When a body is starving for sugar, ketones take over and help breakdown the next best source of energy: stored fat. The body produces ketones during starvation or fasting and also during long bouts of physical training. When your muscles are sore after strenuous exercise - ketones cause the pain.
Khaled Hosseini published The Kite Runner in 2003. By the end of 2005, it was a bestseller in the United States. It seemed readers couldn't get enough Hosseini's story about the troubled friendship between two Afghan boys.
The Kite Runner: Kite Flying Contest and Rape Scene Amir and Hassan won the kite flying contest in Wazir Akbar Khan. Later in that day, Hassan was raped by Assef; this event changed both Hassan and Amir's lives forever. The two of them became distant, and Amir felt ashamed and helpless for [running] because [he] was a coward when he witnessed the rape scene (Hosseini 77).