chapter notes kite runner 1-9
Chapter Notes For Kite Runner
Chapter 1
Dec 2001
Narrator is 12 years old sort of a flashback
Set in 1975
“ looking back now I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the past twenty six years.”
This quote tells us that he is now currently maybe 26 years of age
Narrator is found talking about his past when Rahim Khan tells him “there is a way to be good again” pg 1
Current location is SanFrancisco
Narrator remember someone named Hassan and this quote “ for you a thousand times over”
Chapter 2 set in Kabul
Hassan his friend is described as very loyal and kind towards others
Hassan has a harelip
Location Wazir Akbar Khan district
Ali is a servant
Rahim Khan is business partner & best friend
Hassan is Ali’s son
The narrators mother died while child birth
Sanaubar’s is Hassan’s mom and she left Hassan and Ali after a week Hassan was born
Sanaubar has a very bad reputation in the community
Sanaubar makes fun of Ali whenever she sees him even though the belonged to the same ethnic group and were married.
Main characters name is Amir
Poetry on pg 11
“On a high mountain I stood,
And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God this is a poem for the khalif
O Ali, loin of God, king of men Ali and it is from the Shia
Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts.” Religious belief
Chapter 3
Most people in Afghanistan are illiterate
Pg 12-13, description of Amir’s father, displays his true love to his father and the fact that he looks up to his father and thinks of him as a hero
Sense of dethronement and loss because Amir felt he would lose his father to Hassan because his father should Love and care towards Hassan more sometimes.
Strange moment when Amir says he thinks he has Saratan ( cancer)
Baba is a person who is very full of himself and when is looked down upon by a person who says that he will fail to do a certain thing he
Chapter 1
Dec 2001
Narrator is 12 years old sort of a flashback
Set in 1975
“ looking back now I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the past twenty six years.”
This quote tells us that he is now currently maybe 26 years of age
Narrator is found talking about his past when Rahim Khan tells him “there is a way to be good again” pg 1
Current location is SanFrancisco
Narrator remember someone named Hassan and this quote “ for you a thousand times over”
Chapter 2 set in Kabul
Hassan his friend is described as very loyal and kind towards others
Hassan has a harelip
Location Wazir Akbar Khan district
Ali is a servant
Rahim Khan is business partner & best friend
Hassan is Ali’s son
The narrators mother died while child birth
Sanaubar’s is Hassan’s mom and she left Hassan and Ali after a week Hassan was born
Sanaubar has a very bad reputation in the community
Sanaubar makes fun of Ali whenever she sees him even though the belonged to the same ethnic group and were married.
Main characters name is Amir
Poetry on pg 11
“On a high mountain I stood,
And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God this is a poem for the khalif
O Ali, loin of God, king of men Ali and it is from the Shia
Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts.” Religious belief
Chapter 3
Most people in Afghanistan are illiterate
Pg 12-13, description of Amir’s father, displays his true love to his father and the fact that he looks up to his father and thinks of him as a hero
Sense of dethronement and loss because Amir felt he would lose his father to Hassan because his father should Love and care towards Hassan more sometimes.
Strange moment when Amir says he thinks he has Saratan ( cancer)
Baba is a person who is very full of himself and when is looked down upon by a person who says that he will fail to do a certain thing he