The Kite Runner Chpt 3
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- The Kite Runner chpt 3
- Narrative - Amir’s childhood voice - attention to detail
- “But no one ever doubted the veracity of any story about Baba” pg 12 Baba is respected
- “And in those dreams, I can never tell Baba from the bear” pg 12 Amir fears is his father
- “He asked me to fetch Hassan too, but I lied and told him Hassan had the runs. I wanted Baba all to myself” pg 13 Amir is jealous of Hassan’s relationship with his father - irony
- “I think I have saratan,” I said. Cancer” pg 14 - foreshadowing
- “my father, my Baba” pg 14 Sentence structure shows how Amir wants to impress his father"
- “In those days, drinking was fairly common in Kabul” pg 15 retrospective
- “I felt as if I were sitting on a pair of tree trunks” pg 16 Figurative language shows Amir see’s Baba as a strong figure
- “those beard idiots” pg 16 pathetic talk
- Pages 16 and 17 shows the juxtaposition between Western idiolect and Eastern Idiolect
- “there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft” pg 17 Irony, theme of theft. Foreshadowing Amir stole Hassan’s future
- “I already hated all the kids he was building the orphanage for; sometimes I wished they’d all died along with their parents” pg 17 Amir is obsessed with his father
- “When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth” pg 17 Amir to Hassan who will defend Amir
- “But I hadn’t turned out like him. Not at all” pg 18 - foreshadowing
- First paragraph pg 20 symbolises /foreshadowing’s Hassan being *****
- “There is something missing in that boy.” “Yes a mean streak” pg 21 irony
- “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything” pg 22 foreshadowing irony
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