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What is the date in chapter 1?
This is after Rahim Khan calls, but before Amir flashes back and remembers his childhood.
He was 12 in 1975.
It is 26 years later.
12+26= 38
He is currently living in San Fransisco, California.
Hassan
He begins to unfold the story of his childhood and why Rahim Khan's phone call had affected him so greatly.
1. Politics
2. Business
3. Soccer
Amir
This tells the reader that Hassan's unconditional love for Amir is rooted at their infancy.
Baba's famous nickname is Mr. Hurricane because, like a hurricane, he is a force to be reckoned with.
They see a group of hippies, which tells us that Afghanistan wasn't so unlike America during the 70's.
Baba believes that the one sin is theft. All other sins are just different variations of theft.
Hassan
Baba pays for the surgery to fix Hassan's harelip. This is unusual for the master of a Hazara.
Ali was one of Baba's playmates.
He and Baba had a very similar relationship to Amir and Hassan.
"Amir and Hassan, the sultans of Kabul."
Bombs
The king had been overthrown, and the fighting in Afghanistan had officially begun.
The Kite Flying Tournaments helps thaw their relationship because it is something they can both enjoy together. They seem to differ in every other way, except for their love of kite flying.
A Biography of Hitler
This is unsettling because Assef seemed to agree with Hitler's regime. This is also foreshadowing future events.
Winter.
This signifies that everything is about to change for Amir because we know that the winter of 1975 is the time he wished to bury in hi mind.,
What birthday gift does Hassan give to Amir?
A new copy of the Shahnamah
"I forgive you."
They stay in a basement
He commits suicide by shooting himself in the head.
Freemont, California
America
Britain
Israel
Baba. He was willing to die to save her honor.
"... bury my memories."
Hassan because there is a way for Amir to make thigs good again.
The people had wanted the fighting to stop for years, and they thought the Taliban made that happen for them.
Hassan's mother, Sanaubar.
He was killed by a landmine. Rahim Khan thought it might have been because his bad leg caused him to miss-step.
He named him Sohrab after his favorite character in his favorite childhood story.
He was accused of theft, and the Taliban shot him and his wife in the street.
They massacred all of them because they were going against the law by following a different version of Islam.
He learns that Baba is Hassan's father, which makes Amir and Hassan half-brothers.
Baba's
Amir found out that Baba was Hassan's father, and he had kept that a secret his whole life.
He is going to Kabul.
He has decided to save Sohrab (Hassan's son)
There are few adult males.
the Taliban/ the war had claimed most of them .
Diesel Fuel.
People used diesel fuel to keep generators running in Kabul because the electricity was unreliable.
Amir couldn't keep his eyes off the Taliban, so he stared. This could have been interpreted as a challenge, and the Taliban might have responded negatively to this.
Amir's mother.
They both taught at the university together before Amir was born.
He saw a dead body.
This wouldn't have been uncommon. Bodies were sometimes piled in the streets since there was nobody to take care of them or there were too many to take care of right away.
A couple accused of adultery are stoned to death by the Talib with the dark sunglasses.
Assef.
Assef has joined the Taliban, has captured and abused Sohrab, and then challenged Amir to a fight to the death in order for him to save Sohrab.
The Devil's Archetype
He is the antagonist of this story, therefore he is the Devil's archetype.
He is in the hospital. Assef caused him a lot of bodily injuries when he beat him up.
He takes Sohrab there after he finds out that Thomas and Betty Caldwell never were in Peshawar, and he needed to escape the hospital so the Taliban couldn't catch up to him.
He gives him the Polaroid of him and is father.
Sohrab attempted suicide after Amir told him he'd have to go to an orphanage. He has slit his own wrists in the bath.
Sohrab doesn't speak for a year. It is likely that his depression is the reason.
He hits him in the eye, effectively replacing his eyeball with the small, brass ball from the table that had been broken during the fight.
They can bring him into the U.S. on a humanitarian visa.
9/11
Terrorists flew planes into the Twin Towers in New York.