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The Kite Runner Chapter 17 And 18 Analysis
In chapters 16, 17 and 18, Rahim Khan meets Amir and tells him about what happened in his home town. He also tells Amir about his Childhood friends Hassan who got married and has a young boy named Sohrab. And how Hassan got brutally murdered by Taliban force along with his wife. They only spared his son who got sent to an orphanage house. Rahim asks Hassan to go Kabul and take Hassan’s son with him to America because he has not one left to take care of him. And, because Hassan is Amir’s brother.
In 2007, I moved out of my home small town. The city where I lived for 17 years. I had two close friends, Ammar and Abid who both were a year older than me. Somehow, they ended up being in the same class with me from Elementary School through high
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