Chapters 10-14 Questions

1. Baba has to apologize for Amir's car sickness.
2. Karim is the driver.
3. Baba and Amir are fleeing because things are starting to go bad in Afghanistan; nobody could trust anybody anymore.
4. Baba challenges the Russian soldier because the soldier wanted thirty minutes with the lady in order for them to pass. He said that every price has a tax. Baba stepped in to stand up for the girl.
5. Surviving The Sickness:
on their trip Amir kept getting car sick. So in order for him to get through it he had to think of happy thoughts and happy times in his life, flying kites with Hassan happened to be one of the happy memories. It also shows how Amir can't let go of the pass. He still regrets the day in the alley.
Remembering Your Roots:
Baba wants to remember where they came from and everything about it as they leave. He picks up the dirt as a symbol of the ground they came from.
Loss: 
While Amir and Baba are packing, Kamals father started yelling for help. Kamal won't breathe. Kamal's father was so upset and in a very unstable place, that he couldn't deal with the pain from the loss of his son so he took the life of his own.
Hard Times:
Kamal was alone with four other boys when he himself was raped. He has been hurt on the inside so badly that he no longer talks, he just stares.
6. In chapter eleven, Baba and Amir are now in America.
7. Amir is the one speaking. It reveals Amir guilt for not speaking up for Hassan. Amir is saying how in America he can get rid of his sins but in reality they will haunt him forever because he himself cannot let it go.
8. For graduation, Baba got Amir a car. Amir is extremely excited and grateful for this present from his father. He was thankful for everything is father had done for him. Baba was also very happy for his son.
9. Soraya is the daughter of General Taheri and Amir's new love interest.
10. In San Jose, on the weekends, Baba and Amir are always taking trips on their bus. On Saturdays, they stopped at garage sales and picked up knickknacks and old stuff that nobody wanted. On Sundays they would drive into the flee market.
11. General Taheri was a Afghan general  in Kabul. He worked for the ministry of defense, and in America he runs a section of the flee market.
12. Amir told Baba that he wanted to major in English. Baba doubted creative writing as a job that could make money. He didn't seem to understand that people pay money and buy other peoples books to read.
13. Baba is speaking about Soraya and her past to Amir. It is also significant because he is talking to Amir who has a bad history with Hassan. What Amir saw in the alley has left a mark on him that he will carry out for his whole life.
14.  Amir observes the double standard between Soraya and himself. He had tried to start conversation with her, a girl with a history and people noticed. If she answered they'd be chatting and she would take a lot of crap for it.
15. The visit with the pulmonologist became unsuccessful because Baba found out that the doctor was Russian and Baba would not let him continue from there.
16. Baba is diagnosed with cancer and decides he will not use chemo medicine to treat it.
17. Amir asks Baba to meet with General Taheri because he wants to marry his daughter Soraya. He needs his dad to talk to her dad to set it up.
18. -Losing his wife -Raising a son by himself -Leaving his beloved homeland -poverty -dignity
Baba never wrestled any real bears, he just had some big events in his life that he had to work through and he always did. This is ironic to Amir because he didn't do that. He never could stick up for himself or others like his father did. \
19. Amir finds out that a agency from New York wanted his completed manuscript for the book he written. He was then offered to be represented by a man named Martin Greenwalt. A month later his book was published. Amir was gonna be a published novelists.
20. Soraya and Amir face the disappointment of not being able to have a child. I think Amir should have told Soraya about Hassan when she told him her past because she was open with him and he couldn't do the same. I think this could potentially ruin a marriage because he is keeping a secret from her, and if she finds out shes gonna be really mad for one that he didn't tell her, and two she was open with him.
21. In 1989 the Shorawi completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan. But the war still continued between the afghans also known as the mujahedin, against the soviet puppet government. General Taheri was in charge but lost hopes.
22. Rahim is asking Amir to go back and finally have a chance to be good again. He knew Amirs secret and is giving him a chance to redeem himself.