Author | Fan Deng Reading · Gentle breeze
Anchor | Fan Deng Reading · Ah Cheng
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Meet · Meet your unknown self in the book.
Good evening to all book lovers, welcome to the reading column "Encounter" produced by Fan Deng Reading.
Whenever a kite takes off, whatever it means, chase it bravely and for yourself.
Today, I would like to share with you a best-selling book of miracles around the world - "The Kite Chaser".
Friendship, betrayal, atonement, love.
These things are happening not only in Afghanistan, but also in all corners of the world, in the lives of all people.
In "The Kite Chaser", the Afghan writer Khaledh Al-Husseini tells us a story of betrayal and redemption.
Two young friends who are brothers and sisters, because of a change, from this day to the other, to a different life.
After experiencing various changes, the protagonist Amir also went from weakness to bravery and found his own way of redemption.
Once published, the book received rave reviews and quickly became the third bestseller in the United States, selling more than 40 million copies worldwide.
When you finish reading this book, you will understand that the most difficult practice in life is to face your true self.
Becoming a brave or a coward is only in one thought
Amir is a rich young master, hassan is the son of a servant, and they grew up together and are inseparable.
Hassan was upright and brave, loyal to Amir, and he never refused anything Amir asked him to do.
Amir, on the other hand, was timid and cowardly, and his father was disappointed in him.
At the annual kite competition, Amir won the competition by cutting off the kite lines of other children with superb technique in order to win the attention of his father.
When the last kite fell, Hassan was ready to help his young master pursue the kite that symbolized honor.
He confidently said to Amir, "For you, a thousand times." ”
On the way back, However, Hassan was stopped by Assef and his gang and asked him to hand over the kite.
But Hassan guarded the kite tightly, and even if he was beaten to the nose and face, he would not let go.
Annoyed, Assef pulled down Hassan's pants and raped him.
Amir stood not far away and witnessed all this, and he tried to stand up for Hassan, but eventually turned away.
After that, whenever he saw Hassan, his heart was full of shame and guilt.
After a long period of pain and suffering, he decided to drive Hassan away.
He proposed to his father to fire Hassan and his father Ali, but his father sternly refused.
He hid his watch and cash under Hassan's pillow and framed hassan for stealing.
In the end, the humiliated Hassan father and son were forced to leave.
The ancients said: "A gentleman is happy when he smells it, and a little person is angry when he smells it." ”
In the face of their own vulnerability, the brave choose to face it, and the coward chooses to cover up and escape.
Becoming a brave or a coward is only in one thought.
Running away is the stupidest thing to do, and a sense of guilt will stay with you for the rest of your life.
As Kafka said:
"You can escape the pain of this world, which is your freedom and in keeping with your nature.
But the only thing you can escape is the escape itself. ”
Desperately escaping from the past, it becomes a nightmare day after day
Six years after Hassan left, war broke out in Afghanistan.
To escape the war, Amir and his father fled to the United States.
On the way to escape, the evil Russian soldiers tried to force a woman in the car to have sex, and the crowd dared to be angry, only the father stepped forward.
At this time, his father's bravery reminded Amir of his cowardice and betrayal of Hassan.
He felt the difference between himself and his father.
His behavior is more despicable and shady than that of his father, who came forward.
After the father and son arrived in the United States, they began a new life there.
Despite the sharp decline in the economy, Amir was content because the United States was a place that kept him away from the evils of the past.
Years later, Amir became famous and his family was happy, but he did not forget his sins for a day.
When his wife confessed to him that she had been emotionally tainted, he felt that he was full of sins and had no right to care about other people's past.
His wife was unable to have children for many years after marriage, which he considered to be a punishment from Heaven.
The guilt for Hassan, like a cancer, has been embedded deep in the heart.
The famous 20th-century philosopher Ann. Rand says:
"You can escape reality, but you can't escape the consequences of doing so."
Amir thought that he could start again and get peace of mind away from home and Hassan.
But the past, which he desperately fled, could only become a nightmare day after day, torturing him day and night.
Each of us has an Amir in our lives to a greater or lesser extent, who does not dare to face the mistakes of the past and choose to escape.
As the Wolf Way says:
"There are some things you can't get around, and if you run away from them now, you'll spend ten times as much energy to face them later."
The more I want to forget the past, the more I can't get past it.
True salvation is to face one's own darkness
Fifteen years after his father's death, Amir received a call from his father's best friend, Rahim Khan, asking him to return.
"There's a way to be a good guy again."
It turned out that Hassan and his wife had already died in the war, and their 10-year-old son, Sohrab, was sent to an orphanage.
Rahim Khan asked Amir to go to Afghanistan to rescue Sohrab.
But at that time, Afghanistan was devastated and the war raged, and Amir was happily married and had a smooth career.
Is it really worth the risk with your life?
Amir refused, and Rahim Khan, unable to do anything about it, had to tell a shocking secret.
"Ali can't have children, you and Hassan are half-brothers."
At that moment, Amir finally understood why his father loved Hassan so much.
He decided to return to Afghanistan to find Sohrab, not only for his nephew, but also for atonement.
After much hardship, Amir finally found Sohrab, but Sohrab was already imprisoned by Assef.
In order to save his nephew, he was beaten to death.
In a critical moment, Sohrab rescued Amir with the help of a slingshot.
They returned to the United States, where they started a new life.
After 26 years of going around, Amir finally chose to face the darkness and save himself.
Where the sun shines in, there will be shadows.
What we can do is to dare to face our own darkness and tear open our scars.
Web writer Feng Jing said:
"Each of us will do wrong and get lost, and what we really have to do is not to justify, escape and blame ourselves, but to have the courage to face the past and the courage to face the future after the fog has cleared."
Transforming sin into good works is true salvation.
Write at the end
At the end of the story, Amir takes Sohrab and flies a kite on the grass.
As the kite fell, Amir said to Sohrab, "For you, a thousand times." ”
Then he ran in the direction of the kite falling.
This time, he became a kite chaser, giving love and courage to Sohrab.
Just as Hassan did for him 26 years ago.
Amir, who had been cowardly for half a lifetime, finally dared to face the darkness and found his own way to salvation.
In fact, each of us was once Amir.
Will run away, will be cowardly, but slowly become brave, strong, dare to open their own scars.
As Li Jihong, the translator of the book, put it:
"Maybe everyone has a kite in their heart, whatever it means, let's chase it bravely."
Click "Watching" and may we all break through the shackles of self-appointedness on the road of cultivation and face our true selves.
Author | Wan Ruo Qingfeng, living in Germany for 15 years, software engineer, has a 7-year-old daughter. Enjoys traveling, reading, writing.
Column Director | Come slowly
Typography | Zheng to the north
Image | The picture in this article comes from the official stills of "The Kite Chaser", which was invaded and deleted
Music | The sun is shining and the breeze is not noisy