The Kite Runner Discussion Questions

Kite Runner Questions 1-3

1.The book doesn’t really give a detailed description of Amir but he is referred to as a Pashtun and pashtuns have dark hair and eyes and olive colored skin .In my opinion Amir is a coward and this is evident by the way he renounces Hassan as a friend and referrers to him as a mere servant because he fears what Assef would do to him if he was truly friends with Hassan ,does nothing to help Hassan when he is raped and after that instance Amir is too afraid to face Hassan and he frames him so he and Ali are sent away and he can escape his guilty conscious. Amir is also very selfish all he thinks about is himself he hate it when Baba showers attention on anyone other than himself and he hates that Baba talks more affectionately of Hassan than himself and he also seems to have a superiority complex and refers to Hassan as a simple Hazara when it suits him.

2.Hassan is described as having a “Chinese doll face chiseled from hard wood: his flat broad nose and slanting, narrow eyes like bamboo leaves , eyes that looked , depending on the light, gold, green, even sapphire. I can still see his tiny low set ears and that pointed stub
At parties, when all six-foot-five of him thundered into the room, attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun”. Baba has a strong fearless personality he also has a hot temper. Baba defend the honor of the woman in the truck and was almost shot because of it . Baba is also rumored to have fought a bear and won . Baba often snaps at Amir like when they were together in the garden and Baba shook with anger when amir suggested getting new slaves . Baba is often very distant with Amir which causes him to feel unacknowledged many