Chapter 1 Flashcards

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What does Amir say he has been doing?

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“peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty six years”

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What does Amir reference Rahim Khan said?

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“there is a way to be good again”

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Where does Amir now live?

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Golden Gate Park in San Francisco

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What does it mean that this book is from a first person narrative view?

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This means that the novel is coloured by Amir’s personal reactions and emotions rather than being from an objective viewpoint

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What is the purpose of the first chapter which acts as a double frame for the narrative?

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as this allows Hosseini to foreshadow and build dramatic tension

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`‘burying” the past and how it “claws its way out”

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this involves an image of something dead rising from its grave, alluding to the death of childhood innocence in chapter 7 after Hassan’s rape. In conjunction to Rahim khan’s message that “there is a way to be good again” indicates that the narrative will centre around Amir’s atonement and his search for redemption.

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