The Kite Runner - Topics and Themes by Jeremy Foote https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery Please add quotations but do not repeat them. Remember to include the page number and your name. en-us 2022-04-08 18:20:07 UTC 2025-10-02 23:40:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1e6-1f1eb.png "And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too." mmclean33 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136826024 page 58, Maggie]]> 2022-04-08 19:10:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136826024 "'For you a thousand times over!' he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner". dgibson34 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136826507 Pg. 71 - Doug]]> 2022-04-08 19:10:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136826507 "He asked me to fetch Hassan too, but I lied and told him Hassan had the runs. I wanted Baba all to myself." amohsin2 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136826779 Pg. 14
-Abdur-Rehman]]> 2022-04-08 19:11:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136826779 "In the end, I was Pashtun and he was Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was ever going to change that." mmclean33 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136827357 Page 27, maggie]]> 2022-04-08 19:11:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136827357 Page 119 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136827412 "This had to be a dream. Had to be. Tomorrow morning, I'd wake up, peek out the window: No grim-faced Russian soldiers patrolling the sidewalks, no tanks rolling up and down the streets of my city, their turrets swivelling like accusing fingers, no rubble, no curfews, no Russian Army Personnel Carriers weaving through the bazaars" - William]]> 2022-04-08 19:11:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136827412 lgarbe5 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136828212 ..."You're the brother I never had, Ali, you know that. Please don't do this."
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Then I saw Baba do something I had never seen him before: he cried.
-Lara]]> 2022-04-08 19:12:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136828212 My favourite part of reading to Hassan was when we came across big word that he didn’t know . I’d tease him , expose his ignorance . https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136828832 Page 30 Anton]]> 2022-04-08 19:13:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136828832 "Sometimes I wished he wouldn't do that. Wished he's let me be the favorite." mmclean33 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136828849 Page 54, maggie]]> 2022-04-08 19:13:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136828849 Then Hassan did pick up a pomegranate. He walked toward me. He opened it and crushed it against his own forehead. https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136828876 p. 98 
robin]]> 2022-04-08 19:13:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136828876 Liam lgibson37 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136829411 "They were foreign sounds to us then.  The generation of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of bombs and gunfire was not yet born (39)]]> 2022-04-08 19:13:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136829411 I turned thirteen that summer of 1976, Afghanistan's next to last summer of peace and anonymity. https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136830881 p. 99 
robin]]> 2022-04-08 19:15:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136830881 "This was Hassan's final sacrifice for me... He knew I had betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time. cross130 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136831248 Page 111, Claire]]> 2022-04-08 19:15:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136831248 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136831283 Because the truth of it was, I always felt like Baba hated me a little. And why not? After all, I had killed his beloved wife, his beautiful princess, hadn’t I? The least I could have done was to have had the decency to have turned out a little more like him. But I hadn’t turned out like him.
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-harry]]> 2022-04-08 19:15:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136831283 "I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to tell them all that I was the snake. in the grass, the monster in the lake." (111) -Lara lgarbe5 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136831822

]]> 2022-04-08 19:16:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136831822 "If he'd said no, Baba would have believed. him because we all knew Hassan never lied." cross130 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136833066 Page 111, Claire]]> 2022-04-08 19:17:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136833066 tefovi https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136833696 He positioned himself behind Hassan. Hassan didn't struggle. Didn't even whimper. He moved his head slightly and I caught a glimpse of his face. Saw the resignation in it. It was a look I had seen before. It was the look of a lamb. (pg.81)
- Téa

]]> 2022-04-08 19:18:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136833696 By the end of the summer, the scraping of spoon and fork against the plate had replaced dinner table chatter and Baba had resumed retreating to his study after supper. https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136834067 p. 99
robin]]> 2022-04-08 19:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136834067 "'Hit me back!' I spat. 'Hit me back, goddamn you!' I wished he would. I wished he'd give me the punishment I craved, so maybe I'd finally sleep at night". dgibson34 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136834358 Page 98 - Doug]]> 2022-04-08 19:18:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136834358 Except Baba stunned me by saying, "I forgive you". (112) -Lara lgarbe5 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136834483 2022-04-08 19:18:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136834483 "I flinched, like I'd been slapped. My heart sank and I almost blurted out the truth. Then I understood: This was Hassan's final sacrifice for me. If he'd said no, Baba would have believed him because we all knew Hassan never lied. And if Baba believed him, then I'd be the accused; I would have to explain and I would be revealed for what I really was". https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136835073
Julian ]]> 2022-04-08 19:19:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136835073 "He'd referred to Assef as 'Agha', and I wondered briefly what it must be like to live with such an ingrained sense of one's place in a hierarchy." mmclean33 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136836340 Page 45, maggie]]> 2022-04-08 19:20:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136836340 Page 122 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136836714 "They spoke. "He says this is war. There is no shame in war." "Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in time of peace."
William]]> 2022-04-08 19:21:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136836714 "For how he'd grow old in that mud shack in the yard, the way his father had." (62) -Lara lgarbe5 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136837260 2022-04-08 19:21:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136837260 "Hassan's face was my earliest memory and I knew all of it's subtle nuances, knew each and every twitch and flicker that ever rippled across it." mmclean33 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136837608 Page 45, maggie]]> 2022-04-08 19:21:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136837608 "My family would have never accepted her as an equal. You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next." aabdalla1 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136837809 p 105
asseel]]> 2022-04-08 19:22:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136837809 “What does he know, that illiterate Hazara? He’ll never be anything but a cook. How dare he criticize me.” amohsin2 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136837825 Pg. 37
-Abdur-Rehman]]> 2022-04-08 19:22:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136837825 Page 124 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136839450 "We rode in silence for about fifteen minutes before the young woman's husband suddenly stood and did something I'd seen many others do before him: He kissed Baba's hand"
- William]]> 2022-04-08 19:23:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136839450 "My smile broadened. That was another thing about Hassan. He always knew when to say the right thing... " mmclean33 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136839655 Page 40, maggie]]> 2022-04-08 19:24:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136839655 "Baba and I immersed ourselves in a sweet illusion, saw each other in a way that we never had before. We’d actually deceived ourselves into thinking that a toy made of tissue paper, glue, and bamboo could somehow close the chasm between us." aabdalla1 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136839884 pg 93
 asseel]]> 2022-04-08 19:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136839884 "Do what?"..."Eat dirt if I told you to," ... "If you asked, I would" lgarbe5 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136840579 page 57,58, lara]]> 2022-04-08 19:25:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136840579 "But in none of his stories did Baba ever refer to Ali as his friend". https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136841483 Pg. 27
Julian ]]> 2022-04-08 19:26:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136841483 "Nothing was free in this world. Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay to win Baba." amohsin2 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136842725 Pg. 82
-Abdur-Rehman]]> 2022-04-08 19:27:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136842725 "the official would come first in April 1979, when Russian tanks would roll into the very same streets where Hassan and I played, bringing the death of Afghanistan I knew and marking the start of a still ongoing era of bloodletting." (39) mfisk3 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136842967 - Matt

]]> 2022-04-08 19:27:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136842967 "I wished I too had some scar that would beget Baba’s sympathy. It wasn’t fair. Hassan hadn’t done anything to earn Baba’s affections; he’d just been born with that stupid harelip." aabdalla1 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136843836 pg 50
asseel]]> 2022-04-08 19:28:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136843836 "But in none of his stories did Baba ever refer to Ali as his friend." mmclean33 https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136844176 Page 27, maggie]]> 2022-04-08 19:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jfoote23/qj42lwut18zi8ery/wish/2136844176