Adoption

When reading The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, I thought a lot about the adoption scenes of the novel. After trying the conceive a child for quite some time, Amir and Soraya thought about different options in starting a family. When the idea of adoption was brought up, I was very surprised at the response. "This adoption... thing I don't think its for us Afghans" (Hosseini, 187). I thought that since they wanted a family so bad that they would have been open to the idea. As a read more into the novel, I came to the realization as to why they decided that it was not for them. I realized that it does not go along with the traditional way of Afghan life. I realized that Afghans live off of blood relationships and that adopting a child means that they are not blood related. I also believe that this is the reason that they decided to adopt Sohrab later in the novel. I do not agree with the fact that they would not adopt Sohrab just because he wasn't a blood relative. I believe that family is family no matter whether or not they are blood relatives. I am saddened by the fact that it took the fact that they were blood relatives in order for the child to be adopted.