Plot
Where does the majority of the novel take place? What country?
What is Afghanistan?
Who says "for you a thousand times over"?
Who is Hassan?
Who is Hassan's real father?
Who is Baba?
Why does Amir go to Kabul to search for Sohrab?
What is to redeem himself from past mistakes and to correct his failures to hassan?
What color is the kite that Hassan runs for Amir?
What is blue?
Where did Hassan's mother go after Hassan was born?
What is ran away with the circus?
Who said,"My body was broken—just how badly I wouldn’t find out until later—but I felt healed. Healed at last. I laughed."?
Who is Amir?
Who is the best kite runner in Kabul?
Who is Hassan?
What does Amir's eventual split lip represent? What does it suggest?
It represents the merging of his and Hassan's identity. It suggests that his actions in the past have affected his future. (other answers will suffice)
Where did Baba work while they were in the U.S.?
What is a gas station?!! RIP BABA
What does Baba gift Hassan for his birthday?
What is surgery to correct his cleftlip?
What character says "What you did was wrong, Amir jan, but do not forget that you were a boy when it happened." to Amir?
Who is Rahim Khan?
Whom does Assef view as a role model?
What is Hitler....?
Come up with a thematic statement about The Kite Runner with the universal idea of guilt.
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Why does Amir want to win the kite running competition so badly?
What is to win his fathers approval?
Why does Amir have difficulty adopting Sohrab?
What is no death certificates solidifying Sohrab's parents' deaths?
In what part of the book is the quote, "Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting." said by Amir?
What is the ending scene?
What is business partners?
Come up with a thematic statement about The Kite Runner with the universal idea of hierarchy.
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What does Amir hide in Hassan's bed? What is the significance of the situation?
What is a watch Baba gave him and money? Amir does this to make Hassan leave.
What historical event brought about the end of the Afghanistan that Amir knew as a child?
What is the Soviet invasion?
Amir has a conversaion with a character: "Where are the trees?’ I said. ‘People cut them down for firewood in the winter,’ _____ said. The Shorawi cut a lot of them down too.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Snipers used to hide in them.’" Who is the character he's talking to?
Who is Farid?
Who is Farzana?
Come up with a thematic statement about The Kite Runner with the universal idea of revenge.
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What memory does Amir reminisce on of him and Hassan as children?
What is playing a pretend game with a turtle that has a painted shell?