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Kite Runner: Chapter 23
Element

Notes

Plot summary This transitory chapter charts Amir’s recovery in a hospital in
Jalalabad, whilst he remains in a dream-like state
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Farid looks
after Sohrab and delivers a letter from Rahim Khan, who seeks
forgiveness as he goes to die alone
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After
searching throughout Jalalabad and asking at the American
embassy, Farid reveals to Amir that the Caldwells - who were
going to look after Sohrab in an orphanage - never existed
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Therefore, we realise that Rahim Khan has engineered Amir’s
redemption, as Sohrab cannot stay with Farid in Pakistan
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Themes and
features

The fragmented sections of the narrative indicate Amir’s broken
mental health
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He remembers random memories, shown through the
short, disjointed paragraphs, and can only recall people’s distinct
features
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Amir has very severe injuries, reinforcing the theme of
redemption through physical violence
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The ruptured spleen, broken ribs,
punctured lung, cuts and damaged eye socket pale in
comparison to the wires in Amir’s jaw
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Sohrab’s quiet, submissive nature indicates his history of abuse
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He only communicates by shrugging,
suggesting that repeated sexual, physical and mental assaults
have rendered him mute
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Amir has finally tied up all the loose ends in his Afghan
past and can mentally move on from Hassan’s rape
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Rahim Khan’s desire
to die alone appears tragic, but also peaceful
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A bearded man enters
the ward and stares at Amir, suggesting that the search has
already started
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We ask ourselves how
he can abandon Sohrab, who is already so damaged
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This suggests that he has an entrenched fear of adults
and authority figures - Sohrab has learnt to be silent as he served
only as a sex slave and dancing monkey for the abusive Talibs
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Amir realises that he will have to adopt Sohrab, as he cannot stay
in Peshawar alone and Farid is unable to look after him (due to a
lack of money)
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The
chapter ends with Rahim Khan’s saying: ​“there is a way to be
good again”
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Context

Dreamlike fragmented structures to simulate Amir’s drifting in and
out of consciousness
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Afghan
vocabulary

Al hamdullellah​ = praise to God

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