Kite Runner

Although all main ideas and important events from the story were taken in account in the movie, there were some things that were not added. These things did not affect the movie too much. Some things that were left out were details such as Sohrab’s suicide attempts, Hassan’s gypsy mother, Embassy issues, and Soraya’s grief due to Sohrab. These details didn’t affect the storyline too much, but if they were there they would make the movie just as good. To go into more detail, Sohrab was the son of Hassan who is later found out that he was killed by the Taliban. Sohrab hardly says a word because he is so physically and mentally scarred because of Asef, the bully who used Sohrab as a sex toy. In the book, Sohrab committed suicide twice. But in the movie it was not shown or even talked about, same with the embassy issues. Amir and Soraya decide to adopt Sohrab, who is also Amir’s nephew. When they adopt in the book it is more realistic because they have some problems with the Embassy and adoption papers. In the book it is a little bit unrealistic because they just put Sohrab on a plane with Amir to head back from Afghanistan to America, with no issues or problems. The filmmakers expect the audience to fill in the blank spots of the movie. Also the movie does not talk anything about Hassan’s mother. If someone in the audience had not read the book before watching the movie, that one scene in the movie would have been very confusing because no word is spoken about Hassan’s mother. In the book Hosseini tells the reader that Hassan’s mother was a gypsy and ran away after giving birth to Hassan, leaving Hassan’s father to raise him. This leads me to another difference. In the book Hassan is hair-lipped and in his 12th birthday, Amir’s dad pays for Hassan to have surgery to get rid of the hair-lip. In the movie this is not even told or shown, not even is Hassan’s birthday shown. So even though some of these details were missed in the movie, it was still amazing and very...