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The Kite Runner
Chapter 2
Characters We Have Met
◊ Narrator
• Amir. Wealthy. Has a “past of unatoned sins.”
Pashtun.
◊ Baba
• Amir’s father. Wealthy. Has powerful friends.
Neglects son.
◊ Hassan
• Loyal to Amir. Good with a slingshot. Has a
cleft lip. Lives in a mud shack on Amir’s
family’s land. Hazara. Made fun of because of
his mother.
More Characters We Have Met
◊ Ali
• Baba’s servant. Hassan’s father. Shi’a Muslim.
Hazara. Married his first cousin before she left
him. Congenital paralysis of his lower facial
muscles = cannot smile. Polio caused his right
leg to lose its muscle. Rarely gets angry.
◊ Sanaubar
• Hassan’s mother. Ali’s wife. Left Hassan when
he was five days old to join traveling dancers.
Mean to Ali.
Even More Characters We Have Met
◊ Rahim Khan
• Calls Amir to get him to visit. “There is a
way to be good again.” Baba’s “best friend
and business partner.”
• “I’m in [Baba’s] arms, but it’s Rahim Khan’s
pinky my fingers are curled around” (5).
Cleft Lip
◊ Cleft palate is a
condition in which
the two plates of the
skull that form the
hard palate (roof of
the mouth) are not
completely joined
◊ 1 out of every 700
births
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More Cleft Palate Stuff
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6 months old
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1 month after
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8 years old
Congenital Facial Paralysis
◊ Congenital = at birth
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Polio / Atrophied Leg
◊ Often from ingestion
of fecal matter
caused by weak
water treatment
◊ 90% = no symptoms
◊ 1% = atrophy
◊ Children more
susceptible
◊ Vaccine = 1950
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“Islam” and “Muslim” Clarified
◊ Islam refers to the religion that was
introduced by the prophet Mohammed
◊ The Quran is the main text of the
Islamic religion
◊ Islam can also refer to the community
that believes in the Islamic religion
◊ Muslims refer to individuals who believe
in the Islamic religion
Islam/Muslim Continued
Correct Usage
◊ Islamic religion
◊ Islamic faith
◊ The Islam
community
◊ That Muslim man
was nice
◊ She is Muslim
Incorrect Usage
◊ That Islamic person
◊ The Muslim religion
◊ He is Islam
Shi’a Muslim / Sunni Muslim
Sunni
◊ Believed leadership
of the Muslims
should be voted on
◊ 85%
◊ Keeps traditions and
practices taught by
leaders that
proceeded
Muhammad
Shi’a
◊ Believed leadership
of the Muslims
should be inherited
◊ 15% (Iran, Iraq)
◊ Believe the Imam
(leader by
inheritance) is
immune to sin and is
treated like a saint
Pashtun / Hazara
Pashtun
◊ 42%
◊ Sunni Muslim
Hazara
◊ 9%
◊ Shi’a Muslim
“I read that my people, the Pashtuns, had persecuted and
oppressed the Hazaras. It said the Hazaras had tried to rise
against the Pashtuns in the nineteenth century, but the Pashtuns
had ‘quelled them with unspeakable violence.’ The book said that
my people had killed the Hazaras, driven them from their lands,
burned their homes, and sold their women. The book said part of
the reason Pashtuns had oppressed the Hazaras was that
Pashtuns were Sunni Muslims, while Hazaras were Shi’a” (9).
Hazara
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