Characters
This character tells the story of The Kite Runner.
Who is Amir?
Baba's job when he and Amir are living in Freemont, California.
What is manager of a gas station?
This is the symbol of Amir and Hassan's friendship.
What is the pomegranate tree?
The main characters in the novel who are Hazara.
Who are Ali and Hassan?
"A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up for anything."
Who is Baba?
Who is Ali?
The reason why Hassan didn't know his mother until later in his life.
What is because she abandoned him after seeing he was born with a cleft palate?
Apply one theme to the novel.
Answers will vary.
The main characters in the novel who are Pashtun.
Who are Baba, Amir, and Rahim Khan, and Assef?
"It’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out."
Who is Amir?
The two "best friends" of Assef.
Who are Kamal and Wali?
The reason Amir never knew his mother.
What is she died during childbirth?
The entire novel is told from one of these.
What is a flashback?
The two types of Muslims.
What are Sunni and Shi'a Muslims?
Who is Hassan?
Amir's driver who initially is skeptical of Amir but later becomes Amir's friend.
Who is Farid?
The country where Assef's parents moved after leaving Afghanistan.
What is Australia?
The fact that both Amir and Hassan share identical scars on their lips best represents this literary term.
What is irony?
The country that overtook Afghanistan in 1979.
What is the Soviet Union (Russia)?
“But I hope you will heed this: A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”
Who is Rahim Khan?
Hassan's wife.
Who is Farzana?
The way in which Kamal, one of Assef's old buddies, dies.
What is he dies in the fuel truck from inhaling too many toxic fumes?
The Kite Runner is told from this perspective.
What is first-person point of view?
This regime overtakes Afghanistan in the 1990's.
Who are the Taliban?
“You’ve always been a tourist here; you just didn’t know it.”
Who is Farid?