• His dad.  Referring to him as a giant towering over all others.
• The Kite Comp./ Radiance of the sky.
• The brutal rape that happened in the alley.
• Amir after the rape of Hassan. Amir has looked at Hassan in a different way, Amir feels that Hassan can't stand up for himself.
• Amir feels that he has nothing to live for because the way his dad is and that he didn't try to stop the rape.
• when Amir put his watch under Hassan pillow in a big imagery because when Amir came to Baba with the watching saying that he found it on Hassan bed, and Baba had asked Ali and Hassan about the stealing of the watch. Babe really tried to get Ali and Hassan to say with them because they have been through life together and didn't want to his them go. This showed how much Baba really cared for Ali and Hassan.
• Sohrab trying to commit suicide. This shows how much someone cares for there life and that nothing is really going all that well.
• At the Flea market when Amir is going to go get a coke for Baba and him, he goes over to Soraya stand and talks with her. Amir tells her about this writing and when Amir brings her one of his stories the general puts it in the trash.
• Amir and Soraya not being able to have children and the death of Amir father Baba
• The way Afghanistan looks when Amir goes back to there to get Sohrab to bring him home.
• Amir finding out that Sohrab is family.
• How Amir comes back from the beating he gets to take to get Sohrab back, and how Sohrab helps in the fight.
• Imagery in this section of the book is Sohrad and other people are getting sick. Amir and Sohrad go see a doctor so that she can get better and live the new changes around the them with the lawyer and doctors and how they are going on living as a family and not as one person. They are in this together and they understand it one another and i think that is a great thing in this section.
• Soraya is really happy that Amir is bring Sohrab back because it shows that Amir and Soraya are becoming more of a family and it almost makes the family whole with a child being around the house.

 

 

Motifs-

Brotherhood:

 

The tree that Amir carved "Amir and Hassan Sultans of Kabul" creates the image that they will be friends forever.

Baba and Ali where raised like brothers. He also begs them to stay with him and Amir.

Amir and Hassan nursed from the same woman.

Baba and Rahim Khan were close enough that Baba told him that Hassan was his son.

Hassan stood up to Assef when he threatened Amir.

 

 

War, Death, and Blood:

 

 

We are introduced to death when Amir reveals that his mother lost too much blood giving birth to him and died.

The way that Amir and Hassan test the string on their kites is by running their fingers across it to see how well it cuts.

The boys at school compare cuts on their hands from the summer of kite fighting.

Russia invades Afghanistan and people flee because Russia had a very powerful Army.

The Taliban defeats the Russian invaders, but that doesn't make it safe for Afghans because they rule without any compassion as we see in the execution at Ghazi Stadium.

We learn that Hassan and Farzana died.

Sohrab cuts his wrist to attempt suicide.

 

 

Guilt, Jealousy and Betrayal:

 Amir is jealous of the way that Baba treats Hassan.

Amir feels guilt because he didn't do anything to stop Assef from raping Hassan.

Amir's guilt leads to his betrayal of Hassan when he frames him for stealing Amir's watch and money.

Amir becomes more jealous when Ali and Hassan say that they are leaving and Baba begs them to stay and forgives Hassan for stealing so quickly, we later find out that he forgave Hassan so quickly because of his own guilt.

Sohrab tries to kill himself because he felt like Amir betrayed him.

 

 

Stories:

Amir reads stories to Hassan when they were young.

Sohrab is named after a character in Hassan's favorite story that Amir would read him.

Amir made up his own ending to the story when he'd read it to Hassan.

We later find out that Hassan learned to read and Amir wonders what Hassan thought about the real ending to the story.

 

Family:

In Afghan culture who your family is, is very important.

When Amir wants to marry Soraya, Baba has to ask General Taheri's permission.General and Khanum Taheri

People in Afghanistan are thought of as important not only based on the things they do but who they are related to.

In the novel family also has an importance because Amir and Soraya want to have a family but find out that she is infertile.

Amir going to Afghanistan and bringing Sohrab back to America gives them the family that they want.

 

 

Acceptance and Forgiveness:

 

Throughout the novel Amir is in search of either the acceptance of Baba or forgiveness for batraying the best friend anyone could ever ask for.

Hassan forgave Amir for not doing anything to stop him from getting raped by Assef, even though Amir didn't know it until he read Hassan's letter at Rahim Khan's apatment in Pakistan.

Amir doesn't really get the acceptance he seeks from Baba until Baba is dying.

In the end Amir is struggling to fogive Baba for not telling him that Hassan was his brother.

 

 

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