Kite Runner 6-8 Flashcards
What is Denial?
Denial is having a conscious awareness of something but pretending it’s not there
How does Hassan’s dream about the monster in the lake showcase Denial?
Hassan is denying the social inequalities between him and Amir and choosing to believe that Amir treats Hassan as his equal. However Amir treats Hassan as lower than him and mistreats him and brings him down
How is Amir displacing on Hassan when he says he was so pure he made him feel like a phony?
Amir is jealous of Hassan’s good qualities that he doesn’t have and instead of recongnising his own shortcomings he blames Hassan for making him feel like he isn’t a good person
What does the Sheep in chapter 7 symbolize and why does Amir recall it?
The Sheep symbolizes Hassan accepting what is happening to him and resignation to the situation. Amir recalls the sheep because it was slaughtered and he says when it was it had the same look in it’s eye that Amir had when he was being raped
Context of for you a thousand times over and foreshadowing on the photograph where Hassan is smiling
The for you a thousand times over is when Hassan promises to Amir that he will return with the kite and is showing how is loyalty to Amir is ultimately his downfall at the end of the paragraph Amir says he doesn’t see Hassan smile like that again until he sees a photo of him 26 years later foreshadowing something traumatic happens to Hassan
Why doesn’t Amir tell anyone about what happened in alley?
Doesn’t want to expose his cowardice
Why doesn’t Hassan hit Amir with pom? Why does Amir want him to?
Amir knows he deserves punishment for what he has done to Hassan and he feels this would give him some. Hassan won’t hit Amir because he is too loyal and he would never betray him
Why does Amir cry when Baba hugs him?
Because he is finally getting his father’s love something he’s always wanted but he knows he doesn’t deserve it
Mad love’s hierarchy of need Amir needs love above all else
Irony between Ali and Hassan and Baba and Amir
Ali and Hassan are poor and happy and Baba and Amir are rich and sad
What does Assef give Amir for his birthday?
Biography of Hitler
What does Amir like about Winter? Why is Winter the first word of chapter six and heavily punctuated?
Amir likes no school, the soft pattering of snow, the stove, playing cards with Hassan, the word is signfiganct because it is showing the reader to pay attention and realize that this is going to be when the bad thing that shaped Amir happned
How does Hassan change after the rape how does Amir react?
Hassan wants to sleep all the time, he loses weight and had grey puffy eyes, he also is consistently trying to rebuild his realtionship with Amir, Amir is avoidant of Hassan and denies his attempts to hang out with him, he denies that something happened to Hassan saying he’s sick, he provokes Hassan and tries to get him to punish him
Who are the boys that abused Hassan and what do they do at the end of chapter 8?
The boys that abused Hassan are, Assef, Kamal and Wali and at the end of chapter 8 Assef punches Hassan at Amir’s party
