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Ali gets Adopted
"As for the orphan, my grandfather adopted him into his own household...That boy was Ali" (25). -
Baba Builds an Orphanage
"In the late 1960s, when I was five or six, Baba decided to build an orphanage" (13). -
Amir carves into the tree
"One summer day, I used one of Ali's kitchen knives to carve our names on it: 'Amir and Hassan, the sultans of Kabul'" (27). -
Amir Writes his first story
"That same night, I wrote my first short story" (30). -
Hassan gets surgery
"'Well, Dr. Kumar said,' my job is to fix things on people's bodies. Sometimes faces'...'Oh,' Hassan said. He licked his lips" (45-6). -
Amir wins the Kite Tournament
"'You won, Amir agha! You won!'" (66). -
Hassan Gets Violated :'(
"It was the look of the lamb" (76). -
Hassan and Ali Leave
"We can't live here anymore" (106). -
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Kite Runner & the History of Afghanistan
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Soviet Union (Russia) Invades
"The turmoil and extremism that have dominated its history since then can be traced to the 1979 invasion by the Soviet Union..." (2) -
Amir and Baba leave for America
"...since we'd left Kabul just after two in the morning" (110). -
Amir meets Soraya
"She was standing behind us, a slim-hipped beauty with velvety coal black hair, an open thermos and Styrofoam cup in her hand. I blinked, my heart quickening...'My daughter, Soraya jan'" (140). -
Amir Marries Soraya
"I remember sitting on the sofa, set on the stage like a throne, Soraya's hand in mine, as three hundred or so faces looked on" (171). -
Baba dies :(
"'Im going to miss him'" (176). -
Soviet Air Force Useless
"After 1986, the Soviet Air Force was also rendered largely useless by advanced Stinger antiaircraft missiles supplied by the United States to the rebels" (2) -
Soviet Union Leaves
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Taliban Grows
"By the end of 1994 Mullah Omar had nearly 12,000 followers..." (2) -
Taliban Takes Control
"...the Taliban by 1996 had taken control of Afghanistan, imposing strict enforcement of fundamentalist Islamic law..." -
Osama and AL Qaeda arrive
"The Taliban also provided a safe haven for Mr. bin Laden, who arrived by chartered fet at Jalalabad Airport in May 1996, and for AL Qaeda" (3). -
Amir rescues Sohrab after fighting Assef
"'I wonder why you've come all this way, Amir, come all this way for a Hazara?'" (285). -
Amir takes Sohrab to America
"So what i took as a yes from him was in actuality more ofa quiet surrender" (356). -
9/11
"After the attack on the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11, 2001..." (3). -
Amir visits Rahim
"'Rahim Khan is very sick'" (191). -
Sohrab hurts himself
"Suddenly I was on my knees, screaming" (343). -
Karzai Government
"In December 2001, Hamid Karzai, a supporter and relative of Mohammad Zahir Shah, the exiled former king of Afghanistan, was named chairman of an interim government that replaced the defeated Taliban, making him the leader of the country" (3) -
Amir Looks Back On Life
"I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975" (1). -
Amir runs a kite for Sohrab
"'Do you want me to run that kite for you?'" (371). -
Karzai Becomes Interim President
"He took office as interim president in June 2002, saying he hoped to secure peace for Afghanistan and win the country much-needed international aid." (3) -
Mr. Karzai becomes president of Country
"Mr. Karzai was elected to a five-year term as president in 2004" (3) -
Amir searches for Sohrab after learning some answers