![]() The morning after the gunshots, the two boys decided to go climb a tree but are stopped by the neighborhood bully, Assef, who Amir refers to as a sociopath. Toward the end of their discussion, gunshots are heard from the street for a little under an hour. Amir, feels rejected by his father when he refuses to read his story. ![]() Amir likes to read so much that instead of reading to Hassan he makes one of his own stories, Hassan, after hearing it loves it. During most of their time, Amir reads to Hassan, stories in his mother’s books. Then book then goes on to speak about different activities that Amir and Hassan shared during their childhoods. No child should have to endure that kind of unspoken abuse. Amir desperately requests his father’s acceptance but rarely receives it. For example, in chapter 2 when Amir and Baba have lunch one day together, Amir told his father that he thought he had cancer, all Baba did was grunt and to go get a soda from the car. I particularly don’t like Baba because he doesn’t pay the attention he should to his son. Amir, doesn’t have a good relationship with his father and as a result every time his father, who treats Hassan almost as a son, shows Hassan a little more attention than Amir he resents it. Such as his father, who he calls Baba, Ali who was the servant of the house, Hassan who was the servant’s son, who Amir spends most of his time with, and the detail that his mother had died giving birth to him. The flashback starts with all the people that have impacted Amir at this age. He was around 12 years old at the time when things went downhill for him and his country. As he gets off the phone he starts to recollect times of his youth, starting up around 1960 into 1975. Hiding the money under the mattress is a small but significant gesture: unlike the first time, when Amir was acting cowardly and selfishly, this time he is thinking of others, which is another step on Amir's path of atonement.During the first few chapters of The Kite Runner, it started off with one of the main characters, Amir as an adult living in San Francisco and getting a phone call from an old friend in Pakistan. The reader's understanding of global issues connects the novel with the real world, just as the repetition of an action demonstrates the growth of a character. The concluding image of the chapter serves to represent all the hungry children, both in Afghanistan and throughout the world. The universality of The Kite Runner appears here as issues such as hunger are addressed. ![]() Essential questions about the nature of Amir's character are the same questions that apply to many people: What does it mean to be an American? Or an Afghani? Is it just the country/origin of birth? Is it one's socioeconomic status? Is it a combination of cultural and political leanings? Ultimately, these questions are all about a person's sense of identity and sense of self. This chapter raises interesting issues about a character's view of himself, as opposed to how others see him. Amir is able to cling to an Afghani view, even though Farid and others who did not leave Afghanistan view Amir not as an Afghani but as an American. "Better to be miserable than rude" Amir states when lying to Farid about the lemon helping his car sickness. Later that morning, when no one is watching, Amir puts money under a mattress. As he begins to enter, he overhears voices and realizes that the boys were not staring at his watch but rather his food. He steps outside for some air to calm himself. That night, Amir has a nightmare about Hassan's murder. Before he falls asleep, Farid makes an indirect offer to help Amir find Sohrab. After dinner, Amir receives permission to give the boys the gift of the watch. During dinner, Amir notices that the boys keep looking at his watch. When Wahid asks Amir what brings him to Afghanistan, Farid answers, echoing his earlier claim that Amir is going to sell his father's house and immediately exit.Īmir not only answers Wahid's question honestly but also answers it completely, admitting that Hassan - the Hazara - was his half-brother. Farid and Amir stop in Jalalabad to spend the night at the house of Farid's brother, Wahid. Amir explains to readers that he needs to leave immediately, in order to not change his mind, and he does not tell Soraya, because he knows she would take the next plane to Pakistan.įarid is dismissive of Amir and tells him that Amir has always been a tourist in Afghanistan because the way of life that he knew was foreign to most Afghanis. ![]() Rahim Khan had provided Amir with a chest-length fake beard in order to appear Taliban-friendly. Farid, his driver, demonstrates little sympathy for him. As Amir returns to Kabul, he again experiences car sickness.
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