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What image does the narrator show at the beginning of the novel and what
does it mean? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The image at the very beginning of The
Kite Runner is the narrator remembering when he "came of age",
describing himself kneeling next to a crumbling brick wall. I remember the
precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the
alley near the frozen creek. (ch 1). Amir reflects that he has learned that
you can't bury the past.
What literary tool or tools does Khaled Hosseini use in Chapter 1 of The
Kite Runner, and how does this usage frame the story? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Author Khaled Hosseini uses exposition in the first chapter of The Kite
Runner for background information to introduce many of his important
characters, such as Baba, Ali, Rahim Khan and Hassan, as well as the
novel's primary locales of Kabul, Pakistan and San Francisco. Several
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,themes are introduced, including that of the redemption that Amir seeks
throughout the novel--
Why does Hassan always do what Amir wants and never tells on Amir? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔The theme of loyalty is central to the novel. Amir's lack of
loyalty to Hassan is what keeps him rooted to that one moment in the
winter of 1975. Hassan's unflinching loyalty to Amir is what results in his
rape, his leaving Wazir Akhbar Khan, and one could argue, his death many
years later. We learn the basics of Amir and Hassan's relationship early on,
as embodied in their mischief making. Amir is a child of privilege who wants
attention, so he feels safe and even entitled to getting into trouble. Yet his
insecurity and fear of Baba makes him unable to stand up for himself or
take credit for his mistakes. In contrast, Hassan is a servant who has a very
close and constant relationship with his father, Ali. Ali has taught Hassan to
be so righteous and loyal that he would not dream of starting trouble and
does not hesitate to cover up for Amir. As we learn, Hassan is so
determined to protect Amir and not to cause anyone grief that he keeps his
rape a secret. The difference between Amir and Hassan underscores the
connection between loyalty and family. Hassan is loyal and long-suffering
just like Ali, who kept the secret that Baba had an affair with Sanaubar and
that Hassan was not his biological son. Amir betrays Hassan just as Baba
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,betrayed Ali, and like Baba, Amir must suffer for what he did and pay
retribution.
The theme of loyalty is connected to the theme of silence and secrets.
Remaining silent about injustice is Ali and Hassan's way of showing loyalty
to Baba and Amir. The story of The Kite Runner is filled with things untold
or unspoken. Baba's adultery, Hassan's rape, and Amir's betrayal of Ali and
Hassan are examples of things untold. One major unspoken thing in the
boys' household is the difference between Pashtuns and Hazaras. Amir
does not even know why the Pashtuns demean the Hazaras until he
secretly reads
What does it mean that, in the picture of Baba and Rahim Khan, Amir is
holding onto Rahim Khan? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Amir tells of a picture of his
father holding him as a baby "looking tired and grim" but although Amir's
Baba is the one holding him, Amir is holding on to Rahim Khan's ( his
father's best friend) finger. This shows that the distancing between father
and son began at birth.
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, Why did Amir go into Hassan's home "only a handful of times"? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔possibly because the reminder that Hassan was his servant
and lived in a shack, was not something he wanted to think about
Why is Sanaubar's leaving "far worse than death"? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔In
Afghanistan, which is the setting in which The Kite Runner(Hosseini)
begins, the culture places great constraints upon women, and for a woman
to run away from her husband was unthinkable, a disgrace which is
probably difficult for most of us today in the western world to understand. It
is perhaps akin to the disgrace of a woman doing something like this 150
years ago in the United States.
Why does Amir recount the story about the nursing woman and Ali's belief
that feeding from the same
breast leads to a kinship stronger than time? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Amir is
Hassan's half brother and friend. Although aware that Hassan is a dreaded
Hazara, Amir feels a strong kinship and bond with him. Amir, in his own
childish way, explains this bond through the breast milk analogy.
Amir's first word was "Baba." Hassan's was "Amir." How does this frame
the rest of the story? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Consider that Amir never feels loved
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Exam Questions and Correct Answers |
New Update
What image does the narrator show at the beginning of the novel and what
does it mean? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The image at the very beginning of The
Kite Runner is the narrator remembering when he "came of age",
describing himself kneeling next to a crumbling brick wall. I remember the
precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the
alley near the frozen creek. (ch 1). Amir reflects that he has learned that
you can't bury the past.
What literary tool or tools does Khaled Hosseini use in Chapter 1 of The
Kite Runner, and how does this usage frame the story? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Author Khaled Hosseini uses exposition in the first chapter of The Kite
Runner for background information to introduce many of his important
characters, such as Baba, Ali, Rahim Khan and Hassan, as well as the
novel's primary locales of Kabul, Pakistan and San Francisco. Several
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,themes are introduced, including that of the redemption that Amir seeks
throughout the novel--
Why does Hassan always do what Amir wants and never tells on Amir? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔The theme of loyalty is central to the novel. Amir's lack of
loyalty to Hassan is what keeps him rooted to that one moment in the
winter of 1975. Hassan's unflinching loyalty to Amir is what results in his
rape, his leaving Wazir Akhbar Khan, and one could argue, his death many
years later. We learn the basics of Amir and Hassan's relationship early on,
as embodied in their mischief making. Amir is a child of privilege who wants
attention, so he feels safe and even entitled to getting into trouble. Yet his
insecurity and fear of Baba makes him unable to stand up for himself or
take credit for his mistakes. In contrast, Hassan is a servant who has a very
close and constant relationship with his father, Ali. Ali has taught Hassan to
be so righteous and loyal that he would not dream of starting trouble and
does not hesitate to cover up for Amir. As we learn, Hassan is so
determined to protect Amir and not to cause anyone grief that he keeps his
rape a secret. The difference between Amir and Hassan underscores the
connection between loyalty and family. Hassan is loyal and long-suffering
just like Ali, who kept the secret that Baba had an affair with Sanaubar and
that Hassan was not his biological son. Amir betrays Hassan just as Baba
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,betrayed Ali, and like Baba, Amir must suffer for what he did and pay
retribution.
The theme of loyalty is connected to the theme of silence and secrets.
Remaining silent about injustice is Ali and Hassan's way of showing loyalty
to Baba and Amir. The story of The Kite Runner is filled with things untold
or unspoken. Baba's adultery, Hassan's rape, and Amir's betrayal of Ali and
Hassan are examples of things untold. One major unspoken thing in the
boys' household is the difference between Pashtuns and Hazaras. Amir
does not even know why the Pashtuns demean the Hazaras until he
secretly reads
What does it mean that, in the picture of Baba and Rahim Khan, Amir is
holding onto Rahim Khan? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Amir tells of a picture of his
father holding him as a baby "looking tired and grim" but although Amir's
Baba is the one holding him, Amir is holding on to Rahim Khan's ( his
father's best friend) finger. This shows that the distancing between father
and son began at birth.
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, Why did Amir go into Hassan's home "only a handful of times"? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔possibly because the reminder that Hassan was his servant
and lived in a shack, was not something he wanted to think about
Why is Sanaubar's leaving "far worse than death"? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔In
Afghanistan, which is the setting in which The Kite Runner(Hosseini)
begins, the culture places great constraints upon women, and for a woman
to run away from her husband was unthinkable, a disgrace which is
probably difficult for most of us today in the western world to understand. It
is perhaps akin to the disgrace of a woman doing something like this 150
years ago in the United States.
Why does Amir recount the story about the nursing woman and Ali's belief
that feeding from the same
breast leads to a kinship stronger than time? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Amir is
Hassan's half brother and friend. Although aware that Hassan is a dreaded
Hazara, Amir feels a strong kinship and bond with him. Amir, in his own
childish way, explains this bond through the breast milk analogy.
Amir's first word was "Baba." Hassan's was "Amir." How does this frame
the rest of the story? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Consider that Amir never feels loved
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