CHAPTER 21 NOTES List 3 major events that take place within the chapter Amir visits his old house in Kabul and the hill north of Baba’s house- The city is now completely unfamiliar to Amir‚ and he looks at it almost as a tourist Amir looks outside his bedroom window and remembers looking out of it when watching Hassan and Amir leave. “Twenty-five years earlier‚ I had stood behind that same window‚ thick rain dripping down the panes and my breath fogging up the glass. I had watched Hassan and
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Khaled Hosseini. The Kite Runner was set in Kabul‚ Afghanistan‚ proceeds to United States during the Soviet Union invasion‚ and then the setting goes back to Kabul when the Taliban rises in power. In this novel‚ Amir‚ to whom the whole story of the book is centered around‚ is a morally ambiguous character. Amir is a Pashtun boy; he betrays his friendship with Hassan‚ a Hazara son of Amir’s father’s servant. Guilt haunts Amir for years even after he had left Kabul and moved to United States. Amir is a morally
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In your opinion‚ how have the characters changed over the course of the novel? ‘Terror and Chaos are now our rulers.’ These words haunt and rule over the people of Kabul. The main characters endure through physical and emotional torment‚ living in a world where fear is lived in ordinary daily routine. The book ‘My Forbidden Face’ by Latifa illuminates the world of Afghanistan before and after the Taliban invasion. Latifa’s mother faced detrimental physical and emotional trauma throughout the novel
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CHARACTERS MARIAM: She is the main character of the story. She was born illegitimately to a wealthy man of Herat and one of his housekeepers. She tries to force her father to acknowledge her as his daughter‚ but it leads to the heartache of her mother’s suicide and her own arranged marriage to Rasheed. She lives with him many years as an abused wife until Laila becomes his second wife. They establish a fast friendship and Mariam eventually kills Rasheed as he is choking Laila to death. She is
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Rahim Khan as he narrates about the life he and Hassan were living while Amir and Baba were in America before the narration was passed back to Amir. 2. Plot • Introduction – The childhood memories of when Amir and Hassan were still boys‚ living in Kabul. • Rising action – The raping scene of Hassan by Assef and his lackeys that was witnessed by Amir after the kite flying competition. • Climax – When Rahim Khan calls and requests Amir to visit him in Pakistan which resurfaced Amir’s buried past.
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However‚ the forced marriage is not the last of the troubles Mariam had to face as a woman. Being the wife of an abusive man in Afghanistan during the Taliban’s rule made life extremely painful and arduous. Even the years before the Taliban arrived in Kabul‚ Rasheed was physically‚ mentally‚ emotionally‚ and verbally abusive to Mariam. For eighteen years before Rasheed married Laila‚ Rasheed abused Mariam to the extent where nothing pleased him. Rasheed had a very short temper and would ridicule and then
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Often times a person’s wishes do not match up with what fate has in store for them. In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns‚ one witnesses the trials and tribulations of two women morphed by circumstance and war. Khaled Hosseini expertly illustrates what it means to search for justice that both Mariam and‚ specifically‚ Laila try to do as women in Afghanistan during a time of war. Through the deaths of loved ones and an abusive marriage‚ Laila comes to realize that she does not always have to rely
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“trespassing”. The neighbors had seen what had happened but they were all Pashtun and “...no one was going to risk anything for a pair of Hazara servants.” (220) Toward the end of the novel‚ Amir and Farid‚ the man who transported Amir from Peshawar to Kabul secretly and safely who eventually becomes friends with Amir‚ were talking when Farid asks Amir why he returned to Afghanistan. To which Amir replies that it is for Sohrab‚ Hassan’s son‚ as he had mentioned before. Farid then says “No… what I meant
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Hazara’s‚ but it includes all kinds of the Hazara people‚ including minorities of Sunni Hazara and Ismaili Shia Hazara. In 1747 when Afghanistan was originally founded‚ Pashtun had the vast majority of the state. It wasn’t until the Hazaras immigrated to Kabul in the second half of the twentieth century‚ that their religious‚ ideological‚ economic‚ geographic‚ and linguistic characteristics were threatened. The idea of their culture being over ruled‚ forced the Pashtun to hate the Hazara and attempt to hinder
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Book”The Kite Runner” begins with Amir when he is about 40 years. He has published a new book and gets a call. The call is from Rahin Khan. He has moved from Kabul in Afghanistan to Pakistan‚ because it wasn’t a hospital in Kabul who could be able to help him. When he is talking with Rahin Khan‚ he is thinking back to his childhood in Kabul in about 1970. Many children were playing with kites. It was a kite battle and they try to cut the other kite’s thread. Amir and Hassan were on the same team
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