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Flashes back to Amir's time in Afghanistan
Amir lives with his father Baba in a large mansion in Afghanistan where they have two servants, Ali and his son Hassan -
Amir and Hassan participate in a kite race
Amir and Hassan enter in a kite race where they end up winning, which is a huge accomplishment. The goal is to "catch the kite at the end of the race" and knock other kites down. Hassan runs into town to fetch theirwinning kite and bring it back as a trophy -
Hassan gets violated by Assef
When searching for Amir's prize kite, Hassan runs into the town bully Assef. With Amir watching from the alley Hassan is raped by Assef. Amir is to afraid to interfere and isnt seen by any of them including Hassan -
Amir frames Hassan for stealing
Amir, after a year of awkward interaction with Hassan followig the incident, wants him to leave. So he frames him by placing his new birthday presents under Hassan's bed. Although Baba begs them to stay Ali and Hassan decide they must go -
The Soviet Invasion
The first Soviet troops parachuted into Kabul on Dec. 27, 1979 -
Amir and Baba move to America
After theSoviets invade Afghanistan it became a violent country, Baba and Amir move to the United States to escape the chaos. Baba is sacrificing his power for the love of his son. In America they have low socioeconomic status. -
Amir gets engaged
Amir meets Soraya whom he instantly falls in love with. After Soraya comforts Baba during his sickness they decide to have a wedding during his final days. -
Baba dies
After a succesful life, Baba's time comes and he accepts it. The cancer gets to a point where it is so bad he cannot preform daily activities. He dies a happy man watching Amir and his wife. -
Baba is ill
Baba is feeling under the weather so after some hard convincing vists the doctor to take part in some tests where the results are devastating. Baba is diagnosed with cancer and has short time left to live. -
Soviets lost soilders and ruined their reputation of being undefeated
They lost roughly 15,000 soilders -
Soviet's airforce rendered useless
U.S. supplied stinger antiaircraft missles to the rebels who used them on the Soviets and destryoed their airforce- -
Amir finds his manhood
After Baba's death Amir finds his manliness when he has to learn to make decisions for himself and his wife. Without Baba the expectations he had to once live up to died along with Baba. This helps him develop his own personality and find his place in the world. -
Soviet troops leave Afghanistan
after peace talks moderated by the united nations, the last soviet troops left Afghanistan -
Amir gets a phone call
Amir is living in America and he recieves a phone call from his old friend Rahim Khan who lives in Afghanistan. He tells Amir that he has a chance to "make things better again" -
Rahim Khan's dying wish
Rahim Khan asks Amir to go to Afghanistan and retrive Hassan's son Sohrab for him. When Amir refuses Rahim uses the only weapon he has left: the secret that Baba is Hassan's father. With this Amir agrees to complete his wish. -
Amir goes to visit Rahim Khan who is dying
Amir visits Rahim in Pakistan where Rahim tells him about his life with Hassan, Hassan's mother, wife, and child. He lived with them in Baba's house in Afghanistan while Amir was in America.He tells him that Hassan and his Wife were killed by the taliban and Hassan's son is the only survivor who is now stuck in an orphanage in Afghanistan -
Amir visits his old house in Afghanistan
While he tries to relive the mempries at his childhood home, Amir comes to the realization that Afghanistan is not the way he remembered it to be. It has been destroyed and manipulated by the war. He realizes that he was "always a tourist in Afghanistan" because he enevr got to experience how most people there live. -
Amir finds the orphanage
To his dissapointment, Amir finds the orphanage Sanuhbar used to live at but is told he was taken by a member of the Taliban. He leaves in a rage to find the person who captured Hassan's Son. -
Assef is at it again
Amir tracks down the member of the Talibn who took Sohrab who ends up being Asseff who has been violating the orphanage children. They fight to the death but Sohrab interferes with his slingshot, saving Amir's live. The two escape together and leave. -
Taliban group began
The leader, Mullah Omar had nearly 12,000 followers by the end of 1994, group was created by students in reaction to the violence or warlords towards women. -
afghanistan power was divided after Soviets left them ruined
by the Summer of 1994, Afghanistan power was anarchically divided amoung competing warlords and individual firedoms. -
Pakistan intelligence officers got involved with Taliban
They begain funneling arms, money, and supplies to Mullah Omar's men, as well as military advisors to help them in battle. -
Taliban takes over
taliban takes control of Afghanistan, imposing strict enforcement -
Attack on world trade center
Bush tries to make a deal with afghanistan afterwards to hand over bin Laden, the attacker who took down the twin towers in New York City, but they refuse -
Mr. Karzai elected president
Mr. Karzai was elcted to a five-year term as president of Afghanistan, first election in a while that was decided by the citezens.