Quarter 2: Outside Reading #2

I decided to read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. The first two chapters of the book were an introduction to the characters and the setting. The protagonist, Amir, used to live in Kabul and now in the United States. His best friend as a child was the son of his dad's servant, Hassan. They both didn't have mothers as children because Amir's mother died from giving birth and Hassan's mother eloped a week after his birth. Amir's dad is a big business man and owned a huge mansion that was said the be the best built house in their whole district. While Hassan's dad was a man who had suffered from polio and was unable to smile or frown and had a twisted leg which enabled him to walk normally. While Amir is remembering his childhood he receives a call, "My friend Rahim Khan called from Pakistan. He asked me to come see him. Standing in the kitchen with the receiver to my ear, I know it wasn't just rahim Khan on the line. It was my past of unatoned sins" (Hosseini 1). There is no other information about the phone call besides that, and I am predicting that Rahim Khan will cause some conflict later on in the book. I also think that this call from Rahim Khan will be a great significance to the plot because the author states, "I thought of the life I had lived until the winter of 1975 came along and changed everything. And made me what I am today" (Hosseini 2). In order to change who you are, something of great significance must happen in which you see the world and yourself differently.