Friday, May 3, 2013

Motifs

Relationships

"'There is something missing in that boy.'... I could see him searching, reaching for the right words. He lowered his voice, but i heard him anyway. 'If i hadn't seen the doctor pull him out of my wife with my own eyes, I'd never believe he's my son.'" (pg. 24-25)

Symbols

Kites

"He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say my eyes didn't scan it for any rips." (pg. 83)

Juxtaposition

Amir and Hassan

"In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was ever going to change that. Nothing." (pg. 27)

Bibliography

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