Baba sounds like a good-looking guy, but really, Hosseini reserves his raciest prose for Hassan's mother, Sanaubar: "I have heard that Sanaubar's stride and oscillating hips sent men into reveries of infidelity" 2. The soldiers near the middle school have even heard of Sanaubar and taunt Hassan about her.
Even though Sanaubar doesn't get much time on the page, Hosseini does throw a monkey wrench or two into her character. For one, she sleeps with Baba and then runs off with a dancing troupe, setting in motion most of the terrible things that happen in the novel.
Which is not to say she's to blame — just that she's an invisible influence, much like Amir's mother. Sanaubar's disappearance obviously affected Amir because he writes about a similar plot in his novel A Season for Ashes. In this way, what animal does Amir compare Hassan to? Sanaubar gave birth to Hassan and could not or did not choose to even hold him. Hassan's mother, Sanaubar, returns to the home, starving and ill.
Hassan and his wife nurse his mother back to health. If Amir ever returns, he will find his faithful friend Hassan waiting for him. Sanaubar becomes inseparable from her grandson until her death four years later. Amir's father sees Hassan to be more like him than Amir is. In , Rahim Khan went to Hazarajat. Redemption is a way that makes up for the cause of the guilt. You are expected to answer each question thoroughly and use evidence to back up any observations you make about the reading's implicit meaning.
Sanaubar is the sexiest character in The Kite Runner. Baba sounds like a good-looking guy, but really, Hosseini reserves his raciest prose for Hassan's mother, Sanaubar: "I have heard that Sanaubar's stride and oscillating hips sent men into reveries of infidelity" 2.
It contains a photograph of Hassan and a letter for Amir. Readers see him as a person who is torn between Amir and Hassan.
And he is right. Amir should have tried to do something to help Hassan and stop that act of insanity. She also knew about the sin she committed when she slept with Baba and conceived Hassan. Describe the reunion with Sanaubar. What did Baba do when amir suggested getting servants. Correct answers: 2 question: Which words in the sentence are the complete noun clause? According to Ali, why id Amir and Hassan have a special kinship?
Also Amir felt that he deserved it because Amir comes from and high social class. Consumed by guilt, Amir makes Hassan and Ali leave the house by accusing Hassan of stealing, which Hassan does not deny, knowing this is best for all of them. That winter, Sanaubar delivers Hassan's son, Sohrab, named after the hero from the Shahnamah. The reader could make his or her own flu shots. He tells Baba that Hassan stole them, and when Ali and Hassan return, Baba asks Hassan if he stole the money and the watch.
Similarly Hassan has no hate in his heart for his mother's indiscretions. Hassan is exceedingly loyal to Amir. Hassan eventually marries Farzana, and has a son named Sohrab.
In the end, Hassan died defending Baba's house and honor. Amir spends the majority of his life trying to please, and receive affection from his father, Baba. Instructions: As you read. He urges the couple to return with him to Kabul and they accept. Finally, Khan tells Amir that the reason he has called Amir to Pakistan is to ask him to rescue Hassan's son, Sohrab, from an orphanage in Kabul.
Baba's adultery, Hassan's rape, and Amir's betrayal of Ali and Hassan are examples of things untold. How was Ali? Sanaubar even delivers Hassan's son, Sohrab, and loves him in a way that she was not capable of loving Hassan when she was younger. Possessing an endless capacity to forgive, Hassan welcomes Sanaubar home. How does Sanaubar interact with Hassan's son, Sohrab? Hassan misses Kabul terribly and wants to return.
What … Their first baby was a stillborn girl. When Hassan refuses to hand over the kite he ran for Amir, Assef pins Hassan to the ground and rapes him. Farzana has a miscarriage and they burry the baby in the yard.
Later on in the novel, Amir atones for his past sins by saving Hassan's son, Sohrab, and taking him to America. What prompts Amir to write his first story? In addition to this birth defect, Hassan is also Hazara. The relationship between the two boys is emotionally wearing and rather gloomy for the most part.
She is detached, but does reject him like she did with Hassan. Sanaubar… He went primarily because he was lonely, but also because as he aged it became difficult for him to care for Babas house by himself. Baba forgives Hassan, but Ali says they must leave. He came back the next morning, looking tired and weary, like he had not slept all night. The Tragedy of Hassan in the Kite Runner. Hassan and his wife, Farzana, refuse to move into the house with Rahim Khan; instead, they live in Ali's old hut.
They begin to take care of both Rahim Khan and the house. Their child is stillborn. Years pass. In , Farzana is pregnant again. One day a disfigured old woman arrives. The woman is Sanaubar, Hassan's mother. Upon hearing this news, Hassan flees the house; however, he returns the next morning, welcomes his mother, and nurses her back to health.
That winter, Sanaubar delivers Hassan's son, Sohrab, named after the hero from the Shahnamah. Sanaubar becomes inseparable from her grandson until her death four years later.
It contains a photograph of Hassan and a letter for Amir. In it, Hassan says the Kabul they used to know is gone. One day, a man at the market hit Farzana simply because she raised her voice so another man who was half-deaf could hear her. Hassan talks about his love for his son, and he says Rahim Khan is very ill.
If Amir ever returns, he says, he will find his faithful friend Hassan waiting for him. Rahim Khan says a month after arriving in Pakistan, he received a call from a neighbor in Kabul. Hassan said he was taking care of the house for a friend, and they called him a liar like all Hazaras. They made him kneel in the street and shot him in the head. When Farzana ran out of the house, they shot her, too. Rahim Khan knows an American couple in Pakistan that cares for Afghan orphans, and they have already agreed to take in Sohrab.
He can pay someone else to get Sohrab. Rahim Khan says it is not about the money, and that Amir knows why he must go. He tells Amir one more thing: Ali was unable to have children. Hassan never knew. Amir shouts at Rahim Khan and storms out of the apartment. Most importantly, we now know that he had a son, Sohrab. Hassan also did with Sohrab all the things he and Amir used to enjoy, such as going to the movies and flying kites.
The relationship between Hassan and Sohrab also adds a new dimension to the theme of fathers and sons that runs through the novel.
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