The Kite Runer
Essay title: The Kite Runer
The Kite Runner
Chapter 1
1) “that was a long time ago, but its wrong what they say about the past, ive learned, about how you can bury it. because the past claws its way out.”
*the narrator is looking back on what he has once witnessed long ago, and its haunting him, makes him feel guilty and ashamed.
2) “I thought about something Rahim khan had said just before he hung up There is a way to be good again.”
*the narrators friend, Rahim Khan, is expressing indirectly that no matter what the narrator has done in his past, he will forgive him, and help him.
Chapter 2
1) “Hassan never denied me anything…but he never told on me. never told that the mirror, like shooting walnuts at the neighbors dog, was always my idea.”
*the narrators friend Hassan would never tell him “no”, always went along with his ideas, and never told on him, he was a very loyal friend.
2)”later, in the dark, after the movie had started, i heard Hassan next to me, croaking, tears were sliding down his cheeks.”
*Hassan was crying because of the shame he felt after the encounter with the soldier who said he had slep with his mother at some point.
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