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Afghanistan's New Leader
Sart of Zahir Shah's 40-year reign of Afghanistan -
Ali's Adoption
"As for the orphan, my grandfather adopted him into his own household, and told the other servants to tutor him, but to be kind to him. That boy was Ali"(24-25).{In 1933, Ali became an orphaned baby after his parents were killed in a car accident leading to Amir's grandfather adopting him.} -
Khan over throws the king to begin a democracy
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Hassan and Ali leave
"In the winter of 1975, I saw Hassan run a kite for the last time"(55). This is the day Hassan had gotten raped my Assef while trying to retrieve blue kite from the kite tournament has Amir watched. -
The Kite Runner Amir's Last Summer of Peace
Things between Baba and me were already cooling off again. I think what started it was the stupid comment I made the day we were planting tulips, about getting new servants. -
Khan promotes laws to grant women's rights and tries to convert Afghanistan into a democracy instead of a communist society
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The Soviet Union has invaded Afghanistan
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Amir and Baba moving to Kabul
"My innards had been roiling since we'd left Kabul just after two in the morning...'we are too close to Kabul'"(110-111).{Amir and Baba get driven by truck and by oil truck in order to leave Afghanistan and move to Kabul for safety from the invasion} -
Amir Graduates
"That summer of 1983, I graduated from high school at the age of twenty... He walked to me, curled his arm around my neck, and gave my brow a single kiss. 'I am moftakhir, Amir,' he said. Proud"(131).{Amir finally makes Baba proud of him by graduating from high school in America, after all of Amir's childhood living in his fathers disappointment} -
Baba has an outrage at the Nguyen's "Fast and Easy" grocery store
"A year and a half since we'd stepped off the Boeing from Peshawar,, and Baba was still adjusting"(129).{Amir and Baba's power switch is shown when Amir has to help Baba when going to the store, due to not understanding the American customs } -
Amir and Baba go to the Flea Market for the First Time
"The following summer, the summer of 1984--the summer I turned twenty-one--Baba sold his Buick and bought a dilapidated '71 Volkswagen bus for $550...By that summer, Afghan families were working an entire section of the San Jose flea market"(136-137).{Amir and Baba begin going to the flea market filled with other Afghan people where Amir meets his future wife Soraya} -
Rahim Khan goes to find Hassan
"There were a lot of reasons why I went to Hazarajat to find Hassan in 1986. The biggest one, Allah forgive me, was that I was lonely"(203).{Rahim Khan goes to find Hassan and his son who is the main focus for the second half of "The Kite Runner"} -
Amir publishes his first book and starts trying to make a baby with Soraya with poor results
"A month later, Martin called and informed me I was going to be a published novelist...That was also the year that Soraya and I began trying to have a child"(183-184).{Amirs path to become a writer is fulfilling, meaning he is self-sustained and has a job which should allow him to have a family, unfortunately, Soraya and Amir are unable to have a child, which foreshadows their later adoption. } -
Osama bin Laden and his followers begin fighting off the Soviets in their belief of a self governing Islam, but start turning their attention toward America.
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Amir travels to Pakistan to go see a sick and dying Rahim Khan
"'I have to go to Pakistan'... 'Rahim Khan is very sick.' A fist clenched inside me with those words"(191).{Amir is saddened to hear about the poor conditioning of his oldest supporter and therefore feels obligated to go to Afghanistan to meet his request.}
