Questions on “The Kite Runner”

Chapter 8
1. Because his father says that if a boy can’t stand up for himself he will become a man who can’t stand up to anything and Amir didn’t help Hassan hence his embarrassment.
2. He gets nightmares about the time Hassan gets raped and can’t sleep.
3. Hassan tries to talk to Amir but Amir pushes Hassan away.
4. Amir asks his father to get new servants. Baba tells Amir he is ashamed of him.
5. Amir wants to test Hassan to see if he will fight for himself but Hassan does not because he is loyal to Amir.
6. Assef attends Amir’s birthday party and is served by Hassan, who he had sodomized which is why Amir feels this way.
7. Rahim Khan tells Amir that he almost married a Hazara woman but his family was against it.
8. Rahim did not marry the woman. This story shows the significance of the racism in Afghanistan during that time.
Chapter 9
1 Baba gives amir a bicyle and a wristwatch. Ali and Hassan get him a book called Shahnamah. He gets money too. He does not appreciate the gifts from baba because he thinks that if he had not won the Kite tournament he would not have gotten such presents.
2 Amir keeps the book and the bicycle.
3 He frames Hassan , expecting him to say the truth and since he would be believed baba would know Amir did it and Amir would be blamed and asked why but Amir also tries to get Hassan to leave because he is a memory of his coward act the day Hassan was raped.
4 Baba begs Ali and Hassan to stay and cries.
5 Because Baba took good care of Ali and Hassan and now they were to be treated even worse by whoever was going to pay them to be their servants.

Chapter 10
1 They leave unnoticed and slyly, don’t tell their servants because they might tell others.
2 He stands up for a woman when the Soviet soldier asks for 30 minutes with her in exchange for the continuation of their escape.
3 There is no truck to take them to Peshawar but Karim comes up with another way. Karims cousin owns a fuel