追风筝的人（英文影评）

追风筝的人The Kite Runner Several years ago, from joyo, I bought the book "the kite runner" which ranked first on best sellers volume. First reading the book, I was totally moved and even cried for the sad story. This year, I knew it has been adapted into a movie. After seeing the movie, I read again this book and gained some new views. The novel begins a story about two boys. Amir is born in a rich family. Hassan is his servant as well as close friend. They both lose mother from birth and grow up like brothers. Hassan is very loyal to Amiar, but Amiar sells him .Many years later, Amir has settled down in America for years and established a family, but Hassan died for protecting Amir's luxury house in Afghanistan and leave an orphan. Accidentally, Amir gets to know a big secret and decides to atone for his crime that hound around him from childhood. Reading it again, most of my original views has changed. At the first place, I have a feeling of being cheated by the writer. The novel first attracted me before because it set its plot in a special environment---Afghanistan which even I often got news about from TV and newspaper; I knew the country utterly ignorant except wars and terrorism. So I wanted to understand more about the calamitous country. However, I am disappointed by the novel which just uses a special background environment to tell a so-called travel of human nature .The theme of the novel should be atonement if it was taken off flowery coat. Bad gay like Amir and good gay like Hassan, adding some the present best sellers' popular elements like bastard, forming the main contents. In fact, the kite runner impressed me deeply and it just depends on sensational words. Besides, what makes me most dislike is that the writer, an Afghan-American, contorted some political elements for American advantages. The history background only make the affair of Russia invading and Taliban dictators go into particulars, but not mention America's ignominious role in this politics. Why Taliban dictators are so unruly? Why Russia invaded Afghanistan in 1979? Why Afghan people still live in poor condition nowadays? America, a main actor is disposed of in this novel. At the second place, the characters all serve to a tacky theme-atonement and birth secrets. When the birth secrets are exposed, the atonement travel begins. When the atonement finishes, the story finishes. I even feel I am wrapped around the American media's little finger. Many celebrities and book concerns wrote good comments, which helped it ranke first on sales volume for several times and made readers think it must get widely praised and then bought it without doubt finally. Though I think the disadvantages are more than advantages, compared with the back atonement part, I like the front part that describes the pure friendship and innocent childhood between two boys. The description about the culture of kite in Afghanistan is excellent. As a first book of the writer, it is reasonable that the novel has some deficiencies. I hope his next and next works can more and more perfect.