Chapter 16 Flashcards
How did Ali die?
due to a land mind 2 years earlier
What is the name of Hassan’s wife?
Farzana
Where do Hassan and his wife, Farzana move to?
the old hut, refusing to live in the house
Who is Sanaubar?
a disfigured old woman, Hassan’s mother
Who was Sohrab named after?
the hero from the Shahnamah, the gift given by Ali and Hassan on Amir’s 13th birthday
What year do the Taliban arrive?
1996
How does Hassan respond to the Taliban in 1996?
“God help the Hazara’s now”
after how many months since their arrival did the Taliban ban kite flying?
2 weeks
In what year did the Taliban “massacred the Hazara’s in Mazar-i-Sharif”?
1998
What is significant about the fact that Hassan is still more concerned about Amir’s welfare than his own?
as this serves as a sharp contrast to Amir’s reaction every time he has heard a mention of Hassan’s name
How does Rahim Khan comment in Hassan’s reaction to his mothers return?
“I guess some stories do not need telling”
What is important with Rahim Khan’s statement to Hassan’s reaction to his mothers return
“i guess some stories do not need telling”?
it is important as some stories do need telling, such as the novel itself as many readers would have otherwise remained blissfully unaware of life in Afghanistan. A novel like this puts a face and a name to citizen that otherwise exist only in newspaper headlines, programs and Interest reports . This chapter, chapter 16, makes perfectly clear that one of the most important reasons for this book is to share historical information in a compelling manner. While the story remains fiction, the narrative is indeed fact.
Rahim Khan celebrated the defeat of who by the Taliban, which he later found Hassan looking serious and worried about for the fate of the Hazara’s.
Mujahedin
in 1998 where did the Taliban massacre the Hazara’s?
Masseur-i-Sharif, a Shi’a city in northern Afghanistan
What did the Hazara’s become and why?
The Hazara’s became the social enemy of a militant regime; and thus the distaste of those in Amir’s childhood such as Assef, became the rulers of a state ran by an ideology centred around the religious sovereignty of the Pashtuns.
