THE KITE RUNNER CHAPTERS 16 19 QUIZ DIRECTIONS

THE KITE RUNNER CHAPTERS 16 -19

QUIZ DIRECTIONS: ON A SHEET OF LOOSE-LEAF PAPER, WRITE YOUR NAME AND SECTIONI. N 3 -4 SENTENCES, ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS. USE SPECIFIC DETAILS FROM THE NOVEL TO SUPPORT YOUR ANSWER. CHAPTER 17 IS A PIVOTAL POINT IN THE NOVELW. HAT DO WAS LEARN ABOUT HASSAN IN CHAPTER 17? WHAT DOES THIS REVEAL ABOUT BABA? EXPLAIN HOW THERE WAS FORESHADOWING OF THIS REVELATION.

CHAPTER 16 • CHAPTER 16: RAHIM KHAN TELLS AMIR THE STORY OF HOW HE FOUNDH ASSAN, AND THE NARRATIVE SHIFTS SO THAT RAHIM KHAN NARRATES IN THE FIRST PERSON. • IT IS REVEALED THAT HASSAN’S MOTHER, SANAUBAR, RETURNED TO HASSAN. • HASSAN REACTS WITH ANGER AND THEN WITH FORGIVENESS. • HASSAN AND FARZANA NURSE SANAUBAR BACK TO HEALTH, AND SHE ANDH ASSAN BECOME CLOSE. • SANAUBAR WHO DELIVERS HASSAN’S AND FARZANA’S SON, WHO IS NAMEDS OHRAB, AFTER THE CHARACTER FROM HASSAN’S AND AMIR’S FAVORITE STORY WHEN THEY WERE CHILDREN.

CHAPTER 17: REVELATION ON THE 7 S • CHAPTER 17: THE STORY SHIFTS BACK TOA MIR’S PERSPECTIVE. • AMIR ALSO LEARNS THAT HASSAN AND HIS WIFE WERE KILLED BY THET ALIBAN WHILE DEFENDING THE HOME THAT AMIR WAS RAISED- OUT OF LOYALTY TOB ABA • MOST IMPORTANTLY, RAHIM KHAN REVEALS THAT HASSAN WAS AMIR’S HALF-BROTHER. • AMIR STORMS OUT AS HE IS FILLED WITH DISBELIEF THAT HIS FATHER HAD LIED TO HIM ALL THOSE YEARS.

CHAPTER 17 (CONTINUED) • WHEN AMIR FINDS OUT ABOUT HASSAN’S PARENTAGE, HE “FELT LIKE A MAN SLIDING DOWN A DEEP CLIFF…” HOSSEINI USES THE LITERARY DEVICE OF IMAGERY TO SHOW WHATA MIR IS FEELING INSIDE. • THIS REVELATION OF BABA’S SECRET HELPS AMIR TO EVOLVE AND EXPLAIN HIS FATHER’S CARE FOR HASSAN. • AMIR AGREES TO FIND HASSAN’S SON, SOHRAB.

CHAPTER 18 • AMIR FEELS RESPONSIBLE FOR HASSAN’S DEATH: GUILT CONTINUES TO SET IN • HE EXAMINES THE EVIDENCE O BABA FATHERING HASSAN • THE SURGERY • THE GENUINE LOVE HE HAD FOR HASSAN • BABA’S THEFT PHILOSOPHY: BABA STOLE FROM ALI AND BABA STOLE FROM AMIR • WHAT DO WE NOW KNOW THATB ABA AND AMIR HAD IN COMMON? • THEY BOTH BETRAYED THEIR FRIEND

CHAPTER 19 • AMIR AND FARID ARE TRAVELING TO KABUL. • AMIR DOES NOT RECOGNIZE KABUL. THE WAR AND BLOODSHED HAVE DESTROYED MOST OF WHAT HE ONCE KNEW OF INK ABUL. • WHILE TRAVELING, AMIR LEARNS MORE ABOUT HIS MOTHER FROM A BEGGAR ON THE STREET WHO USED TO BE A UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR. HIS MOTHER DISCLOSED TO HER COLLEAGUE, AS AMIR’S BIRTH NEARED, “I’M SO AFRAID, BECAUSEI ’M SO PROFOUNDLY HAPPYD , R. RASUL. HAPPINESS LIKE THIS IS FRIGHTENING. THEY ONLY LET YOU BE THIS HAPPY IF THEY’RE PREPARING TO TAKE SOMETHING FROM YOU. ” • HOSSEINI USES FORESHADOWING, SHOWING THAT SHE HAD A ‘HINT’ OF THE TRAGEDY IN HER OWN FUTURE.