Assef says he will let the boy go, but that he has some unfinished business with Amir. Amir goes to the general, who turns out to be Assef. Amir tries to find Sohrab in an orphanage, but there he gets told that Sohrab is taken by a Taliban general, who rapes him. Hassan himself and his wife got shot by the Taliban. Amir goes and gets told by Rahim Khan that he and Hassan were half-brothers and that he has to go to Kabul again to safe Hassan’s son, Sohrab. He asks him to come to Pakistan, because there is a way to be good again. After years, Amir gets a call from Rahim Khan, an old friend of Baba. Before his death, Amir marries a girl, Soraya. After a while, Baba gets diagnosed incurable cancer. From there, they go to America, where they try to build up a new life. Baba doesn’t, but Ali and Hassan go anyway.įour years later, the Russians invade Afghanistan and Baba and Amir have to flee to Pakistan. He puts money and a watch under Hassan’s pillow, hoping that his father, Baba, will send Ali and Hassan away. Because of his feelings of guilt and shame, Amir doesn’t want to see Hassan. Hassan answers with the words’ For you, a thousand times over.’ Hassan gets it, but afterwards he gets raped in an alleyway by Assef, a boy who hates Hassan because of his origin. They win a local kite-fighting tournament and Amir tells Hassan to get the loose kite. Hassan is, besides his servant, Amir’s best friend. Give an overview of the plot of the book.Īmir grows up in Kabul, living with his father and their servants Ali and Hassan. He opens up more and the relationship between the two got better because of that. In America however, Baba was happy to see Amir doing what he loves. In Kabul, Baba was a very rich and independent businessman. The main reason for his change is the move to America. His personality changes throughout the book. That’s why he is a flat character.īaba is the father of Amir. He always puts himself second and other persons first. He is Amir’s servant and characteristics wise, Hassan stays a servant. This drives him to do (good) things he otherwise never would have done. Instead of a selfish boy who lives a happy life and can have whatever he wants, he is a selfless grown-up who still feels guilty about things in the past and wants redemption. Throughout the book, we can see Amir changing as person. There are three main characters in The Kite Runner: Amir, Hassan and Baba.Īt the start of the book Amir is about 11 years old. Who are the main characters in the book and how do they develop? This book is a fictional novel, although it has some autobiographical elements. Other themes in this book are friendship, betrayal and the uneasy love between father and sons. The author wants to show us the search for redemption of a boy, whose life is controlled by guilt over a mistake in the past. When he returns to Kabul, there is still a (civil) war in Afghanistan. It starts in Kabul, where Amir lives a peaceful life, but when the Russians invade Afghanistan, Amir and his father flee to America. It is actually Amir who in December 2001 tells about everything that happened to him. The book takes place in the period of 1963 up to and including 2001. At the end of the book, it’s Amir who runs after a loose kite. Amir has to cut the strings of other kites and Hassan will run after kites, whose strings are cut. The two main characters, Amir and Hassan, contest at the start of the book in a local kite-fighting tournament. The reason for this is that kite-fighting is a very important happening in the book.

The author of the book is Khaled Hosseini. Which character did you find most interesting/appealing?.What was the most interesting part of the book in your eyes?.

From whose perspective is the story told?.

Give an overview of the plot of the book.

Who are the main characters in the book and how do they develop?.

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