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The kite Runner book summary

The story is narrated from the yr 2002. Amir, who is therefore a ways a anonymous protagonist, tells us that an match in the iciness of 1975 modified his lifestyles forever. We do no longer recognize something about this match barring that it nonetheless haunts him and that it includes some thing he did to Hassan, whom he calls "the harelipped kite runner." Amir takes us lower back to his childhood, in the remaining a long time of the monarchy in Afghanistan. His father, Baba, was once one of the wealthiest and most charitable Pashtun guys in Kabul, the place they lived in the Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood. His mom died in childbirth. Amir's closest friend, the harelipped Hassan, was once additionally his servant and a Hazara. He was once very shut to his father, Ali, who was once Baba's servant.

Despite their differences, Amir and Hassan have been inseparable. Hassan would have completed whatever for Amir; his first phrase was once even "Amir." Baba was once aloof and did no longer pay Amir an awful lot attention. He used to be a big and imposing man who used to be rumored to have wrestled a bear. Baba did no longer subscribe to famous belief, preferring to solid his personal opinions about issues. Baba wished Amir was once athletic and courageous like him as an alternative of cowardly and bookish.

Amir explains how Ali and Baba knew every other. Baba's father took Ali into his residence after Ali's dad and mom have been killed in an accident. Ali and Baba grew up collectively simply like Hassan and Amir. In every generation, the boys ought to in no way clearly reflect onconsideration on themselves buddies due to the fact of their type differences. One huge distinction divider used to be literacy. Amir used to be proud of his literacy and lorded it over the unsuspecting, illiterate Hassan. Yet when Amir wrote his first quick story and study it to Hassan, it used to be the latter who observed the plot gap in the story.

That equal night, July 17, 1973, there used to be a coup d'etat in Afghanistan, altering it from a monarchy to a republic. Unbeknownst to the boys or everyone else, it was once the first of many political modifications that would finally wreck Afghanistan as they knew it. One day, Amir and Hassan bought into a war of words with a boy named Assef and his two friends. Assef idolized Hitler and hated Hazaras. As usual, Hassan stood up for Amir; he acquired Assef to depart by using aiming his slingshot at Assef's eye. That identical year, Baba acquired Hassan surgical treatment to restoration his harelip.

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In the winter, colleges have been closed in Kabul and the boys spent lots time kite fighting. When defeated kites fell out of the sky, boys chased them to strive to deliver them domestic as trophies. They had been known as "kite runners." Amir commonly flew a kite whilst Hassan ran kites for him. Hassan used to be the first-class kite runner every body had ever seen. He had an innate feel of the place a kite would land.

In the iciness of 1975, there used to be a huge kite tournament. Amazingly, Amir won, and Hassan went to run the closing kite for him. Before he chased it, he shouted, "For you, a thousand instances over." When Hassan did no longer come home, Amir went out searching for him. He located Hassan confronting Assef and his two pals in an alley. Amir did nothing to help Hassan as Assef raped him. Later he discovered Hassan strolling home, kite in hand, with blood dripping from his pants. He pretended now not to comprehend what came about and did no longer inform Ali the fact when he asked.

After the kite tournament, Amir's relationship with his father expanded due to the fact Baba used to be so proud of him. His relationship with Hassan degraded. Amir was once too ashamed of what he had achieved to face Hassan and prevented him at all costs. One day he even recommended to Baba that they get new servants. To his surprise, Baba used to be livid and threatened to hit Amir for the first time. He stated that Ali and Hassan have been their family. Amir tried to unravel his guilt by using instructing Hassan no longer to be so loyal to him. He took Hassan up to the hill and pelted him with pomegranates. No remember how a great deal he begged, Hassan would no longer hit him back. Hassan smashed a pomegranate into his personal brow and requested Amir if he felt better.

Amir's guilt intensified at the lavish thirteenth birthday birthday celebration that Baba threw for him. He knew Baba in no way would have given him such a tremendous celebration had he now not gained the tournament, which was once inseparable in his thinking from Hassan's rape. Assef got here to the birthday party and gave Amir a e book about Hitler. Amir used to be disgusted to see him teasing Hassan in the course of the party. Baba gave Amir a wristwatch. Rahim Khan gave him the solely current he should undergo to use, which used to be a clean pocket book for his stories. He additionally acquired a accurate deal of money. To his chagrin, Ali and Hassan gave him a reproduction of his and Hassan's preferred book. After the party, Amir determined to betray Hassan a 2nd time and body him as a thief. He hid his wristwatch and cash below Hassan and Ali's mattress. The subsequent morning, he accused Hassan, who took the blame as usual. Baba forgave him immediately, however Hassan and Ali had been too humiliated to stay. As they left, Amir noticed Baba weep for the first time. They in no way noticed Ali or Hassan again.

Five years later, throughout the Soviet occupation, Amir and Baba fled Afghanistan in a truck full of refugees. When they reached a checkpoint, a Russian soldier demanded to sleep with one of them, a married woman. Baba stood up for her even even though the soldier was once armed. They had been allowed to pass. After hiding in a basement in Jalalabad, they departed for Peshawar, Pakistan in the filthy tank of a gasoline truck. Among the refugees have been Amir's schoolmate, Kamal, and his father. When they arrived, they determined that Kamal used to be dead. Kamal's father put a gun in his mouth and shot himself. Luckily, Amir and Baba managed to to migrate to the San Francisco area.

Baba and Amir's existence in Fremont, California was once very exclusive from their lifestyles in Wazir Akbar Khan. Baba labored lengthy hours at a gasoline station and even even though he cherished "the concept of America," had hassle adjusting to its every day realities. For Amir, America represented a clean beginning, free of all his haunting reminiscences of Hassan. He graduated excessive college at the age of twenty and deliberate to sign up in junior college. His commencement gave Baba a purpose to celebrate, however he stated he wished Hassan had been with them. Eventually, Baba and Amir began promoting used items at a nearby flea market. They determined it to be a miniature Afghan haven, crammed with human beings they knew from Kabul.

At the flea market, Amir fell in love with a younger lady named Soraya Taheri. Around the identical time, Baba received sick. A medical doctor recognized Baba with terminal most cancers and Baba refused palliative treatments. Then one day Baba collapsed with seizures in the flea market; the most cancers had unfold to his Genius and he did no longer have lengthy to live. Very quickly after, Amir requested Baba to gokhastegari, to ask for Soraya's hand in marriage. The Taheris well-known happily. Over the phone, Soraya instructed Amir her shameful secret. She had as soon as run away with an Afghan man. When General Taheri subsequently pressured her to come home, she had to reduce off all her hair in shame. Amir advised Soraya he nonetheless desired to marry her. He felt ashamed that he may want to no longer convey himself to inform her his secret in return.

After khastegari got here lafz, "the ceremony of giving word." Because Baba used to be so ill, Soraya and Amir determined to forgo the Shirini-kori, the usual engagement party, as nicely as the engagement period. Baba spent nearly all his cash on the awroussi, the wedding ceremony ceremony. Soraya moved in with Amir and Baba so they should spend his remaining days together. She took care of him till the night time he died peacefully in his sleep.

Many human beings attended Baba's funeral, every with a story of how Baba had helped them in Afghanistan. Suddenly, Amir realized that he had shaped his identification round being "Baba's son." Amir and Soraya moved into their very own condo and labored closer to their university degrees. In 1988, Amir posted his first novel. Around the identical time, the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, however new conflicts erupted. Soon after, the Cold War ended, the Berlin Wall fell, and the riots came about in Tiananmen Square. In San Francisco, Amir and Soraya offered a residence and found they had been infertile. There was once no clinical clarification for the infertility, so Amir privately blamed it on his personal shameful past.

One day, Amir acquired a name from Rahim Khan. He was once critically unwell and was once dwelling in Peshawar. He informed Amir, "There is a way to be excellent again." Amir flew to Peshawar to see Rahim Khan, who advised him that he used to be dying. He defined that the Taliban had destroyed Afghanistan as they knew it and the human beings there have been in grave danger. For a chapter, Rahim Khan turns into the narrator and tells Amir about what befell to Hassan. For a lengthy time, Rahim Khan had lived in Baba's residence alone, however he grew to be susceptible and lonely. In 1986 he went searching for Hassan and located him residing in a small village with his pregnant wife, Farzana. Hassan did now not desire to come to Wazir Akbar Khan till Rahim Khan instructed him about Baba's death. Hassan cried all night time and in the morning, he and Farzana moved in with Rahim Khan.

Hassan and Farzana insisted on staying in the servants' hut and doing housework. Farzana's first toddler was once stillborn. One day, Sanaubar collapsed at the gate of the house. She had traveled a lengthy way to sooner or later make peace with Hassan, who regular her with open arms. Sanaubar delivered Hassan and Farzana's son, Sohrab and performed a massive section in elevating him. She died when he was once four. Hassan made certain that Sohrab used to be loved, literate, and tremendous with a slingshot. When the Talibantook over in 1996, human beings celebrated, however Hassan estimated that matters would get worse, as they did. In 198, the Taliban massacred the Hazaras in Mazar-i-Sharif.

Rahim Khan gave Amir a letter that Hassan had written six months previously alongside with a photograph of him and Sohrab. In the letter, Hassan described the terror of dwelling underneath the Taliban. He stated he hoped Amir would return to Afghanistan and that they would reunite. Then Rahim Khan devastated Amir with the information that Hassan was once dead. After Rahim Khan left to are searching for scientific therapy in Pakistan, the Taliban confirmed up at Baba's house. They demanded that Hassan relinquish the residence to them. When he refused, they took him to the street, made him kneel, and shot him in the again of the head. They shot Farzana too when she ran out of the residence in a rage.

Rahim Khan requested Amir to go to Kabul and carry Sohrab lower back to Peshawar. He stated that a excellent American couple, the Caldwells, had a goodwill company and would take care of him there. When Amir refused, Rahim Khan instructed him a life-changing secret: he and Hassan have been half-brothers. Baba had shamed Ali by means of drowsing with Sanaubar, and due to the fact Ali used to be infertile, Hassan had to be Baba's son. Amir flew into a rage and ran out of Rahim Khan's apartment. After wondering matters over at a café, he back and stated he would convey Sohrab to Peshawar.

A driver named Farid drove Amir from Peshawar. He seemed down on Amir for leaving Afghanistan due to the fact he had stayed to battle the Soviets and suffered alongside with his country. He even instructed Amir that he had by no means been a actual Afghan due to the fact he grew up with so many privileges. Amir did sense like a foreigner due to the fact he had to put on a faux beard and was once dressed in ordinary Afghan garb for the first time. He barely identified the panorama round him due to the fact it was once so ravaged through war. They spent the night time with Farid's brother, Wahid. Wahid's boys have been malnourished and later that night, Amir heard one of his two better halves complaining that he had given all the meals to their guests. The subsequent morning, Amir hid cash underneath Wahid's mattress earlier than they left.

The devastation in Kabul took Amir's breath away. Children and moms begged on each and every road corner, and there have been few guys to be viewed due to the fact so many had died fighting. Amir met an ancient beggar who was once as soon as a professor at the college alongside Amir's mother. Amir learns solely a few random records about his mom from the man, however this is nonetheless greater than Baba ever instructed him. At the orphanage in Karteh-Seh, Farid and Amir found that a Talib authentic who used to be a pedophile had taken Sohrab a month before. Farid used to be so enranged at the man that he tried to strangle him to death, however Amir intervened. The man instructed them they may want to discover the Talib at Ghazi Stadium. Farid drove Amir to Baba's house, which had emerge as decrepit and was once occupied by way of the Taliban. He and Farid spent the night time in a run-down hotel.

Farid and Amir went to a soccer recreation at Ghazi Stadium. At halftime, the Talibs added two accused adulterers out to the subject and made them stand in pits in the ground. Then the Talib reputable got here out and stoned them to death. Amir managed to make an appointment with this Talib for the identical day. Farid drove him there, however Amir went in alone. The Talib had his guys rip off Amir's faux beard. Then he referred to as in Sohrab and made him dance for them. Sohrab seemed terrified. Amir used to be horrified to find out that the Talib used to be Assef. Assef defined that he used to be on a mission to kill all the Hazaras in Afghanistan. Then he introduced that he and Amir would battle to the dying and none of his guards had been to intervene. Sohrab used to be made to watch as Assef beat Amir almost to death. As Assef straddled Amir, making ready to punch him again, Sohrab aimed his slingshot at Assef's eye and begged him to stop. When he did not, Sohrab put out his eye. Farid drove them. 

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