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Sart of Zahir Shah's 40-year reign of Afghanistan
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"As for the orphan, my grandfather adopted him into his own household, and told the other servants to tutor him, but to be kind to him. That boy was Ali"(24-25).{In 1933, Ali became an orphaned baby after his parents were killed in a car accident leading to Amir's grandfather adopting him.}
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"In the winter of 1975, I saw Hassan run a kite for the last time"(55). This is the day Hassan had gotten raped my Assef while trying to retrieve blue kite from the kite tournament has Amir watched.
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Things between Baba and me were already cooling off again. I think what started it was the stupid comment I made the day we were planting tulips, about getting new servants.
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"My innards had been roiling since we'd left Kabul just after two in the morning...'we are too close to Kabul'"(110-111).{Amir and Baba get driven by truck and by oil truck in order to leave Afghanistan and move to Kabul for safety from the invasion}
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"That summer of 1983, I graduated from high school at the age of twenty... He walked to me, curled his arm around my neck, and gave my brow a single kiss. 'I am moftakhir, Amir,' he said. Proud"(131).{Amir finally makes Baba proud of him by graduating from high school in America, after all of Amir's childhood living in his fathers disappointment}
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"A year and a half since we'd stepped off the Boeing from Peshawar,, and Baba was still adjusting"(129).{Amir and Baba's power switch is shown when Amir has to help Baba when going to the store, due to not understanding the American customs }
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"The following summer, the summer of 1984--the summer I turned twenty-one--Baba sold his Buick and bought a dilapidated '71 Volkswagen bus for $550...By that summer, Afghan families were working an entire section of the San Jose flea market"(136-137).{Amir and Baba begin going to the flea market filled with other Afghan people where Amir meets his future wife Soraya}
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"There were a lot of reasons why I went to Hazarajat to find Hassan in 1986. The biggest one, Allah forgive me, was that I was lonely"(203).{Rahim Khan goes to find Hassan and his son who is the main focus for the second half of "The Kite Runner"}
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"A month later, Martin called and informed me I was going to be a published novelist...That was also the year that Soraya and I began trying to have a child"(183-184).{Amirs path to become a writer is fulfilling, meaning he is self-sustained and has a job which should allow him to have a family, unfortunately, Soraya and Amir are unable to have a child, which foreshadows their later adoption. }
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"'I have to go to Pakistan'... 'Rahim Khan is very sick.' A fist clenched inside me with those words"(191).{Amir is saddened to hear about the poor conditioning of his oldest supporter and therefore feels obligated to go to Afghanistan to meet his request.}
