Amir was born into a wealthy family in Kabul. His father was a carpet merchant. Hassan, who grew up with him, is a Hazara. He was the son of the servant Ali. Hassan is loyal, brave, clever, and can do anything for Amir.
Kabul hosts kite chasing competitions every year. During the competition, Amir is good at cutting the lines of other kites with kites. He had always wanted to break his father's record of cutting fourteen kites in Kabul. Whoever picks up the severed kite belongs to him. Hassan can always pinpoint exactly where the kite will fall without looking at the kite in the sky.
Amir's father was a kind, righteous man. He would always pay regularly to orphanages that couldn't function. Even most of the money will be stolen by government officials.
In 1973, Mohammed Daoud Khan overthrew the monarchy and established a republic. There have been riots in the school. Everyone is worried about the safety of their children. But Amir's father hated Amir for being too cowardly. Amir has a gentle personality and does not like to fight. Every time a child bullied him, it was Hassan who stepped forward. If you don't dare to stand up for yourself, how can you dare to fight for others in the future?
Amir always wanted his father's approval. His mother died in childbirth while giving birth to him. Father must have hated him for it. He always liked Hassan so much.
Rahim Khan, as a friend of his father, encouraged Amir. When he was confused and confused countless times, he gave support and pointed out the direction. He praised Amir as a genius in writing, though it had no effect in his father's eyes. He persuaded Amir to believe that his father was the most loved one in the world and that he was willing to give his life for Amir. Rahim Khan was Amir's old friend and mentor in life.
Amir spends most of his time playing with Hassan. Hassan is the playmate he never leaves. He encouraged Hassan to hit his neighbor's dog with a slingshot. Every time he got his father's pocket money, he and Hassan went to see "Seven Heroes of Kouzhi".
Hassan was also Amir's most loyal bodyguard. Assef of Kabul always bullied the mild-mannered Amir. Hassan would stand up every time and use the slingshot to stand up for Young Master Amir.
Hassan liked to listen to Amir read to him. He especially liked to listen to the stories written by Young Master Amir himself. Every day when the sun was about to set, they came to the pomegranate tree on the hillside, and he would ask Young Master Amir to read for him the story of Rostan and Sohrab.
Hassan's birthday is here. His father drove the two of them to the kite shop and asked Hassan to choose one of his favorite kites to go to the kite contest with Amir.
At the kite contest, Hassan uses his new kite and Young Master Amir against the people of Kabul.
One by one, the kites were cut by Amir with a string. One by one, the kites of their opponents fell. Omar's twelve kites were about to break Amir's father's record of fourteen in Kabul.
Only two kites, Omar and Amir, remain in the competition. Amir must win this game. He wouldn't let his father down. In the end, Omar, who finished second, also lost. They won.
As a master of kite chasing, Hassan wants to chase Omar's blue kite for Young Master Amir. He wanted Young Master Amir to take this blue kite and show him the results of their kite competition.
"Hassan, get it back."
"For you, a thousand times!"
Hassan chased after the blue kite. But he was blocked in a dead end by The Three of Asif. When they saw Hassan alone, they took the opportunity to retaliate for Hassan's act of taking the lead for Amir. Either hand over the kite, or they want him to look good.
This blue kite belonged to Young Master Amir. Even if Artef threatened Hassan again, he clung to the kite. In order to punish Hassan, The Three of Assef forced him.
And all this was seen by Amir who rushed in. The cowardly Amir hides when he sees Hassan being forced to B.
Artef is gone. Ha Sauna limped out of the alley with a kite. The snow left Hassan's blood all the way. Amir pretended that nothing had happened. He asked hassan where he had gone.
"Where have you been?" I've been looking for you. ”
"Let's go. The old man will be worried. ”
Father was very happy that Amir won the game. This was the first time Amir had been recognized by him. But the price of this joy is too heavy.
For the next few days, Amir didn't see Hassan. He asked Ali Hassan where he had gone. Hassan has been lying in bed since the kite competition. Ali asked Amir Young Master Hassan if something had happened. Amir was ashamed of his cowardly escape, and he hid everything he saw.
Hassan would still wait for Amir on their hillside every day. Amir was ashamed that he hadn't stepped forward when Hassan needed it. Hassan's trust and loyalty to him placed a great psychological burden on him.
He attacked Hassan with pomegranates. He hoped Hassan would fight back. Then he will feel forgiveness. But Hassan didn't. He picked up the pomegranate and smashed it in his face.
To avoid Hassan, Amir asked his father to hire a new servant. The father was furious. Ali grew up with him. The elder Amir regarded Ali as his own biological son. He has been in this home for forty years. Father would not let Ali leave, nor would Hassan leave.
At Amir's birthday party, his father cleared Kabul's prestigious family, including Artef. When Amir saw Hassan serving Asif as a servant of Amir's family, self-blame and shame made him make up his mind to drive Hassan out of Amir's house.
After the banquet, Amir told his father that the watch he had given him was missing. And he found the man who stole the watch, Hassan. Father hated stealing the most in his life. In his view, all sin stems from stealing. He called Ali and Hassan.
Hassan immediately admitted that he had stolen Young Master Amir's watch, and he knew that Young Master Amir was going to drive him away. When Ali learned of what his son Hassan had done, he insisted on moving out of Amir's house. Even Amir's father's repeated retention could not offset his determination to leave. Eventually they moved to the Hazara jat mountains, where the Hazara ethnic group is concentrated.
In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. My father always had a deep opinion of the Soviet Union. He had to leave Kabul as soon as possible with Amir. Before leaving, he handed the house over to Rahim Khan to take care of.
The father took Amir away in a truck. On the way, there are sentry checkpoints everywhere. Even as he fled, his father stepped forward to protest the sentry's attempt to assault the female passengers in the car.
The five thousand yuan per person travel cost did not allow them to get out of the border. They spent the rest of their journey in oil tanks. After arriving in Pakistan, his father then took Amir and moved to Fremont in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Amir completed college in the United States. After graduation, he became a writer. In his spare time, he would also help his father take care of the business at the flea market. There he met Solaya, the daughter of a general, Tahri, also from Afghanistan.
My father's physical condition was getting worse. He was eventually diagnosed with lung cancer. Amir asked his father to propose to the general on his behalf.
Soraya loved Amir. She told Amir that when she was eighteen, the family lived in Virginia. She eloped with an Afghan and lived with her for a month. All the Afghans talk about it. Father found and brought her back and left there.
Amir loved Soraya, and he didn't mind her past. With the blessing of both parents, he and Solaya consummated their marriage.
Not long after the marriage, his father died.
Amir's first book was published. The book launch is coming soon. Instead, he received a call from Rahim Khan. He was terminally ill and wished he could see Amir one last time.
After Amir and his father left, Rahim Khan retrieved Hassan and his wife from Hazarajat to manage amir's family's large house. Hassan also had a son, Sohrab.
In 1996, the Taliban (a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist armed terrorist organization originating in the Kandahar region of Afghanistan. After coming to power in Afghanistan, it was ruled by harsh and backward Sharia law. The Taliban occupied Amir's house. Hating the Hazaras, they shot Hassan and his wife in the street. Sohrab was also sent to an orphanage.
Rahim Khan wanted Amir to go to Kabul to rescue Sohrab. Amir was reluctant. Rahim Khan reluctantly told the truth that Sohrab was Amir's nephew. Hassan was actually the illegitimate son of his father and Ali's wife.
In order to be redeemed, to make up for his responsibilities to Hassan, Amir called his wife to tell his wife the truth about the whole thing, and then followed the driver arranged by Rahim Khan to the orphanage in Kabul.
The director of the orphanage told the unknown facts. Since the Taliban came to power, life in the orphanage has become increasingly difficult. The director sells his property to feed every orphan. But it did not change their fate of poverty.
A Taliban leader would give the director a sum of money to finance the orphans. He would take one child from the orphanage every month. Most of the time she was a girl and occasionally took away boys. The Dean could not stop this behavior. Otherwise he would take more children. None of the children who were taken back ever returned. Sohrab is the boy who was taken away this month.
Amir heard that the Taliban leader would come out to speak at the mid-term break of the football match at Ghazi Stadium. After the two men and women who stole the sun were stoned to death, Amir met the Taliban leader.
Amir met with him. He immediately debunked Amir's disguise. It was then that Amir discovered that the leader of the Taliban was Assef.
After being tortured in a Soviet-backed regime prison, Artef joined the Taliban. He fought against the Soviets and became a leader.
Hassan was forced by Artef. Sohrab also suffered the fate of his father and became Artef's X dance boy.
Assef allowed Amir to take Sohrab, but only if Amir had to pay off his former debts. Assef easily beat Amir to no return. Sohrab picked up the copper ball on the ground and blinded Assef in the left eye with the slingshot that Amir had given hassan. They escaped.
It could not be proved that Sohrab was an orphan. He was unable to obtain a U.S. visa. Amir was unable to adopt Sohrab. Sohrab had to first live in an orphanage for a while before being adopted. Fearful of the orphanage, he committed suicide by cutting his wrists. After being rescued, he followed Amir to San Francisco.
In the park, Amir flew a kite for Sohrab. Shouting what Hassan once said to him: "For you a thousand times!" ”