Suzanne FinnamoreI review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage.
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In the novel, The Kite Runner , by Khaled Hosseini, Amir recounts a memory from his past as he sits alone in a daze. In this memory, Amir is sitting outside of a small house one afternoon as his father tells him, “I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage.” In the novel, the monolith refers to a story passed down from generation to generation. As Amir sits outside of his family's home and remembers a memory from his childhood that has grown into an adult memory, he is confronted with what has been done to him and his family throughout time. He realizes that he has been living a lie for so long, and he begins to question it all.
Source: Split: A Memoir Of Divorce
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