Passages for close reading

The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
Bloom21sbury edition


Passages for close analysis and reading

• Read a couple together and analyze
• Pair presentations-close reading of a passage
• Individual written commentary on one passage
• Vocabulary words


PASSAGE DESCRIPTION
4-6 Contrast living conditions
14-16 Theft
23-26 Words
27-30 First story
36-38 David and Goliath
45-48 Kite runner
64-65 A memory (during rape scene)
85-86 Birthday party
93-95 Ali and Hassan leave
104-106 In the tank
119-121 Flea market
125-127 Speaking to Soraya Taheri
147-149 Wedding
151-153 Baba’s funeral
170-171 Meeting Rahim Khan
182-183 Hassan and Farzana’s story
200-202 Farid, the driver
218-219 The beggar/university lecturer
243-245 Confronting the Talib with sunglasses
251-253 The fight
308-310 Sohrab defeated
311-312 Happy endings
314-315 Confronting the General
321-324 Ending/kite runner