THE KITE RUNNER CHAPTERS 20 21 CHAPTER 20

THE KITE RUNNER CHAPTERS 20 & 21

CHAPTER 20 • 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 INKABUL. • 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.

CHAPTER 20 • FARID AND AMIR ARRIVE AT THE ORPHANAGE, WHERE IT WAS SAID THATSORHAB WAS HOUSED. • ZAMAN SAYS THAT SOHRAB IS NOT THERE AND A ‘TALL TALIB’(IN SUNGLASSES) BOUGHT HIM. • THIS ANGERS FARID, ALTHOUGH ALL THEY CAN DO NOW IS FIND THETALIBAN OFFICIAL, WHO CAN BE FOUND AT THEGHAZI STADIUM.

CHAPTER 21 • IN CHAPTER 21, AMIR THINKS OF KABUL, “MAYBE IT IS A HOPELESS PLACE. ” • FARID TAKES AMIR TO BABA’S HOUSE, WHICH IS WORN DOWN AND DECAYED. • THE DEAD POMEGRANATE TREE INBABA’S OLD YARD SYMBOLIZES THIS HOPELESSNESS. • THE SCENE AT GHAZI STADIUM IS BRUTAL. THE TALIBAN ARE FLOGGING AND KILLING THOSE WHO ACTED AGAINST THETALIBAN. • THE MAN IN CHARGE OF THE FLOGGING IS THE MANZAMAN SPOKE OF, THETALIBAN OFFICIAL IN THE DARK SUNGLASSES.

MAKE CONNECTIONS AND PREDICTIONS • WITH A PARTNER, MAKE A LIST OF PREDICTIONS. • WE WILL DISCUSS THIS AS A CLASS.