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"In 1933, The year Baba is born..." (24) This is important because he is Amir's dad
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The last king of Afghanistan "In 1933... the year Zhair Shah began his forty-year reign of Afghanistan..." (24) this is the last time Afghanistan
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"I became what i am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975" (1)If you subtract 12 years from 1975 you get 1963 so that is the year Amir is born.
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In the shack that Hassan and his dad live in is when "Hassan was born in the winter of 1964" (6) Hassan is a year younger than Amir
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Baba is a nice person so "In the late 1960s... Baba decides to build an orphanage" Baba respects his community and wants every kid in the community to have a place to live if they do not have a home
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When the king was away in Italy "...that night of July 17, 1973. Kabul awoke the next morning to find that the monarchy was a thing in the past." the king's cousin ended the his rule over Kabul.
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Assef and his friends approached Amir and Hassan, as "Assef raised his fist and came for me... I turned around and came face to face with Hassan's sling shot" Hassan has done a really big favor for Amir and has saved both Amir and his own life.
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"It was Hassan's birthday... Dr. Kumar is a plastic surgeon."' This is when Hassan gets his cleft lip fixed
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As Amir pulls his kite back towards him "people rushed to congratulate [him]" (67) Amir has won the kite tournament and all the spectators are there to congratulate him.
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Amir watches as "Assef motioned with is hand, and the other boys separated, forming a half circle, trapping Hassan in the ally... He unzipped his jeans. Dropped his underwear. He positioned himself behind Hassan" (73 & 75) Amir has done nothing to help Hassan because he was to afraid to do so.
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"I turned thirteen that summer of 1976"
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Afghanistan knew "little peace since 1979" when the soviet union invaded them
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Baba and Amir reach america " Fremont, California. 1980's" (125)
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"In the summer of 1988,... finished my first novel..." Amir will write many more novels in the future
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After peace talks "the last soviet troops left Afghanistan in February 1989"
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Hassan's wife "In early 1990, Farzana became pregnant again... It was Sanaubar who delivered Hassan's son that winter of 1990" this is Hassan's last child.
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Pakistan intelligence helped by "funneling arms, money, and supplies to Mullah Omar's men"
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Even with the help of Pakistan "the Taliban by 1996 had taken control of Afghanistan"
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"since 2001" United States military has been involved in Afghanistan
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"We arrived home about seven months ago, on a warm day in August 2001... Soraya had turned the study upstairs into a bedroom for Sohrab" (358) Sohrab had no where else to go so Amir took him in.
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"in December 2001, Hamid Karzai... replaced the the defeated Taliban, making him leader of the country"
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General Petraeus a successful iraq commander "had taken charge of United States Central Command in 2008
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Obama's speech "announced his plan to deploy 30'000 additional troops"
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Obama has "vowed to start brining American Forces home from Afghanistan in the middle of 2011