Kite Runner Quotes Flashcards
“My past of untoned sins”
Chapter 1 - Amir
“Some thought it was the prettiest house in all of Kabul”
Chapter 2 - Amir
“I’m in his arms, but it’s Rahim Khan’s pinky my fingers are wrapped around”
Chapter 2 - Amir
Hassan’s letter “you will find an old faithful friend waiting for you”
Chapter 17
“His flat, broad nose and slanting, narrow eyes”
Chapter 2 - Amir talking about Hassan
“They’ll have to change you nickname to One-Eyed Assef”
Chapter 5 - Hassan to Assef
“Years later, I learnt an English word for was Assef was…sociopath”
Chapter 5 - Amir
“[it] was ironic. Because that was the winter that Hassan stopped smiling”
Chapter 5 - Amir
“In the winter of 1975 I saw Hassan run a kite for the last time”
Chapter 6 - Amir (foreshadowing the severity of the attack, life changing)
The dream, monsters in the lake
Chapter 7 - interpretations: Assef is the ominous monster in the lake or Amir is the monster not saving Hassan from Assef in the alley.
Shows unconditional loyalty of Hassan, “but you can’t swim”
“It was the look of the lamb”
Chapter 7 - Hassan had the look “the animal sees that it’s imminent demise is for a higher purpose” - sacrifice
“I ran because I was a coward”
Chapter 7 - Amir, “was” shows change in his cowardice
“Can you just let it go for once? But …it wasn’t in his nature”
Chapter 10 - what Amir thinks is not the same as how Baba acts demonstrates more differences between them
“I’ll never forget the echo of that blast.”
Chapter 10 - Amir talking about Kamal’s dad killing himself, shows the continuos violence in Afghanistan everywhere
“I became what I am today at the age of twelve”
Chapter 1- Amir
Idea Amir’s sins are alive with him
C11 “Let my sins drown to the bottom” -personification alive (in him or following him like a shadow)
C1 “the past claws its way out” -animalistic, lacking morals, aggressive
“I envied her. Her secret was out.”
Chapter 12 - Amir talking about Soraya, still has not found a way to move on from betraying Hassan
Baba’s death
“We closed the door. Baba never woke up.”
Chapter 13 “not tonight…there’s no pain tonight” - finally happy in Amir’s happiness and success
“I remember wishing Rahim Khan was there”
Chapter 13 - Amirs wedding
“Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child”
Chapter 13- Amir and Soraya cannot have children shows the child sized gap in their lives
“There’s a way to be good again.”
Chapter 14 - R.Khan recurring theme of journey for atonement
Amir arrives in Peshawar
Chapter 15
“A thing made of skin and bones pretending to be Rahim Khan”
Chapter 15 - shows a parallel to Baba in his dying days, shows the brutality of disease (cancers) targeting the old icons of Kabul
Power of disease “Capable of uprooting a willow tree” now cannot perform daily tasks without help
Slingshot
Symbol connecting two generations and a symbols for standing up for what is right (morality/bravery)
