The Kite Runner by Miss Jensen https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx Add quotes to each topic. en-us 2017-11-01 18:02:04 UTC 2025-11-10 21:55:06 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204059377 "For you a thousand times over" (67) -Karalee]]> 2017-11-06 18:54:18 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204059377 "But he's not my friend! I almost blurted. He's my servant!" (41) - Bryanna M. https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204061105 2017-11-06 18:56:48 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204061105 "Hassan's reply was a single word, delivered in a thin, raspy voice: "Yes."" https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204062174 (105) Maxwell]]> 2017-11-06 18:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204062174 "i watched Hassan get raped , i said to no one" https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204062325 (86)- Elihu

]]> 2017-11-06 18:58:32 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204062325 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204062606 "... For the first time since the winter of 1975, I felt at peace. I laughed because I saw that, in some hidden corner of my mind, I'd been looking forward to this." (289) -Nile

]]> 2017-11-06 18:59:00 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204062606 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204063089 "Most days I worshiped Baba with an intensity approaching the religious. But right then, I wished I could drain his blood from my veins" (32) -Emma]]> 2017-11-06 18:59:55 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204063089 "Amir agha won the tournament and I ran this kite for him. I ran it fairly. This is his kite." (72) - Bryanna M https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204063459 2017-11-06 19:00:36 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204063459 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204063474 "I ran because I was a coward .I was afraid of Assef and what he would do to me." (77)- Jesus]]> 2017-11-06 19:00:38 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204063474 "I wished I could open any veins and drain his cursed blood from by body."(32)-Maira H https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204063549 2017-11-06 19:00:44 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204063549 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204064006 "]]> 2017-11-06 19:01:33 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204064006 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204064234 "Amir agha and I are friends,"Hassan said
(72) Greg]]> 2017-11-06 19:01:59 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204064234 "It's just a Hazara." (75) -Nile https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204064353 2017-11-06 19:02:11 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204064353 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204064753 "Baba and I lived in the same house, but in different spheres of existence. Kites were the one paper-thin slice of intersection between those spheres." (49) -Emma]]> 2017-11-06 19:02:53 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204064753 "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. (77) -Bryanna M. https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204064781 2017-11-06 19:02:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204064781 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204065107 Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words.

Mine was Baba.

His was Amir. My name. 
(11) - Winter C]]> 2017-11-06 19:03:32 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204065107 "I took a couple envelopes of cash from the pile of gifts and my watch... I lifted Hassan's mattress and planted my new watch..." (104) -Cathy C. https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204065389 2017-11-06 19:04:00 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204065389 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204065889 "Baba would dismiss them, there would be some pain, but life would move on. I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again." (105) -Karalee]]> 2017-11-06 19:04:51 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204065889 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204066120 "Amir agha won the kite tournament and I ran this kite for him. I ran it fairly. This is his kite." (72) -Emma]]> 2017-11-06 19:05:12 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204066120 " https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204066208 2017-11-06 19:05:22 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204066208 Betrayal https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204066245  I knew I was being cruel, like when I'd taunt him if he didn't know some big word. But there was something fascinating – albeit in a sick way – about teasing Hassan. Kind of like when we used to play insect torture. Except now, he was the ant and I was holding the magnifying glass.
(54) - Winter C]]> 2017-11-06 19:05:26 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204066245 "Amir and Hassan, the sultans of Kabul."(27)- Maira H https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204066431 2017-11-06 19:05:45 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204066431 "Everywhere I turned, I saw signs of his loyalty, his goddamn unwavering loyalty." (89) - Bryanna M. https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204066980 2017-11-06 19:06:41 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204066980 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204067011 “You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.” -Angel

]]> 2017-11-06 19:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204067011 What mission is that?I heard myself say. "stoning adulterers?Raping children? Flogging women for wearing high heels?Massacring Hazaras?All in the name of Islam?" https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204067169 (284) Greg]]> 2017-11-06 19:07:00 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204067169 "This was teetering on the dangerously on the verge of gossip material, and the best kind of it. Poison tongues would flap. And she would bear the brunt of that poison, not me-I was fully aware of the Afghan double standard that favored my gender." https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204067402 (146) Maxwell]]> 2017-11-06 19:07:24 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204067402 "where were you? i looked for you? I looked for you" I said. Speaking those words was like chewing on a rock. https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204069677 (78)-javier ]]> 2017-11-06 19:10:55 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204069677 Sometimes, up in those trees, I talked Hassan into firing walnuts... Hassan never denied me anything." (3) -Cathy C https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204069825 2017-11-06 19:11:07 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204069825 "Sad for who Hassan was,were he lived. for how he'd accept the fact that he'd grow oldin that mud shack in the yard, the way his father had" (58)- Elihu https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204071140 2017-11-06 19:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204071140 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204071985 bottom text]]> 2017-11-06 19:14:47 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204071985 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204072167 "Hollering and clapping. And that right there was the single greatest moment of my twelve of life, seeing Baba on that roof, proud of me at least. " (66) Miguel S.]]> 2017-11-06 19:15:04 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204072167 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204072207 Hassan and I stand ankle-deep in untamed grass, I am tugging on the line, the spool spinning in Hassan's calloused hands, our eyes turned up to the kite in the sky. Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything – that's how it is between people who are each other's first memories, people who have fed from the same breast.
(122) - Winter C]]> 2017-11-06 19:15:09 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204072207 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204073327 "Baba would never, ever forgive me. And that lead to another understanding: Hassan knew. He knew I'd seen everything in the alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew I had betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time." (105) -meadow]]> 2017-11-06 19:17:09 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204073327 He motioned to me to hold his hat for him and I was glad to,because then everyone would see that he was my father,my Baba. https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204073760 (14) Greg]]> 2017-11-06 19:17:54 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204073760 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204074243 "I should have been beaming with pride when he dropped me off -the old me would have -but all I could muster was a mild form of embarrassment." (90) Miguel S.]]> 2017-11-06 19:18:41 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204074243 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204973959 " You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too."
(15)- Marina ]]> 2017-11-08 18:19:48 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204973959 "He...He tried to hurt me once...your father saved me...one day the bad man hurt your father instead.. I..I couldnt save your father the way he saved me." (319)He is finally feeling bad about not helping. https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204974143 Dom.T]]> 2017-11-08 18:20:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204974143 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204975849 " They stood before Baba, hand in hand, and I wondered how and when I'd become capable of causing this kind of pain."
(105)-Marina ]]> 2017-11-08 18:22:29 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204975849 “Think of something good; Baba said in my ear. ‘Something happy.” (pg 129)-Maria Sandoval https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204976290 2017-11-08 18:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204976290 The Talibs said he was a liar and a thief, like all Hazaras... https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204976581 (218)Ryan Baxter]]> 2017-11-08 18:23:32 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204976581 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204977121 "Yes, Father," Hassan would mumble, looking down at his feet. But he never told on me. Never told that the mirror, like shooting walnuts at the neighbor's dog, was always my idea. (2.2-3)- Brittney S ]]> 2017-11-08 18:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204977121 "Door to door we went, calling for the men and boys. We'd shoot them right there in front of their families. Let them see. Let them remember who they were, where they belonged" (277) -Nancy L https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204977344 2017-11-08 18:24:43 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204977344 Loyalty https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204977345 ''But he would not.He said it was a matter of ihtiram ,a matter of respect.He and Farzana moved their things into the hut in the backyard,where he was born''(208).-Lourdes f.

]]> 2017-11-08 18:24:43 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204977345 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204977606 "I think he loved us equally but differently"(322)-Emma C ]]> 2017-11-08 18:25:08 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204977606 "Hassan had no intention to move into the house...Said it was a matter or respect..."what will Amir agha think?"" (208) https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204977686 Dom.T]]> 2017-11-08 18:25:15 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204977686 Rahim kahn said id always been to hard on myself. https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204978997 -Amir 
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(pg226)]]> 2017-11-08 18:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204978997 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204979248 " I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently of i had. But i didn't. I just watched. Paralyzed." ( 73)- Carlos M
 ]]> 2017-11-08 18:27:31 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204979248 Hassan and i fed from the same breast,we took our first steps in the same lawn yard, and under the same roof, we spoke our first words mine was BaBa his was Amir. My name (11) MoIzes https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204979442 2017-11-08 18:27:48 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204979442 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204979649 "Your Hazara made a big mistake today, Amir, " he said . They then turned around , walked away. I watched them walk down the hill and disappear behind a wall.(43)-Pamela]]> 2017-11-08 18:28:10 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204979649 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204980161 "I've never laid a hand on you,Amir,but if you ever say that again...."you bring me shame..."(90)-Emma C ]]> 2017-11-08 18:29:01 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204980161 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204980195 "I was afraid of Assef and what he would do to me." (77)-Ashley B


]]> 2017-11-08 18:29:05 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204980195 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204980419 "He asked me to fetch Hassan too, but I lied and told him Hassan had the runs. I wanted Baba all to myself,"(13). - Abi L

]]> 2017-11-08 18:29:23 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204980419 "We left their bodies in the streets, and if their families tried to sneak out to drag them back into their homes, we'd shoot them too. We left them in the streets for days. We left them for the dogs. Dog meat for dogs" (277) - Nancy L https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204980582 2017-11-08 18:29:39 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204980582 I heard Hassan next to me, croaking. Tears were sliding down his cheeks. I reached across my seat, slung my arm around him, pulled him close. He rested his head on my shoulder. -Breanna https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204980699 2017-11-08 18:29:50 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204980699 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204982458 I preoccupied myself with gravity and momentum,atoms  and cells, Anglo-Afghan wars, instead of thinking about Hassan and what had happened to him.(pg-91)- Esther J]]> 2017-11-08 18:32:34 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204982458 "In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity." (pg.333) https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204982470 -Alex J]]> 2017-11-08 18:32:35 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204982470 Baba was used to winning, winning at everything he set his mind to. Didn't he have a right to expect the same from his son?-Breanna https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204982705 2017-11-08 18:32:55 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204982705 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204982867 "I was always learning things about Baba from other people,"(18). -Abi L]]> 2017-11-08 18:33:12 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204982867 "Amir Jan is my only son... my only child, and he has been a good son to me" (168 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204982999 Logan M

]]> 2017-11-08 18:33:23 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204982999 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204983182 "When you kill a man, you steal a life" Baba said.'' You steal his wife's right to a husband,rob his children of a father.when you tell a lie you steal someone's right to the truth.When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness do you see ? I did.'' (18) 
-Lourdes]]> 2017-11-08 18:33:41 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204983182 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204984724 "i think we both know why it has to be you, don't we "
(221) - roy orozco]]> 2017-11-08 18:36:02 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204984724 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204988731 "Your father was very brave and he was always rescuing me from trouble, standing up for me...I couldn't save your father the way he had saved me." (319) Tim C]]> 2017-11-08 18:42:18 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204988731 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204990595 "You promised you'd never put me in one of those places, Amir agha," (341) - Blaize B ]]> 2017-11-08 18:44:59 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204990595 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204991377 Assef said, laughing. "You pathetic fool! Someday you'll wake up from your little fantasy and learn just how good of a friend he is.Now, bas! Enough of this. Give us that kite."
 Marco G   (PG, 72)

]]> 2017-11-08 18:46:01 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204991377 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204995433 "I wanted to pull him close, hold him tell him the world had been unkind to him, not the other way around." (318)-Tim C]]> 2017-11-08 18:52:13 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204995433 A loyal https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204996718 A loyal Hazara. Loyal as a dog,'' Assef said kamals laugh was a shrill, nervous sound. pg(72) EstherJ  ]]> 2017-11-08 18:53:51 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/204996718 https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/205003671
"Then I was screaming, and everything was color and sound, everything was alive and good. I was throwing my free arm around Hassan and we were hopping up and down, both of us laughing, both of us weeping. “You won, Amir agha! You won!” (66) Theo Frame


]]> 2017-11-08 19:05:04 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/205003671 Betrayal https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/206362709 Have you ever wondered why he plays with you when no one is around . ( 72) 
Natali L.]]> 2017-11-13 17:16:54 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/206362709 Betrayal https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/206364686 I ran back because I was a coward. I was afraid of Assef and what he would do to me. (76)
Natali L.]]> 2017-11-13 17:20:11 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/206364686 Guilt https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/206366229 But always my mind returned to the alley. To the droplets of blood staining the snow dark red, almost black. ( 91 ). 
Natali L.]]> 2017-11-13 17:22:38 UTC https://padlet.com/pjensen4/t7anyjfjvukx/wish/206366229