Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Kite Runner: Chapter Summaries, Part 2
- Chapter 11
- New Home
- Its the 1980's and Amir and Baba are
now living in Fremont California, USA
- Amir gets a new car as result of passing his graduation
- San Jose flea market small section of Afghan market
- Older Baba
- Baba liked the idea of America as it represents strength, but finds it
hard to adapt to his new surroundings
- Baba loses his temper at a shop keeper who asks for an ID
- Baba has found a job, and hands back food-stamps
on the same day as he rejects charity to maintain
self-respect
- Older Amir
- He sees America as an opportunity to escape his past.
- Graduates from high school at the age of twenty. Goes to a bar to
celebrate, Baba gets drunk
- Amir stands his ground in refusing to get a 'proper job' rather
than studying English and creative writing at college
- Falls in love with Soraya, General Taheri's daughter
- Chapter 12
- Soraya and Amir
- Amir decides to approach Soraya, they
talk and Soraya's mother appears and is
pleased to see Amir
- Soraya tells Amir that when she lived in Virginia, she ran away with an Afghan
man and lived with him for a month.
- Soraya's secret reminds Amir of his secret, and wishes he
was as brave as her
- Baba
- Diagnosed with lung cancer but doesn't want anyone else to
know, however he is rushed to hospital when he collapses in
the market
- Once Baba is discharged from hospital, Amir asks
Baba if he would approach the General about
Soraya's hand in marriage
- Baba tells Amir the proposal has been
successful, but Soraya wishes to speak
with Amir first
- The General
- Reminds Amir that the people of the market are
always reporting back to him whilst he is not there
- Chapter 13
- Baba's Death
- Soraya's and Amir's Future
- Marriage
- Amir and his father go to the Taheri