Summary Chapter 1 opens with the words “December 2001.” A nameless narrator immediately refers back to the winter of 1975, when the narrator “became what I am today” and obliquely mentions an event that occurred in an alley when he was twelve years old. The narrator then mentions a phone […]
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Amir The narrator and protagonist; a Pashtun and Sunni Muslim. Baba Amir’s father, who is considered a hero and leader in Kabul. Hassan Amir’s playmate and servant; a Hazara and Shi’a Muslim; son to Ali. Sohrab Hassan’s son. Like his father, Sohrab is excellent with a slingshot. Sohrab is the […]
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The Kite Runner is the story of Amir, a Sunni Muslim, who struggles to find his place in the world because of the aftereffects and fallout from a series of traumatic childhood events. An adult Amir opens the novel in the present-day United States with a vague reference to one […]
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The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, follows the maturation of Amir, a male from Afghanistan who needs to find his way in the world as he realizes that his own belief system is not that of his dominant culture. Set in Afghanistan and the United States, The Kite Runner is […]
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