The Kite Runner Chapters

The Kite Runner
Khaled Hoessini

Chapter One

Our narrator, who we later find out is called “Amir”, remembers an event that happened in 1975. He was twelve and was growing up in Afghanistan.
Apparently this event made him who he is. He got a phone call from an old friend in Pakistan called Rahim Khan who asks Amir to come to Pakistan.
When Amir gets off the phone he walks through thestreets of San Francisco which is where he lives now, and he sees kites flying in the sky which reminds him of his friend Hassan a boy with a cleft lip, which is who Amir calls the “Kite Runner”.

In the first chapter Khaled Hoessini’s style is clearly visible he jumps back and forth from past to present, which is how I would imagine the book would be carried out as things continue to remind himof his past in Afghanistan.

Chapter 2

We are introduced to Amirs father “Baba” and Hassan and his father Ali, the lived in a small mud hut on grounds of Baba’s home.
Neither Hassan nor Amir have a mother. Hassans mothers name is Sanubuar. Ali is paralysed one one side of his face and has polio in his right leg causing him to limp. Hassans mother was 19 years younger than Ali and manypeople thought their marriage was arranged.
In this chapter we find out a word called “Hazara” persecuted ethnic group in Afghanistan they look more Asian than Arabic.
Hassans mother ran away after giving birth.
Both Hassans parents were “Hazaras”.
Amir and baba are pashtuns, Amir read in a history book that that the Hazaras had an uprising 19th century, but this was brutally suppressed bythe Pashtuns. People call normally call Hazaras flat nosed.
“Hazara are Shia Muslim while the Pashtuns are Sunni Muslim.”

I think that this chapter shows the reader how much segregation there really is in Afganistan and sets the scene for the rest of the book. It also shows that Hassana and Amir are similar in the sense that they both don’t have mothers.

Chapter 3

Amir mixes in hismemories of Baba was tall and curly hair
People say he once wrestled a bear
He did all the things people said he could not do
Although he did not come form a prominent family he married Sofia Akram came from royal blood line
Amir says its sinful to drink alchol
There is only one sin: theft
Amir tries to be more like Baba
Tries to like soccer although he is good at poetry
Baba and Amir go towatch a sport game a rider gets trampled by his horse
Amir cries and Baba does not think he is manly enough
Amir hears Baba talking to Rahim Khan he says the he is worried if Amir cant stand up for himself as a boy how could he as a man
Amir feels responsible for mothers death

I think that this chapter shows the relationshi p between Amir and his father, Baba appers to almost be ashamed ofhis son, Amir thinks that Baba ignores him because Baba blames him for his mothers death, however I think that baba is distant from Amir because Amir might remind baba too much of his wife.

Chapter Four

Story jumps back in time when Baba was born
Find out tht alis parents were hit by a car and tht babas parents took him in and raised Baba and ali together
However baba never calls ali hisfriend mainly because of their ethnic differences
Amir says he never thought of Hassan as a friend
He remember his childhood as playing with Hassan but when amir got up in the morning to go to school Hassan would stay home and clean the house and get the groceries
Amir read to Hassan who was could not read for himself
Favourite story during a reading session amir makes up own story while readingto Hassan and Hassan says it is the best one he as ever read
Later Amir writes his first story about a man whos tears turn to pearls
Amir tries to show the story to his father “Baba” but he does not pay any attention to Amir so Rahim Khan takes the story instead
Rahim khan tells amir he has a great talent Amir then goes to hassans house to read him the story one question “why didn’t the man...