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The Kite Runner Seminar

Chapter 23

Z'ari Lee & Sarah Bernido

Summary of Chapter 23

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In Chapter 23 of The Kite Runner, Amir wakes up in the hospital after being beaten by Assef. His spleen ruptured and had to be removed, and he has several broken ribs. One of the broken ribs punctured his lung so he has a tube coming out of his chest.

Amir can't quite seem to make sense of the world around him. Amir imagines he's in the Sulaiman Mountains with Baba but realizes that he is in Baba’s point of view. He continues to pass in and out of consciousness and slowly starts to recognize the people in the hospital.

Amir becomes aware that his driver, Farid, is in the room with him, but then passes out again. When he wakes up the next time, Amir meets a doctor named Dr. Armand and began to explain what's going on and what happened to him. He tells Amir that he has been seriously injured and that he is lucky to be alive. Amir keeps wanting to speak but can't because there are ''wires'' holding his jaw together.

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The next day, Hassan's son Sohrab and Farid, the driver, come to visit. Sohrab kept staring at his feet and tried to avoid Amir. Amir eventually falls asleep and Sohrab stayed until he woke up. When Sohrab left, Amir opened a letter from Rahim which says that he hopes Amir is doing well, and that he knows about the assault that happened to Hassan, and that Amir did not do anything to prevent the rape from happening. He also says he's ashamed that Baba and himself didn't tell Amir that Hassan was his half-brother.

Rahim also tells Amir that his father, Baba, has trouble showing love to Amir and Hassan. He explains that when Baba was hard on Amir, it was just Baba taking out his anger on him since he was hard on himself. Rahim also adds that he has left him some money in a safety deposit box in Peshawar. Lastly, in the letter Rahim says he doesn’t have much time left and not to go find him. After reading the letter, Amir gets a morphine injection.

Amir and Sohrab play a card game called panjpar. Sohrab tells Amir that his father, Hassan, said Amir was "the best friend he ever had." (23.97)

Amir dreams Assef standing in the doorway to his hospital room. Assef says something to the effect that Amir is really his twin, not Hassan's, even though Hassan and Amir nursed from the same breast.

Amir left the hospital. He drops going Sohrab off at the Caldwell orphanage and planned to also leave the country. This causes issues because Farid informs Amir that the Caldwells don't exist.

Amir and Farid get Rahim Khan's money from the bank and they decided that Sohrab should go to Islamabad, Pakistan with Amir.

Amir can only remembers a little bit of his vivid dreams that seem like memories such as, Baba marinating lamb, making love with Soraya, a trip to the strawberry fields in Jalalabad with Baba and Hassan, and the blood dripping from Hassan's pants after the rape.

Characterization

IN DETAIL

TREATMENTS

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HISTORY

HISTORY

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2015

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NOW

TESTIMONIALS

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