1. This novel tells the story of Amir in the first person. Amir was born in a wealthy family in a wealthy community in Kabul in 1963. His father is a Pashtun, the son of a judge and a successful carpet dealer. Hassan, son of Amir's servant Ali, was born in Hazara. Amir and Hassan are good playmates. Hassan is a particularly loyal and upright person who only thinks of Amir.
Two people often play games together. Amir is an excellent kite fighter, that is, he is good at cutting the string of others' kites with his own kite; Hassan is also an excellent kite runner, because it is Afghan tradition that the kite dropped when the thread is cut belongs to The Kite Runner. Dad loves two children, but he thinks Amir is too timid.
Hassan always stands out when two children fight with others. Amir showed his writing talent, but dad didn't pay attention to it. Dad's friend Rahim Khan became Amir's best friend. 1973, Muhammad daud Khan and others staged a coup to overthrow the monarchy and establish a republic in Afghanistan.
4. assef, a Pashtun child who admired the Nazis, clashed with Amir and Hassan. Hassan maintained Amir with a slingshot. 1975, in a kite competition, Amir won the championship in order to please his father. Hassan promised to catch a second kite to prove Amir's record. But on Hassan's way home, assef and others stopped him. Assef asked Hassan to give him the kite, but Hassan refused, so he raped Hassan. All this was seen by Amir, but Amir did not stand up because of cowardice.
In the days that followed, Amir hoped that his father would fire Ali and Hassan because he could not face Hassan, but he was sternly refused. So Amir framed Hassan 13 on his birthday night, saying that he had stolen his birthday present. Hassan knows everything and admits to stealing. Despite their father's opposition, Ali and Hassan moved to Hazarajat Mountain, where Hazaras live in compact communities.
6. 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, 198 1 year, my father fled to Peshawar, Pakistan with Amir, leaving his home to Rahim Khan. Later, Amir and his son moved to fremont in the San Francisco Bay Area. Amir went to college in America and became a writer after graduation. He also met and married Suraya, daughter of Afghan general taheri, at a flea market in San Jose. During this period, my father died of lung cancer. Amir and Suraya moved to San Francisco. They wanted a child, but they never got it.
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8.200 1 year, Rahim Khan, who was terminally ill, called Amir from Pakistan and asked him to go to Pakistan because there was a way to be a good person again. It turned out that Rahim Khan went to Hazarajat to find Hassan and his mother after Amir and his son left, and they returned to Kabul to manage Amir's big house together. Hassan also has a son, Solabo.
9. However, after the Taliban occupied Kabu in 1996, they seized the house because of racial discrimination and shot the Hassan couple in the street. Solabo went to the orphanage. Rahim Khan wanted Amir to go back to Kabul to save Solabo, but Amir didn't want to. Rahim Khan told Amir that Hassan was actually the illegitimate child of Amir's father.
10, Amir returned to Kabul controlled by Taliban with the help of taxi driver farid. After finding the orphanage where Solabo was located, it was found that Solabo had been taken away by a Taliban leader, who would appear at the football match. Amir made an appointment with the leader at the ball game and met him at his residence later. It turns out that this Taliban leader is assef. Assef joined the Taliban after suffering in the prison of the * * * production party regime supported by the Soviets, fought against the Soviets and became a leader.
1 1, Solabo has become a sexual assault dancer. Assef told Amir that he could take Solabo, but he had to deal with some old debts with him first. After shielding the left and right sides, assef put on stainless steel gloves and easily defeated Amir, who had no combat experience, but was accidentally blinded by Solabo's inseparable slingshot. Amir and Solabo took the opportunity to escape.
12. In Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, Amir was unable to obtain an American visa because he could not prove that Solabo was an orphan, so he adopted Solabo. Solabo needs to stay in the orphanage for the time being. Out of fear of the orphanage, Solabo cut his wrist and committed suicide, and was later rescued. After Amir and Solabo returned to the United States, Solabo stopped communicating with anyone because his feelings were hurt. On the weekend after September, 200 11,Solabo finally smiled at Amir who was chasing kites in a park.