Chapters 21-25 Questions

1. " I saw a dead body near the restaurant. There had been a hanging. " (pg. 259)
"The tall Talib with the black sunglasses walked to the pile of stones they had unloaded from the third truck. He picked up a rock and showed it to the crowd.... The Talib looking absurdly like a baseball pitcher on the mound, hurled the stone at the blindfolded man in the hole." (pg. 271)

2. The Taliban official is Assef. I was not surprised when I found out that the Taliban was Assef because as a kid he was also very mean. It is like he enjoys seeing others in pain. Assef justifies his transformation by explaining to Amir how he became a Taliban. He was thrown in jail with other people and every night the commandment would take one person and beat them. When it was Assefs turn he eventually started laughing and the commander got mad and threw him back in the cell. Assef than ran a commandment on a battle field, shot the guy that beat him in the balls and has been on a mission since. I do not think it is a transformation because he has been beating kids up and harassing them since he was little.

3. 1. Hassan had a slingshot when he was a kid and now that his son, Sohrab, is a kid he has a slingshot too.
2. Hassan threatened to slingshot Assef in the eye, when Sohrab shot Assef with his slingshot, he hit him in the eye.
3. Assef threatened to Hassan and Amir that they would eventually get payback. Assef gave Hassan his payback a while ago and now it was Amirs turn.

4. I think the letter was very important. Rahim summed up a lot of what they talked about before and even gave Amir a little bit more. He apologized and said how he was ashamed for lying and asked not to be found. I think that the letter was given to Amir at the perfect time. I think Baba was a good man that was torn between Hassan and Amir and how he betrayed Ali.

5. When I think of my parents I do not have the same thoughts that Amir does with Baba. My parents are very open and towards the end Amir finds out that Baba had some secrets that he never revealed to him.

6. Amir and Sohrab travel to Islamabad because Farid did not think that Amir was safe in the hospital due to the Taliban. Sohrab went with him because there never was a orphanage for him to go in and Amir took him in. Since the Taliban has taken over all of the joy to a little kids life has been taken away. Watching their parents being killed, hangings, barely any interactions with others, no food all of this was taken away from them at a very young age. Therefore the kids in Afghanistan did not have a good childhood. Hassan as well did not have a good childhood because he was a Hazara working for a Pashtun family, the only fun that he had was playing with Amir. Once Sohrab saw his mom and dad die, he went to a orphanage at a young age and spent a long time in there before anybody came for him.

7. Mullah is a term used in Islamic countries for people that have learned and or been taught.

8. Raymond Andrews was a man that worked to help bring citizens of Afghanistan to a different country such as the U.S. Raymond tried to get Sohrab to the U.S. with Amir but denied access after hearing Amir's story.

9. Soraya agrees to bringing Sohrab into the U.S. and adopting him into their family, even after Amir tells her everything.

10. Soraya's uncle Sharif helped Sohrab get a visa to cross borders into the U.S.

11. Amir breaks the promise of never putting Sohrab back into a orphanage.

12. Sohrab then tries to commit suicide by cutting himself with a razor. This is significant because when things did not go right for Amir he tried anything to find a way out. Sohrab as well did the same thing, when he found out that he would be going in a orphanage.

\13. For the first seven months that Sohrab is in San Francisco he is silent. He does not talk or do much. He would walk in the room as if not to scare a mouse. He mostly slept.

14. General Taheris is worried about the fact that Amir has brought a Hazara boy into his family, and people will be asking for a reason. Amir is calm. He explains how Sohrab is his nephew and he then gets very short with the general. He tells him to never refer to him as a hazara boy in Amirs presence, he has a name and it is Sohrab.

15. Afghans gather at Lake Elizabeth Park because the general was summoned to Afghanistan a month earlier and the plan was to join him a few months later once he was settled. Later on Soraya notices kites flying in the sky.

16. Amir feels 12 again. As soon as he starts to run with the kite he instantly flashes back to the times he flew kites with Hassan. except, when he looked down it was Sohrab.

17. This is another full circle because when Amir was a kid he flew kites with Hassan and now that he is older he is flying a kite with Sohrab, Hassans son.