The Kite Runner - Chapter 12

1. In what way does Soraya’s story about her illiterate friend differ form Amir’s?
2. What period is described as a time of many ‘firsts’?
3. What was Baba’s final resolution about his diagnosis?
4. Why was Amir envious of Soraya?

Answers:

A1: Soraya's story about her illiterate friend differ with Amir's story, because she helped her friend to learn how to write and read. Meanwhile Amir bother Hassan, teaching him words with another the wrong meaning, while he laugh because of his innocense and ignorance.

A2: The period Amir described as a time of many firsts, is the time when he saw a lot of things that he has never seen have during his life. For example, to saw Baba sick and coughing blood.

A3: Baba's final resolution about his diagnosis is a lung cancer. He don't want to take treatments and remedies to make his disease better or at least dalay it.

A4: Amir was envious of Soraya, because she was brave enough to tell him her secrets, while he even cannot tell her his story with Hassan.