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The Kite Runner Timeline
Compiled by D. Emmick
Note: Items in italics refer to actual historical incidents
Date
Event(s)
Amir's
age
1915
Baba's grandfather married his 3rd wife and Baba's father was born.
1931
Picture of Baba's father with King Mohammad Nadir Shah (displayed in living room).
Page
5
He reigned from 1929-1933.
1933
Baba is born
24
King Nadir Shah is assassinated.
Mohammad Sahir(Zahir) Shah takes throne.
1963
24
Amir's birth
Amir's mother, Sofia Akrami, dies
1964
Hassan's birth
1
Sanuabar leaves
1973
6
King Mohammad Sahir Shah, away in Italy, is overthrown by his cousin Mohammad
Daoud Khan, ending "the king's forty-year reign with a bloodless
6
10
35-37
coup" (36).
Daoud abolishes monarchy, establishes himself as President
36
1974
Hassan's surgery
11
47
1975
Amir wins the kite contest
12
66
Hassan's rape
1976
Hassan's 13th birthday party
73/75
13
Hassan and Ali leave
94-100
109
1978
Daoud is assassinated
15
1980
U.S. boycotts Olympic games in Moscow
17
1981
Russians invade. (March) Baba and Amir leave Afghanistan.
18
110-124
19/20
125 - end
20
131
Amir and Baba are in Pakistan
1982/3
Amir and Baba come to SanFrancisco
1983
Amir graduates from high school
1984
Amir and Baba begin selling at flea market
136
1985/86
1986
Amir meets Soraya
140
Ali is killed by land mine
206
Amir and Soraya marry
Rahim Khan goes to find Hassan
22/23
170
23
204
Hassan returns to Rahmin's (Baba's) house in Afghanistan
207
Baba dies
173
1988
Amir has first novel accepted
25
183
1989
Amir goes on book tour
26
183
Amir and Soraya begin trying to have a family
26
184
1990
Shorawi (Russians) withdraw from Afghanistan
184
Fighting between factions
184
Berlin wall comes down
184
Cold War ends
184
Tiananmen Square
184
Hassan's mother, Sanaubar, returns
27
Sohrab is born
1992-1996
Northern Alliance control of Kabul
209
211
29-331
199
1995
Sanaubar dies
32
211
1996
Taliban takes over
33
200
1998
Incident with Rahim Khan and Taliban at soccer game
35
Taliban massacre of Hazaras in Mazar-i-Sharif
35
2000
Hassan and Farzana are killed
37
219
2001
(June) Amir gets phone call from Rahim Khan asking him to come to Pakistan
38
190
(Summer continues) Amir in Pakistan/ Afghanistan
190-357
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BY LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON
And this is what is left of youth! . . .
There were two boys, who were bred up together,
They met again, — but different from themselves,
Shared the same bed, and fed at the same board;
At least what each remembered of themselves:
Each tried the other’s sport, from their first chase,
The one proud as a soldier of his rank,
Young hunters of the butterfly and bee,
And of his many battles: and the other
To when they followed the fleet hare, and tried
Proud of his Indian wealth, and of the skill
The swiftness of the bird. They lay beside
And toil which gathered it; each with a brow
The silver trout stream, watching as the sun
And heart alike darkened by years and care.
Played on the bubbles: shared each in the store
They met with cold words, and yet colder looks:
Of either’s garden: and together read
Each was changed in himself, and yet each thought
Of him, the master of the desert isle,
The other only changed, himself the same.
Till a low hut, a gun, and a canoe,
And coldness bred dislike, and rivalry
Bounded their wishes. Or if ever came
Came like the pestilence o’er some sweet thoughts
A thought of future days, ’twas but to say
That lingered yet, healthy and beautiful,
That they would share each other’s lot, and do
Amid dark and unkindly ones. And they,
Wonders, no doubt. But this was vain: they parted
Whose boyhood had not known one jarring word,
With promises of long remembrance, words
Were strangers in their age: if their eyes met,
Whose kindness was the heart’s, and those warm tears,
’Twas but to look contempt, and when they spoke,
Hidden like shame by the young eyes which shed them,
Their speech was wormwood! . . .
But which are thought upon in after-years
. . . And this, this is life!
As what we would give worlds to shed once more.
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