The kite runner quotes Flashcards
chapter 1:
“the past claws its way out . Looking back now I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years”
= Hosseini immediately introduces the past and how the past has affected the present.
=there is a clear idea that the things we try to forget never go away, the past is always lingering beneath the surface of the present.
=one of Hosseinei’s most important themes in the novel
chapter 1:
“saw a pair of kites, red with long blue tails, soaring in the sky. They danced high above the trees on the west end of the park”
“floating side by side like a pair of eyes looking down on San Francisco”
=symbolic of Amir and Hassans friendship
=however connotes a feeling of uncertainty as he feels he is forever being watched by his past.
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