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(year) When describing his living room at his father's house, he mentions, "an old, grainy photo of my grandfather and King hadir Shah taken in 1931, two years before the king's assassination,"(Hosseini, 5)
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Amir recaps that, '[n]one of [his family and friends] had seen Sanubar since she had eloped with a band of singers and dancers in 1964, just after she had given birth to Hassan,"(Hosseini, 210).
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When describing a shack in the back of the house, Amir mentions that "in that little shack, that Hassan was born in the winter of 1964, just one year after [his] mother died giving birth to [Amir]," (Hosseini, 6).
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"In the winter of 1975, [Amir] saw Hassan run a kite for the last time," (Hosseini, 55) when they joined a kite competition that they had won.
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"[Amir] turned thirteen [the] summer of 1976, Afghanistan's next to last summer of peace and anonymity,"(Hosseini, 93).
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Amir talks about how ,"[o]ne Sunday in the spring of 1983, [he] walked into a small bookstore that sold used aperbacks, next to [an] Indian movie theater just west of where Amtrack crossed fremont Boulevard," (Hosseini, 127) adn told Baba i=to go to the store and there, Baba got in trouble for the man asking for his I.D in order for him to buy the oranges he wanted.
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Amir, in, "that summer of 1983,..graduated from high school at the age of twenty, by far the oldest senior tossing his mortarboard on the football field that day."(Hosseini, 131).
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Amir tells reader that, "[t]here were a lot of reasons why [he] went to Hazarajat to find hassan in 1986. The biggest one...was that [he] was lonely [because by] then, most of his friends and relatives had either been killed or had escaped the country to Pakistan or Iram," (Hosseini, 203)
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It was, "[i]n the summer of 1988, about six months before the soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, [that Amir] finished his first novel, a father-son story set in Kabul,written mostly with the typewriter the general had given [him],"(Hosseini, 182).
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(Feb. 1989)
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(year) 'After 1989, the Soviet Air Force was rendered largely useless by advanced Stinger antiaircraft missiles supplied by the United States to the rebels." ("The Soviet Invasion and After")
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Amir states that "[i]n early 1990, Farzana became pregnant again."(Hosseini, 209).
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(year) "by the smmer of 1994, power was anarchically divided among competing warlords and individual fiefdoms." (The Soviet Invasion and After")
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(year) Once he had enough supporters, "he created a genuinely popular movement in a country weary of corruption and brutality." ("The Taliba Takeover")
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Amir states that," by...1995- the Shorawi were defated and long gone and Kabul belonged to Mosoud, Rabani, and the Mujahedin,"(Hosseini, 212).
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In 1996, "Taliban banned kite fighting. And two year later, in 1998, they massacred the Hazaras in Mazar-i-Sharif,"(Hosseini, 213).
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Amir tells Soraya that, "'[he has] to go to Pakistan,'" because,"'Rahim Khan is very sick,'"(Hosseini, 191).
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"[Sohrab and Amir] arrived home about seven months ago, on a warm day in August 2001."(Hosseini, 357).
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Although 9/11 was a horrible disaster, this "invasion succeede in disloging Al Qaeda and removing the Taliban from power, but not [completely destroying] either group." ("Afghanistan- An Overview")
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(year) After 9/11, "Harmid Karazi, a supporter and realtive of Mohammad Zahir Shah, the exiled former king of Afghanistan, was named chairman of an interim government that replaced the defeated Taliban, making him the leader of the country." ("The Karazi Government")
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It was, "on a cool rainy day in March 2002, a small, wonderous thing happened."(Hosseini, 363). It was on that day that Amir took Sohra to go kite flying, shwoing hi waht him and Hassan used to do as kids.
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(year) As a result, the American foperations "stepped up enormously, initally in the Taliban's strongholds in the south." (Afghanistan-An Overview")
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(actual date) "In a speech delivered Dec. 1, 2009, at West Point, Mr. Obama announced his plan to deploy 30,000 additional troops" ("Obama's War")
