![]() ![]() Hassan never knew his mother, either, because she eloped with a performance troupe a few days after his birth. Though the protagonist was often surrounded by adults, he never knew his mother because she died in childbirth. There Baba held large dinner parties and entertained friends, including Rahim Khan, in his smoking room. Baba's house was widely considered the most beautiful one in Kabul. Hassan's father was a servant to the protagonist's father, Baba and lived in a small servant's house on his property. Any mischief they perpetrated was the protagonist's idea, but even when Hassan's father, Ali, scolded Hassan, he never told on the protagonist. The protagonist remembers sitting in trees with Hassan when they were boys and annoying the neighbors. He remembers Hassan, whom he calls "the harelipped kite runner," saying "For you, a thousand times over." Rahim's words also echo in his head, "There is a way to be good again." These two phrases will become focal points for the rest of the novel and our protagonist's story. When the protagonist's friend, Rahim Khan, calls him out of the blue, he knows that his past sins are coming back to haunt him even in the new life he has built in San Francisco. ![]() This moment was in 1975 when he was twelve years old and hid near a crumbling alleyway in his hometown of Kabul, Afghanistan. ![]() A single moment in time defined him and has been affecting him for the last twenty-six years. The Kite Runner begins with our thus-far nameless protagonist explaining that the past cannot be forgotten. ![]()
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