The Kite Runner

Kite Runner: Chapter 1

• - Amir recalls an event from 1975, when he was 12 years old and grew up in Afghanistan
• - last summer he receives a call from his friend Rahim Khan in Pakistan asking Amir to come to Pakistan to see him
• - after the call, Amir takes a walk and notices kites flying and thinks of his past (Ali, Kabul, Afghanistan) and Hassan
• - he says the event made him who he is: "I thought of the life I had lived until the winter of 1975 came along and changed everything. And made me what I am today"
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