不知道你要几年级水平的,我可能写得太长了.不过,若要support your anwer with textual evidentce,一个paragrapg很难说清楚.
Sad is too general a word to describe the tone of The Kite Runner.Depressing is too trivial.I think the word I am looking for is Sorrowful.
The titles refers to an Afghan children's tournament in which kite-flyers compete by slicing through the strings of their opponents with their own razor-sharp strings.To be the flyer who downs all the other kites -- and to be the runner who catches the last losing kite -- is the greatest honor of all.
And in that metaphor of flyer and runner,The Kite Runner tells the story of Amir,born to wealth and privilege,and his relationship with Hassan,the son of his father's servant.Their unlikely friendship is traced through idyllic description of boyhood -- school,new snows,cowboy movies,and winning the tournament -- until brought to an abrupt end by betrayal.
Amir later emigrated to America with his family and,eventually,became a writer.However,he was forever haunted by his own act of cowardice,turning his back when Hassan needed him the most.When he learned that Hassan and his wife had both been murdered,he risks his own well-being by returning to war-torn Afghan in order to rescue Hassan's son.
The Kite Runner spans 40 years,from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan to the rise of the Taliban regime.To me,it says we never have friends later in life like the ones from childhood.Even Amir's attempts to redeem himself seem to be driven more by guilt than by any true feelings of empathy,and this reminds me of the famous phrase from Proverbs "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful."