He proved those who told him he would fail wrong by building with his partner Rahim Khan a carpet-exporting business and owning two pharmacies and a restaurant. He was always being told he should become a lawyer like his father, but instead he wanted to be a businessman. He was told he could not design the building, but he persevered until he had a blueprint for the orphanage. He wanted to build an orphanage, but he didn't want to turn it over to others to design, so he decided to design it himself. Unfortunately, he was not always accorded the respect he so desperately desired. Hassan suffered taunts about his mother, who was a woman of low morals.Īmir's father was a giant of a man both in size and personality, he stood 6'5" and demanded respect. He never retaliated against those who teased him, because he found joy in his son. He was tormented by the local children who called him Boogeyman. Hassan and his father lived in a mud hut behind the mansion Amir and his father lived in. Hassan is a Shi'a Muslim and Amir is Sunni Muslim, these two different sects do not agree, which was a reason for the fighting and the Hazara being ostracized.
The history of the Hazara was barely taught in schools and they were taunted and ostracized in Kabul. The Pashtun oppressed and took the Hazara land, which made them outcasts in their own land. Hassan is of Hazara ethnicity, while Amir is Pashtun. The differences between the boys was just as strong as the similarities. This act, according to Ali, formed a bond between the two boys which couldn't be broken. The two boys had a lot in common, such as they both had absent mothers Amir's mother died giving birth to him and Hassan's abandoned him when he was five days old. Amir's father was a wealthy man who owned the most beautiful mansion in the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, Afghanistan. Hassan was the son of Ali, Amir's father's servant, who was born one year after Amir in 1964. Hassan is the boy who Amir remembers as the kite runner.
He sees some kites flying in the sky and thinks of his childhood playmate Hassan. The phone call brings back memories of 1975, when Amir was twelve, it was that winter which made him the man he is now. The friend, Rahim Khan, is calling from Pakistan, he tells Amir he knows of "a way to be good again". Amir, a man of thirty-eight who lives in California, has received a phone call from a friend who asks if Amir can visit him.
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