Kite Runner and the HIstory of Afghanistan

By 16seymourt66

  • Hassan is born

    Amir tells the readers, "It was there, in that little shack, that Hassan was born in the winter of 1964, just one year after my mother died giving birth to me."(pg 6)

  • Hassan is sexually abused

    Assef "put his hands on Hassan's hips and lifted his bare buttocks. He kept one hand on Hassan's back and undid his own belt buckle with his free hand."(pg 75)

  • Ali forces Hassan and Ali out of the house

    Baba asks Hassan, "Did you steal that money? Did you steal Amir's watch?"(pg 105) after Amir puts his own money under Hassan's mattress so the would be banished from Baba's house.

  • Soviets invade Afghanistan

    The New York Times writes, "The first Soviet troops parachuted into Kabul on Dec 27, 1979, to assist Babrak Karmal, who had become president in a coup with the Afghan Communist Leadership."

  • Baba and Amir flee Afghanistan

    Amir tells his readers, "There were others, in all about a dozen, including Baba and me, sitting with our suitcases betwwen our legs, cramped with these strangers in the tarpaulin-covered cab of an old russisan truck." (pg 110)

  • Amir graduates high school

    Amir narrates in the novel,"That summer of 1983, I graduated from high school at the age of twenty, by far the oldest senior tossing his mortarboarad on the football field that day."(pg 131)

  • Amir marries Soraya

    Amir "arrived at the Taheris' home the next evening-for lafz-the ceremony of "giving word."(pg 166)

  • Baba dies

    Baba tells Amir and Soraya,"Not tonight, there is no pain tonight."(pg 173) These were his dying words.

  • Baba is diagnosed with lung cancer

    Amir talks of Baba's diagnosis," It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names. Baba's was called "Oat cell Carcinoma." Advanced. Inoperable."(pg 156)

  • Soviet Forces are Useless

    N.Y.T reports, "After 1986, the Soviet Force was also rendered useless by advanced Stinger anitaircraft missiles suppliesd by the United States to the rebels." (N.Y.T 2)

  • Rahim Khan finds Hassan

    Rahim Khan tells Amir, " He was placing dough on a large wooden spatula and slapping it against the walls of the tandoor. He dropped the dough when he saw me. I had to make him stip kissing my hands.(pg 205

  • Last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan

    After peace talks with eachother, "the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan in February 1989."

  • Sohrab is born

    Rahim Khan tells Amir, " It was Sanaubar who delivered Hassan's son that winter of 1990. It had not started snowing yet, but the winter winds were blowing through the yards, bending the flowerbeds and rustling the leaves." (PG 211)

  • Afghanistan corrupted and decscended into Anarchy

    Five years after the Soviet invasion, Afganistan was "anarchically divided among competing warlords and individual fiefdoms."

  • The Taliban grows in power

    In the history of Afghanistan overview, the N.Y.T writes, "By the end of 1994 Mullah Omar had nearly 12,000 followers and was rolling up the warlords to the north and east."

  • Taliban takes over Afghanistan

    The New York timse writes, "Buoyed by Pakistani Aid, the Taliban by 1996 had taken control of Afghanistan, imposing strict enforcement of fundamentalist Islamic law..."

  • Amir finds Rahim Khan

    Rahim Khan tells Amir, "Come. There is a way to be good again."(pg 192)

  • Amir reencounters Assef

    Amir decribes what it was like seeing Assef again," His name rose from the deep and I didn't want to say it, as if uttering it might conjure him. But the was already here, in the flesh, sitting less than ten feet from me.."(pg 281)

  • Amir meet Sohrab for the 1st time

    Amir decribes Sohrab," The resemblance was breathtaking. Disorienting. Rahim Khan's Polaroid hadn't done justice to it"(pg 279)

  • Amir takes Sohrab to America

    Amir tells his readers, " We arrived home about seven months ago, on a warm day in August 2001." (pg 357)

  • Al Qaeda attack Twin Towers, Pentagon

    The United States was devastated by the destruction of the World Trade Center "after the attack/ In New York"

  • Hamid Karzai takes power

    The New York times reports, "In December 2001, Hamid Karzai....was named chairmen of an interim government that replaced the defeated Taliban, making him leader of the country."

  • Obama deployed an additional 30,000 troops

    The N.Y.T writes, "In a sppech delivered Dec. 1 2009, at West Point, Mr. Obama announced his plan to deploy 30,000 additional troops."

  • U.S is supposed to withdraw from Afghanistan

    After over a decade of fighting the "United States will have forces in the country until at least in the end of 2014"