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Events In The Kite Runner

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The Kite Runner is a novel showing that the past and present events have a way of causing a person to feel the need to reclaim their actions. Actions that have affected a person from the past, and fixing them with future events. The story takes place in Afghanistan around 1975, with two boys. Amir, who is twelve years old, and is the having vivid flashbacks, he, in first person, is narrating the story. Then there's Amir’s best friend, Hassan who has a cleft lip, and is a fantastic kite runner, who always seemed to know where the kite landed before it actually landed. In chapter one, towards the end of the year of 2001 in San Francisco. Amir doesn’t reveal much about him, just that he had gotten a phone call, from a friend in Pakatan, asking …show more content…

They would always use mirrors to shine sunlight into neighbor’s windows, and shoot walnuts at dogs. Those were always Amir ideas, but if they ever got caught Hassan, never let Amir take the blame for it, and that showed how loyal he was to Amir. Amir lived with his father (Baba) in a house with lots of land. Hassan lived with his father (Ali) in a hut on the grounds of Amir’s father’s land while he was also their servant. Neither of the children had mothers, Amirs died during child birth, and Hassan’s ran away. They made great friends, and i feel that way because they seemed to have had similar childhoods. With both of them without their mother, they tend to fill the voids of each other with their companionship and looking out for each other. Amir is portrayed as a sensitive and selfish child trying to live up to his father’s legacy, also he is considered in Afghanistan as a Pashtuns who are wealthy and good looking. Amir has heard many stories about Baba, like once he fought a bear, all Amir wants from his father is approval. Amir feels that no matter what he does he’ll always be a disappointment to Baba because his mother dying after giving birth to him. Hassan who is portrayed as a Hazara, which is a persecuted ethnic group in Afghanistan. During the story we’re reminded on a few occasions that they’re both not in the same groups according to Afghanistan’s “qualifications” because most of the time they both had forgot because their bond was much like

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