1. Hassan is a loyal friend to Amir and also one of the family’s servants. He is discriminated against for being a Hazara.
2. Hassan lives in a servant hut, while Amir lives in a house with several bedrooms and other details of higher wealth.
3. Hassan’s mother was named Sanaubar and ran off with a clan of traveling singers and dancers after Hassan’s birth. She had a dishonorable reputation and was 19 years younger than Ali. Also she was a Shi’a Muslim who was very attractive.
4. Amir and Hassan run into a soldier when they take the forbidden shortcut. He taunts Hassan and he is crying when they have walked past the soldier. Amir tries to comfort him.
5. Ali acts as a father towards Hassan and is a loyal servant to Baba. He has a limp in one leg.
6. The main reason that the Hazaras and Pashtuns don’t get along is because one is Shi’a Muslim and the other is Sunni. The differences of the two groups in the past carried on to modern day where they were still treated differently. Hassan is treated poorly because he is a Hazara while Amir is treated better.
7. Amir and Hassan became good friends, because they grew up together and did everything together. It was also said that those who fed from the same breasts had a brotherhood and kinship that time couldn’t break.
8. “People say that eyes are windows to the soul.” This demonstrates that you can tell what someone is feeling through the expressions in their eyes.
For question 4, the soldier actually is taunting Hassan about his mother and talking disrespectfully about her. This bothers him and makes him cry.
ReplyDeleteFor number 8, I am just adding to it. That quote is sort of a theme throughout the book. The eyes don't just mean the eyes but I think they symbolize body language in general. When Hassan is raped he completely changes and so does Amir. Hassan knows Amir was watching because he can see it in Amir's body language.
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