Characters
This is the main character of the book. He grows up in Kabul and leaves due to war and personal guilt over betraying his friend. He eventually moves to Fremont, California where he goes to school and eventually becomes a writer. He gets married.
Who is Amir?
This is the event where Amir attempts to earn Baba's approval. This event is the indirect cause of Hassan's assault.
What is the kite tournament?
The quote that Rahim Khan tells Amir on the phone call.
What is to be good again?
The town where Amir grew up.
Kabul
This is Amir's wife.
Who is Soraya?
This is Amir's childhood friend and servant in the beginning of the book. This person is very loyal and kind is praised by Amir's dad Baba. Amir later discovers that he has died due to war and violence caused by the Taliban.
Who is Hassan?
This is the event that causes Hassan and Ali to be moved out of Baba's house?
What is Amir framing Hassan for stealing?
The quote from Hassan that haunts Amir.
What is "for you, a thousand times over?"
The country that Amir grew up in.
What is Afghanistan?
This is Amir and Hassan's childhood bully.
Who is Assef?
This is Hassan's son. Amir is tasked with saving him in the last act of the book.
Who is Sorab?
This is an event where two characters got engaged.
What is Amir and Soraya's marriage?
What symbol from the text symbolizes Amir guilt in the first half of the book.
What is winter?
The country that Amir and Baba immigrate to.
What is the United States?
This is what Amir grows up to be as an adult.
What is a writer?
This is Amir's dad. He is a very proud, strong man who compares Amir to Hassan in the beginning of the novel. He and Amir leave Afghanistan where he finds work in a flea market in San Jose. He passes peacefully after being diagnosed with lung cancer.
Who is Baba?
This is the event that has Amir come back to Afghanistan after 20 years.
What is Rahim Khan's call?
Amir’s greatest source of guilt stems from this event in the winter of 1975.
What is witnessing Hassan’s assault and doing nothing?
The place where Amir is living in the present.
What is San Francisco?
The name of Hassan's favorite story.
What is Rostam and Sohrab?
This is the family friend who gives Amir a call to have him go back to Afghanistan so that he can be "good again."
Who is Rahim Khan?
This is the event that Amir learns about the shocking truth about his dad and is tasked to save Sohrab.
What is the conversation with Rahim?
This is the word we have used to describe the theme of the book.
What is atonement?
What is Fremont, California?
The shocking truth Amir learns about Baba.
What is learning that Hassan is his brother? OR What is finding out Hassan's dad is Baba?