Similarities Between The Kite Runner And The Color Purple

The Kite Runner is the book I recommend more than The Color Purple by Alice Walker for incoming 9th Grade Honors students.The Kite Runner shows very emotional story of friendship, family, mistakes, and love. It was a very interesting book which caught my attention and drew me in. Although The Color Purple was a book about a less fortunate, uneducated, African-American fourteen-year-old girl who comes across struggles in her life so, began to writes letters to God to help and guide her. I don't recommend this book as much only because the book was written using slang which made it challenging to read and comprehend and The Color Purple not as entertaining.

I Believe that The Color Purple is more of a difficult book then The Kite Runner. In the color purple every page would start with a "dear god" diary entry by Celie. Celie is the main …show more content…
In Chapter 8 Hassan, Amir's servant's son, wanted to listen to a story under a pomegranate tree. Then before he could start reading Amir started to hurled a few pomegranates and shouting at Hassan to hit him back. Instead Hassan picked up the pomegranate, hit against his own forehead and asked if Amir was pleased then left. This shows Hassan's constant loyalty …show more content…
This book was entertaining and suspenseful which are two qualities I look for in a book. Not only should a book be informing and education, it should also be enjoyable to read or else no one would want to read it. The Color Purple made me feel uncomfortable and made form a large amount of opinions and sometimes got me angry. The Color Purple did have inappropriate parts that have never read in books before therefore being uncomfortable. Also during these inappropriate parts there was abuse and sexual abuse. And because I am a young black girl as well as Celie I was infuriated with how helpless and afraid she