9/17/2023 0 Comments Kite runner quotes chapter 2![]() ![]() ![]() As they aired out the van on the roadside, Amir saw Hassan's bloodied pants in his head.įinally, they reached Kaka Homayoun's house in Jalalabad. At this, Amir's carsickness overwhelmed him and he vomited. ![]() As they drove along in the car, one friend's twin daughters recounted Amir's victory at the kite-fighting tournament. Amir looked forward to having Baba to himself, but Baba invited three vans' worth of relatives and friends along. When Baba suggested they invite Hassan along, Amir told him that Hassan was sick. That night, he asked Baba if they could go to Jalalabad ever since Amir won the tournament, Baba had not denied him anything. A worried Ali asked Amir about Hassan's torn shirt and bloodied pants the night of the tournament, but Amir pretended not to know what happened. Amir was so overjoyed that he momentarily forgot that he had just betrayed Hassan.Īfter the rape, Hassan did not spend time with Amir although he still did his chores. The boys returned home and proud Baba wrapped Amir in his arms. Hassan said nothing about the rape even though he was bleeding through his pants. He pretended that he hadn't seen the rape, but he was terrified that Hassan would know or worse, would show him devotion despite knowing. Some time later, Amir found Hassan walking down the streets, holding the blue kite. In spite of himself, Amir thought, "He was just a Hazara, wasn't he?" Amir tried to convince himself that he ran out of fear, but he knew that he felt Hassan to be his sacrificial lamb, the one to suffer for him so that he could live happily. Instead of standing up for Hassan the way his friend had for him so many times, he fled. Amir turned away, weeping, still hearing Assef's grunts issuing from the alleyway. Baba's tradition is to give all the meat to the poor because he says, "The rich are fat enough already." Just before the mullah slaughtered the lamb, Amir saw its look of acceptance, as though it understood that its death was for "a higher purpose." The look would haunt him forever after. A mullah makes the meat halal and the tradition is to give one third to family, one third to friends, and one third to the poor. ![]() Baba, Ali, and their sons gathered in the yard to sacrifice a lamb for Eid-e-Qorban, in honor of the prophet Ibrahim's near sacrifice of his son. The chapter is interrupted by another italicized memory. Amir saw "the look of the lamb," the look of defeat, on Hassan's face. They consented to hold Hassan down while Assef raped him. Assef told both his friends to rape Hassan, but they refused. He remembers the blue kite and Hassan's pants lying on the ground. Suddenly the boys are in a bright, grassy field, looking up at colorful kites.Īmir transports us back to the moment when he hid in the alley, watching Assef and his friends seizing Hassan. Amir is lost in a snowstorm until he takes Hassan's outstretched hand in his. The second is of Amir and Hassan visiting a fortune teller who gets a look of doom on his face while reading Hassan's fortune. The first is of Ali's words about his kinship with Hassan because they had the same nursemaid. The chapter is interrupted with Amir's memories, which appear in italics. Amir stood frozen in shock as the fight began. Assef told Hassan that even Amir considered him worthless, but Hassan defended himself and Amir, saying that they were friends. He finally found Hassan facing Assef and his two friends, who were trying to steal the kite from him. A merchant told Amir that he had seen Hassan running by with the blue kite. Hassan took off to run the blue kite and Amir followed after bringing his kite home. The true victory for Amir was seeing Baba hollering with pride. Amir focused hard and to his surprise, he cut the last, blue kite and won. Their hands were bloodied from holding the sharp string, but their hearts were filled with hope of winning the tournament. Amir and Hassan were a great team and theirs was one of the last two kites left in the sky. When Amir said he didn't want to fly a kite, Hassan told him, "no monster," and convinced him to proceed. Then the boys were lauded as heroes and became the lake's owners. In it, the two boys amazed the people of Kabul by swimming in a lake and proving it contained no monster. The morning of the tournament, Hassan described his dream to Amir. ![]()
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