The doctors managed to save Sohrab, but he was incommunicative. Sohrab was distraught at this idea and he tried to kill himself. A lawyer told him the only way was to put Sohrab into an orphanage and then try to adopt him. embassy Amir found out it is almost impossible to receive a visa for Sohrab. Amir then made the decision to take Sohrab back to America with him. They hoped to hide from Assef and the Taliban there.įarid found out an orphanage Rahim spoke about for Sohrab didn't exist. There Sohrab stayed by his side while he recovered enough to travel to Islamabad. Assef almost killed Amir, but Sohrab used his slingshot to obliterate Assef's eye and the two escaped.įarid took Amir to a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan. He would give Amir Sohrab, if Amir fought him, this was his revenge for that day so long ago. They located the man, who turned out to be Assef. They located the orphanage Sohrab was sent to, but found out the director had sold him to a Taliban official. Farid was willing to help Amir, after he found out the reason he wanted to go to Kabul. Hassan was Amir's half-brother, by Hassan's mother and Baba.Īmir and Farid, who agreed to take Amir to Kabul, began the long trip. The favor Rahim wanted was for Amir to find the boy, because he was Amir's half-nephew. They shot Hassan and his wife when they said they belonged in the house. Rahim traveled to Pakistan to see doctors and the Taliban found out a Hazara family was living in Baba's house. In 1990 Hassan's son was born and they named him Sohrab. Rahim told Amir he located Hassan in 1986, living with his wife in a small house. Rahim told Amir he wanted him to do him a favor, but first he must hear the story of Hassan's life. In Pakistan, Amir learned that for a time Hassan lived with Rahim in Baba's house. Rahim was ill, but he told Amir "there is a way to be good again". One day, Amir received a phone call from Rahim Khan asking him to come to Pakistan. After Amir's first book was published they decided to start a family, but found out Soraya couldn't have children. He wanted to be a writer and she a teacher. Amir and Soraya began studying at San Jose State. The General approved the match.Ī month after their marriage, Baba died in his sleep. Amir asked his father to go to General Taheri and ask for Soraya's hand in marriage to Amir. One day he had a seizure and the vendors found out he was dying. Amir fell in love with Soraya, but her father disapproved of Amir.ĭuring this time, Baba became ill with cancer. There he met Soraya Taheri, the daughter of General Taheri. Baba and Amir sold items at a flea market. Amir graduated from high school and attended community college. In 1983, Amir and Baba moved to California. Hassan admitted to stealing the items and he and Ali left the house.įive years later, in 1981, Amir and his father were smuggled into Pakistan, because the Russians had taken over Afghanistan. He planted some of his gifts in Hassan's home and told Baba Hassan stole them. Because of the guilt he felt from not helping Hassan, Amir decided to make Hassan and his father leave. On Amir's thirteenth birthday Baba threw him a party. He regretted this inaction the rest of his life. Amir saw the situation, but he didn't do anything to stop it, because he feared Assef. The price Hassan paid to keep the kite was to be sodomized by Assef. He retrieved the kite, but Assef cornered him and demanded the kite. This was the job of the kite runner and Hassan was the best kite runner in their neighborhood. Amir was favored to win that year's tournament.Īmir won the tournament, but Baba, Amir's father wanted the last kite Amir cut. Assef promised he would one day seek retribution.Īfter a coup in Afghansistan, the boys' world changed, but one thing stayed the same, the kite fighting tournament in which Pashtun boys try to cut each other's kites out of the sky. He threatened to beat up Amir, but Hassan made the boy back down by threatening to take out Assef's eye with his slingshot. Hassan was devoted to Amir, which he proved the day he stood up to Assef, a bully. Hassan is Hazara and Amir is Pashtun, Hassan is Shi'a Muslim and Amir Sunni Muslim, these differences meant Hassan was uneducated and ostracized, while Amir was given every advantage. The two boys were raised together, but there were differences between them. Amir was none of these things, but Hassan his playmate and the son of Ali, Amir's father's servant was. His father a wealthy man, never accepted his bookish son, because he wanted a son who was brave, athletic, and more like him. After receiving a phone call from Rahim Khan asking him to visit him in Pakistan, Amir begins to remember his life growing up in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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