The+Kite+Runner

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Week 4 Discussion Question:

BiggarR: now that the book is over how do you feel about what hapened in the end? do you think that if something had changed the book could have been better? what are your feelings towards what happened to the characters and how the acted?

Week 3 Discussion Question:

HarnK: Up to this point in the novel, Amir has never been a father figure, or a figure of respectabilty to anyone in his life. Now that he has been introduced to Hassan's child, how do you think he will respond to this new feeling of responsibility? How do you think the child will respond to this new figure of fatherhood?

BiggarR: at first i think that amir will just want to get back to his wife. he will just want to drop the kid off but as they go through he will see so much of Hassan, the brother he never really new he had and his best friend. i htink he wil take him back with him and it will make his life feel more meaningful. i hink the kid will have trouble with Amir becasue he has only known him for a short time and never really had a strong connection with him but i think that as time passes he will become friends with Amir and everyhting will be made right between the two familes.

DavisE: I think he will make a great father to sohrab. He has been waiting all his life to proove himself to hassan and even though he is not alive he will want to show hassan that he can stand up for something. I think he will take sohrab home and he will feel a lot better about his past. I think the kid will like Amir because he is like hassan and hassan was always such a good friend to Amir. Since there is noone left from Hassans family and Baba is gone I believe that This is a personal journey for Amir he has no one to judge him, none left to turn to and noone really knows the true feelings that are going through his mind as e accepts this new child into his life. I really hope that he is able to take sohrab home because it is the only thing he has to remind him of the old times in Afghanistan. hopefully he is just as good a father to sohrab as baba was to him If that happens not only will his kid become brave, loyal and respectful like Hassan but will also have the ingenuity and emotional abiltiy of Amir, he will be everything Amir wished he could have been.

Week 2 Discussion Question:

DavisE: Amir has found himself a girlfriend and is now living in America. Do you think that a new country will be able too erase Amir's memory ? Will this new land of fortune be kind to Amir and Baba? Will they move back to Afghanistan, to their home? What is your opinion of Amir and Baba's relationship now? 

BiggarR: Now that Amir and his father are in a new country i dont think that Amir wil just beable to forget. i htink that the image of seeing his friend being raped wil haunt him forever.As for the girlfriend i htink that he will almost try and replace Hassan with her. to make himself feel as though he is not a ter rible person and can have friends. i dont think that Baba and Amirs relationship wil change much. it will continue to be Amir trying to make his father proud.

DavisE: I would totally agree that the memory will always be with Amir, I mean who would forget that. He will always be second best to his father and will always try to make baba happy and i think he will in America Amir is smart and i think he will be successful in his studies and becoming a writer and now that they like each other i believe Baba will finally be proud of his son. 

HarnK: After moving to America and starting a new life, I don't think Amir will be able to forget what happened to his friend, but I think it will help him cope with it in a different way than normal. He moves away from Pakistan and is able to cope with it because his surroundings are different and he won't be reminded of what happened. I don't think this country will be fair to Amir and his father, I feel they will face certain hard ships and have a tough time fitting in. I don't think they will move back to their country because they have settled into their new home. I feel that Amir and his father are now getting along very well and both understand the others point of view. Do you guys think Amir and Baba will ever see "eye to eye?"  BiggarR: i think that amir and baba did see eye to eye when amir decided to marry his wife. this seemed to make Baba proud and happy. they moment i htink that it really showed was when Baba was reading his stories, something Amir had always wanted his father to want to do. i also dont think they will move back becasue Baba has died and Hassan is no longer living either.

DavisE: That is all Amir Ever wanted to do was have his father happy for him. It is sad that Baba died the next morning but at least Amir got to know his father appreciated him. There are a few unexpected deaths in this section including hassans that was terrible how they just dragged him out into the street and shot himand Amir can never be a peace with his concience. I thought it was pretty selfish that Amir didn't want to get hassans son at first but then decided to do the rigth thing.

Week 1 Discussion **Question:**

BiggarR: As i read through the chapters i noticed that Amir and Hassan so called "friendship" is one sided. Hassan is Amir's servant and does what Amir does because of this. Amir relies oh Hassan for when he needs a self confidence boost and when he needs help from being bullied. but when it comes down to what Amir thinks of Hassan he doesn't actually think of his as a friend. is this just me seeing this? how do you guys see their relationship and how do you think it will change as the book continues?


 * HarnK: When I look at their realtionship I see two boys who are too young to understand the differences in there backgrounds in Hertiage and Religion. Although when I think about how it will change as the book continues, I believe that Amir will start to realize how different they are and start to treat him differently. Although I don't feel Assf's comment about Amir and Hassan's Friendship is true I believe that given enough time Amir would have realized that he could change how Hassan acts, thinks, and feels (based on differences in Education, Religion, and a slave/master relationship). How do you guys feel about this? At the time of the comment that Assf made do you think it was correct and do you feel like their religion and education have something to do with how they will treat each other in the future?

DavisE: I find that they are very well educated in their individual histories and religions. Amir knows he is much higher class than Hassan and takes full advantage. On the other end hassan generally accepts that he is inferior to Amir. Religion and education are a vital part to the book and the plot. I think that Amir wants to be better and be more like hassan so there is a little bit of jealousy. As for the comment I believe it was true and Amir sees Hassan as more of a pet than friend. Now, given that Amir is jealous, do you think he will do something to hurt their friendship and will Hassan fight back or rise up and realize that he is being mistreated? **

<span style="color: #00a3ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Biggar<span style="color: #00a3ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">R : I find that Amir has does something to hurt their firendship. just becasue he didn't help Hassan and he feels bad he has to come up with a plan to get ride of him. this is not what a best friend would do. he would have help and forgot about the kite and then he wouldn't have even dreamed up he plan to have Hassan and his father leave. this shows that Assf's comment was true all along. i also think that Hassan is too nice of a person and loves Amir deeply and would never do anything like fight back, which sometimes is all Amir really wants.

<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">HarnK: I feel as thought Amir and Hassan will never be "true friends" because of their differences and also that Hassan will never fight back with Amir because he is generally too good of a person. I think it is sad that Amir does not treat Hassan half as good as Hassan treats him, but in an odd way I don't think Hassan will ever rise up to Amir and fight back. I think Hassan has accepted the fact that he is in a lower class than Amir and will never rise to Amir and tell him how he dislikes being treated how he is treated. <span style="color: #00a3ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">

<span style="color: rgb(242,44,44);">DavisE: I think they will always be friends they are too close to forget each other. Because his dad says he and Ali grew up together and have known each other for over 40 years I think Amir and Hassan will be the same. Amir will never forget how he let down the one person who was always there for him, the only person who looked up to him. I also believe that when Hassan leaves Baba and Amirs relationship will get stronger.