Thekiterunner

Timeline of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

By amygreen

  • Photo taken of Amirs Grandfather and King Nadir Shah

  • Baba was born

  • Zahri Shah begins his 40 year reign of Afghanistan

  • Babs Father died, he was stabbed in the throat by a theif

  • Baba decided to build orphanage

    when Amir was 5 or 6

  • Amir was born

    His mother died giving birth to him

  • Hassan was born

    in a little shack outside

  • Baba took time off constructing orphange to fly to Tehran for a month and watch world cup games on television

  • Baba held Amir and Hassan in his arns because they were scred of the gun shots. Baba told them it was just the shooting of ducks

  • Amir tricks Hassan by straying form a written story and creating his own

  • Daoud Khan ends Zahir Shahs 40 year reign with a blood less coup

  • Amir and Baba drove through the lands of the Khyber Pass

  • Hassan gets surgery for his lip

  • Amir witnesses Hassan being abused

  • Hassan kite runs for last time

  • Amir won the kite running competition

  • Hassan and Ali leave Baba and Amir

  • Amir turns 13

    Baba holds a massive birthday party for him

  • The communist coup d'etat

  • Russian tanks roll into Afghanistan streets

  • Amir and Baba lived in Peshawar for a few months

  • Amir and Baba seek refuge

  • Amir goes into a bookstore

  • Amir graduated from high school

    at age 20

  • Amir and Baba bought a volkswagon bus

    to use for the flea markets

  • Amir turns 21

  • the year Rahim Khan went to Hazarajat to find Hassan

  • Amir and Soraya begin trying for a child

  • Amir finishes his first novel

  • Farzana (Hassans wife) became pregnant again

    after losing her first child

  • Sanaubar delivered Hassan and Faezanas son

  • Sohrab is born

  • Soraya and Amir tells Tahiri's they can't have children

  • Shorawi were defeated and Kabul belonged to Massoud, Rabbani and the Mujahedin

  • Taliban rolled into Afghanistan

  • The Taliban banned Kite fighting

  • Kabul against Mazar-i-Sharif

    (soccer game in Ghazi Stadium)

  • Taliban massacred the Hazaras in Mazar-i-Sharif

  • Rahim Khan calls Amir in America

  • Amir decides he needs to go to Pakistan to visit Rahim Khan

  • Assef and Amir's confrontation over Sohrab

  • Sohrab attempts suicude

  • Amir and Sohrab arrive in America

  • Twin Towers terrorists attact

  • Novel begins

  • Amir and Sohrab go kite running to conclude the story