#Kite runner book free

Amir and Hassan have practiced as a team for years - Amir flying the kite, and Hassan holding the string and running after the fallen ones. Victory belongs not only to the boy who flies the remaining kite, but also to the boy who retrieves the last kite to fall. Boys and young men fly kites and try to cut each other’s strings until one kite is left in the sky. One boy, Assef, vows to get his revenge on them after Hassan threatens him with a slingshot to stop him from beating Amir.Įach winter, all of Kabul celebrates a kite tournament. Hassan stands up to the bullies who pick on them in the streets.

Even though Amir sometimes treats him cruelly, Hassan always forgives Amir.

Amir, who is desperate for his father’s approval, doesn’t understand why his father buys Hassan birthday presents or insists on taking him with them on family outings. Although Amir loves Hassan and thinks of him more as a brother than a servant, he cannot help being jealous of him because of the way Baba also loves Hassan.

#Kite runner book free

Because Hassan is also Hazara, he is not allowed to go to school with Amir and must work with Ali.Īmir spends most of his free time playing with Hassan and reading to him, but often plays tricks on his friend by making up the wrong endings to the stories. Hassan is Ali’s son and Amir’s closest friend. Ali is one of Baba’s oldest friends, but because he is Hazara, a race of Afghan descended from Moguls, he is considered lower class and must work as a servant. He lives with his father, whom he calls “Baba,” and their servants, Ali and Hassan. Amir is a young boy in Kabul, Afghanistan, during the 1970s.