Kite Runner 1st 100 Pages (Spoiler Alert!)

So far I'm around 100 pages into the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and I really like the book. Most books I read are very girl oriented and are not nearly as powerful as this book. It's a fictional recount of a boy's childhood in Afghanistan. It almost seems like it's nonfiction though because it is in first person and is immensely descriptive but since I found it in the fiction section of the library I guess not. This book is both intense and sad because you see the happiest moments of a rich Pashtun boy named Amir's life and also the saddest. He is a boy who just wants to be loved by his well-off father whom he calls Baba. One of the most traumatizing moments of any piece of literature I've ever read happened within the last couple of chapters. Amir had just won a kite running contest and his Hazara servant/best friend Hassan had just run to get his winning kite. Amir had waited for a long time for him but then grew impatient so he went looking for him. What he did find was Hassan getting beaten by a blue-eyed well off boy and his cronies. What got to be even worse was that this same blue-eyed boy, Assef, raped Hassan because he refused to give up the kite to Assef. What was most traumatizing was that Amir was there stooped behind a wall watching. He did nothing to help his best friend. This is partly because he grew up in a society where Hazaras are looked down upon and it's not socially acceptable for him to admit that Hassan is his best friend. So far in the book Amir always is looking for attention from his father. He constantly feels unloved and almost unwanted. At one point he actually thinks to himself that Baba blames him for his mother's death. His mother died in child birth and that feeling is so severe and for him to feel responsible for the death of his mother is unthinkable. Baba also always seems to treat Amir and Hassan equally and this bothers Amir because sometimes he just wants to be noticed over Hassan. So far this book is extremely interesting, sad, and it also invokes so many more emotions. It almost feels as if you know Amir personally and he's recounting the story to you over a cup of tea.