Kite Runner Quotes Chapter 1-8

Vinay Patel

Mrs. Kook

Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition

9 November 2014 -

Dialectical Journal: The Kite Runner

Chapter 1 -

Quote 1 - “I thought of the life I had lived until the winter of 1975 came along and changed everything.” (The Kite Runner, Page 2)

(Q) What could have the narrator have alluded to when he stated that everything changed? Was the change good or bad?

Chapter 2 –

Quote 1 – “Hassan never denied me anything…but he never told on me, never told that the mirror, like shooting walnuts at the neighbor’s dog, was always my idea.” (Page 4)

(R) Hassan never told anyone what the narrator did, Hassan didn’t want the narrator to get in trouble. The narrator and Hassan are good friends.

Quote 2 – “later in the dark, after the movie had started, I heard Hassan next to me, croaking, tears were sliding down his cheeks.” (Page 7)

(P/Q) Hassan appears to have a lot of problems, and maybe the change the narrator referred to was good, maybe Hassan buried his past? Or maybe the change was bad, and worsened Hassan’s situation. Maybe there was a reason for Hassan’s mom to act the way she did?

Chapter 3

Quote 1 – “After all, I had killed his (Baba’s) wife, his beautiful princess…” (Page 19)

(R) Amir continues to blame himself for killing his mother, and believes that Baba hates him because of that.

Quote 2 – “If I hadn’t seen the doctor pull him out of my wife with my own eyes, I’d never believe he’s my son.” (Page 23)

(R) Baba seems to be ashamed of Amir as his son, this may be due to their differences and beliefs.

Chapter 4 –

Quote 1 – “Baba was always telling us about the mischief he and Ali used to cause, and Ali would shake his ahead and say, “But, Agha sahib, tell them who the architect of the mischief and who the poor laborer?” (Page 25)

(R) Just like Amir and Hassan, the generation prior to them were the same. Will they change the way future generations act? Or will they follow their fate. Also, Baba and Amir may be more similar then they know, as they both caused trouble as kids, and had their “friend” take the blame. Also, both don’t consider Amir, or Hassan their friend.

Quote 2 – “History isn’t easy to overcome. Neither is religion. In the end. I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara…Nothing can change that. Nothing” (Page 25)

(R/Q) Amir informed the reader that in the past, there was a dispute and many of Hassan’s people were killed. When he stated history isn’t easy to overcome, and nothing can change. Is he

Foreshadowing a horrific way of Amir killing Hassan? The relationship between them is complicated and isn’t getting better.

Chapter 5 –

Quote 1 – "But he's not my friend, he's my servant" (Amir directs to Assef). (Page 41)

(R) Amir doesn’t want others to know Hassan is his “Friend”.

Quote 3 - "Which was ironic. Because that was the winter that Hassan