Kite Runner key events up to CH.14

By Izzy707

  • Ali's adoption (CH.4)

    Ali was adopted as a baby by Amir's grandfather, after Ali's parents were killed in a car accident by reckless Pashtuns.

  • Baba's birth (CH.4)

    "Zahir Shah began his 40 year reign over Afghanistan" (November 8th) -being the last king- on the same year of Baba's birth.

  • Amir's birth (CH.2)

    We learn that Amir was born in 1963, one year before Hassan.
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    Amir living in Kabul (CH.2)

    In chapter 2, Amir mentions "eighteen year that I lived in that house", directing the readers to understand the length of time he's lived in Kabul before he had to immigrate to his second home in America.
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    18 years lived in Kabul (CH.2)

    Amir mentions "eighteen years I had lived in that house" (in Kabul), until he had to immigrate to America.
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    Communist coup d'etat (CH.5)

    The communist king's reign was bloodlessly overthrown by his cousin (Daoud Khan- president), leaving the monarchy to be no more (the last king), whilst he was in Italy.

  • Hassan's blue kite (CH.7)

    Winter of the year of Hassan's assault.

  • Amir's birthday (CH.8)

    Rahim Khan gifted him the leather-bound notebook. two days after, Amir planted the money and watch underneath Hassan's mattress prompting them to leave.

  • Soviet war begins (CH.5)

    Amir refers to the beginning of the nine-year soviet war in the quote "Russian tanks would roll into the very same streets where Hassan and I had played".

  • Amir and Baba escape from Kabul into Peshawar (CH.10)

  • Amir and Baba have imigrated to America (CH.11)

    By 1983 Baba and Amir have new lives in Fremont, California in America.

  • Amir graduates from highschool at 25 (CH.11)

  • Baba is diagnosed with cancer (CH.12)

  • The flea market bussiness started by Baba and Amir (CH.12)

  • Amir and Soraya get married (CH.13)

    a few months afterwards Baba dies and his funeral is held in Heyward's mosque.

  • Amir finishes writing his first novel (CH.13)

    The novel gets represented and sold.

  • Flashback (CH.1)

    The story begins in 2001, where Amir has a flashback to the "winter of 1975". This prompts the story to set in motion by chapter 2 which will be told in past tense until chapter 14.

  • Flashback (CH.1)

    Amir has a flashback to the "winter of 1975", this sets the story in motion from a farther back time in chapter 2 through a past tense, first person, narrative.

  • Rahim Khan calls Amir (CH.14)

    Rahim Khan convinces Amir to visit his home -Pakistan- due to his sickness.