He encouraged Amir to put his talent to use. Rahim Khan read the story and gave Amir a piece of paper on which he had written "Bravo." The rest of his note explained that Amir had achieved irony in his story, which is something many writers never manage to master. Amir took the story to Baba, but he refused to read it. It ended with him sitting on top of a mountain of pearls, holding his wife's slain body. The man grew greedy and tried to find ways to make himself cry as much as possible. It was about a man who had a cup that turned his tears into pearls. Amir was so happy that he kissed Hassan on the cheek, and that night he wrote his first short story. When Amir finished, Hassan clapped and told him it was the best story he had ever read him. One day, Amir pretended to read to Hassan from a book but made up his own story to trick Hassan. After school, Amir would read to Hassan, who loved books despite his illiteracy. While Amir went to school, Hassan stayed home to do housework with Ali. The boys played and got into mischief together like any other two boys, except that Hassan made Amir's breakfast, cleaned his room, and did all his other household chores. At the same time, all these years later, Amir says Hassan is "the face of Afghanistan" to him. According to Amir, their ethnic and religious differences kept them from being true friends or family. But despite their closeness, Baba never considered Ali his friend just as Amir never considered Hassan his. Baba and Ali grew up as quasi-brothers, just like Amir and Hassan a generation later. After sending the young men to serve in the army, he took Ali into his household. Baba's father was asked to decide the young men's punishment. Only their five-year-old son, Ali, survived. In 1933, the same year Baba was born, two intoxicated young drivers struck and killed a Hazara couple. Amir changed a lot from the beginning of the novel, and he finally realized that it's what matters on the inside.Chapter four opens with the story of how Ali became a part of Baba's family. He no longer worried about people's backgrounds, but looked at them as who there were on the inside. However, after many things happened to Amir, and as he grew up and everything he endured, he soon changed how he was. Hassan always stood up to Amir, yet Amir did nothing for Hassan in return. Whenever Hassan was picked on, Amir just stood there, and did nothing. At first, he was very selfish, he knew that Hassan was Hazara, and depsite the fact that they grew up together, he still deep down knew that Hassan was worthless. The author chooses to frame these two scenes at the beginning and the end of the novel because it shows how Amir grew throughout the novel. It also showed Hassan's loyalty to Amir, and how he would do anything for Amir. Their relationship was with the kite, they forgot about how Hassan was Hazara, and just enjoyed the competition. The reason why it is so significant is because it explains Hassan and Amir's relationship. The title Kite Runner is very significant throughout the story. They continued on with their life, sometimes slower than others but kept on moving forward. It frames the novel because all the characters in The Kite Runner have faced a tragedy at a point in their life but it did not stop them from becoming who they were meant to be. That Afghan saying is significant to the passage because even though they have both lived through hard times, Amir and Sohrab are moving on with their life and not constantly looking back on all the horrid times they have faced. He does not have to fear about getting sexually assaulted or harmed in any way. I think that the scene at the end of the book is similar because Sohrab is going to have a completely different life living in America with Amir. He was not the same person he was before and needed to get away. After Amir witnessed Hassan being raped, he changed completely. I think that the author chooses those two scenes to frame the book because they have the biggest impact in Amir’s life.
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