KITE RUNNER Discussion Questions 1. The novel begins with Amir’s memory of peering down an alley‚ looking for Hassan who is kite running for him. As Amir peers into the alley‚ he witnesses a tragedy. The novel ends with Amir kite running for Hassan’s son‚ Sohrab‚ as he begins a new life with Amir in America. Why do you think the author chooses to frame the novel with these scenes? Refer to the following passage: "Afghans like to say: Life goes on‚ unmindful of beginning‚ end...crisis or catharsis
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Divine Toledo Monday‚ March 2‚ 2015 I.CHAPTERS 1-5(PP. 1-47) Reading Questions 1. The flashback is used to give a history behind the story and also background information about the author. Based on the narrator‚ I learned that he does not have a mother and his father is very popular in his town. In the first chapter‚ the description of the winter day in 1975 sounds as if the narrator is hiding something as well. They might be burying their past‚ but it also states that it always claws its way out
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slingshot at the neighbor’s one-eyed German shepherd. Hassan never wanted to‚ but if I asked‚ really asked‚ he wouldn’t deny me. Hassan never denied me anything. And he was deadly with his slingshot. Hassan’s father‚ Ali‚ used to catch us and get mad‚ or as mad as someone as gentle as Ali could ever get. He would wag his finger and wave us down from the tree. He would take the mirror and tell us what his mother had told him‚ that the devil shone mirrors too‚ shone them to distract Muslims during prayer
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to be told. It tells us how he is caught up in his past‚ how the event that took place in 1975 made him who he is and how he see’s kites flying and is reminded of his friend Hassan‚ who he calls a kite runner. 2. Hassan is the son of Ali who is the servant for Baba. Hassan is a childhood associate of Amir’s‚ Hassan is also a servant so Amir doesn’t consider him a “friend” although he is. Him and his father live in a shack in the back of Baba’s land. Hassan has a round face and a flat‚ broad nose
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Runner‚” Amir and Baba both betray the servants most loyal to them. Hassan and Ali both do everything in their power to please their masters and remain loyal to them. Hassan and Ali differ from their masters in numerous ways but both pairs have similar differences. The master servant relationship between Baba‚ Ali and Amir‚ Hassan both differ in the characters’ attitudes‚ relationships‚ loyalty and courage. Although Baba and Ali grew up together‚ they grow to be very distinct people. Baba is a respected
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“A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.” Baba says these words to Rahim Khan while he is talking about Amir at the end of Chapter 3‚ and the quotation reveals important traits in both Amir and Baba. With these words‚ Baba sums up one of Amir’s major character flaws—his cowardice—and Baba shows how much value he places in standing up for what is right. Baba is reluctant to praise Amir‚ largely because he feels Amir lacks the courage to even stand up for
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characteristics in the relationships we witness are many; they include the sad love-hate tensions between Baba and Amir‚ the relationship between Ali and Hassan‚ which seem to be more friendly than familial (explained late in the book)‚ and the wistful‚ cautious affection that Baba has for Hassan. The most important father-son relationship in The Kite Runner is that between the protagonist Amir and his father Baba‚ a highly successful Kabul businessman. From Amir’s descriptions of his father at the beginning
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the way Hassan sacrifices himself for him and it builds the guilt in Amir. Character: “Still playing soccer‚ Assef jan?” said baba. He’d always wanted me to be friends with Assef” (Hosseini 101) Baba refers to Assef as jan‚ it seems that he is proud and honour Assef more than his own son‚ and he never calls Amir Jan. The only one who does is Rahim Khan Chapter 8: “Baba have you ever thought about getting new servants?” (Hosseini 95) Amir regrets what he did to Hassan that he did not stood up
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1.Biography of leader whom you choose Jack Ma (a.k.a. Ma Yun) was born on October 15‚ 1964‚ in Hangzhou‚ located in the southeastern part of China. He has an older brother and a younger sister. He and his siblings grew up at a time when communist China was increasingly isolated from the West‚ and his family didn’t have much money when they were young. Ma was scrawny and often got into fights with classmates. "I was never afraid of opponents who were bigger than I‚" he recalls in "Alibaba‚" a book
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are the stories of: Alibaba & the forty thieves. Alibaba‚ a poor fuel-gatherer once happened to see the store of treasure made by a group of 40 thieves in the forest. As he commanded the door of the cave‚ it opened and it closed. He took the treasury along with him and became rich. The robbers came to know and traced him out. They devised plans to kill Alibaba‚ but both times a slave-girl named Morgiana saved her master and killed all the 40 thieves. Then Alibaba being impressed‚ proposed her
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