The Kite Runner ~ plot

"And what Rahim Khan revealed to me changed things. Made me see how my entire life, long before the winter of 1975, dating back to when that singing Hazara woman was still nursing me, had been a cycle of lies, betrayals, and secrets. There is a way to be good again, he'd said. A way to end the cycle. With a little boy. An orphan. Hassan's son. Somewhere in Kabul" (page 227).

The structure throughout the entire book is a continuous cycle. The plot follows a repeating series of rises and falls. It seems to cycle between potentially happy or peaceful moments and depressing or action-filled moments. Amir and Hassan win the kite fight, and Hassan catches the fallen blue kite. However, he is then tragically beaten and raped while Amir does not attempt to help. Later, Amir and Baba travel to America and Amir marries Soraya; however, Baba dies of cancer. Amir and Soraya then try to have a baby, but for some unknown reason they are unable to. Amir travels back to Pakistan to see Hassan and finds out they are in fact brothers; he also learns Sohrab is his half-nephew. Then, he hears news that Hassan and his wife were shot and killed by the Taliban. Amir finds Sohrab only to learn that he has to fight Assef. He then decides to adopt Sohrab, finds out he is unable to, and Sohrab tries to commit suicide. The story is on a perpetual happy-sad roller coaster. The plot is a series of conflicts and a continuing cycle of "lies, betrayals, and secrets." The benefit of this type of plot is that it keeps the reader constantly interested in finding out what will happen next. The unexpected twists in this story make it fascinating and mysterious.