Kite Runner Key Quotes

Active reading notes chapter 17,18,19,20

Key points: 1) Death of Hassan and Farzana * “… And ordered him to kneel… and shot him in the back of the head… Farzana came screaming and attacked them… shot her too…” Page # 231 2) Rahim Khan sends Amir to Kabul * “I want you to go to Kabul. I want you to bring Sohrab here.” page # 232 3) Amir meets old begger. * “Thankyou, thankyou so much! And I meant it. Now I knew my mother had liked almond cake with oney and hot tea that she’d once used the word ‘profoundly’ that she’d fretted about her happiness. I had just learned more about my mother from this old man on the street than I ever did from Baba.” Page # 263

Characters 1) Farid, The Driver
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He is a guest! What was I supposed to do?” 3) Zaman, the director of the Orphanage
“If I deny him one child, he takes ten. So I let him take one and leaving the judging to Allah. I swallow my pride and take his goddamn filthy… dirty money. Then, I go to the bazaar and buy food for the children.”
Hassan is a very proud father. * In his last letter , he wrote how Rahim khan is quite ill. He might be leaving to Pakistan for a treatment. Sohrab and Rahim khan are really close togather. Sohrab adores him. Hassan is also dreaming about how he is having nightmares about blood, death. Also, his son going to be a good person, Rahim Khan will be well, how everything in Afghanistan will changed for better and also want Amir to come to Kabul one day. He is waiting for him sincerely. * Developmental: * With flashbacks scattered throughout Amir’s narrative * point-of-view. * * Baba said “I wish Hassan had been with us today”? Page 237 * “I can’t go to Kabul, I had said to Rahim Khan. I have a wife in America, a home, a career, and a family" page 238 * “ I remembered Baba saying that my problem was that someone had always done my fighting for me”. Page 239 * “My brother’s face. He was gone now, but a little part of him lived on. It was in Kabul. Waiting." page 239

Perspective
First person perspective; Amir is the