Explore the relationship between Amir and Baba. Throughout the novel The Kite Runner, the relationship between Amir and Baba has many ups and downs, the reader sees it broaden as Amir grows older and it is clear that deep down their relationship is strong. Amir tells the reader during his dream that he ‘can never tell Baba from the bear.’ This gives the impression that Baba is strong and rugged in appearance. It is important that the reader knows that Baba is the narrator’s father; due to the
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With this quote, Amir reveals his character development, his acceptance of everything that has happened and his freedom after twenty-six years of guilt, as he embraces one of Hosseini’s main messages in The Kite Runner. For most of his life, Amir was incredibly guilty about what happened to Hassan, and before that, he was jealous of Hassan’s attention from Baba. Now, finally, Amir can just remember his amazing, loyal friend, and all the good times they had together. He reveals this when he says Hassan’s
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matter the harm or hurt that Amir has caused Hassan, He would always be loyal. Between these pages, Amir waited for Ali and Hassan to leave for the market so he can put the wrist watch and money Baba had given him for his birthday present under Hassan’s mattress. When Baba had asked Hassan if he had stolen the wrist watch, surprisingly, Hassan had said ‘Yes’. At that moment, Amir realizes Hassan had known about him being in the alley during his rape. He also knew Amir had set him up. Baba forgives
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Since Amir is a Pashtun, he has power above other social groups, including Hassan who is a Hazara. Amir has the ability to discriminate or mistreat Hazara’s without being judged or mistreated back. Before Amir can be as strong and as powerful as his father, he isn’t able to realize that in order to have the qualities that Baba is known for, he must treat others fairly like the example his father gives him. When Hassan got rapped, Amir had the power to fix things, but instead was furtive with his
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Explore the relationship between Amir and his father using chapters 1-6. Chapter one is a very short chapter. In said chapter, the detail of the relationship between Amir and Baba is barely touched upon. As Amir talks of him, and the other names he lists as if he has not heard from Baba, or anyone else, for a long time. It instantly suggests that an event must have happened to cause such separation. Amir lists Hassan first, and Baba just after. Due to the novel being in present day at this point
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School number: 004027 | School name: Australian International School, Vietnam | LANGUAGE A: LITERATURE | Language A studied: Vietnamese Level: SL | Examination Session: | Candidate name: Văn Duy Bảo | Candidate session number: | Part 1: Works in TranslationWorks studied (2 at SL) Please indicate the particular work on which the candidate's written assignment is based by checking the box. | Works | Author | | 1. Bếp (Kitchen) | B. Yoshimoto | | 2. Người đua diều (The Kite
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Summary Amir, a well-to-do Pashtun boy, and Hassan, a Hazara and the son of Amir's father's servant, Ali, spend their days in a peaceful Kabul, kite fighting, roaming the streets and being boys. Amir’s father (who is generally referred to as Baba, "daddy", throughout the book) loves both the boys, but seems critical of Amir for not being manly enough. Amir also fears his father blames him for his mother’s death during childbirth. However, he has a kind father figure in the form of Rahim Khan,
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George Schenkel Paper 4 Dr. Kenneth Hall Baba and the narrator live in Kabul. As he grows up, Amir is frustrated with his father's lack of attention. Rahim Khan is Baba's best friend and business partner. Amir mentions a picture of Baba, Rahim, and himself as a baby, his fingers curled around Khan's pinky and not his father's. Baba's servants, Ali and Hassan, live in a little hut near the main house. Ali suffers from paralysis of his lower facial muscles, and polio left him with a twisted right
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Chapter 1 Amir will narrate the whole book, except for Chapter 16, which is narrated by Rahim Khan. This first chapter is very cryptic if you haven't read the rest of the book, or at least read a summary of the plot. There, we've warned you. Amir tells us something happened in the winter of 1975 and this event made him what he is today. He gives us some scattered images: a crumbling mud wall, an alley, a frozen creek. Amir remembers a phone call last summer from his friend Rahim Khan. He feels like
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Amir experienced the rape of his best friend Hassan as a young child. Amir didn’t tell anyone and he didn’t stand up to the boys who attacked his friend. He wants Hassan to speak up, or to be punished for not helping stand up to Assef and his friends. Unfortunately for Amir, his friend will always be loyal to him and will make no mention of what happened that day in the alley way. This tears Amir apart, he can’t stand that his friend won’t speak about what was done to him or tell his father Ali or
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