These slides will help grasp the overview of novel 'Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini. Summary points, analysis, and alternate endings have been mentioned in these slides.

1. Kite Runner
By:
Tayyaba Noor
Malaika Sajjad
Maryam Qayyum
Maryam Ishtiaq
Noor Fatima
Riffat Arif

2. Introduction
Kite Runner was written by Khaled
Hosseini.
The setting of this novel is in
Afghanistan and America.

3. Chapter 1
1. Starts from December 2001.
2. Narrator recalling 1975.
3. Call from Rahim Khan, who tells
him to come back to Pakistan.
4.Walks through the streets of San
Francisco and remembers his
childhood friend, Hassan.

4. Chapter 2
1. Recall to childhood adventures of
Amir and Hassan.
2. Amir and Hassan's life-style,
family, and short-comings.

5. Chapter 3
1. Amir’s father (Baba) and his
personality.
2. Amir’s struggles to please his father.
3. Amir’s fathers’ attitude towards
Amir.

6. Chapter 4
1. Story’s jump to 1933.
2. Baba’s and Hassan’s father, Ali’s
childhood and life.
-Jump to Amir and Hassan’s life-
3. Comparison to Amir and
Hassan’s time.
4. A specific memory of Amir
telling a story Hassan.
5.Tells a bit aboutAmir’s
storytelling quality.

7. Chapter 5
1. Memories of attack on
Afghanistan and how,
Afghanistan started to change
after that.
2. Memory of Amir, Hassan, and
their neighbour, Assef, fighting
with each other.
3. Memory shifts to winter, to
Hassan’s birthday and his surgery.

8. Critical Analysis
1. Introductory chapters.
2. Story development.
3. Character formation.
4. Story background and themes.
5. Lives of the main characters and
introductory events.
6. Influence on future.

9. Chapter 6
1. Kite tournament, in
Winter.
2.Winter vacations.
3. Hassan and Amir’s
excitement.
4. Hassan is the best
kite runner.
5. Amir’s determination
to win this time.

10. Chapter 7
1. Amir wins the tournament.
2. Hassan goes after the fallen kite.
3. Hassan is no where to be found.
4. Amir sees him getting raped (for not giving the kite) by Assef
and his friends.

11. Chapter 8
1. Amir feels guilty.
2. Avoid Hassan and wants
him to leave.
3. Amir wants new servant,
but his father scolds him.
4. 13th birthday party of
Amir. Assef is invited.

12. Chapter 9
1. Amir plans to trap Hassan.
2. Amir puts his watch and money under
Hassan’s mattress.
3. He tells his father that Hassan stole it.
4. Hassan says, yes he did. (He knowsAmir’s
plan).
5. Hassan and his father leave in the rain.

13. Chapter 10
1. Story moves forward to the year, 1981.
2. Amir and Baba’s trip to Pakistan.
3.Tragic and frightening events.
4. Finally reach Pakistan.

14. Critical analysis
1. Important chapters.
2. Unexpected events.
3. Give rise to rising action.
4. Characterisation is further
developed.
5. Amir should have stopped the
bullying, but we can say that at a
very young age it’s hard to
comprehend things.
6. Foreshadowing.

15. Chapter 11
1. Amir graduates, gets present
2. Amir’s major in junior college
Meeting:
1. GeneralTahiri.
2. Soraya.

16. Chapter 12
1.TheTaheri booth Soraya Length of conversation.
2. Baba gets sick.
3. Baba gets sickerTreatment.
4. Amir & Soraya.
5. Soraya’s story.

17. Chapter 13
1. Lafz, “giving word” ceremony.
2. Baba spends ¢35,000 on the wedding.
3. Moving in with Baba Story reading.
4.Tahiri family story Novel KidAdoption?

18. Chapter 14
1. 2001
2. Rahim Khan: "Come.There is a
way to be good again”.
3. Red kites.

19. Chapter 15
1. Peshawar.
2. “AfghanTown”.
3. Conversation with Rahim Khan.
Taliban Rahim KhanTaking care of
Baba’s house.
4. Hassan and Farzana living there.

20. Chapter 16
1. Rahim khan admits the primary
reason He searched for Hassan was his
own loneliness.
2. Hassan and his wife Farzana refused
to move Into the house with Rahim
khan; Instead , they live in Ali’s old hut.
3. Rahim khan goes to find Hassan.
4. Hassan’s situation.
5. Back to Kabul.
6. Farzana's child.

21. Chapter 16 (CONT)
1. Sanaubar shows up.
2. Sohrab.
3.Why is that Significant?
4. Sanaubar dies.
5. Hassan as a father.
6. In 1996Taliban ban kite fighting.

22. 1. Back to Amir.
2. Envelope with 3 letters.
3. In the letter Hassan tells Amir about
how bad life is in Kabul and flashes back
to the good times him and Amir had as
children. Hassan ends the letter on how
one day he hopes for Amir's return.
4. Rahim Khan reveals that he received
news that Hassen and Farzana had
been killed from a neighbor and that
their son is in an orphanage.
5. Amir also discovers that Baba, not Ali
is Hassan's father. Meaning that Hassan
and Amir are half brothers.
Chapter 17

23. Chapter 18
1. Amir considers Baba's principles:
"There is only one sin. And that sin is
theft...“
2. Amir angry with baba.

24. Chapter 19
1. Farid explains to Amir he has always been a
tourist in Afghanistan.
2. Amir has a dream about Hassan being shot.

25. Chapter 20
1. Amir and Farid drive from Jalalabad
to Kabul--they are continually reminded
of the war.
2. Amir talks to a beggar that used to
teach his mother. Finds out a few
details about her.
3. Amir and Farid come to a dilapidated
orphanage to find Sohrab.
4. After convincing the director that
they are family and they aren't a part of
theTaliban; the director lets them in.

26. Chapter 21
1. Amir’s trip down memory lane
2. "Amir and Hassan.The Sultans of Kabul”.
3.The soccer game.
4. Halftime.
5. Arrange a meeting.

27. Chapter 22
The meeting:
1. Official walks in
2. His looks.
3. His story.
Sohrab:
1. “Old Babalu” .
2. His reasons for his God being great.
Pure evil.
The fight.
Why is this the condition?
The hospital.
Amir getting beat up, his reaction, and laughing.
Sohrab to the rescue.
Which eye?

28. Chapter 23
1. In hospital, in Peshawar.
2. His injuries Rahim Kahn’s letter.
-About the alley scene
-About Baba
3. Helping Sohrab

29. Chapter 24
1. Amir & Sohrab’s talk
2.What do they have in
common?
3. “Will God put me in hell
for what I did to that man?
4. Feeling “dirty”
5. "Would you like to come
live in America with me
and my wife?”

30. Chapter 25
1. September 11, 2001
2.The United States invade
Afghanistan March 2002.
3. Sohrab is “part of the
background”.
4. Kites ‘Lift-and-dive’
5. "For you, a thousand times over!”

31. Critical Analysis
1. Links between Assef & Amir.
2. Class Powerless vs. powerful.
3. Redemption.
4. Fathers & sons.
5. Influence of countries on lives.
6.The past

32. What do you want to change in this novel and why?
Fathers love
is unconditional love, father equally loves all of his children. Baba should have taken
sons to America not just Amir.
Homeland and love for homeland
Amir was an afghan he should have been proud of his own homeland, but he clearly
himself as a tourist when he came back
Friendship
Hassan loves Amir so much and Amir knows that. He shouldn’t have mistreated him at
place
Why I want to bring these changes
Because, Why we always want to help someone when we hear he or she is not
we always praise someone when they are not there anymore?
But if these changes were in the novel
All the interest of the novel would have been gone, There are some powerful
by the writer according to the situation will have lost all of its meaning
“When you kill a man you steal a life, you steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his
father, when you tell a lie you steal someone right to the truth, when you cheat you
right to fairness”
“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan but little childhood”

34. Thank you, for
Listening!

35. References:
The Kite Runner: Study Guide
| SparkNotes. (n.d.). Spark
Notes.
https://www.sparknotes.com/
e-kite-runner/