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Hassan was born
Baba had been friends with Ali his whole life and he had just had his kid Amir, the next year "In that little shack, that Hassan was born in the winter of 1964, just one year after my mother died in childbirth"(Hosseini 6) This quote shows the begining of a powerful friendship between AMir and Hassan. Amir's mother had died, and Hassans ran away a few days after he wss born, this could be a big part in the plot of the book. -
End of kings 40 year reign.
In the middle of the night Amir and Hassan woke up to the sound of gun shots, Ali told them that people were just shooting ducks and there was nothing to worry about "As it turns out, they hadn't shot much of anything that night if July 17, 1973 in Kabul ... The king Zahir Shah was away in Italy. In his absence, his cousin Daoud Khan had ended the king's forty year reign with a bloodless coup."(Hosseini 36) An era ended in Afghanistan, and a new one was about to start. -
Hassan gets raped by Assef
Hassan was going to fetch the last kite that Amir had cut to win the tournament when he ran into Assef. Assef remember Hassan and wanted to "punish him". "Assef knelt behind Hassan, put his hands of Hassan's hips and lifted his bare buttocks ... He unzipped his jeans. Dropped his underwear. He positioned himself behind Hassan. Hassan didn't struggle." (Hosseini 75) Amir watched as Hassan got raped and he didn't do anything, this ended up haunting him for the rest of his life -
Amir and Hasan won the kite Running tournament
Every year there was one big kite running tournament, and his year Hassan an Amir had a chance of winning. Amir was in the finals with one kite left to cut when he made his move. "The moment came. I closed my eyes and loosened my grip on the string. It sliced through my fingers again as the wind dragged it. And then ... I didn't need to hear the crowds roar to know ... 'You won Amir agha! You won'" (Hosseini 66) Amir won the kit running tournament and finally was able to make his father proud. -
The first Soviet troops parachuted into Dubai
The troops went in with hopes to kill the Leader of Afghanistan and replace him with somebody new -
Baba and Amir make it to Pakistan
Baba and Amir were running from the war that they knew was coming, they took a truck to Pakistan. Amir fell asleep on the ride an he woke up to "'We're in Pakistan Amir' Baba said. ... 'Karim says he will call for a bus to take us too Peshawar'" (Hosseini 123) The war was coming and thousands of Afghanis were trying to get out of Afghanistan, and Baba and Amir had just made it. On the way they suffered hardships like a russian soldier attacking a women, but the persevered. -
Amir graduates from High school
Too most people this is not a big deal but to Amir it was one of the first things he did that made Baba proud of him, he thought. When he saw Baba "He walked to me .. 'I am moftakhir, Amir' he said. Proud" (Hosseini 131) All of Amir's life he felt like he had let Baba down. When Baba said this at his graduation, his eyes gleamed and he felt like he had done something amazing. -
The first time Amir saw his wife to be
Amir didn't know it at the time but as soon as he saw her he "blinked, my heart quickened. She had thick black eyebrows that touched in the middle like the arched wings of a flying bird," (Hosseini 140) The girl didn't even say a word and he was already was interested in her and was nervous around her. She was a Afghanistan from a honorable family too, so Amir knew that Baba was going to proud of him if he was able to steal this girls heart, so he knew that that's what he would have to do. -
Soviet air force gets disarmed by Afghanistan missiles
The American Army supplied the Afghanistan military with missiles that they were able to use to destroy everything that the Soviets had. -
Amir finishes his first novel
Amir had been working on stories since he had graduated high school in 1984 so this was a big deal to him. The story was a " father-son story set in Kabul, written mostly with the typewriter the general had given me .. I opened my mailbox and found a request from a New York agency." (Hosseini 182) Earlier in the book Amir tells Baba it is hard for a writer to get discovered, and he did on his first novel to it had to be a big deal to him. It was soon after Baba died so Amir was relieved. -
Last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan
Left Afghanistan helpless and in need of some sort of power or economy. -
Sanaubar went back to Kabul to see Hassan and apologize for leaving
Sanubar had left Hassan just three days after he was born, and nobody really knew why. When she came back to see Hassan she said "'To see if your are as beautiful in the flesh as you are in my dreams. And you are. Even more.'" (Hosseini 210) Sanubar had left Hassan days after he was born and now she came back and apologize for all the harm that she caused him. Hassan accepted the apology and gave his mother a second chance in his life. -
Al Qaeda began to rise to power
When the country was going down the Taliban took the opportunity to gain their popularity in the public. -
The Taliban took control of Afghanistan
Mr. Bin Laden was flown into Afghanistan as the leader of Al Qaeda, they starred imposing strict laws such as, banning certain musics and kicking women out of schools. -
Mazar-i-Sharif massacre
Afghanistan was just in a major war with the soviets. And just after the Soviets left "the Taliban banned kite fighting. And two years later, in 1998, they massacred the Hazaras in Mazar-i-Sharif" (Hosseini 213) The Afghanis were so excited to have just had their war end, and almost immediately after their happiness was stripped by the taliban. There was nothing these people could do against the taliban it was their government and when they did the massacre people just watched in horror. -
Amir discharges himself from the hospital
After Amir gets beaten to a pulp by Assef he is in the hospital, but he knows he has to get out soon so he doesn't get killed, "I told Armand early that next day that I was leaving ... Armand protested ... 'I have to go,' I said." (Hosseini 306) Amir was scared that the Taliban would come and get him, but because he was smart he didn't tell anyone where he was going to go. He took Sohrab with him, and they left. -
Sohrab goes to America with Amir
It took them over a month just to get Sohrab into America, and when they got there, he wasn't happy to be there. "We arrived home about seven months ago, in a warm day in August 2001. ... Sohrab shifted on his feet and looked away." (Hosseini 357-358) When most people get to America and out of a war raged country, but Sohrab couldn't stand the culture. Even though he was just a kid he had grown up in Afghanistan culture and didn't want to adjust the American culture. -
Amir goes and see's Rahim Kahn
Amir hadn't seen Rahim Khan since he had left for America and ""The elephant in the room" saying. Nothing could more correctly describe the initial moments of my reunion with Rahim Khan" (Hosseini 197) They hadn't spoken in over 15 years, and now it was just awkward, but after the first few minutes of awkwardness they became comfortable together. They were having a conversation like old friends would, then it got really bad when Rahim Khan told Amir what had happened since he left. -
Amir goes to taliban base and gets beaten up by Assef
As soon as Assef found out that Amir was the one that was trying to get the boy, he got mad, Amir remembered "His brass knuckles flashing in the afternoon night; how cold they felt with the first few blows .. and how they warmed with my blood." (Hosseini 288) Amir was getting beaten senseless, until he laughed. He laughed because he felt like he finally got what he deserved from what happened 26 years ago. Sohrab ended up saving him by shooting Assef with his sling-shot -
Attack on world trade center
The first major terrorist attack done by Al Qaeda. Two planes were hijacked and flown directly into both towers of the world trade center -
Hamid Harzai becomes the leader of Afghanistan
A supporter of Sahir Zhar, the exiled king, became the chairman of the interim government that defeated Al Qaeda, which made him the ruler of Afghanistan -
Sohrab shows first speck of joy in America
Amir was teaching Sohrab how to kite fight, and when he cut the last kite he looked down at Sohrab. "One corner of his mouth had curled up just so. A smile. Lopsided. hardly there. but there." (Hosseini 370-371) This was a big deal for Amir because he was starting to worry if Sohrab was ever going to be happy in America, and when he smiled, just that little bit, Amir knew that everything was going to turn out ok. And it did. -
Mr. Khazai was elected to a 5 year term
The public re elected Mr. Khazai with hopes that he could bring the companies failing economy to balance. -
Obama deploys troops
At Westpoint President Barak Obama released hi plan to deploy 30,00 more troops to Afghanistan to restore the peace. -
Obama tells the public when the troops are going to come home
Obama's original plan was to have all the troops come back in 2011, but because they weren't able to help Afghanistan enough Obama pushed the return back to at least 2014.