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Kite Runner: Chapter 17
Element

Notes

Plot summary

Rahim Khan hands Amir a letter from Hassan, which also
contains a polaroid photo of Hassan with his son Sohrab
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Hassan then
describes Sohrab - how he can read and slingshot like an expert
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Rahim Khan then tells Amir how Hassan and Farzana were shot
by the Taliban and asks him to take Sohrab to an orphanage
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Characters

Not a likely chapter - possibly Sohrab or Farzana
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Amir also states that ​“it hit me
again, the enormity of what I had done that winter and that
following summer”
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​This makes Amir sound regal and a religious tone is
also created through phrases such as ​“in the light of Allah’s good
graces”
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The first section of Hassan’s letter strikes a reminiscent and
regretful tone with the phrase ​“alas the Afghanistan of our youth
is long dead”
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Hassan still finds joy in life
however and enjoys showing Sohrab things which he used to
love - e
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there is ​“still a monkey man in Shar-e-Nau”
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He even takes Sohrab to read the
Shahnama underneath the pomegranate tree, which is now dead
and dried up, reflecting the barren and violent land of
Afghanistan
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Hassan prays for Rahim Khan every day, but knows that he will
lose him eventually
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Hassan
also worries about Sohrab, as him and Rahim Khan are ​“so close
to each other”
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Hassan’s letter is 6 months old and Rahim Khan reveals that the
Taliban now occupy the house in Kabul and they also
interrogated Hassan, claiming that he was ​“a liar and a thief like
all Hazaras”
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When Farzana tried to defend him, they shot her too, leaving
Sohrab as an orphan
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Sohrab is now in an orphanage in Karteh-Seh and Rahim Khan
asks Amir to bring Sohrab to Peshawar
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He claims that
Sohrab would be welcome there, but Amir initially refuses to go
to Kabul making him seem like a coward and rather
disappointing
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He
lays on the persuasion thickly and roars at Amir for suggesting
that the situation is a matter of money
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​He then reveals that
Baba was Hassan’s real father - meaning that Baba and Rahim
Khan had lied to everyone for years
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Context

Change of narrative voice in Hassan's letter: formal style of a
newly educated adult learner who writes very meticulously
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Bloodline is very important to Afghan culture - Hassan's
parentage a strong factor in Amir's decision
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Afghan
vocabulary

N/A

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