Alex, maybe this held true for you but I didn’t find the characters in the novel to be difficult to relate to. While their culture and values are entirely different from ours, this particular type of relationship that Hassan and Amir share is not nonexistent in the United States. Whether the one sidedness of it all is based on one’s notion that they are the “superior” race or not does not completely rule out the fact that even in our culture, relationships where one has more “power” are prevalent. I think that Hosseini used all of the racism and the culture clashes in his writing to further accentuate the wrongdoing that came from the unequal relationship Amir and Hassan had.
I would have to agree, though, that the ending did seem sort of Hollywood-ish for me. I guess maybe I feel this way because most of the book was so dramatic and emotionally intense that I sort of expected the book to end on a sad note. However, I didn’t really mind it. It was kind of this slight moment of relief at the very end, there was finally peaceful image in the book. It was nice reading about Amir showing Sohrab something good, something he and his father enjoyed as children. The one thing I did find it a little melodramatic and Hollywood-ish is that Sohrab and Hassan had to suffer through the same tragedy.
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