1. What happens to Amir on the way to Jalalabad? Why?
2. How does Amir react when Hassan invites him to buy naan?
3. Narrate the second episode at the pomegranate tree. What does it mark in Amir and Hassan’s relationship?
4. What is Assef’s gift to Amir?
5. What story does Rahim Khan tell to Amir? Why?
Chapter 9 questions
2. How does Amir feel when he receives Ali and Hassan’s present?
3. What is Ami’rs ” the last in a long time of shameful lies“?
4. How does Amir realize Hassan “knew everything“?
5. Why does Amir compare the farawell moment to a Hindi film?
Chapter 8 answers
1. In the trip to Jalalaba Amir wasnt feeling good at all, and he ask to her cousin Fazila/Karima (Amir didn't remember wich one of them was) if she could change sits with him so Amir would be near the window in case he wanted to threw up, but she replyed with a no. A few minutes later Amir felt the need of threw up so he ask baba to pull over so then he could get ut of the car, but when baba stopped it was to late, Amir had already threwd up on his cousin new dress.
2. Amir's reaction was unexpected, Hassan wanted to go to buy naan but Amir just denied the invitation, so Hassan asked him if he have done something wong, and why they are not playing any more, amir answer was that he haven't done anything wrong, and the Hassan said that he could stop doing that if Amir tell's him what was it, but Amir said " I want you to stop harassing me. I want you to go away." that was Amir's reaction, cold. A moment later he went to check at he door if Hassan stil ther but he wasn't, Amir started crying, he was sorry about everytghing he did and everything he didn't do.
3. What happened was that Amir felt guilty for let Hassan, his friend, be raped. Amir's plan was to hit hard enogh Hassan several times with pomegranates, so Hassan would fought back and when that happened Amir thought that he could seelp again. After hittng Hassan, Amir asked to hit him back, but Hassan was a loyal friend, he would never do something like fought back Amir. Hassan didn't fought back, what he did was that he took a pomegranate and smashed it on his forhead, the he asked Amir "Do you feel better now?" That episode mark's the end of they'r relationship. In that moment Amir took a decision of what to do with Hassan.
4. The gift to Amir from Assef was a biography of Hitler.
5. The history that Rahim Khan was about the girl with he almost get married, when he was eighteen.
This girl was a Hazara, and Rahim Khan is a pashtun. The problem ther was, what would Rahim's Khan family would talk abou them? Rahims's Khan father sent Homaira, the love of Rahim Khan, and all her family to Hazarajat, and Rahim Khan never saw her again.
Rahim Khan tolld that story to Amir because, at the time when Rahim Khan was eighteen, he was struggling with Homira againts the world, but at the end, the world always win. He was trying to explain to Amir that he culdn't swim upstream because he would drown, in other word's Amir should be like any ther kid.
Chapter 9 Answers
1. the most treshurable present was the notbook that Rahim Khan gived to him, because Amir felt that the notbook was the only present that didn't look like bloody money.
2. Amir wished that they hadn't bought him anything. He thank Ali and said that it was loely. Amir felt unworthy, because he have been lying lately. Ali said that the present wasn't worthy for Amir, but amir was the one who felt unworthy.
3. ” the last in a long time of shameful lies“ Is the last lie that Amir would say to his father, that was what he hope so. This "last lie" was the one Amir planed. Amir took his new watch (his father gift) and some money he recived in his birthday and planted in Hassan's room, so Baba would know and finaly Hassan would leave the house.
4. Because when Baba asked if he had stolled the watch and Amir's money he answered "yes". Also he noticed a protectin gesture from Ali to Hassan directed to Amir, then Amir understood that Hassan had teel everything to his father and he also made him promisse not to tell the trusth so Amir would not be affected.
5. Because in the Indian movies the watched, in moments like that one, the guy un the position of Amir would run after the car, stopped it, opened the door and tell Hassan he was so sorry and that everything was his fault, but nothing of that happened, Amir didn't even cry when the were gone.
Chapter 9 Answers
1. the most treshurable present was the notbook that Rahim Khan gived to him, because Amir felt that the notbook was the only present that didn't look like bloody money.
2. Amir wished that they hadn't bought him anything. He thank Ali and said that it was loely. Amir felt unworthy, because he have been lying lately. Ali said that the present wasn't worthy for Amir, but amir was the one who felt unworthy.
3. ” the last in a long time of shameful lies“ Is the last lie that Amir would say to his father, that was what he hope so. This "last lie" was the one Amir planed. Amir took his new watch (his father gift) and some money he recived in his birthday and planted in Hassan's room, so Baba would know and finaly Hassan would leave the house.
4. Because when Baba asked if he had stolled the watch and Amir's money he answered "yes". Also he noticed a protectin gesture from Ali to Hassan directed to Amir, then Amir understood that Hassan had teel everything to his father and he also made him promisse not to tell the trusth so Amir would not be affected.
5. Because in the Indian movies the watched, in moments like that one, the guy un the position of Amir would run after the car, stopped it, opened the door and tell Hassan he was so sorry and that everything was his fault, but nothing of that happened, Amir didn't even cry when the were gone.
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