7/31/2023 0 Comments Kite runner quotes chapter 2![]() ![]() Amir saw "the look of the lamb," the look of defeat, on Hassan's face. They consented to hold Hassan down while Assef raped him. Assef told both his friends to rape Hassan, but they refused. He remembers the blue kite and Hassan's pants lying on the ground. Suddenly the boys are in a bright, grassy field, looking up at colorful kites.Īmir transports us back to the moment when he hid in the alley, watching Assef and his friends seizing Hassan. Amir is lost in a snowstorm until he takes Hassan's outstretched hand in his. The second is of Amir and Hassan visiting a fortune teller who gets a look of doom on his face while reading Hassan's fortune. The first is of Ali's words about his kinship with Hassan because they had the same nursemaid. The chapter is interrupted with Amir's memories, which appear in italics. Amir stood frozen in shock as the fight began. Assef told Hassan that even Amir considered him worthless, but Hassan defended himself and Amir, saying that they were friends. He finally found Hassan facing Assef and his two friends, who were trying to steal the kite from him. A merchant told Amir that he had seen Hassan running by with the blue kite. Hassan took off to run the blue kite and Amir followed after bringing his kite home. The true victory for Amir was seeing Baba hollering with pride. Amir focused hard and to his surprise, he cut the last, blue kite and won. Their hands were bloodied from holding the sharp string, but their hearts were filled with hope of winning the tournament. Amir and Hassan were a great team and theirs was one of the last two kites left in the sky. When Amir said he didn't want to fly a kite, Hassan told him, "no monster," and convinced him to proceed. Then the boys were lauded as heroes and became the lake's owners. In it, the two boys amazed the people of Kabul by swimming in a lake and proving it contained no monster. Amir's first word is "Baba." Hassan's is "Amir.The morning of the tournament, Hassan described his dream to Amir.Ali tells the boys there is "a brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that not even time could break" (2.34). Amir tells us he and Hassan had the same wet nurse (because Sanaubar left Ali and Amir's mother passed away in childbirth).Little story from the midwife as told to the neighbor's servant: when Hassan was born (with a cleft lip), Sanaubar said to Ali: "Now you have your own idiot child to do all your smiling for you!" (2.30). ![]() He loves Hassan so much it doesn't bother him. But Ali doesn't feel the need to fight back against his assailants. We learn Sanaubar taunted Ali along with the neighborhood kids.Looking through his mother's old history books, Amir discovers the inequality between the two ethnicities. Ali, Sanaubar, and Hassan are Hazaras, while Amir and Baba are Pashtuns. We hear more about an emerging tension: ethnicity.The neighborhood kids chase Ali around and call him Babalu or "Boogeyman." Grow up, kids. Now, Amir tells us about Hassan's father: the lower muscles on Ali's face were paralyzed by polio.More description of Hassan's mother: Sanaubar, it seems, was really gorgeous and "notoriously unscrupulous.".But the soldiers are really crude, and Amir tries to comfort Hassan. Apparently, his mum was quite beautiful and a little free with her favors. One day, as Amir and Hassan are walking past the military barracks, some soldiers heckle Hassan.Amir tells us his mother died giving birth to him and Hassan's mother – her name was Sanaubar – left soon after Hassan was born.It's nowhere near as opulent as Baba's house. Amir takes us inside the little shack where Ali and Hassan, their servants, live.Finally, there's one of little Amir in his father's arms Rahim Khan stands off to the side. Some of Baba's cabinets have a few pictures: Amir's grandfather and King Nadir Shah and one of Amir's father and mother on their wedding night.Baba, Amir's father, has a smoking room in the house but he doesn't let Amir hang out there. ![]() It has rosebushes, marble floors, mosaic tiles, and gold-stitched tapestries.
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