Whose voice do we hear at the beginning of this chapter? Is it significant that the first news of Hassan comes from Rahim Khan? What has happened to Ali? Why does Hassan take such pains to return the house to its former glory? See also p. The war may be over but what shocking revelations end the chapter?
Does the order they are related in matter? Chapter 17 1. Why is it effective? Chapter 18 1. Why is there so much repetition of earlier events and conversations in this chapter? This is a short chapter. Chapter 19 1. How does Hosseini encourage us to see Amir in a positive light?
How does Hosseini get the reader to understand the tragedy of the situation? Is it acceptable to sacrifice one or two children for the greater good? If you were in the place of the orphanage manager what would you have done? How do you expect the novel to end? Chapter 21 1. What is the most shocking thing about this chapter? What is Hosseini hoping to achieve here? Why do the Taliban become the Talib?
How is the tension built up in the description of the executions on pages ? Why does Hosseini include the detail of the separate trucks?
Why does Hosseini use the Afghan word here? What difference does it make that Assef is the man that Amir must negotiate with? What hypocrisy does Amir notice? What do you notice about the sentence lengths in the description of the fight on page ? Who saves Amir? Is this surprising? Chapter 23 1. Why does this chapter open with so many short sentences? What physical scars does Amir bear from his fight with Assef?
Which is most significant and why? Perhaps the most emotionally powerful words in the novel are present in this chapter. If they are, what is your bid?
Chapter 24 1. Does it suggest that he always sees money as the solution and Farid was right to criticise his privileged upbringing or are you more sympathetic? Do you have a sense of what Hosseini wants us to think? How does Hosseini suggest the damage that has been done to Sohrab? What is one positive to come from what happened to Amir and Sohrab in that room with Assef? Why does Hosseini end this chapter the way he does? Do the final lines catch you by surprise or is this juxtaposition now expected and a healthy balance to the usual romance found in novels?
How does Hosseini suggest the psychological toll of his experience? How does Hosseini show the reader that Amir has become the man his father wanted him to become? This is a very individual story and tragedy but how does this chapter broaden out the perspective?
Is the conclusion to the novel a positive one? Does it end as you hoped? Would you have liked a different conclusion? Does the title mean more to you than when you began the novel? Explain your response. Final thoughts 1. What have you gained by reading this novel?
Some people think that novels are romantic and escapist popular fiction. Does The Kite Runner fall into these categories?
Have you recommended the novel to anyone else? Why or why not? Read more. Chapter 3 Multiple Choice Questions. Chapter questions student study guide. Your name. Hosseini has a way of writing that makes it very interesting, and keeps your attention. He tells the story from the perspective of Amir. Amir loves writing and during the book Hosseini makes certain paragraphs written in italics to show that Amir has written something that may have pertained to a dream, or foreshadow what is to come.
Sometimes, Hosseini puts a flashback right in the middle of the paragraph to show that Amir never forgets about Hassan. You also see that some lines show up multiple times, and that this Insinuation helps to create an image of how things were back then, and how they change throughout the story. Meaning whoever said that must have had a big impact on Amir because he keeps going back to that concept.
Another thing Hosseini does is he puts actual words from the Farsi language into the text. This allows him to express a lot of the culture within his writing. I rate this book as a heart. The well written descriptions and the uncertainty of what was going to happen next is what caught my eye, and kept me interested in this book.
There always seemed to be a mystery behind what someone says. I wanted him to stand up for what he though was right, instead of just doing what everyone else thought you should.
You also get a really good feel of what Afghanistan was like when the Taliban took over and people were forced out of their homes and killed for no reason. Hosseini actually points out how much the media filters out and what really goes on. He also makes it interesting because he shows it in a first hand view, making you feel like you were actually there. The plot, too, seemed a bit paint by numbers.
An overbearing father, a dead mother, a loyal best friend, and a childhood destined to end in some formative tragedy. I did like, though, that the narrator was somewhat unlikable. His selfishness and arguable cowardice made him a believable kid, as did his retrospective self-loathing. What bothered me most was the ham-fisted way that the author introduces Afghan culture. This has the effect of dragging the reader out of the story by constantly pandering to a Western audience that has suddenly become interested in the Afghanistan because of the US-led invasion.
For all my belly-aching, I definitely learnt a lot. This first section, though, is all set up for the rest of book, establishing the definitive tragedy that cripples the narrator with guilt, and vividly depicting the idealised Afghanistan that will serve as a contrast in later settings. I found the story more engaging and original once Amir and his father move to America.
The blatant cultural references become less intrusive, the writing less cliche, and the central characters more nuanced. Things continue to improve as the story progresses, so that by the time he returns to the country of his birth, it becomes clear why The Kite Runner has become a modern classic.
The call-backs, contrasts and analysis create a nice, clear character arc that redeems some of the earlier clumsiness. Another thing that sets the book apart are the life or death stakes, and I was repeatedly shocked by the violence and death that suddenly sprang up out of the very personal, middle-class narrative.
But the twists and turns along the long road home, and the ambiguous, glimmer-of-hope-ending, redeem any faults. I wonder if he would have ended the novel with the same optimism with a few more years hindsight.
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