38. Amir loves the icy season because then he kite fight.
39. Ahmad was an epileptic kid whose dad was a doctor. He is different from Amir in the fact that he is forced to attend winter school.
40. When Amir fought kites, he and his dad were able to connect better on a more personal level.
41. “As with any war, you had to ready yourself for battle.” “I remember how my classmates and I used to huddle around, compare our battle scars”
42. A kite runner chases down any kites that get their strings cut and whoever gets there first gets to keep it. Amir says Hasaan is the best because he always knows where the kite will be.
43. The kite runner who climbs a tree falls and breaks his back. Hosseini tells this story to show the kite runners’ dedication to the kites they catch.
44. In the scene where Amir sees Hasaan’s face change Amir sees Hasaan with two faces and says it had happened before.
45. Amir and Baba discuss Amir’s chances of winning in the big kite in the morning. This shows Baba’s desire for Amir to do something worth being proud of and Amir’s desire for Baba’s approval.
46. Amir says he will buy Hasaan a colored TV and he does this because he likes Hasaan like a brother.
47. Inshallah means “God willing”
The first question really entails more than kites:
ReplyDelete38. Amir loves the icy season because school is closed and that entails “the start of three months of playing cards by the stove with Hassan,free Russian movies on Tuesday mornings at Cinema park, sweet turnip quarma over rice for lunch after a morning of building snowmen. And kites, of course. Flying kites. And running them… I loved wintertime in Kabul… But mostly because… the chill between me and Baba thawed a little. And the reason for that was Kites. Baba and I lived in the same house, but in different spheres of existence. Kites were the one paper-thin slice of intersection between those spheres.” (p48-49)
Also on question 43 the other kite runner getting hurt is foreshadowing for the danger of kite running and what happens to Hassan in a later chapter.