Kite Runner & the History of Afghanistan

By 18ryanw00

  • Zahir Shah became leader of Afghanistan

    The narrator tells the reader that "In 1933, the year Baba was born and the year Zahir Shah began his forty-year reign of Afghanistan(24)"

  • Baba built an Orphanige

    It was " In the late 1960s, when I was five or six, Baba decided to build an orohanage(13)"

  • Zahir Shah was taken over and Afghanistan became a rebublic

    Much happened in the "Night of July 17, 1973. Kabul awoke the next morning to find that the monarchy was a thing of the past. The king, Zahir Shah, was away in Italy. In his absence, his cousin Daoud Khan had ended the king's forty-year reign with a bloodless coup(36)."

  • Assef confronts Amir and Hassan

    When they get confronted Assef says, "This isn't the end for you either, Amir. Someday, I'll make you face me one on one(43)."

  • Hassan's birthday when he fixes his hairlip

    It was "Early that following winter of 1974, Hassan and I were playing in the yard one day, buiding a snow fort, when Ali called him in(44)."

  • Amir won the kite contest and Hassan got hurt

    On this day "In the WInter of 1975 , I saw Hassan run a kite for the last time(55)."

  • The communist group coup d'etat invades

    In afghanistan the end of freedom is close "If not quite yet, then at least it was the beginning of the end. The end, the official end, would come first in April 1978 with the communist coup d'etat(36)."

  • Amirs 13th birthday

    Amir was still living with Hassan when "I turned thirteen thay summer of 1976, Afghanistan's next to last summer of peace and anonymity(93)."

  • Hassan and Ali leave Kabul

    Even after Baba forgives Hassan for stealing Ali says "We can't live here anymore(106)."

  • Russia invades Afghanistan

    After the Communists were already in their country "In December 1979, when Russian tanks would roll into the very same streets where Hassan and I played, bringing the death of the Afghanistan I knew and marking the start of a still ongoing era of bloodletting(36)."

  • The Soviet Union Invaded

    Afghanistan has "known little peace since 1979, when the Soviet Union invaded."

  • Amir and Baba leave Kabul to go to America.

    When they were on there way Amir was "Standing on the shoulder of the roas, I thought of the way we'd left the house where I'd lived my entire life."

  • Amir graduates from high school

    After a few years of being in Ameriaca, it was "That summer of 1983, I graduated from high school at teh as of twenty"

  • Amir meets Soraya

    At the market was the first time Amir saw Soraya, she said "'Padar Jan, you forgot your tea.' A young woman's voice. She was standing behind us, a slim-hipped buety with veelety coalblack hair, an open thermos ans styrofoam cup in her hand.

  • The last Soviet troops left

    In 1989 "Eventually, after peace talks moderated by the United Nations, the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan(2)"

  • Country controled by warlorlds

    By this time the "Power was anarchically divided among competeing warlords and individual fiefdoms(2)."

  • Taliban take control of Afghanistan

    One group beggins to take power among the other warlords and the "Taliban by 1996 had taken control of Afganistan(3)."

  • The Taliban took over Afghanistan

    When nobody knew that the Taliban was evil "we all celebrated in 1996 when the Taliban rolled in and put an end to the daily fighting(213)."

  • The Taliban massacred the Hazaras

    The Taliban really started to get out of contro when "they massacred the Hazaras in Mazar-i-Sharif(213)."

  • 9/11 Attack

    On September 11 a terrible event happened there was an "Attack on the World Trade Center in New York" This was the cause of the United States going to Afghanistan.

  • The U.S. go into Afghanistan

    Do to the 9/11 attack "The United States has been militarily involved in Afghanistan since 2001" because they were looking for the terrorists left in Afghanistan

  • Mr.Karzai is elected as president

    With Afghanistan in trouble the U.S. supported "Mr. Karzai was elected to a five-year term as president in 2004(3)"

  • Obama announces to deploy more troops

    In 2009 "Mr. Obama announced his plan to deploy 30,000 additional troops(4)."

  • The U.S. starts to withdraw troops

    The govornment stated that "American combat forces to begin withdrawing from Afghanistan in the summer of 2011(1)"

  • When the U.S, forces will leave Afghanistan

    Obama stated that "United States will have forces in the country until at least the end of 2014(1)"