He tells him that if a boy does not stand up for himself, he cannot help others as he has no courage to help himself. “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.”īaba speaks these words to Rahim, expressing his displeasure with Amir for not standing up for Hassan or himself. The rest of the sin like murder, adultery, lying are just the forms of stealing or theft. Then Baba believes that stealing is the only sin in the world. He tells Amir that there is no sin except stealing property or belongings of other people. Every other sin is a variation of theft.”Īmir hears these words from Baba, who seems quite liberal. It is difficult for a person to love such a figure and then fear him, too. His will is supreme in all matters and that is why others fear him. He thinks that Baba wants things in his own way. These lines define Amir’s relationship with his father, Baba. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too.” And he got to decide what was black and what was white. This thinking sets his relationship with Hassan, who belongs to the Hazara community. He thinks about the barbarity of his tribe against the Hazaras, about killing and raping their women. These lines show Amir thinking about the book in which he has read about the enmity between the ethnic Hazaras and Pashtuns. “The book said that my people had killed the Hazaras, driven them from their lands, burned their homes, and sold their women.” These lines are a sort of a foreshadow to remind the protagonist that his counterpart is actually his kinsman. Ali would remind them of this kinship later. “Then he would remind us that there was a brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that not even time could break.”Īmir, the protagonist of the novel, The Kite Runner, shows in these lines that he and Hassan have been fed and taken care of by the same nurse. He becomes nostalgic thinking about his past. The collective memories of the kite running, Baba, Hassan and his city Kabul come into his mind to remind him of his past life. Amir is thinking about everything when sitting on a park bench. Here Amir is remembering words spoken to him by Rahim. The director, does, however, give our heroes some very useful information: the Talib official who buys the kids will be at Ghazi Stadium the next day.“‘There is a way to be good again.’ I looked up at those twin kites.Amir has to convince Farid not to kill the director. Farid gets crazy angry and starts choking the director.Since the director doesn't have any money to run the place, he takes the money. The director tells Amir and Farid that a Talib official comes by the orphanage occasionally to buy children.The director also says they may have arrived too late to save Sohrab. The sad thing is, he says, these kids probably have it better than the kids on the street. The director complains about a lack of funding from the Taliban. Some of the steel-frame beds don't even have mattresses. Could this be important for later events in the novel? Amir also mentions that Sohrab is good with a slingshot.After explaining they're not with the Taliban, that they're trying to take the child to an American couple, and that Amir is the boy's half-uncle, the director lets them in. When they show the director the photo of Sohrab, he barely looks at it and says: "I am sorry. It's a mess: splintered walls, boarded windows, cratered streets, etc. Amir and Farid pull up to the orphanage where they hope to find Sohrab.Amir gets a few details about his mother, whom, if you remember, died giving birth to Amir. In the unlikeliest of coincidences, the beggar used to teach with Amir's mother at the university. Amir stares at them and Farid chastises him. A Toyota truck filled with Taliban militia drives past.The smell of diesel generators – the city's electricity is unreliable – burns Amir's eyes. Shopping districts have been leveled, there are beggars everywhere, and the tree-lined boulevards no longer have any trees. Kabul isn't quite the same, to put it mildly.Farid has become "chattier" with Amir ever since he learned the reason for Amir's trip.Amir and Farid drive from Jalalabad to Kabul – there are "grim reminders" of the wars everywhere, like burned tanks (20.2).
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