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Summary and Analysis Chapter 1

Chapter 1 opens with the words "December 2001." A nameless narrator immediately refers back to the winter of 1975, when the narrator "became what I am today" and obliquely mentions an event that occurred in an alley when he was twelve years old. The narrator then mentions a phone call last summer from a friend in Pakistan, Rahim Khan, and unatoned sins. Going for a walk, the narrator notices kites flying in the San Francisco sky. He recalls Hassan, the harelipped kite runner and list names such as Baba, Ali, and Kabul. The chapter ends with another reference to 1975 and the assertion that the event that transpired in the winter of 1975 "made me what I am today."

The subheading to the chapter immediately sets the time for the present, but the first sentence indicates the narrative technique of flashback. Two different settings are established — San Francisco and Afghanistan — which illustrates the two primary purposes of Chapter 1: to provide exposition and to build suspense. The subheading indicates what the reader presumes to be the present. The narrator, being thirty-eight years old, not only can share experiences from his youth, but also can comment upon them. The narrator asserts "I became what I am today at the age of twelve" and it is up to the reader to determine the relative truth of this assertion. Once the reader determines the accuracy of this statement, the reader will be able to determine the reliability of the narrator.

Suspense is created through a variety of means — the nameless narrator (who is he? what is the gender of the narrator?), the mentioning of San Francisco and Kabul (how are these two places related?), the listing of other characters (who are Rahim Khan, Baba, Ali, and Hassan?), the off-handed mention of kite running (what is it?), and the event from twenty-five years prior (what was it? how did it affect the narrator?). This chapter clearly raises more questions than it answers.

In addition to providing exposition and building suspense, this brief chapter also introduces important themes and symbols. Important thematic topics in The Kite Runner include the price of theft, hubris, the love of child, brothers, the past affecting the present, and the atonement for sins. Some important symbols include kites, a harelip, brothers, and dualities (of life in Afghanistan versus life in the Western World; summer versus winter; lies and truth; and good and evil). As is the case with many novels, readers are not immediately aware of what is thematically and symbolically significant and may not fully appreciate their inclusion in Chapter 1 until re-reading the chapter after completing the entire text.

The chapter highlights two important lines "for you, a thousand times over" and "there is a way to be good again" by putting both in italics. These lines relate specifically to character, plot, and thematic development throughout The Kite Runner. They also encompass the ideas of service and loyalty and, again, the idea of atonement for sins.

Baba and Ali are characters, and Kabul is a city, yet all three are presented in a list. Readers who do not know that Kabul is a city are at a slight disadvantage, but not for long. And although knowledge of historical events in Afghanistan is not required to understand and appreciate The Kite Runner, this information could assist in understanding the text.

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The Kite Runner

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Khaled Hosseini’s debut novel, The Kite Runner , was published in 2003, two years after the events of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the US invasion of Afghanistan. Hosseini, the son of a diplomat for the Afghan Foreign Ministry, was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and relocated to France as a child. When Afghanistan was thrown into turmoil by the Soviet occupation at the height of the Cold War, Hosseini’s family was granted asylum in the United States and settled in San Jose, California. Decades later, upon reading that the Taliban had outlawed kite fighting in Afghanistan, Hosseini penned a short story he later expanded into the novel The Kite Runner . This study guide is based on the 2020 Kindle edition of the book.

In The Kite Runner , Hosseini uses his intimate knowledge of the culture, its customs, and its people to break down stereotypical depictions of Afghanistan in Western media. Framed as a story of fathers and sons, the novel explores the region’s turbulent history of ground wars following the fall of the monarchy through to the Taliban control, illustrating and defining the lives of Afghani people interrupted by war.

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The narrative follows two friends, Amir—who narrates in the first person—and Hassan . Although they do not know it when the narrative begins, Amir and Hassan are half-brothers by the same father, Baba , who lied to hide a secret affair he had with his servant’s wife. Hassan is an ethnic Hazara and a Shi’a Muslim, while Amir, the protagonist , is Pashtun. Although they exist in separate strata of society, the two are inseparable. When Amir runs afoul of Assef , a blond, blue-eyed Pashtun, Hassan appears from behind Amir with his slingshot and threatens to take Assef’s left eye if he does not leave them alone. This encounter begins a cycle of violence that cascades through the novel, spanning out into their adult lives.

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In the wintertime in Kabul, neighborhood children compete in a kite fighting tournament wherein kite fighters position their glass string to cut rival kites out of the sky. Kite runners chase the last kite of a tournament, a coveted trophy. When Amir wins the kite fighting tournament in the winter of 1975, Amir and Hassan are briefly separated in the frenzy of celebration. Amir finds Hassan cornered in a blind alley by Assef, having run the last kite. Assef pins and rapes Hassan, but Amir never intervenes and never tells anyone, consumed by his want of the kite—in his eyes , a token through which he can gain Baba’s affection.

Unable to cope with his secret guilt, Amir distances himself from Hassan. However, Hassan and his father, Ali , are a constant presence as they tend the grounds of Baba’s home. As Amir’s guilt intensifies, he frames Hassan for theft—a sin Baba has told him is the worst of all sins. When Baba confronts Ali and Hassan about the stolen contraband, Amir is shocked to hear Hassan confess to the theft. Hassan’s false confession is his final act of loyalty to Amir. Despite Baba’s immediate forgiveness, Ali says that living in Baba’s home has become impossible. Although Baba begs them to stay, Baba and Amir never see Ali or Hassan alive again. 

Amir and Baba flee Afghanistan following a destructive Russian invasion in the 1980s, relocating in California. In 2001, Amir learns from Baba’s friend and business partner that Hassan returned to Baba’s house in the late 1980s but was executed by the Taliban, orphaning his young son, Sohrab . When Rahim Khan tells Amir that Hassan was his half-brother, Amir decides he has no other recourse but to journey back to Kabul to retrieve his nephew. 

Amir returns to Kabul and finds that the Afghanistan of his childhood has been battered into a dangerous war zone patrolled by vicious Taliban extremists. He learns Sohrab has been sold into sexual slavery, purchased by a brutal Taliban official who regularly preys on children at a dilapidated warehouse converted into an orphanage. Amir’s guide arranges a meeting with the Taliban official, bringing Amir face to face with an old nemesis, Assef, who believes he has been chosen by God to ethnically purify Afghanistan. Amir offers to pay for Sohrab, but Assef means to make good on his threat to meet Amir in combat, stating that he can leave with Sohrab only after they fight to the death. In the struggle, Amir is gravely wounded, but Sohrab saves him with a slingshot that he fires into Assef’s left eye. 

After Amir recovers in a hospital, he promises Sohrab he will not allow him to go back to an orphanage. However, the legal path to bringing Sohrab to the United States is murky. After a meeting with an immigration lawyer, Amir decides his best chance at leaving Afghanistan with Sohrab is to place him in an orphanage and file a petition. Sohrab is frantic at the news. Soon, however, Amir learns that he can petition Sohrab’s visa after the boy arrives in America. Overjoyed, Amir rushes to tell Sohrab the good news but finds Sohrab has cut his wrists.

In the hospital, Sohrab recovers, but he is stricken with the various traumas of his life and will no longer speak. In America, Amir and his wife, Soraya, adopt Sohrab, but Sohrab is despondent. Amir brings Sohrab on a family outing to join fellow Afghans for a communal cookout to play Afghan music and fly kites following the events of September 11, 2001. A small tournament of kite fighters has formed, and Amir buys a kite for Sohrab. Sohrab is cautious at first but obviously intrigued. When they cut a kite down together, Amir asks Sohrab if he would like him to run it for him, prompting Sohrab to fleetingly smile—a sign of hope in a novel about childhoods disrupted by violence and trauma.

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The Kite Runner Characters

Characters make up the skeleton of a story . They convey the author’s ideas and beliefs about and relationships with the world and other people. Major characters in The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini are discussed below.

Characters in The Kite Runner

Character #1.

One of the central characters, Amir, belongs to an elite class of Afghans having the privilege of living in villas and visiting foreign countries. Rich by Afghan standards, Baba, his father, provides Amir with all the comforts of life, including the best education available. However, he feels emotionally detached from his father,  and he always lets Baba down when it comes to showing courage in the face of trivial confrontations, including protecting his friend and servant, Hassan. However, Baba does not realize that Amir is jealous of the affection that Hassan receives from Baba. He insults Hassan every chance he gets. Despite his cruelty, Hassan is always quick to defend and assist Amir. For this reason, he chooses to go after the blue kite, thinking it will bring Baba’s applause for him. In doing so, he sacrifices Hassan to Assef and his bully friends, who rape him. As an adult, Amir recognizes the injustice that he has done to Hassan and feels remorseful.  He knows that no amount of repentance can now bring him happiness. He comes to know this pain, even more, when he marries Soraya, and they are unable to have children. When Sohrab enters his life, he becomes an antidote to Amir’s pain. When Amir confronts Assef, he thinks that Sohrab is like a lamb to be sacrificed, but he saves him and sacrifices himself. This is how he redeems himself of his past guilt. He then assumes the role of Sohrab’s father, adopts him, and takes him to America .

Character #2

Hassan is an ethnic Hazara boy and is raised as the son of Baba and Amir’s servant, Ali. In reality, he is Baba’s son, and therefore he is Amir’s half-brother, which Amir does not discover until he visits Afghanistan as an adult. Despite Amir’s jealousy toward Hassan, Hassan displays unwavering loyalty toward Amir. However, he feels betrayed when bullies attack him and rape him, and Amir merely watches from a distance without coming to his aid.  Hassan disappears from the novel for a while and reenters as a married adult with a son, Sohrab. Hassan and his wife are killed, and Sohrab is orphaned, setting the stage for Amir to reenter and rescue the boy.

Character #3

A wealthy and secular liberal, Baba’s first reaction toward everything is whether it is right or not. He has tried his best to instill the same qualities in his son, Amir. He thinks that if a person can do good things in his childhood, he can do good things for himself. His persona exudes not only self-assurance h aving developed his own ethical framework. However, it also gives courage and critical thinking when living in an orthodox society. Baba thinks that a person should have the courage of his conviction to the point of laying down his life for it. Amir constantly lets him down in this regard, and he has trouble showing affection toward his son. However, he hides the fact that he has had a child—Hassan—with a Hazara woman, an act of shame for an ethnic Pashtun at that time. Despite failing to recognize Hassan as his son, Baba showers him with affection, setting the stage for Amir’s jealousy of Hassan. However, as an adult, Amir shows his love for Hassan by adopting his son, Sohrab.

Character #4

Rahim Khan  

Rahim Khan is another important character of the novel, who stays very important on account of his business relations with Baba and his belief in Amir. He not only identifies the creative soul in Amir but also encourages him to write stories. Proving a true friend to Amir, he even confronts Baba, who trusts him more than anybody else in the city of Kabul. As an adult, Amir travels to Pakistan to see Rahim Khan, where they discuss his relationship with Hassan. Rahim Khan tells Amir about Sohrab, convincing him to rescue the boy and redeem himself. Rahim finally speaks the truth to Amir to save himself as well as Amir from their guilt of the past.

Character #5  

Sohrab is another major character of the novel, The Kite Runner . He is the son of Hassan and Farzana. When Amir returns to Afghanistan from the United States, he is saddened to find that Hassan has died and that his son, Sohrab, is facing his father’s enemies. He then becomes a focus of the plot when he comes across Assef and Amir, who we learn is actually his uncle. Sohrab suffers a lot of trauma by what he’s experienced with Assef. Later, Amir tries to send him to an orphanage while arranging the legalities of adoption. Terrified of returning to a situation as he had with Assef, Sohrab tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he survives, and Amir takes him to the US with Soraya’s help. However, Sohrab doesn’t speak again for the rest of the novel. There is a slight bit of hope when, in the end, he chases a kite-like his father Hassan and smiles for the first time in a long time.

Character #6

Assef        

A neighboring bully from a German mother and Afghan father, Assef is the antagonist of the novel. A bully to the core, he carries steel brass knuckles to fix the boys who do not fall in line with him. Out of hatred for Hazara’s, he tries to hurt Hassan, who threatens to use his slingshot to gouge out Assef’s eyes. As revenge for Hassan’s humiliation of him, he later rapes Hassan. As an adult, Assef is a member of the Taliban and buys Hassan’s son, Sohrab, and subjects him to sexual abuse.

Character #7

Daughter of a former Afghan general, Taheri, Soraya is a loyal wife for Amir. Her infertility and desire for a child lead Amir to bring Sohrab home with him after his journey to Afghanistan. Soraya soon takes Sohrab in her fold and cares for him, just as she takes care of Baba in his last days. A very kind and loving lady, she helps Amir to have a different view of the world around him; that is, to treat near and dear ones with care and love.

Character #8

An ethnic Hazara, Ali is Baba’s servant and Hassan’s father. As a Hazara and a Shia Muslim, he is an outcast in Kabul; despite this, Baba treats him with love and kindness . Ali is lame in one leg and walks with a limp; this physical deformity makes him the butt of jokes from the street boys. He loves Hassan and passes his admirable character traits, such as loyalty and love, on to him.

Character #9

Hassan’s mother and Ali’s wife, Sanauber, abandons Hassan after he is born. A dancer, she is considered by Afghan society to be a woman of bad character. She returns to Hassan after she has passed her prime with the dancers. She proves a grandmother to Sohrab by the end.

Character #10

A rough and tough taxi driver, Farid befriends Amir and helps him. Amir, too, tries to repay him m by hiding some money under the bed to help him out of his poverty .

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