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One of the two major religious divisions of Islam, regarding the first four caliphs as legitimate successors of Muhammad and stressing the importance of Sunna as a basis for law.

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Pashtuns are required to be Muslims, their intellectuals, and academics. It is the Afghan culture, it is based on Islam and Pashtunwali.

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Second Larges branch of Islam, Shi'a is a collective Shi'i individual (Amir).

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Shi'a Muslims, Afghans discriminate against the Hazara (Hassan)

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" Of all the neighborhood boys who tortured Ali, Assef was by far the most relentless."

I think this is important because Assef is always bullying and messing with Amir and Hassan, and this tells us that Assef is harsh and the most cruel.

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" Hassan could not read a first grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling, but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed."

I find this quote said by Amir important because this helps the readers understand that even though Hassan was a servant to Amir, he thought of Hassan as a friend but did not want to admit that because Hassan is a lower class than him.

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“Just before midnight, Baba asked us to help into bed.”
I find this important because Baba is sick with cancer. The cancer has also spread to his brain. He was in the hospital and Amir asked if he could go with General Taheri for the marriage. Baba does go the next day. Amir loses Baba and now he has to be responsible for himself.

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White rice with spinach and lamb.

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Meaning Brave or a good job.

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Wife. which this is important because Amir ends up getting married.

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The ruler of a muslim country.

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Chapters 1-6
Children struggle to gain parent approval.

"i cleared it and told him i’ve written a story. Baba nodded and gave a thin smile that conveyed a little more than feigned interest.” (Pg.31)
Amir is constantly fighting for the approval of Baba.

Chapters 7-14
When Amir and Baba move to America, Amir finally felt the acceptance he needed from Baba.

"‘ I am moftakhir, Amir, ‘ he said. proud. his eyes gleamed when he said that I liked being on the recieving end of that look” (pg.131)

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Chapters 1-6
Brothers don’t have to be blood related.

"Then he would remind us that there was a brotherhood between people who fed from the same breast, a kinship that not even time could break” (pg.11)

Amir & Hassan are like brothers because of the experiences they share. Because of their different values their friendship is nothing like brotherhood.

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Chapters 7-14
You grow up when what once protected you is lost.

"‘ You’re 22 years old, Amir! A grown man! You...’ he opened his mouth, closed it, reconsidered” (pg.157)

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Chapters 7-14
Betrayal leads to guilt.

"I stopped watching, turned away from the alley. Something warm was running down my wrist. I blinked, saw I was still biting down on my fist, hard enough to draw blood from the knuckles. I realized something else. I was weeping. From just around the corner, I could hear Assef’s quick, rhythmic grunts” (pg.77)

Amir betrays Hassan, he lets him down. After all of the times Hassan saved Amir, he just leaves him there.

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"Huddled together in the dining room and waiting for the sun to rise, none of us had any notion that a way of life had ended" (Hosseini 36)

Ali, Hassan, Amir, and Baba are all hiding inside during the gunfire. Though the characters are not aware right away their lifestyle would change from that point forward.

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"I was going to win, and I was going to run that last kite. Then I'd bring it home and show it to Baba. Show him once and for all that his son was worthy. Then maybe my life as a ghost in this house would finally be over" (Hosseini 56).
It's tough to hear how much Amir carves his father's attention. Amir wants o be worthy in his father's eyes, talk to him at dinner, to have his father's attention and to simply hear his father express affection for him.

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" I ran because I was a coward. I was afraid of Assef and what he would do to me. I was afraid of getting hurt. That's what I told myself as I turned my back to the alley, to Hassan" (Hosseini)

In this passage, Amir watches as Assef rapes Hassan. It is horrific and cruel. Somehow, Amir believes he can win his father's love if he brings back the blue kite. He is right to an extent. Amir ignores Hassan because he is scared that Hassan knows that he saw what happened.

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Chapters 1-6
"Then his lips twitched, and that time, I knew just what he was doing he was smiling. Just as he had, emerging from his mother's womb" (Hosseini 47)
Hassan had recently gotten surgery to fix his harelip, he is also described as a person who smiles all the time no matter what. It is ironic however he stopped smiling that same year during the Winter.

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" I can still see Hassan up on that tree, sunlight flickering through the leaves on his almost perfectly round face, a face like a Chinese doll chiseled from hardwood..." (Hosseini 3)

Hosseini's choice of words makes it very easy to visualize Hassan. Imagery is pretty common throughout the novel.

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"We had both betrayed the people who had given their lives for us" (Hosseini 226)

Amir realizes he is more like Baba than he had originally thought. What they share is betrayal of their best friends. Baba had betrayed Ali, by sleeping with Sanaubar.

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"I remember one day we were planting tulips, when I asked Baba if he'd every consider getting new servants. 'Hassan's not going anywhere,' he'd barked. 'He's staying right here with us where he belongs, this is his home, and we are his family'" (Hosseini 225)

Amir is realizing all the signs in his past that would have lead him to find out that Hassan was his brother.

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Chapters 1-6
" I wish I too had some kind of scar that would beget Baba's sympathy. It wasn't fair. Hassan had not done anything to deserve Baba's affections; he'd just been born with that stupid harelip" (Hosseini 46)

This piece of evidence represents Amir's jealousy of Hassan when he receives attention from his Baba.

Chapters 7-14
"'Hassan's not going anywhere,' Baba snapped. He dug a new hole with the trowel, skirting the dirt harder than he had to. 'He's right here with us , where he belongs. This is his home and we are his family. Don't you ever ask me that question again!"' (Hosseini 90)

Amir gets hit hard by this because Baba is constantly taking up for Hassan.

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Chapters 1-6
"They'd all just rot in Hazarajat where they belong. You're a disgrace to Afghanistan" (Hossieni 41)

Being Hazara, he is mistreated in the only world that exists to him and he has to live it out daily.

Chapters 7-14

"'It's just a Hazara,' Assef said. But Kamal kept looking away. 'Fine,' Assef snapped. 'All I want you weaklings to do is hold him down. Can you manage that?"' (Hosseini 75)

Because Hassan is a Hazara, Assef thinks it would be less of a sin to rape him.

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"'Please leave us alone, Agha,' Hassan said in a flat tone"' (Hosseini 42)

Amir realizes how low Hassan's status is compared to his when he called Assef Agha. Amir feels guilt when he sees Hassan's status against Assef's Pashtun power.

Chapters 7-14
'" Thank you Ali' I said. I wished they hadn't gotten me anything"' (Hosseini 103)

Amir felt guilty that Ali and Hassan had gotten him a gift with the little money they did have.

Chapters 15-23

Amir had tried to put Hassan in the past, but when he gets brought up Amir is filled with guilt.
"'Hassan,' I said. When was the last time I had spoken his name? Those thorny old barbs of guilt bore into me once more, as if speaking his name had broken a spell, set them free to torment me anew" (Hosseini 202)

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Air struggles against Assef. Amir is too scared to save Hassan from Assef, which leaves guilt on Amir. " I ran because I was a coward. I was afraid of Assef and what he would do to me. I was afraid of getting hurt. That's what I told myself as I turned my back to the alley, to Hassan" (Hosseini 77)

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Baba works at a gas station and has a hard time adjusting to life in the U.S. One day when Baba was trying to buy something from the convenient store the manager asked to see Baba's ID when he tries to pay with a check. Baba gets very angry because back in Afghanistan everyone trusted everyone and didn't ask for ID.
"'He wants to see my license,' Baba bellowed in Farsi,' Almost two years we've bought his damn fruits and put money in his pocket and the son of a dog wants to see my license"' (Hosseini 127)

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Chapters 1-6
Amir is the narrator. He is also the son of Baba. "I became who I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975" (Hosseini 1)

Amir is very unsure of himself when it comes to meeting Baba's "standards".
"After all, didn't all fathers in their secret hearts harbor a desire to ill their sons" (Hosseini 29)

Chapters 7-14
Amir is learning how to be on his own for the first time in his whole life. "Now he's gone. Baba couldn't show me the way anymore; I'd have to find it on my own. The thought of that terrified me" (Hosseini 174)

Chapters 15-23
Amir experiences acceptance in these chapters as he figures out that he has a half-brothe, Hassan. "He was my brother.' I swallowed. Added, 'My legitimate half brother"' (Hosseini 237)

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Hassan is the servant of Baba and Amir. He is very loyal and caring. '" Some day, Inshallah, you will be a great writer, 'Hassan said" (Hosseini 33)

Amir and Hassan were raised together. Hassan stayed in the hut and Amir stayed in the house. Although Hassan was the servant Amir and Hassan were best friends. "Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words" (Hosseini 11)

Chapters 7-14
After getting raped Hassan goes through a hard time in his life where his is always sleeping and never comes out of the hut. "Lately, it seems all he wants to do is sleep. He does his chores- I see to that- but then he just wants to crawl under his blanket" (Hosseini 81)

Chapters 15-23
Hassan was a very hard working man. He was also very respectful. "Hassan tended to the flowers in the garden, soaked the roots, picked off yellowing leaves, and planted rose bushes" (Hosseini 208)

Chaoters 24-25
Hassan was a very brave individual.
"Your father was very brave and he was always rescuing me from trouble, standing up for me" (Hosseini 319)

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Baba is a very nonreligious  individual.
Now, No matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. and that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft” (Hosseini 17)

Baba is intimidating by his appearance.

“My father was a force of nature a towering Pashtun specimen with a thick beard, a wayward crop of curly brown hair as unruly as the man himself...” (Hosseini 12)

Baba was a wealthy businessman. He was very generous.
“Baba paid for the construction of the two-story orphanage, just off the strip of Jadeh Maywand south of the Kabul River, with his own money” (Hosseini 13)

Chapters 7-14

Baba is the type of man that if he says something he means it and you aren’t going to change his mind. “Baba refused.” They tried to get me into talking him into it.

Chapters 15-23

Baba also had guilt inside just like Amir.

" We both had betrayed the people who had given their lives for us” (Hosseini 226)

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Asset was a very cruel person. Hea taunted Amir and Hassan.
"‘Good morning, Kunis!’ Added exclaimed, waving. ‘Fag,’ that was another one of his favorite insults.” (Hosseini 39)

He is very disrespectful.

"You’re part of the problem, Amir. If idiots like you and your father didn’t take these people in, we’d be rid of them by now” (Hosseini 41)

Chapters 7-14

Asset was inhuman with the way he treated people.

"He kept one hand on Hassan’s back and undid his own belt buckle with his free hand. He unzipped his jeans. Dropped his underwear. He positioned himself behind Hassan” (Hosseini 75)

Chapters 15-23

Throughout the Kite Runner, Assef continues to be a horrible person.
"’when it’s all done, only one of us will walk out of this room alive,’ Assef said” (Hosseini 287

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Rahim Khan is a friend of Baba’s and Amir’s. He is Baba’s closest confidant.
"Here was Baba and his best friend and his business partner, Rahim Khan, standing outside our house” (Hosseini 5)

Chapters 7-14

Rahim was a very thoughtful person. He knew how much Amir loved writing so he bought him a notebook for his birthday.
"The only gift i didn’t toss into the pile was Rahim Khan’s leather bound notebook. That was the only gift that didnt feel like bloody money” (Hosseini 102)

Chapters 15-23

Rahim Khan had a naturalness about himself.

"Raging Khan had always been one of the most instinctive people I’d ever met” (Hosseini 198)

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Ali is the father of Hassan. He is also the servant of Baba, he is a diligent worker.
"Buoyed by Rahim Khan’s note, I grabbed the story and hurried downstairs to the foyer where Ali and Hassan were sleeping on the mattress. That was the only time they slept in the house, when Baba was away and Ali had to watch over me.” (Hosseini 33)

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Sanaubar was the mother of Hassan and Ali’s wife over a certain period of time.

"While my mother hemoragged to death during childbirth, Hassan lost his less than a week after he was born. lost her to a fate most Afghans considered far worse than death; she ran of with a clan of traveling singers and dancers” (Hosseini 6)

Chapters 15-23

When Sanaubar came back into Hassan’s life she was the most caring grandmother ever.
"She sewed clothes for him, built him from scraps of wood, rags, and dried grass” (Hosseini 211)

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He was Amir’s fifth grade teacher.
"When i was in fifth grade we had a mullah who taught us about Islam. His name was mullah fatiulla khan, a short, stubby man with a face full of acne scars and a gruff voice” (Hosseini 15)

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Chapters 7-14

Soroya’s father and a friend of Baba. General Taheri is proud to the point of arrogance sometimes, and he places great value on upholding Afghan traditions.

"”’How are you, my friend?’ General Taheri said, taking Baba’s hand. Baba motioned to the IV handing from his arm. Smiled thinly. The general smiled back” (Hosseini 160)

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Chapters 7-14

When Soroya was 18 she ran away with a drug dealer, this is a big part of her past. She has changed for the better.

"I didn’t step out of the house for weeks. And when I did, I heard whispers or imagined them everywhere I went. That was four years ago and three thousand miles away and I am still hearing them”’ (Hosseini 179).