The Kite Runner Chapter 1-7

Chapter 7 continued..

Chapter 7

The Kite Runner; Chapters 1-7

- Assef was teasing Hassan, like always.

- "A loyal Hazara. As loyal as a dog." (Hosseini, 68)

- Hassan picked up a rock and flung it at Assef's head.

- Assef then proceeded to rape Hassan. And Amir just sat behind the wall, refusing to help Hassan who was crying.

- Amir ran back home and a few minutes later, Hassan arrived back. Amir lied and said he was looking all over for him. Hassan handed Amir the kite, said nothing and walked away.

- He was crying,limping and had blood dripping from his trousers.

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- Amir walked through the front door and was greeted by Baba, who gave him a hug.

- Chapter 7 is the kite tournament.

- The whole neighborhood is competing and watching (including Baba who is sitting on the roof of their house)

- Before the tournament starts, Amir has second thoughts about competing but Hassan manages to convince him to compete.

- The tournament is going really well and eventually there are only two kites left in the sky; Amir's kite and another blue kite.

- Amir eventually cut the last kite. Hassan hugged Amir before running to go retrieve the winning kite. Baba was standing up and clapping.

- "For you, a thousand times over." (Hosseini, 63)

- Amir took his kite back home and then went looking for Hassan.

- He asked his neighbours if they had seen him.

- He eventually found him cornered in an alley by Assef and his friends.

- Amir stood cowardly behind a wall. Assef wanted the winning kite but Hassan refused to give it to him.

• Story moves back in time to 1933 when Baba was born.
• Zahir Shah becomes king of Afghanistan
• Drunk men kill Ali's parents
• Ali and Baba similar to Hassan and Amir (cultural differences) (school)
• " But in none of his stories did Baba ever refer to Ali as his friend." p.25
• Irony: story "Rostam kills Sohrab. (lost son)
• Hassan's eyes fill with tears. Amir thinks all fathers want to secretly kill their sons.
• Amir wrote a story. ( man with pearl tears)
• Hassan doesn't like it. (onions)

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Chapter 6

Chapter 5

Chapter 5 continued..

Chapter 6 continued..

- Assef was around the same age as Amir. He was aggressive, violent and always thought he was better than all the other kids.

- Chapter 5 begins with Ali, Hassan and Amir all huddled together as they wait out the gunshots and explosions that are going on outside one night.

- Baba was nowhere to be seen that night but turned up the next morning. "They blocked all the roads and the telephone didn't work. I was so worried!" (Hosseini, 34)

- After listening to all the hysteria on the radio about the night before, Hassan and Amir went and climbed their tree.

- On their way to their tree. They encounter Assef. The neighborhood "bully"

- Assef was the son of an airplane pilot named Mahmood, a friend of Baba.

- Assef was known for carrying around his stainless-steel brass knuckles.

- It is now winter. All afghans love winter because it snows and there is rarely school. And its kite running season.

- Describes how Hassan and Amir used to build kites out of glue, bamboo, string and paper but weren't very good at it.

- When kite fighting, your hands get really cut and hurt from the tugging of the kite string

- That year, Baba was going to take them to buy proper kites to fight with in the tournament.

- This chapter also explains the rules of the kite running.

- Hassan was the best kite runner and could predict where the kite was going to land.

- A few days before the tournament, Baba and Amir sat together in his study.

- Baba predicted that Amir was going to win this kite tournament

- Amir imagined how proud Baba would be. He imagined all the fun things they would do together if he won.

- The night before the tournament it was snowing really hard. Hassan and Amir were playing cards. There was a dicussion about TV's and how when they came to Afghanistan, Amir was going to buy one for Hassan.

-Hassan told Amir that he really thought he could win the tournament tomorrow

- The chapter ends with Hassan telling Amir that he really likes where he lives and that its his home.

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- He was a sociopath and he teased Ali a lot because of his limp.

- Assef begins talking about how "Afghanistan is the land of the Pashtuns" (Hosseini, 38)

- Amir tries to leave with Hassan but is stopped. Assef put on his brass knuckles.

- Hassan pulled out his slingshot and aimed it Assef's eye, threatening him, saying that if he didn't let them go, Assef would become "One-Eyed Assef"

- Hassan's birthday

- Baba hires a plastic surgeon to fix Hassan's harelip

- This makes Amir jealous

- The surgery goes well and Hassan is able to smile properly. Unfortunately.

- "Because that was the winter that Hassan stopped smiling." (Hosseini, 44)

A few years later...

Chapter 2

Chapter 1

Chapter 3

themes chapter 4

cultural/social class difference

"In the end, I was Pashtun and he was Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was ever going to change that."

p.25

"My favourite part of reading to Hassan was when we came across a big word he didn't know. I'd tease him, expose his ignorance." p.28

Irony

Themes chapter 3

The story " Rostam and Sohrab"

"The man with pearl tears"

father son/rejection: "I already hated the kids he was building the orphanage for; sometimes I wish they'd all dies with their parents"p18

"If I hadn't seen the doctor pull him out of my wife with my own eyes, I'd never believe he was my son." p.23

Jealousy: "He asked me to fetch hassan too, but I lied and told him Hassan had the runs. I wanted Baba all to myself."

what Baba tells Rahim khan about his relationship with Amir

• Hassan is "my" childhood playmate, "we" grow up together, he looks beautiful but with with the cleft lip.
• Hassan is skilled with a slingshot and never denies "my" request, even "I" asked him to shot the neighbor's dog by slingshot.
• He never reveals to his father, Ali, that "I" am the instigator.
• Baba is "my" father. He is a successful business man and doesn't pay many attention to "me". "We" live in the most ornate house in Kabul.
• Rahim Khan is "my" father's business partner and best friend.
• Ali is A servant of Baba. He is a poor and ehnic Hazara. He suffers partial paralysis of his face and walks with a limp caused by polio.
• the narrator's mother died after give him birth. Hassan's mother left 5 days after giving Hassan birth. Hassan was insulted by a soldier because his ethnicity and his mother when they passed through the military barracks
• They were fed by the same nurse. They are brothers.
• the first word the narrator said is "Baba". the first word Hassan said is "Amir".

Irony

The worst sin.

• open with thw word "December, 2001",
• refer back to the winter of 1975, when "I" was 12 years old, " become what I am today"
• obliquely mention what happen in the allley, something " I" can't forget
• a phone call from Rahim Khan, in Pakistan,
• See the kites flying in San Francisco sky, recall Hassan, missing Baba, Ali, Kabul
• decide to go back to Kabul, there is a way to be good.

• Begins talking about Baba. (bear)
• The orphanage
• Ghargha Lake "He asked me to fetch hassan too, but I lied and told him Hassan had the runs. I wanted Baba all to myself."
• Business man and got married
• One sin: theft. " piss on the beard of all those self-righteous monkeys." p.18
• Amir's relationship with his dad: wants to be like him. (soccer)
• Battle of the poems. "That was how I escaped my father's aloofness, in my dead mother's books." p.19 (masculinity)
• Baba talks with Rahim Khan. ( Amir is weak)