef randomly attacks Amir while his guards are out of the room, and rather than being allowed to leave they are chased and shot at until they escape. This quickly turned into an awkward scene where the movie attempted to create an intense action scenario I found unfitting.   Finally, nearing the end of the book, another scene doesn’t make it to the movie. Unfortunately this time it was not a small detail but rather an important event. In the book we are given a predicament with adopting Sohrab, which creates the fear of returning to another orphanage for him. While Amir receives news of a guaranteed way to get Sohrab into the US he rushes to tell him. Suddenly Amir is struck with fear as he finds himself looking at Sohrab’s mutilated arms. Sohrab attempted to commit suicide but apparently this had no place in the movie. Despite being the main reason Sohrab doesn’t talk at the end of the story, it was cut out. Instead the movie provides no detail to his loss of speech and is almost unnoticeable to an uneducated eye.   The novel did an incredible job of giving background support throughout the entire story. Before any major event occurred in the story the author provided details leading up to the incident, giving the reader and...