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Kite Runner- Baba built an orphanage
No one believed that Baba could do it, ' Then baba succeded and everyone shook their heads in awe at his triumphant ways. baba paid for the construction of the two-story orphanage" (13). Everyone told Baba that he could not do it but he proved everyone wrong. he did it all buy himself with out help. -
Kite Runner-Changes in Kabul
Amir was talking about what is changing in Kabul and he said, " The constitutional monarchy had been abolished, replaced by a republic, led by a president of the republic. For a while, a sense of rejuvenation and purpose swept across the land" (43). This explains that when the king died they went downhill. When their government system changed their lives in Kabul started to go back to how it was before and people felt a sense of relief. -
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Kite Runner & the History of Afghanistan
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Kite Runner- Amir watched Hassan get raped
After they won the Kite race, Hassan ran their kite but then Assef caught him and Amir "stopped watching, turned away from the alley" (77). Amir watched Hassan get raped and he just looked away instead of jumping in and helping him. This shows that Amir did not really care for Hassan because he did not care that Hassan was getting hurt. -
Kite Runner- Amir throws pomegranates at Hassan
Amir threw a pomegranate at hasssan and amir wanted him to throw one back but he did'nt instead he pick one up at threw it at his own head, " 'Are you satisfied? Do you feel better?' he turned around and started down the hill" (93). Amir felt guilty for not helping Hassan when he needed it. He wanted Hassan to hit him back so he could feel a sense of relief. -
General Daud is killed
The afghan president General Daud was, "overthrown and killed in a pro-Soviet coup. The People's Democratic Party comes to power but is paralysed by violent infighting and faces opposition by US-backed mujahideen groups"(bbc.com). -
Kite Runner-When the war started
"The end, the official end, would come first in April 1978 with the communist coup d'état, and then in December 1979, when Russian tanks would roll into the very same streets where Hassan and I played, bringing the death of the Afghanistan I knew and marking the start of a still ongoing era of bloodletting" (36).When Hassan and Amir were at home this was happening in the world they were living in. They could not do anything about and that's when their society around them changed. -
Kite Runner- Amir and Baba moved to America
Baba and Amir lived in Fremont, California when they moved there, "Baba loved the idea of America, It was living in America that gave him an ulcer" (125). Baba thought he would love America but he only loved how he thought it would be. When he got there he did not like it. -
Kite Runner- Northern Alliance took over Kabul
When Amir went back to Pakistan Rahim Khan told him, "how, when the northern Alliance took over Kabul between 1992 and 1996, different fractions claimed different parts of Kabul" (199). Amir realizes how much Kabul has changed sense he left and how much better Kabul got. -
Kite Runner- Amir and Baba go to Jalalabad
Baba and Amir are leaving Kabul to go to Jalalabad because it was dangerous in Kabul but they went in a truck illegally and "There would be no truck, Karim told us after we'd spent a week in the rat-infested basement.The truck was beyond repair" (120). Since the truck was broken and unfix able they had to learn how to bond because they got stuck with a small hot truck and Amir learned the struggles of families. -
Kite Runner-Getting out of Afghanistan
Baba and Amir sneak out of Afghanistan with a lot of other people because it was really dangerous in Kabul. A Russian office pulls the bus over and starts talking to the driver. He had to make something up so the officer would leave (111). There was a war going on in Kabul at the time Amir and Baba were trying to leave Kabul because it was to dangerous. They were trying to go to Pakistan where it was safing for them to get there visa to go to America -
Soviet intervention
The Mujahideen formed an alliance with Pakistan and went againt the Soviet forces and the, " US begins supplying mujahideen with Stinger missiles, enabling them to shoot down Soviet helicopter gunships. Babrak Karmal replaced by Najibullah as head of Soviet-backed regime" (bbc.com). -
Red Army quits
In 1988-1989, "Afghanistan, USSR, the US and Pakistan sign peace accords and Soviet Union begins pulling out troop. Last Soviet troops leave, but civil war continues as mujahideen push to overthrow Najibullah" (BBC.com). -
Kite Runner- Sanuabar goes to see Hassan
Sanuabar showed up at Hassan's house and he wasn't expecting it, "He took Sanuabar's hand in both of his and told her she could cry if she wanted to but she needn't, she was home now, he said, home with her family" (210). This was very emotional for Hassan because he has not met his mother at all. she came back because she was trying to atone for what she did -
Kite Runner- Banning Kite Running
After the war was over, Rahim Khan was telling Hassan there was going to be peace but "A few weeks later, the Taliban banned kite fighting" (213). The Taliban has the power to do anything in the city of Kabul. Once the war was over the Taliban had to feel like they were in power so they started to ban things. -
Taliban takeover
The Taliban took over kabul and, "introduce hard-line version of Islam, banning women from work, and introducing Islamic punishments, which include stoning to death and amputations. Taliban recognised as legitimate rulers by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. They now control about two-thirds of country" (BBC.com). -
US strikes back
"US launches missile strikes at suspected bases of militant Osama bin Laden, accused of bombing US embassies in Africa" (BBC.com). -
Kite Runner -The streets of Kabul
On the streets of Pashtuistan square, Amir and Farhid saw people selling there body parts and there was a layer of dust in the sky (259). At the time when Amir was on the street the Taliban has taken over the whole town. People did not have enough money to survive so they started selling everything including there clothes, animals, and their own body parts. -
Kite Runner-The Taliban stoning people
The Taliban starts off with a pray. Then a blindfolded old man comes out and a blindfolded women. The Taliban says what they did wrong and the starts to through rocks at the until they are dead (270). The Taliban took over Kabul and they publicly beat people if they think that they did something wrong or just because they want to. -
Kite Runner- Amir and Sohrab go back to America
After a long journey from Pakistan, " we arrived home about seven months ago, on a warm day in august 2001. Soraya picked us up at the airport" (357). Amir was so happy to be home with Soraya. Sohrab was not so happy, he missed his old life with his parents in Kabul but he could not really do anything about it. -
Kite Runner- Amir looks like Hassan
Amir and Assef got into a fight and Assef hit Amir so hard, "' The impact had cut your upper lip in two, clean down the middle'" (297). Amir looked like Hassan did before he got his surgery. Amir did not feel guilty anymore because he felt he got what he deserved because he did not help Hassan when he was getting beat up by Assef and he looked like Hassan with the harelip. -
Taliban leader killed
The main leader of the Taliban was killed, " Ahmad Shah Masood, leader of the main opposition to the Taliban - the Northern Alliance - is assassinated" (BBC.com). -
Twin tours falling
The twin towers fallen and, "Hijackers commandeer four commercial airplanes and crash them into the World Trade Center Towers in New York, the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C., and a Pennsylvania field, killing thousands. Days later, U.S. officials say bin Laden, the Saudi exile believed to be hiding in Afghanistan, is the prime suspect in the attack" (PBS.org). -
Presidential elections
They are having elections for a new government, "Presidential elections are held. More than 10.5 million Afghans register to vote and choose among 18 presidential candidates, including interim leader Karzai. Karzai is elected with 55 percent of the vote (PBS.org). -
Amid keeps fighting back
"Amid continuing fighting between Taliban and al-Qaida fighters and the Afghan government forces, NATO expands its peacekeeping operation to the southern portion of the country. After the forces take over from American-led troops, Taliban fighters launch a bloody wave of suicide attacks and raids against the international troops" -
Sending more US troops
The US is sending in more troops to help, "President Karzai warns that Afghanistan will send troops into Pakistan to fight militants if Islamabad fails to take action against them.Suicide bomb attack on Indian embassy in Kabul kills more than 50.US President George Bush sends an extra 4,500 US troops to Afghanistan, in a move he described as a 'quiet surge' " (BBC.com).