Chapter 1-5 Questions

1. The novel starts with a flashback because the narrator is providing us with information an Amir's past.

2. Hassan is Amir's best friend. Hassan has almost a perfectly round face, like a hardwood chinese doll, a flat broad nose that was slanted. He has narrow eyes that looked like bamboo leaves. and depending on the light were either gold, green or sapphire. He had tiny low-set ears and a pointed stub of a chin. The cleft lip was just left of midline and it was like a mistake, out of place, not suppose to be there. Hassan is a good boy who usually follows the rules but if Amir asked him enough he'd give in. He wouldn't deny Amir anything and was loyal. When he'd get in trouble he would always take the blame, he'd never rat Amir out. Hassan's first word was Amir. That is important because that laid down the foundation for what happened in 1975 and everything that followed. Hassan came into Amir's life because he fed from the same breast, took their first steps on the same lawn. and said their first words under the same roof. A difference between the boys is one is pashtun and one is hazara.

3. To be a hazara, you look a bit like chinese people. The Hazaras so far is Hassan, Ali, and Sanaubar.

4. The pashtuns did not like or get along with hazaras. They resolved to a lot of violence against them.The pashtuns so far is Amir, Baba, Assef, Kamal, and Wali.

5.Amir house has handpicked tiles that cover the floors of four bathrooms. Gold-stitched tapestries lined the walls, a chandelier hung from the ceiling, upstairs was Amir's room, Baba's room and his study also known as "The Smoking Room." The living room had a curved wall with custom-built cabinets, inside sat framed pictures. The curved wall led to the dining room, on the other end was a tall marble fireplace. There is a large sliding door that opens to a terrace overlooking two acres of backyard. He elaborates so much because his house is considered the most beautiful house in the district. The pictures reveal the importance of those people and events.

6. Sanaubar is Hassans mother and Ali's first cousin/wife. She is different from Amirs mom because Amirs mom died while giving birth as Sanaubar ran away five days after giving birth.

7. Ali is Hassans father. The neighborhood kids call him babalu or boogeyman. He was called this because of the way he walks. He walks with a limp.

8. Amir was/ is proud of his dad and to be his son at first. Like when Baba asked him to hold his hat, he made sure people noticed. Later on, he wished Rahim Kahn was his dad because his never believed in him or wouldn't really acknowledge him. For example with the book that Amir wrote, Rahim was the only one who showed interest besides Hassan.

9.The kings cousin is Daoud Khan. There were shootings and explosions that Daoud planned to end the kings forty-year reign with a bloodless coup.

10. Baba is Amirs father. Baba is well-known in Afghanistan. He has a lot of opinions about what is right and wrong for his son. One belief is that he shouldn't be always reading books and poems. He should be athletic and stand up for himself like Baba. Baba relates to religious leaders because he was born the year the king began his forty-year reign.

11. Baba gives Hassan a plastic surgeon named Dr. Kumar. This suggest that Baba likes things to be in place like things are suppose to be. Amir wishes he also had a scar of some sorts that would get Baba to sympathize for him. This present is ironic because it made Hassan smile for once in a long time.

12. Assef is the son of Babas friend, Mahmood. Assef is a pashtun. Assef was known for his brass knuckles. Assef believes that Hazara's should be banned and that the only reason they are still around is because of Amir and Baba.

13. Wali and Kamal are friends of Assef.

14. Assef, Wali, and kamal find Amir and hassan. Assef chucks a rock at Hassans back. As they were talking Assef was telling Amir how he knew Daoud and they had dinner together. He threatened to tell Daoud to get rid of hazaras. Also, when Hassan threatened to shoot Assef with the rock he backed down but said " This isn't the end."

15. Amir finds it ironic because he was smiling again like he did emerging from his mother's womb. It was ironic because that was the winter Hassan stopped smiling.

16. "But he's not my friend!" "He's my servant!"