The document provides a detailed summary of the novel "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini. It describes the main characters such as Amir, Hassan, Baba and Assef. It discusses the relationships between the characters and the key events of the story, including Amir's betrayal of Hassan, their escape from Afghanistan to America due to war, and Amir's eventual return to Kabul to adopt Hassan's orphaned son Sohrab to seek redemption. The moral of the novel is about forgetting and correcting the past.

1. “In the Name of Allah, The Mighty, The
Merciful, The Omnipotent, The Omnipresent
who bestowed on me the power of speaking”

2. “The Kite Runner”

3. About Novel
 The Kite Runner is Hosseini’s first novel.
 It is also the first novel published in English by an
Afghan.
 The novel was the number three best seller for 2005 in
the United States.

4. Background on The Author
Khalid Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, where
much of the book takes pace. He later moved to California
and become a doctor. Husseini wrote “The Kite Runner”
in 2001, and is currently working on his second novel,
which is also placed in Afghanistan

5.  The novel, tells the story of two young boys in an
Afghanistan that precedes the bloody communist
achievement and the rise of the Taliban.
 The novel crosses decades—and continents—
bringing American readers into a world they’ve
rarely seen, of violence and lack and tragic
disloyalty. At the same time, it’s a universal tale
of friendship, redemption and profound hope.

6. Contents
 Two main national people
 Major character
 Minor character
 Overall Character
 Relation Among Character
 Summary
 Comments

7. Two main national people
Pashtun
Amir
Baba
Assef
Rahim Khan
Hazara
Ali
Hassan (till
end)
Sanobar
Farzana

8. Major characters
 Amir
 Hassan
 Assef
 Baba
 Ali

9. Minor characters
 Iqbal Taheri
 Soraya
 Ali
 Wali
 Zaman
 Dr.Armand Faruqi
 Farid
 Khala jamila

10. Overall characterization
Pashtun Hazaras Afghani

11. Important Places
● Kabul, Afghanistan-Amir grew up here and it
was the first influence on him.
● San Francisco, America-The area that Amir
moved to when he left Afghanistan. This is
where he attempts to drown himself in the
American culture to forget his past.

12. Amir
 The protagonist.
 And narrator of the novel.
 A wealthy boy who grows up in Kabul.
 Afghanistan along with his father, Baba.
 Amir abuses his privileges over his servant and
loyal friend, Hassan.
 And then fails to come to his aid when Hassan is
being raped.
 The rest of the novel deals with Amir’s guilt, his
growing maturity (as he and Baba move to the
U.S.)

13. Baba
 Amir’s father, a larger-than-life figure with wild
hair and a loud voice.
 Who works hard and succeeds at all of his
endeavors, but stands by his strict moral
principles.
 Baba’s great sin is committing adultery with Ali’s
wife.
 He is Hassan’s real father.
 Baba’s many works of charity and the orphanage
he builds are part of his attempts to redeem
himself.

14. Hassan
 Amir’s childhood playmate and companion, a
Hazara boy with a cleft lip.
 Hassan is an excellent kite runner.
 He is naturally intelligent, but illiterate because
of his social class.
 He is always loyal to Amir, even when Amir
betrays him.
 Hassan eventually marries Farzana, and has a
son named Sohrab.

15. Sohrab
 Hassan’s son, a boy who is sent to an orphanage
when Hassan and Farzana are killed.
 He is then taken from the orphanage and sexually
abused by Assef, until Amir comes for him and
brings him back to America.
 Sohrab is a symbol of all the terrible things that
have happened to both the characters and the
country of Afghanistan.
 He also offers a chance for hope and redemption.

16. Sohrab
Sohrab
Farzana
Reason
Hassan
Amir

17. Ali
 Hassan’s father, a Hazara who was orphaned as a
boy.
 Then taken in by Baba’s father and raised as
Baba’s playmate and servant.
 The lower half of Ali’s face is paralyzed.
 He was crippled in one leg by polio, but Ali
remains cheerful and kind.

18. Ali
Baba’s Servant
Paralyzed
Religious
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19. Assef
 The antagonist of the novel.
 A blue-eyed, cruel boy who idolizes Hitler.
 Torments children with his self-confidence
knuckles, and later rapes Hassan.
 As an adult Assef joins the Taliban, where he is
given free reign to exercise his violent and
pedophilic nature.

20. Soraya
 The daughter of General Taheri.
 As a young woman Soraya ran away with an
Afghan man, “dishonor” herself.
 Amir falls in love with her and they get married,
and Soraya later becomes a teacher.

21. Rahim Khan
 Baba’s close friend and business associate.
 A kind man who often seems to understand the
young Amir better than Baba does.
 Rahim Khan encourages Amir’s writing.
 As an old man he summons Amir back to
Afghanistan for a chance to redeem himself by
rescuing Sohrab from Afghanistan.

22. General Taheri
 Soraya’s father and Baba’s friend, a former
general in the old pre-soviet regime of
Afghanistan.
 He is a traditional.
 Traditional Afghan man who in the United States
collects welfare and refuses to labor beneath his
station in America.

23. Farid
 A man who drives Amir back to Afghanistan
from Pakistan.
 At first Farid is unpleasant and sarcastic towards
Amir.
 He learns about Sohrab Farid becomes a loyal
friend and helps Amir on his journey.

24. Sanaubar
 Hassan’s mother and Ali’s wife.
 Sanaubar had a “dishonorable” reputation as a
young woman.
 She hates Ali and leaves after Hassan is born.
 Returns as an older woman to take care
of Sohrab.

25. Wahid
 Farid’s brother, a man who is very poor and
whose children are starving.
 Who’s hospitality is such that he nonetheless
feeds Amir before his own children.

26. Sofia Akrami
 Amir’s mother and Baba’s wife, a college
professor of royal blood.
 Who dies giving birth to Amir.
 Amir always believes that his father secretly
hates him.
 Amir considers that he is responsible of his
mother’s death.

27. Summary
The Kite Runner is an inspiring book about the life
of a young Pashtun boy named Amir as he copes
with his childhood decisions 26 years prior. Living
in a lavish house in the richest district of Kabul,
Afghanistan, Amir has everything he could ever
wish for, except the loving attention and
acceptance of his father, Baba. Ali and his son
Hassan are their servants, both being of the Hazara
minority ethnicity. Throughout his childhood,
Hassan was always by Amir’s side as a loyal and
dedicated best friend; they did everything together
including Kite running.

28.  Each year it was a tradition for the Afghan
community to hold a festival of kites during the
winter and each year a single victor would arise
amongst hundreds, being the only kite left in the
sky after a long day of cutting. There were those
who ran and fought the kites and then those
who were the kite runners. Amir was an
incredible kite flyer and Hassan was the best kite
runner there was. Promising to fetch the prized
blue kite that Amir defeated to win the festival,
Hassan ran off into the streets of Kabul

29.  When he did not return, Amir went looking for
Hassan and discovered him cornered by Assef, a
sociopathic bully, and his two followers. It was
there that Amir hit an all time low and
cowardice as he watched his best friend get
beaten and raped and did nothing. It was the
guilt of this decision that made him the man that
he is.

30.  Years later after Hassan and Ali leave, the
Roussi army attacked, forcing Baba and an 18
year old Amir to flee the country to California,
America. It is here where he is still haunted by
Hassan’s rape each day while attended high
school and college to become a writer. When
Baba becomes very ill with cancer, Amir asks
Soraya, a fellow Afghan refugee to marry him
and she becomes his rock of stability. Shortly
after they get married Baba dies.

31.  Soraya and Amir try having kids but fail and it is
then when Amir receives a call from a man who was
more of a father to him than his own, Rahim Khan.
Rahim tells Amir of the unfortunate shooting of
Hassan and his wife but that their son is now in an
orphanage. This is a chance for Amir to make
amends and atone his “sin” adopting their son.
The End

32.  Ultimately, The Kite Runner is a novel about
relationships — specifically the relationships
between Amir and Hassan, Baba, Rahim Khan,
Soraya, and Sohrab — and how the complex
relationships in our lives overlap and connect to
make us the people we are.

33. Moral
 The moral of the novel is forgetting and
correcting the past.
 Amir realized that he could not run from the past
forever, and so he corrected it by going back
Kabul and confronting Assef adopting Hassan’s
son Sohrab

34. Feedback
 “I read this book with a class, I think it was very
well written. Excellent work by the author”
-
Mutombo
 “I read this book for a class and I thought it was
one of the best books that I have read in a long
time”
-Frenzy

35. Thank You
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