This chapter is divided into two parts.
It began with the gun shoot, which came out the political issue about the rebellion and the republic.
Then it decribes the conflict between narrator,Hassan and other three guys who like to bully people in the neighborhood, which is caused by the political factor. Assef agreed Hitler on the religion issue.
"Alghansistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pullute our homeland, our watan, They dirty our blood."
"To rid Afghanistan of all the dirty, kasseef Hazaras."
After hearing this, Hassan still protects Amir as before though he is afraid of Assef.
The second part is about the birthday present for Hassan from Baba. Baba always prepares surprising presents for him. That year, it was a surgery doctor who fixed Hassan's harelip, which caused Amir's jealousy of Baba's affection for Hasson.
After the surgery, Hassan was smiling as he had when he was born.
The ending of this chapter is an aftertaste, which raises my interest to read what happened at the winter of that year.
"The swelling subsided, and the wound healed with time. Soon, ti was just a pink jagged line running up from his lip. By the following winter, it was only a faint scar."
"Which was ironic. Because that was the winter that Hassan stopped smiling."
Here comes the IRONY again.
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Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. While in medical practice, Hosseini began writing his first novel, The Kite Runner, in March of 2001. In 2003, The Kite Runner, was published and has since become an international bestseller, published in 38 countries. In 2006 he was named a goodwill envoy to UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency. His second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns was published in May of 2007. He lives in northern California.
"For you , a thousand times over," I heard myself say. Then I turned and ran. It was only a smile,nothing more. It didn't make everything all right, It didn't make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods,shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight.
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Characters
- ๑۩۞۩๑Amir — protagonist and narrator of the novel, said to be born in 1963, in Kabul, who begins as a well-to-do boy in monarchical Afghanistan and later migrates to America following the downfall of the monarchy. Amir is Hassan's half brother; however, Amir does not learn of their relationship until much later in his life. Hassan never learns of the relationship.
- ๑۩۞۩๑Hassan — a childhood friend of Amir, although Amir never explicitly admitted to this. Hassan is first thought to be the son of Ali (Baba's servant and inexplicit childhood friend) and Sanaubar; later in the story, Hassan is revealed to be the illegitimate son of Baba and Sanaubar. Hassan died without ever knowing about this fact.
- ๑۩۞۩๑Assef — a sadistic teenage rapist (and later notorious pedophile) from Amir's neighborhood in Kabul, antagonist. As a teenager, he rapes Hassan. As an adult he sexually assaults Hassan's son, Sohrab, and numerous other young children of both genders. Assef is the son of a German mother and Afghan father. He is a Nazi sympathizer and a has hatred of Hazaras, giving a book about his "idol" Adolf Hitler to Amir for his thirteenth birthday. Many years later, he becomes a Talib-executioner and pedophile. Sohrab severely damages one of Assef's eyes during Assef's fight with Amir.
- ๑۩۞۩๑Baba — The father of Amir and Hassan. He is said to be born in the year 1933 (when the Afghan king begins his 40-year reign). He is described as a big, strong, healthy looking man with wild brown hair and beard. Baba is depicted to be of about 1.96 meter (6'5") in height. He is a bit of a party-maker, and known for his strength. (He is said to have fought with a black bear and won the fight, in his younger years). During the book, Baba seems to be a bit disappointed in his son Amir, who he wishes to be as much as a man as he is (but his son only reads books and lets others fight off bullies for him). After leaving Afghanistan for America, he ages quickly and dies at fifty-three, in 1986, of cancer. He lives long enough, though, to see his son Amir marry a young Afghan woman called Soraya. Many people attend his funeral.
- ๑۩۞۩๑Ali — Baba's servant and inexplicit childhood friend. He is initially thought to be the father of Hassan. Before the events of the novel, he had been struck with polio, rendering his right leg useless. He is killed by a land mine.
- ๑۩۞۩๑Rahim Khan — Baba's business partner and best friend in Afghanistan, later he was the one who tells Amir about Hassan's actual father. Amir liked him as a child, and Rahim Khan is also the one who invited Amir back to Afghanistan to pick up Sohrab. Later in the story, Rahim Khan goes off alone leaving a letter to Amir telling him not to find him. He dies peacefully knowing he has successfully made Amir the man Baba wanted him to be.
- ๑۩۞۩๑Soraya — an Afghan woman living in Fremont, California. She marries Amir. Soraya wants to become a teacher. Before marrying Amir, she ran away with an Afghan boyfriend in Virginia, which according to Afghan tradition made her unsuitable for marriage, but because Amir also had his own regrets, loved and married her anyway.
- ๑۩۞۩๑Sohrab — son of Hassan, traumatized and sexually abused by the Assef; Rahim Khan contacts Amir later in life in an attempt to get him to come back to Afghanistan to find Sohrab. In the end, he is adopted by Amir.
- ๑۩۞۩๑Sanaubar — Ali's wife who gives birth to Hassan as a result of an affair with Baba. She then leaves home to pursue the life of a gypsy. She later returns to Hassan in his adulthood, providing a grandmother figure for Sohrab.
- ๑۩۞۩๑Farid — bitter driver who is initially abrasive toward Amir but later befriends him. Farid's two daughters were killed by a land mine years back. Farid is Amir's means of transport, information, and knowledge of current Afghanistan when he returns.
Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. While in medical practice, Hosseini began writing his first novel, The Kite Runner, in March of 2001. In 2003, The Kite Runner, was published and has since become an international bestseller, published in 38 countries. In 2006 he was named a goodwill envoy to UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency. His second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns was published in May of 2007. He lives in northern California.
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