Socratic Seminar Questions 2. The pomegranate tree is a symbol of the different stages of Hassan and Amir’s friendship. "One summer day‚ I used one of Ali’s kitchen knives to carve our names on it: "Amir and Hassan‚ the sultans of Kabul.’ Those words made it formal: the tree was ours" (26). This quote represents Amir and Hassan’s relationship between them during their early childhood. They are extremely close and carving their names on the tree shows that they will be a part of each other’s
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READER RESPONSE Section 1: Summary In this chapter we are going to see that after the rape‚ Amir and Hassan spend less time together. Baba and Amir take a trip to Jalalabad and they stay at the house of Baba’s cousin. When they finally arrived to BABA’s cousin they got an Afghan tradition dinner and Baba stared talking about the tournament that his son won but Amir wasn’t feel comfortable with that. After dinner‚ they all lie down to bed in the same room‚ but Amir couldn’t sleep. He said
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wrongdoings they have committed and people cannot let go of their guilt. A person’s past cannot be erased‚ and the mistakes cannot be undone however through constant charitable acts there can be a different way to reach redemption. In the book‚ The Kite Runner‚ the protagonist‚ Amir‚ struggles with his guilt throughout the novel as he tries to get rid of his sins but has trouble forgetting past actions. Several good deeds can redeem for an evil action that people have done
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"It may be unfair In a single day can change the coarse of a whole life time." That one-day in 1975 made Amir who he was to become in 2001. Discuss. In the novel The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini‚ we find a grown man name Amir‚ still struggling to over come his past sins of betrayal and sacrifice. For the many years he had tried to bury his shameful memories of his cowardice of the abuse of his loyal fiend Hassan. Amir as a child had a confusing childhood‚ where he cried for the acceptance
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Chapter 23 Summary • Amir is in hospital after his beating • Rahim Khan has left to die in peace and there is no sign of the adoptive parents he promised for Sohrab • Amir decides to take Sohrab with him to Islamabad while he considers what to do with him. Dreams/blurred images One dream that represents Amir’s troubled mind "Assef was standing in the doorway of my hospital room‚ brass ball still in his eye socket.’We’re the same‚ you and I‚’ he was saying. ’You nursed with him
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1. The novel begins with Amir ’s memory of peering down an alley‚ looking for Hassan who is kite running for him. As Amir peers into the alley‚ he witnesses a tragedy. The novel ends with Amir kite running for Hassan ’s son‚ Sohrab‚ as he begins a new life with Amir in America. Why do you think the author chooses to frame the novel with these scenes? Refer to the following passage: "Afghans like to say: Life goes on‚ unmindful of beginning‚ end...crisis or catharsis‚ moving forward like a slow‚ dusty
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Study Questions 1. What role does religion play in the lives of Baba‚ Amir‚ and Assef‚ and in the novel as a whole? * Though it is rarely the main focus‚ religion is nearly always present in Amir’s narrative. It is part of the culture of Afghanistan‚ and it is accordingly a fixture of the everyday life Amir describes. Amir creates a complex portrait of both the positive and negative traits of religion‚ with the negative always stemming from fundamentalists who use their beliefs as an excuse
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Dennis Hardy Mrs. Hardgrove AP English 12 September 9‚ 2014 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini 2003 1. Analyze the title. The Kite Runner feels like an odd title especially at the beginning of the novel when the protagonist is the kite fighter not the kite runner. As the book progresses it becomes more and more obvious that the novel is not about the protagonist but his best friend. The author chose this title to help illustrate the fact that although the novel follows the life of Amir it is really
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The novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini presents an enriching story about love‚ guilt‚ and redemption. Hosseini uses real‚ relatable characters by recognizing and honoring the flaw in human nature. He takes you on an eye-opening journey of self-discovery and teaches us that good can always bloom from bad. In the first part of the book there is a kite tournament‚ which the characters Amir and Hassan attend. In the competition many brilliantly colored kites with razor sharp string‚ fly magnificently
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for their own actions because of their troubling conflict (Barth). Numerous people feel like they should do acts of kindness as a way to redeem themselves‚ but to truly become good again one must try to change their own character. Amir from The Kite Runner‚ recognizes his error and fights to become better when he is given the news of his nephew. He torments himself daily until he decides to take action on doing justice. Hosseini uses Amir
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