9/16/08

"Now who's oversimplifying?'' Baba said. "Look, I know there's a fondness between you and him and I'm happy about that. Envious, but happy. I mean that. He needs someone who....understands him, because God knows I don't. But something about Amir troubles me in a way that I can't express. It's like..." I could see him searching, reaching for the right words. He lowered his voice, but i heard him anyway. "If I hadn't seen the doctor pull him out of my wife with my own eyes, I'd never believe he's my son." This passage wraps up the first couple chapters of Kite Runner. The narrator Amir, is listening to his father talk with one of his friends. His father is one of the most powerful men in Kabul. He's disappointed because his son doesn't stand up for himself and follow in his father's footsteps by being a leader. Amir and his father actually have very little in common. Amir and his best friend Hassan both lost their mothers and live with their fathers. They never met their mothers and I have a feeling that they will play a big part in the novel. Amir mentions a specific date severally times throughout the first few chapters, a frigid winter day in 1975. The story so far is just a flashback of Amir's childhood. He refers to those times as his times of sinning.
Questions:
When will Amir discuss the fridgid day in 1975.
What happened to Hassan and Amir's mothers.