Outline For The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, tells the story of Amir from childhood to adulthood. As a child, Amir lived with his father, Baba, and two Hazara servants, Ali and his son Hassan. Hassan and Amir had a complicated relationship, starting with what seemed like a friendship to Amir driving Hassan and Ali to quit .Years after the Monarchy fell in 1973; Amir and Baba leave for America. Twenty years later, Amir returns to Afghanistan after receiving a call from Rahim Khan, an old friend. Khan shares the truth about Hassan and Amir’s bond, that they are half-brothers. He tells Amir about Hassan’s life after leaving. He lived in Hazarajat when Khan found him; he was married and had a son, Sohrab, and the execution of both Hassan and his wife,

He just was not sure why until he arrived. Khan’s final wish for Amir is to retrieve Sohrab, Hassan’s son, from Kabul. So Amir returns to his hometown in search of Sohrab at and orohange to find that someone from the Taliban, a Talib. He is found living with Assef. After retrieving Sohrab, Amir decides to head to Peshawar, Pakistan because it is safer. After a night of talking about what Assef did to Sohrab and is comforted by Amir, he realizes “A kinship exists between people who’ve fed from the same breast. Now, as the boy’s [Sohrab’s] pain soaked through my shirt, I saw that a kinship had taken root between us too” (320), and asks if Sohrab would want to live with him in America. Sohrab agrees, however, the task of adoption and getting immigrant papers were near impossible, but they did it. The two returned the America. Sohrab was introduced to Amir’s wife, Soraya, and his in-laws. His father in-law asks what he should say when others ask why they’ve returned with a Hazara boy. Amir tells him everything and how he had a half, illegitimate brother whose son he’s brought home. In the end he adds on “You will never again refer to him as ‘Hazara boy’ in my presences. He has a names and it’s Sohrab”