The preface to Chapter 10 is "March ," moving the narrative forward five years. An eighteen-year-old Amir and his father are leaving Kabul in the middle of the night to the relative safety of Pakistan. Amir hints at the changes Afghanistan has endured during the past five years and the terror state it has become. At one of the checkpoints, a Russian soldier demands thirty minutes with one of the female passengers, yet Baba stands up to him. Amir feebly asks his father to sit down. Once again, Amir's cowardice is a source of embarrassment for Baba.
When the truck isn't ready to take them on to Peshawar, Amir realizes he is in a dark basement room with about thirty others. Among those others is Kamal, one of the boys who hung around Assef. Catching snippets of conversation, Amir overhears that Kamal had an encounter with four men who presumably treated him the way Assef treated Hassan. Although the truck that was supposed to transport them is beyond repair, an offer is made to smuggle the refugees in a fuel truck.
In order to help him through this ordeal, Amir thinks of a pleasant memory of him and Hassan flying kites. Under Taliban rule , the country becomes a terrifying and 'hopeless place'. Scenes such as the execution in the Ghazi stadium and the 'young man' who 'dangled from the end of a rope' after his public hanging explicitly highlight the political crisis Afghanistan undergoes at the end of the 20th century.
Assef's readiness to become an active member of the Taliban is significant, showing how Afghanistan is partly responsible for its own terror and hopelessness. Assef, as a representation of a Sunni Pashtun, in a sense is a product of the ethnic divisions that are historical.
Hosseini's setting the early story in a peaceful Afghanistan carries with it some ambiguity. He said he wanted to 'remind people that Amir remembers an Afghanistan with its ancient charms free from external conflict, with long summers, storytelling under the pomegranate tree and kite flying in winter.
Even the servants seem to enjoy serving and the rich employers largely keep them safe. However, this vision is from Amir's perspective.
Hassan and Ali do not have personal voices in the early part of the text and readers are left to imagine life from their point of view. It is also relevant to think about how uncomfortable many readers feel thinking of the servitude of Hassan and Ali and of the treatment of Sanaubar. The story suggests perhaps that the attitudes of the ruling Pashtun elite towards the Hazaras in part make Afghanistan the author of its own misery.
Baba's status as a 'towering Pashtun specimen' for example means he is able to abuse his position, fathering Hassan despite his mother's marriage to Baba's Hazara servant, Ali. After the Taliban takes control, Assef easily gains a ruling position within the regime and this gives him the ability to abuse and murder with impunity, almost as if his early upbringing prepares him for his later violent behaviour.
Soraya's discussion of double standards highlights the gender inequalities within Afghan society. While men who father children out of wedlock are 'just having fun', after her affair Soraya is viewed as damaged goods. This negative reaction to female sexuality is seen more overtly in the depiction of Hassan's mother Sanaubar who had tempted 'countless men into sin' and is seemingly punished for her beauty when 'someone had taken a knife to her face' leaving her looking 'grotesque'.
Similarly, Soraya's mother is silenced by her marriage to General Taheri. Khala Jamila, Amir reports, had been famous in Kabul for her singing voice but 'that she never sing again in public had been one of the General's conditions when they married'.
Afghanistan is seen to be at the mercy of both the Soviets and the Americans at key points in Amir's story. The significance of Amir using this phrase in terms of understanding his character and how he feels about himself is that he is realizing that he is the monster that is shying everyone away from each other and hurting the ones he loves.
What does this scene tell the reader about Hassan? This scene tells a. Ali realizes this is hard for Hassan and he tells Baba, "Don't make this even more difficult then it already is, Agha sahib" Hosseini which goes to show that Ali knows everything and Baba doesn't and he doesn't understand why they are leaving. Why is it important that it rains the day that Ali and Hassan leave Babas house?
How is this technique related to romanticism in literature? Amir first notes that it rarely rains in Kabul during the summer. Also the rain can symbolize the feelings of pain and hurt pounding down on everyone also setting a dark, depressing atmosphere. As Amir describes, "Thunderheads rolled in, painted the sky iron gray" Hosseini Why are Ali and Hassan both deformed?
Why do Amir and Baba go to America? Why does Amir sometimes treat Hassan badly in childhood? Why does Amir want Hassan to hit him with pomegranates?
Why does Amir accept Soraya even after she tells him of her past? Why did Baba lie about Hassan being his son? Why does Rahim Khan disappear? Does Amir redeem himself? Literary Devices Themes. The Persistence of the Past All the characters in the novel feel the influence of the past, but none so much as Amir and Sohrab. Male Friendship The Kite Runner focuses nearly exclusively on male relationships.
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