“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime, Amir.” This quote, from the book, The Kite Runner, speaks of the theme of cautiousness and consequences.
“A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.”
-Soraya, chapter 12. 8. "That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned about how you can bury it.
p. 168Rahim Khan's message, There is a way to be good again (p. 168), tells Amir that the older man has always known about the events in the alley.
While Hosseini drew much of the book -- its cultural richness, accounts of ethnic conflicts, even its evocation of annual children's kite contests -- from his own experience, Amir's harrowing story is fiction. Beautifully written, startling and heart wrenching, "The Kite Runner" is also an episodic page turner.
Critical Essays Symbols in The Kite Runner Kites and everything associated with them (kite flying and kite fighting) are the most important symbols in the novel. Traditionally, kites symbolize both prophecy and fate, and both of these ideas can be applied to characters and events in The Kite Runner.
page 371"For you a thousand times over." This line from the end of the book on page 371, is by far the most memorable line of the book. It was so moving and fitting for the ending of the book.
Summary: Chapter 1 Rahim Khan asks our narrator, whose name is Amir, to come to Pakistan to see him. When Amir gets off the phone, he takes a walk through San Francisco, where he lives now. He notices kites flying, and thinks of his past, including his friend Hassan, a boy with a cleft lip whom he calls a kite runner.
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek.
(25) "It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime" (150). Context: Baba is telling Amir about Soraya's controversial past. Significance: The impact of guilt This speech by Baba has to remind Amir of the guilty day that changed his whole life.
Rahim Khan wants to convince Amir to forgive his father, to release the anger he has felt after learning how Baba betrayed a friend.
Rahim Khan is Baba's best friend and business partner. He's also the father-figure to Amir. Rahim Khan encourages Amir's writing, takes care of Baba's house, brings Hassan back to Kabul, and brings Amir back to Afghanistan. Rahim Khan also shares Baba's deepest secret with Amir.