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    father’s house. Jalil arranges for her to be married to Rasheed‚ a shoemaker from Kabul who is thirty years her senior. In Kabul‚ Mariam becomes pregnant seven successive times‚ but is never able to carry a child to term‚ and Rasheed gradually becomes more abusive. A girl named Laila and a boy named Tariq‚ who are close friends and aware of social boundaries‚ live in the same neighborhood. War comes to Afghanistan‚ and Kabul is bombarded by rocket attacks. Tariq’s family decides to leave the city‚ and

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    Name: Muhammad Samim Hurmat Date of birth: June 30‚ 1989 Place of birth: Kabul‚ AFGHANISTAN Nationality: Afghan Marital Status: Single Sex: Male Home Address: Khushal Khan District 5 Spen Kalae‚ Kabul‚ AFGHANISTAN Email: muhammadsamimhurmat@gmail.com Contact Number: +93 780849867 +93784596259 Education: | |

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    Gender Mosaics: A Masculinist Reading of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner An individual’s esteem of himself and thus‚ by extension‚ others’ opinion of him is determined by a simultaneous play of variegated factors. This paper is an attempt to unravel various such subtleties of a masculine identity as depicted in the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. At the same time‚ it also tries to determine the importance of culture in determining an individual’s identity and that of transcending certain

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    summary Chapter 15 opens with Amir landing in Peshawar. The city reminds him of Kabul the driver drops Amir off at Rahim Khan’s building..For the rest of the chapter‚ Amir and Rahim Khan talk about Afghanistan‚ the past‚ and Amir’s life in America. Here’s what they cover: Amir’s marriage to Soraya Taheri‚ Baba‚ and Amir’s education and writing. The conversation turns to the Taliban and Afghanistan. It sounds like Kabul has turned into a war zone between 1992 and 1996. Amir learns Rahim Khan is dying

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    Amir atoned for his sins and was able to earn forgiveness by risking his life and going back to Kabul‚ saving Sohrab and adopting him. Amir’s first act of atonement in this novel is when he risked his life by going back to Kabul. In 2000‚ Rahim Khan asked Amir to go visit him in Pakistan. When Amir went back to visit him‚ he found out that Hassan was dead and Hassan’s son was somewhere in Kabul. Rahim Khan wanted Amir to rescue Sohrab and bring him back to Pakistan. However‚ after learning that

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    Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name. The story is set in 1975 through 2001‚ Afghanistan and United States‚ specifically in Kabul and California. The significance of the Kabul‚ Afghanistan setting is that it’s when the Afghanistan monarchy is overthrown‚ through the Soviet military intervention and the rise of the Taliban regime. The significance of the setting’s shift from Kabul‚ Afghanistan to California‚ United States is that because the Soviet military intervenes in Afghanistan‚ Amir and Baba escape

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    describes life growing up with a powerful political figure for a father‚ she goes on to describe many crazy situations in her life such as almost being killed multiple times‚ the violence in Kabul‚ and the loose border with Pakistan and Afghanistan. We had the privilege to speak with a man named Tarik who grew up in Kabul‚ he had some interesting things to say about Koofi‚ in that her book was very bias towards Americans. He shared with us that there actually was no loose boarder and some terrible rumors

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    INDIAN ROLE IN AFGHANISTAN AND ITS IMPACT ON PAKISTAN INTRO 1. Afghanistan continues to be a proxy ‘playing ground’ for diverse outside powers with Russia in near vicinity and US in West. The decade old US meddling after the failure of Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 has yielded more familiar results i.e. ethnic and cultural tensions‚ warlordism‚ drug-trafficking and rampant corruption. It is not that these traits did not exist in the Afghan society before US invaded Afghanistan but US

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    CHAPTER 21 NOTES List 3 major events that take place within the chapter Amir visits his old house in Kabul and the hill north of Baba’s house- The city is now completely unfamiliar to Amir‚ and he looks at it almost as a tourist Amir looks outside his bedroom window and remembers looking out of it when watching Hassan and Amir leave. “Twenty-five years earlier‚ I had stood behind that same window‚ thick rain dripping down the panes and my breath fogging up the glass. I had watched Hassan and

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    his life in Kabul‚ where his character is shaped through conflicts with his father and Hassan. Later‚ when he moves to America he leaves these conflicts behind and is able to create a stronger relationship with his father. However‚ when Amir is an adult he is called back to Afghanistan by an old friend to confront these earlier conflicts. In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini‚ observable changes can be seen in Amir’s character as he moves from Kabul‚ Fremont‚ and later back to Kabul. In the beginning

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