However, Amir comforts Hassan into the surgery and supports his new smile. Dec 1, Hassan is raped by Assef, the neighborhood bully, in the process of retrieving the blue kite for Amir. Amir witnesses this and refuses to step in or defend Hassan. Amir believed that retrieveing the blue kite to Baba was more important than saving Hassan. Hassan was the lamb he had to slay to win Baba.
This way, Baba would finally be proud of Amir. However, the close relationship between Amir and Hassan tightens due to Amir's guilt and cowardice.
Baba throws Amir a huge birthday party in which Assef is invited. Assef gives Amir a biography on Hitler. Additionally, Amir declines to open up about what happened to Hassan to Rahim Khan. Even throughout all the hardships between Amir and Hassan, Ali manages to give Amir a book that is very valuable between the relationship of Hassan and himself.
Jul 2, Eventually, Hassan and Ali leave and Amir never sees them again. Apr 22, This marks the beginning of the communist terror in Afghanistan. There is a rapid increase of mistrust in the government as well as in the people. Again, major migrations occur in order to avoid further conflict or suffering. Information on the communist coup d'etat T. Dec 3, Physical trauma as well as fellow snitching takes places between the peoples of Afghanistan. The wealthy escape and seek refuge in neighboring Paskistan or the USA.
However, some are not as lucky and endure the battle between the Soviets. Mar 1, However, the soldier is restrained and the truck proceeds to Jalalabad until a bad engine lands Baba and Amir in a crowded basement to wait for a new truck.
Eventually, Amir and Baba arrive at Pakistan and then Peshawar. Video on Afghan refugees in Pakistan. Jun 5, After already establishing a refuge in America, Amir and Baba undergo the casualties of the unprivileged or working class in San Francisco.
Amir remains a student but with the passion of writing and literature while Baba works hour shifts at a gasoline station. Amir continues to pursue a major in English in hopes of being a writer.
May 24, Being the man he is, he denies chemotherapy and moves on. Since Baba is approaching death very soon, Amir asks Baba to arrange a marriage with Soraya. Baba accepts as well as General Taheri and his wife Jamila Taheri. The wedding and festivities occur just in time Traditional Afghan Wedding.
Furthermore, because he once pushed Hassan away when Hassan needed him most, God is now taking Sohrab as punishment. Even the relief from his past feelings that he does experience is not uplifting and transformative. He knows, for example, his guilt over his relationship with Baba was gone only because he feels no sting when he thinks Baba may have considered Hassan his true son.
With all this, Khaled Hosseini suggests a general lesson about life: that there are no simple solutions to such emotionally and historically complex problems as those we have seen throughout the novel.
In a perfectly just world, Amir would have been able to adopt Sohrab without any difficulty and bring him home to a wonderful new life. At one point, Amir describes an experience he had at a video store in California. In such movies, the ending reveals the point of the journey.
Does the good guy win or does the bad guy? Does the love affair end tragically or happily? Life, he says, is not a movie. Of course, it is Khaled Hosseini, the author, putting these thoughts in the head of his fictional creation. But in doing so, he proposes something about the goal of fiction. Despite this dose of wary realism, Hosseini ends his often painful novel with hope.
Flying the kite with Sohrab, Amir feels like a boy again, and for that time at least, he is innocent. It is also the first real connection he feels to Sohrab since Sohrab stopped speaking.
Flying the kite is his link to Sohrab much as it was once his link to Baba. The novel comes full circle as it ends, with Amir going to run the kite for Sohrab. He says to Sohrab the last words Hassan said to him before Hassan was raped, but despite the fact that those were the circumstances the last time these words appeared in the book, the hopeful tone suggests Amir has paid his penance and found his redemption.
Ace your assignments with our guide to The Kite Runner! SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. What happened to Hassan in the alley? Why does Rahim Khan lie about the American couple? Why are Ali and Hassan both deformed? Why do Amir and Baba go to America? Why does Amir sometimes treat Hassan badly in childhood? Why does Amir want Hassan to hit him with pomegranates? Why does Amir accept Soraya even after she tells him of her past? Why did Baba lie about Hassan being his son?
Why does Rahim Khan disappear? He is loyal, forgiving and good-natured. He always puts himself second and other persons first. Baba is the father of Amir. His personality changes throughout the book. The main reason for his change is the move to America.
In Kabul, Baba was a very rich and independent businessman. He wanted Amir to be like that as well. In America however, Baba was happy to see Amir doing what he loves. He opens up more and the relationship between the two got better because of that. Amir grows up in Kabul, living with his father and their servants Ali and Hassan.
They win a local kite-fighting tournament and Amir tells Hassan to get the loose kite. Amir saw this but ran away. From there, they go to America, where they try to build up a new life. After a while, Baba gets diagnosed incurable cancer.
He declines life-extending treatments. Before his death, Amir marries a girl , Soraya. After years, Amir gets a call from Rahim Khan, an old friend of Baba.
He asks him to come to Pakistan, because there is a way to be good again. Hassan himself and his wife got shot by the Taliban. Amir tries to find Sohrab in an orphanage, but there he gets told that Sohrab is taken by a Taliban general, who rapes him. Amir goes to the general , who turns out to be Assef. Assef says he will let the boy go, but that he has some unfinished business with Amir. Assef wants them to fight, with only one going out of that fight alive.
Thanks to Sohrab shooting with a slingshot at Assef, Amir can escape with the boy. Because of his injuries, Amir passed out. He tries to get Sohrab a visa, but without success. He tells Sohrab that the only option contains the boy going back to an orphanage, something Sohrab by no means wants. Sohrab tries to commit suicide, but survives. Eventually, thanks to an Afghan friend in America, Sohrab gets a visa and they go to America. Unfortunately, the only thing Sohrab does is sleep. Six months later, Amir, Soraya and Sohrab go to an Afghan gathering.
There was a kite-fighting tournament and Amir and Sohrab win together.
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