The Kite Runner: Redemption

SOLO activity

What’s this?

• A SOLO activity is a series of questions• The questions get progressively harder• The questions are linked, so that the

easier questions help us in answering the harder questions

• After this lesson, please tell me how helpful the activity was.

• Rahim Khan tells Amir in a letter ‘…____, real ____ was born out of your _______ _______.’ 265

• Rahim Khan then lists the good things Baba has done to redeem himself. What has Baba done?

• What other good deeds has Baba done in the novel?

• For most of the novel, Amir feels guilty. Why?

• Khaled Hosseini makes extensive use of foreshadowing in the novel. List 2 instances BEFORE the rape, where Hosseini indicates something bad will happen to Hassan.

• Khaled Hosseini also makes extensive use of flashback in the novel. List 2 instances AFTER the rape, when Amir thinks back to the rape.

• Both Hassan and Sohrab are compared to what animal?

• The Muslim slaughtering of a lamb (in chapter 7) presents a contrasting view of redemption. How does this indicate redemption can be found?

• How is guilt associated with ideas of redemption?

• How does foreshadowing help to develop ideas about redemption?

• How does flashback help to develop ideas about redemption?

• When Amir is saving Sohrab, he takes a beating. During this time, he states (paradoxically) that ‘I felt healed at last.’ Why does he feel healed at this point in the novel?

• This novel presents two differing ideas about redemption:– Redemption through sacrifice– Redemption through good deeds

• Amir tries both approaches to redemption– How does Amir prove one of these

approaches to be effective? – How does he prove the other to be

ineffective?

• This novel can be said to be a criticism of the religious beliefs of Taliban officials. How?