blog #1

I am currently reading the book the book Kite Runner and it is a book set in Afghanistan just before the Taliban and after. This has to be one of the saddest books I have ever read, but the thing that struck me the most is the main protagonists description of Afghanistan before the soviet invasion. He describes it as a beautiful place with many plants and plenty of water. It is a stark contrast to near the end of the book where Afghanistan is a dead desert where all the trees were cut down. I really facinates me to see what Afghanistan was before the soviets and Taliban.