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baba is born
Amir states " in 1933 baba was born"
This quote is significant because this shows when it all started for him. Based off this day, Baba has grown to be a successful person with many friends. -
baba's family adopts ali
Baba and his family adopted Ali because "two men kill Ali's parents in a car carsh,
This is significant because this is where the friendship started between the two of them.
this is the reason why amir and hassan were so close all the time -
hassan aims slingshot at assef
Assef is just about to punch amir when a Hassan said "if you make a move, they will have to change your name from Assef 'the Ear eater' to one eyed Assef."
This quote is significant because it shows that hassan is there to back up amir when he needs help.
this is foreshadowing because this same thing happens when amir is older but with sohrab instead -
amir is wondering why he isn't the favorite of the two kids.
Amir said " if I changed my min and wanted a bigger one, baba would buy it for me, but hw would also buy hassan the same one. Sometimes i wished he wouldn't do that. Wished he'd let me be the favorite."
this shows that baba is treating them equally despite what society thinks.
Amir is jealous that he's not baba's number one, this could be why amir tried to fire hassan. -
Amir and hassan cur down the last blue kite to win the competition
amir thought "all i smelled was victory. salvation. redemption."
this is the feeling that went over amir as he won the kite flying tournament.
now hassan had to go and get the last kite to honor amir's victory. -
Hassan gets violated as amir watches
Amir said "I have 1 last chance to make a decison. 1 final opportunity to decide who i was going to be... in the end, I ran."
This is significant because amir had a chance to show his friendship to hassan, but he didn't save him.
this scene was the end of their friendship. -
amir tries to get hassan to throw a pomegrante at him
Amir threw a pomegrante at hassan and "it struck him in the chest, explodedin a spray of red pulp... hit me back... get up! hit me"
THis is where amir is trying to have hassan forgive him by throwing pomegrante's at him.
Hassan has ended their friendship, and is completely ignoring amir now. -
amir and hassan in trees as kids
Amir said " when we were children , Hassan and I used to climb the poplar trees in the driveway of my father's house"
This qupte shows how well Hassan and Amir always hung out. Going up in the tree was a part of their friendship that made them become closer. -
amir reads his story to hassan
When amir is reading his story to hassan, hassan said" read it again please Amir agha."
This is significant because this is part of the reason why amir became a writer
Hassan loved the story that he read to him, so amir wrote it on paper. -
amir's letter to rahim khan
In Rahim Khan's letter to amir it said, "I enjoyed your story very much. Mashallah, God has granted you a special talent."
This gave amir the respect from an adult that he didn't get from his father.
THis is what got the writing to keep on going in amir, he enjoys writing, -
amir and hassan are thinking about flying a kite
amir says " and kites, of course. Flying kites. and running them."
this is significant because this is when amir and hassan enter the kite flying competition.
THis is their favorite season just because of this moment. -
Soviet union attacks afghanistan
the first Soviet troops parachuted into Kabul on this day to assist Babrak Karmal, who had become presodnt in a coup within the Afghan Communist leadership -
amir is in love with soraya
amir said " i would invent excuses to stroll down the ailse...and pass the taheri's stand"
THis shows that amir loves looking at soraya.
He is making up excuses just to walk near her. -
amir wants to marry soraya
AMir says to soraya "nothing you said changes anything. I want us to marry"
this shows that amir doesn't care what happened in the past with soraya.
he just want to spend the rest of his life with her. -
baba dies
Soraya "pulled up his blanket. we closed the door. baba never woke up."
This is significant because baba refused to take medicine and this is his punishment.
Ahortly after baba dies, amir and soraya get married. -
The last soviet troops left Afghanistan.
The last soviet troops left Afghanistan. Left Afghanistan devastated from the war. Osama Bin Laden helps found Al Qaeda -
The summer of 1994
By the summer of 1994, power was anarchically divided among competing warlords and individual fiefdoms, but one group would eventually take control -
The end of 1994
Mullah Omar had nearly 12,000 followers and was rolling up the warlords to the noth and east. With his promise to restore the centraity of Islam to daily life, he created a genuinely popular movement in a country weary of corruption and brutality -
The airport with Al Qaeda
Westen diplomats say Al Qaeda helped persuade Mullah Omar to order the destrusction of 800-year-old Buddaha statues at Bamiyan, an act condemned around the world. -
In 1996 the Taliban takes control
The Taliban takes control of Afghanistan, imposing strict enforcement of fundamentalist Islamic law, banning movies and music and forcing women out of schools and into all-enveloping burqa clothing -
Post 9/11 invasion
After the attac on the World trade center in new york on spetember 11 2001, President George W. Bush fave the Taliban an ultimatum to hand over mr. bin Laden. When refused, the united states joined forces with rebel groups that had never accepted Taliban rule, notably the Northern Alliance which represented the minority tribes -
The karzai government
Hamid Karazi, 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 -
Obama's war
On this day, Obama announced his plan to deploy 30,000 additional troops. He vowed to start bringing back American forces home from Afghanistatan in the middle of 2011, saying that the United States could not afford and should not have to shoulder and open-ended commitment -
The deadline moved
Obama said that he would start brining back people in the middle of 2011, but then the Obama administation said they will have forces in Afghanistan until the end of 2014