[ SECRET POST #1565 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1565 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 12 pages, 297 secrets from Secret Submission Post #224.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 3 4 - not!secrets ], [ 1 2 3 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 - too big ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 - repeat ], [ 1 - ships it ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[angary.livejournal.com]

I'm reading this book again and it astounds me how much I didn't hate Amir when I read it years ago for the first time, compared to how much I dislike the kid version of him now. He's kind of bratty, he's got everything, he uses his best friend as his own personal whipping boy and bodyguard, and his possessiveness of his father is way more unsettlign than I remember it.

However. I had to stop myself from saying I outright hate kid!Amir because of how brilliantly his issues are portrayed. As a character, he's a goldmine of layers and an honest depiction of humanity. His adult self doesn't sugarcoat how deceptive and asshatty he was as a child, and it's understandable - not cool, of course, but understandable - why he continued the cycle of emotional abuse his father passed onto him. In the end, I like that we've got two extremes in Hassan and Assef - 100% good vs. 100% evil, respectively - and Amir, the main character, wavers from one spectrum to another throughout the book, gradually maturing, making up for his mistakes, and ending up in a place where he can finally be at peace.

Also, as much as some readers - even me - can say how much of a coward he was in the alley, if he'd just done a 180 and jumped in to suddenly save Hassan, then went home to achieve reconciliation with his father, the book would probably have been a short story instead.