alleyway and sees Hassan being harassed by three bullies‚ one of them being Assef who holds resentment towards Amir for hanging out with Hassan who is a Hazara‚ a poorly respected religious sect in Afghanistan. As if being harassed for a kite wasn’t nearly enough for the three boys tormenting Hassan‚ Assef decides that he will rape Hassan to ‘teach the Hazara a lesson’. As Kamal and Wali hold Hassan down‚ Assef rapes him. All the while‚ Amir is watching‚ in horror as his companion is raped in an alley
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boys into trouble. Does Amir control the relationship? Is this why Hassan often takes the blame for things? Does Amir ever take responsibility for anything in the novel? Quote #2 Then he [Ali] would remind us that there was a brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast‚ a kinship that not even time could break. ‘ Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And‚ under the same roof‚ we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba
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to carry on his conscience. Ironically‚ the situation is then repeated through Baba himself‚ to Amir’s digression for atonement‚ it is revealed Baba has an appalling frailty of his own; he had committed adultery‚ resulting in the birth of a boy‚ a Hazara‚ Hassan.
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by Assef and his followers Kamal and Wali. He was Ali’s son even though later in the novel‚ it is revealed that he is truly the son of Baba and Amir’s brother. Late in the book‚ they allow us to know by saying that there is a special closeness that people who fed from the same breasts share. He was poorly educated and stood up for what he believed in‚ even if it meant dying for it. He always stood up for Amir no matter what the consequence‚ even if its him being raped. In the end of the novel‚ he does
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about Amir and Hassan‚ two young boys who have a strange friendship. These boys grew up together in Kabul‚ which explains why there friendship was so strange. In Kabul‚ the Afghan society classifies Hazaras people as lower humans. With Amir’s family being Pashtun and Hassan and his father both Hazaras and are in servitude to Amir’s family. This class difference was the reason Amir and Hassan didn’t have a great friendship. Even though they seemed
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recall about the moment he became “what he is today (p2)? What do you think that happened that day? Amir recalls kite running with Hassan and a dark alley. I think something very traumatic is going to happen to Hassan. 4. What does it mean to be Hazara‚ Shi’a Muslim‚ and Afghanistan’s minority group? Who‚ in the story
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involves rage and conflict. The string of the kites have ground glass on them and carves into the fliers hands‚ while the runners run to retrieve them once they are cut down by their opponents. Throughout the book‚ Afghanistan had to go through people overthrowing each other. Although class separated Hassan and Amir‚ they both love their kite running‚ and it brought them together as a team despite their differences. They were most like brothers in these moments‚ more then any other time. They
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patriotic feelings are well illustrated in the scene‚ where Baba takes some soil of his motherland just before leaving the country due to the fear of soviet repressions. While the fact that up to his dying day Baba kept in secret his affair with the Hazara servant woman and the real relations between his 2 sons
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Runner is an epic story with a personal history of what the people of Afghanistan had and have to endure in an ordinary everyday life; a country that is divided between political powers and religiously idealistic views and beliefs which creates poverty‚ and violence within the people and their terrorist run country. The story line is more personal with the description of Afghanistan’s culture and traditions‚ along with the lives of the people who live in Kabul. The story provides an educational and
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Write about the way the significance of the way in which Hosseini uses setting in ‘The Kite Runner’. Focus on two or three. Hosseini uses setting in the kite runner in various ways. It is a tool in showcasing the social division between Hazara and Pashtuns in Kabul and is also used to dramatise and add tension to the story. An example of Hosseini adding tension through setting is Amir and Baba’s car journey from Kabul to Jalalabad. It is narrated by Amir in the present tense‚ as if he is there
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