The Kite Runner - Topics by Jeremy Foote https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04 Please add quotations but do not repeat them. Remember to include the page & chapter number and your name. You can add new topics if you want! en-us 2022-08-15 12:29:49 UTC 2025-07-17 14:19:56 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1e6-1f1eb.png https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522386780 "baba held me close to him, rocking me back and forth. in his arms, i forgot what i'd done. and that was good." (84)

duru


]]> 2025-07-17 13:46:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522386780 https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522387025 "I had one last chance to make a decision. One final opportunity to decide who I was going to be. I could step into that alley, stand up for Hassan, the way he'd stood up for me all those times in the past, and accept whatever would happen to me. Or I could run. In the end, I ran." (Chapter 7) - Nahuel

]]> 2025-07-17 13:47:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522387025 https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522387054 "He asked me to fetch Hassan too, but I lied and told him Hassan had the runs. I wanted Baba all to myself." (14, Chapter 3)

-Berkan

]]> 2025-07-17 13:47:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522387054 https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522387629 "did you know Hassan and you fed from the same breast?" (78)

duru

]]> 2025-07-17 13:48:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522387629 https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522389064 "Hassan never denied me anything"

Nico

]]> 2025-07-17 13:49:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522389064 https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522389577 "for you, a thousand times over"

-duru

]]> 2025-07-17 13:50:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522389577 https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522390046 "I would always feel guilty about it later. So I'd try to make up for it by giving him one of my old shirts or a broken toy. I would tell myself that was amends enough for a harmless prank." (Page 31, Chapter 4)

-Berkan


]]> 2025-07-17 13:51:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522390046 https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522390069 "I treated Hassan well, just like a friend, better even, more like a brother" (Hosseini 44).

-Ella

]]> 2025-07-17 13:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522390069 https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522390708 "Assef slipped on the brass knuckles" (44)

-duru

]]> 2025-07-17 13:52:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522390708 https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522391691 "Hassan was crying. Ali pulled him close, clutched him with tenderness. Later, I would tell myself I hadn't felt envious of Hassan. Not at all." (38, Chapter 4)

-Berkan

]]> 2025-07-17 13:53:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522391691 https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522392247 "something roared like thunder. The earth shook a little and we heard the rat-a-tat-tat of gunfire" (35) -ben

]]> 2025-07-17 13:54:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522392247 https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522392718 "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" (Hosseini 82).

-Ella

]]> 2025-07-17 13:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522392718 https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522392937 "But hes not my friend! i almost blurted. He's my servant!"

duru

]]> 2025-07-17 13:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522392937 https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522394208 "and maybe, just maybe, i would finally be pardoned for killing my mother" (60)

duru

]]> 2025-07-17 13:57:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522394208 https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522394955 "and i wasn;t going to fail baba. not this time." (60)

duru


]]> 2025-07-17 13:58:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522394955 https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522395642 "Would I ever lie to you, Amir Agha?" (Hosseini 57)

-Ella

]]> 2025-07-17 13:59:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522395642 https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522396814 "My grandfather, a respected judge, confronted him, but the thief stabbed him in the throat, killing him instantly" (18) -ben

]]> 2025-07-17 14:00:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522396814 https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522398395 "if you asked, I would" (54) -ben

]]> 2025-07-17 14:03:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522398395 https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522408444 there is a way to be good again (chapter 1) Natalie

]]> 2025-07-17 14:18:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522408444 https://padlet.com/jer_foote/m87bix6xr27tgt04/wish/3522409115 baba saw the world in black and white (chapter 3) Natalie

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