Kite Runner Chapter 13 – Flashcards

Losing his young wife, raising a son himself, leaving his homeland, poverty, indignity, and cancer

WRitten his first novel on the typewriter the general gave him. A father son story set in Kabul. He sent letters to a dozen agencies and one August day he opened the mailbox and found a request from New York agency for the complete manuscript. A guy named Martin from a New York Agency calls and he wants to be Amir's agent. Amir gets a call a month later saying he is a published novelist

Not able to have kids

The Shoravi completed their withdrawl from Afghanistan. The war raged on however. The war was between the Afghans/Mujahedia, and Soviet government of Najibullah. Afghan refugees kept flocking to Pakistan. That was the year the cold war ended and the Berlin Wall came down and Tiananen Square, so no one thought about Afghanistan.

Afghans

The Soviet government, Najibullah are in charge

Have a lafz ceremony of "giving word". Soraya not present due to tradition, but comes in at end w/ a traditional Afghan dress, long sleeves + gold trimmings.

Pays for wedding, $35,000. Rented Afghan banquet Hall. Baba paid for wedding bands, diamond ring, + traditional green suit

Symbolize color of Islam, Spring, + new beginnings

Bride and groom look at eachother in mirror

Moves in with Baba and takes care of him

Baba asks not to take morphine pills one night, and the next day he does not wake up

Suffers from migranes once a month, he would go to his room, turn off all lights and no one would be allowed in. General depends on welfare in US because he believes that he should not get a degrading job w/ his stature.

Singing

Get accepted into San Jose State

Upset because she got straight A's in high school therefore she should be a lawyer, doctor.