Kite Runner 1-19

By anna.carr

  • Baba’s father was born

    Baba’s father was born
    Baba’s grandfather married his 3rd wife and Baba’s father
    was born.
  • Period: to

    The Kite RUnner

  • Picture of Baba’s father with King Mohammad Nadir Shah was taken

    Picture of Baba’s father with King Mohammad Nadir Shah was taken
    Picture of Baba’s father with King Mohammad Nadir Shah
    (displayed in living room). He reigned from 1929-1933.

  • Baba is born

    Baba is born
    King Nadir Shah is assassinated.
    Mohammad Sahir(Zahir) Shah takes throne.

  • Amir is born

    Amir is born
    --summer
    Amir’s mother, Sofia Akrami, dies

  • Hassan’s birth

    Hassan’s birth
    Hassan’s birth
    Sanuabar leaves

  • Shah overthrown

    Shah overthrown
    King Mohammad Sahir Shah, away in Italy, is overthrown
    by his cousin Mohammad Daoud Khan, ending “the king’s
    forty-year reign with a bloodless coup” Daoud abolishes monarchy, establishes himself as Presiden

  • Amir wins the kite contest

    Amir wins the kite contest
    Amir wins the kite contest
    Hassan’s rape

  • Hassan’s surgery

    Hassan’s surgery
    Hassan’s surgery

  • Amir’s 13th birthday party

    Amir’s 13th birthday party
    Amir’s 13th birthday party

    Hassan and Ali leave

  • Daoud is assassinated

    Daoud is assassinated
    Daoud is assassinated

  • U.S. boycotts Olympic games in Moscow

    U.S. boycotts Olympic games in Moscow

  • Russians invade(March) Baba and Amir leave Afghanistan.

    Russians invade(March) Baba and Amir leave Afghanistan.
    Russians invade. (March) Baba and Amir leave Afghanistan.

    Amir and Baba are in Pakistan

  • Amir and Baba come to San Francisco

    Amir and Baba come to San Francisco
    Amir and Baba come to San Francisco
    also 1983

  • Amir graduates from high school

    Amir graduates from high school
    Amir graduates from high school

  • Amir and Baba begin selling at flea market

    Amir and Baba begin selling at flea market
    Amir and Baba begin selling at flea market
    Amir meets Soraya
    Ali is killed by land mine

  • Amir and Soraya marry

    Amir and Soraya marry

  • Rahim Khan goes to find Hassan

    Rahim Khan goes to find Hassan
    Rahim Khan goes to find Hassan
    Hassan returns to Rahim’s (Baba’s) house in Afghanistan
    Baba dies

  • Amir has first novel accepted

    Amir has first novel accepted

  • Amir goes on book tour

    Amir goes on book tour
    Amir goes on book tour\
    Amir and Soraya begin trying to have a family
    Shorawi (Russians) withdraw from Afghanistan
    Fighting between factions
    Berlin wall comes down
    Cold War ends
    Tiananmen Square

  • Hassan’s mother, Sanaubar, returns///Sohrab is born

    Hassan’s mother, Sanaubar, returns///Sohrab is born
    Hassan’s mother, Sanaubar, returns
    Sohrab is born

  • Northern Alliance control of Kabul

    Northern Alliance control of Kabul
    Northern Alliance control of Kabul 1992-1996

  • Sanaubar dies

    Sanaubar dies
    Sanaubar dies

  • Taliban takes over

    Taliban takes over

  • massacre

    massacre
    Incident with Rahim Khan and Taliban at soccer game
    Taliban massacre of Hazaras in Mazar-i-Sharif

  • Hassan and Farzana are killed

    Hassan and Farzana are killed
    Hassan and Farzana are killed

  • phone call and plane ride

    phone call and plane ride
    (June) Amir gets phone call from Rahim Khan asking him
    to come to Pakistan
    (Summer continues) Amir in Pakistan/ Afghanistan