The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, begins in December 2001 with a flashback about an event that changed the narrator’s life. The story starts before the event occurs in Kabul, Afghanistan, 1975. The narrator, Amir, is twelve years old and lives with his father, a successful businessman, whom he calls Baba. Amir’s father has two servants, Ali and his son Hassan, Amir’s best friend, who live in a small shed owned by Amir’s family. Hassan’s mother left after she gave birth to him because he and his father are part of an ethnic minority called, Hazaras.
While playing together one day, Amir and Hassan see Assef, the neighborhood troublemaker, along with two of his friends, Wali and Kamal, walking towards them. Assef threatens Amir for playing …show more content…
The day of the tournament Amir starts to feel nervous and wants to back out. He talks to Hassan and decides to go on with the tournament. Amir and Hassan go to the tournament and win. Hassan runs after the kite of the second place finisher and disappears. Amir is congratulated by the community and his father. He looks for Hassan and finds him in an alley with Assef, Kamal, and Wali. He sees Wali and Kamal holding Hassan’s arm back and Assef standing behind him with his pants down. Amir looks over and to see Hassan’s pants laying on a pile of trash and realizes that Assef is raping Hassan. He debates whether to help or run, he decides to …show more content…
Amir takes notice of Soraya. Amir and Soraya start to talk quite often until Soraya’s father catches them and tells Amir the proper way to engage with a woman. Shorly after, Baba gets diagnosed with lung cancer, so Amir asks his father if he would ask General Taheri for the consent of the marriage of Amir and Soraya. Baba and General Taheri both agree to the request. Amir and Soraya hold the wedding quickly so that Baba will be alive to see it, but soon after the wedding, Baba passes. Sometime after the marriage Amir finishes his first novel and gets it published. After the publication, he and Soraya find out that they cannot have kids so they look towards adoption, but General Taheri disapproves of the
While playing together one day, Amir and Hassan see Assef, the neighborhood troublemaker, along with two of his friends, Wali and Kamal, walking towards them. Assef threatens Amir for playing …show more content…
The day of the tournament Amir starts to feel nervous and wants to back out. He talks to Hassan and decides to go on with the tournament. Amir and Hassan go to the tournament and win. Hassan runs after the kite of the second place finisher and disappears. Amir is congratulated by the community and his father. He looks for Hassan and finds him in an alley with Assef, Kamal, and Wali. He sees Wali and Kamal holding Hassan’s arm back and Assef standing behind him with his pants down. Amir looks over and to see Hassan’s pants laying on a pile of trash and realizes that Assef is raping Hassan. He debates whether to help or run, he decides to …show more content…
Amir takes notice of Soraya. Amir and Soraya start to talk quite often until Soraya’s father catches them and tells Amir the proper way to engage with a woman. Shorly after, Baba gets diagnosed with lung cancer, so Amir asks his father if he would ask General Taheri for the consent of the marriage of Amir and Soraya. Baba and General Taheri both agree to the request. Amir and Soraya hold the wedding quickly so that Baba will be alive to see it, but soon after the wedding, Baba passes. Sometime after the marriage Amir finishes his first novel and gets it published. After the publication, he and Soraya find out that they cannot have kids so they look towards adoption, but General Taheri disapproves of the