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//**Directions:**// Choose **two** of the following discussion questions and write an original post of 8-10 sentences answering the questions. When you are finished, don't forget to respond to two other posts.

**Question 1:** Amir had never thought of Hassan as his friend, despite the evident bond between them, just as Baba did not think of Ali as his friend(22). What parallels can be drawn between Amir and Hassan’s relationship, and Baba and Ali’s? How would you describe the relationship between the two boys? What makes them so different in the way they behave with each other? What is it that makes Amir inflict small cruelties on Hassan? Had you already guessed at the true relationship between them? If so, at what point and why?

**Question 2:** It is Amir’s dearest wish to please his father. What fuels this wish? To what extent does he succeed in doing so and at what cost? What kind of man is Baba? How would you describe his relationship with Amir and with Hassan? How does that relationship change, and what prompts those changes?

**Question 3:** After Soraya tells Amir about her past, she says, “I’m so lucky to have found you. You’re so different from every Afghan guy I’ve met”(157). How do Afghan women fare in America? Are they any better off than they were in Afghanistan before the Taliban seized power? There is a noticeable absence of women in the novel. How is this significant?

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