The Kite Runner PreReading for Chapters 17 21

The Kite Runner Pre-Reading for Chapters 17 -21 1

Setting Chapter 17 -18 – Peshawar Chapter 19 – Afghanistan Chapter 20 -21 – Kabul (Afgh. ) 2

Literary Concepts Flashback Setting Foreshadowing Irony Characterization Symbolism 3

Setting The setting will again take on a large role in The Kite Runner. Adult Amir must face the country (and his own demons) that he left behind. Consider how the setting reflects the internal and external conflict that Amir faces. 4

Characters Amir Hassan Baba Rahim Khan Farzana Sanaubar Farid Wahid Dr. Rasul Zaman “John Lennon” 5

Big Ideas Loyalty and devotion Guilt and Penance Power and control Deceit and Truth 6

Guiding Questions How does returning to Afghanistan affect Amir? How does the cruelty of the Taliban directly affect the characters in The Kite Runner? What realizations does Amir come to throughout these chapters? 7

Powerful Quotations “Children are fragile, Amir jan. Kabul is already full of broken children and I don’t want Sohrab to become another” (220). “I felt like a man who awakens in his own house and finds all the furniture rearranged, so that every familiar nook and cranny looks foreign now. Disoriented, he has to reevaluate his surroundings, reorient himself” (224). “There is a way to be goo again, he’d said” (226). “I feel like a tourist in my own country” (231). 8