The Kite Runner
- Created by: Emelia Boggon
- Created on: 12-04-14 17:11
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- The Kite Runner-Key quotations
- Family
- "Blood is a powerful thing."-General Taheri
- "Fed from the same breast."
- Home and belonging
- "The idea of America"
- "Afghanistan is like a beautiful mansion littered with garbage and someone has to take out the garbage."
- "Bba held me close to him, rocking me back and forth."
- "I feel like a tourist in my own country."
- Sexism
- "I had won the genetic lottery that had determined my sex."
- "You women on the other hand, well, God put a lot more effort into making you."
- "Tight little sugary ****."
- "I could almost feel the emptiness of Soraya's womb like it was a living,breathing thing."
- Religion
- "God help us all if Afghanistan ever falls into their hands."-Baba
- "I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara."
- Friendship
- "The best friend I ever had."-Amir
- Betrayal and Redemption
- "There is a way to be good again."
- "I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years"
- Chapter 1: coming of age, imagery and an event which has shaped his identity.
- "I know in the end, God will forgive."
- "Maybe, just maybe, I would be pardoned for killing my mother."
- "The past claws its way out"-Amir
- "I watched Hassan get *****, I said to no one "
- Social Hierarchy
- "Who did you eat you flat nosed babalu?:"
- "My student hand, clean and soft, on labourers' hand, grubby and calloused."
- Father and son
- "A boy who can't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up for anything."
- ""Baba held me close to him rocking me back and forth."
- "I didn't want to disappoint him again."
- "Baba and I lived in the same house but in different spheres of existence."
- "Hassan hadn't done anything to earn Baba's sympathy. It wasn't fair...he'd just been born with that stupid hair lip."
- Family
- Betrayal and Redemption
- "There is a way to be good again."
- "I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years"
- Chapter 1: coming of age, imagery and an event which has shaped his identity.
- "I know in the end, God will forgive."
- "Maybe, just maybe, I would be pardoned for killing my mother."
- "The past claws its way out"-Amir
- "I watched Hassan get *****, I said to no one "
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