jueves, 31 de julio de 2014

The Kite Runner review

You are a guy interested about culture? Or it doesn’t is what you like to talk about…? The book of the kite runner is calling you, made by the greatest, Khaled Hosseini.

The kite runner is the history of two afghan friends that love a native sport called Kite Running but the are some differences between them that are going to make their lives harder as it was supposed to be.

The story is about Amir, the main character, and Hassan both of them are part of different ethnic groups, near the year 1976. The first one, Amir, is a Pashtun; Pashtuns are the high ethnic group in Afghanistan, while the low ethnic groups are the Hazaras, like Hassan.  But the fact that both of them are good friends but are from different groups is going to call the attention of some people around there.

There is another thing that is important in the history, the family of Amir, the main character. There is just Amir and his father, Baba, the mother died while she was giving birth to Amir, something that Baba is not happy about. Maybe they are a family, but the hate from baba to his son is real, he says that is his fault the death of his wife. Now Amir is going to fix their relation with the help of Hassan, and try to gain his honor, how? Winning the kite runner competition, a battle were the last kite flying wins. He is going to make it?


I am not going to talk about that, the true is that is a history that leaves a lot of things to think about, a great book with a interesting message behind. 

What kind of detail do you need to include?

Be very detailed about the culture.

Think about the kind of publication you are writing for.

For a block in the newspaper called "reading zone"

What is your role as a writer: superior, expert, peer, friend, and advisor?

Friend.

Think about your audiene you are writing for.

Novel readers.

Figure out your attitude: clever, humorous, intelligent, opinionnated, balanced.

Opinionated.

What rating sytem are you going to use?

Star rating system.

How to start? What will be a good lead-in or attention grabber?

Be friendly trying to call the attention of the people and then talk about the book.

Figure out the key points to write about and their order.

Culture and the relation between.

How much background and context do you need?

As much to understand the situation.