KR chapter by chapter

Question 1

Chapter 1

Answer 1

• Establishes the play’s climax and its central theme: redemption.
• Rahim Khan calls Amir: ‘there is a way to be good again’.
• ‘past of unatoned sins’

Question 2

Chapter 2

Answer 2

• Amir lives a privileged existence, juxtaposes Hassan’s ‘mud shack’. Juxtaposes Amir and Baba’s house.
• Complex, but very deep, bond between them.
• Both mothers absent.
• Soldiers and discussion of Sanaubar

Question 3

Chapter 3

Answer 3

• Baba is mythologised, ‘wrestled a black bear’, ‘towering Pashtun specimen’, ‘Mr Hurricane’.
• Amir feels he must compete with everyone for Baba’s affections.
• Orphanage
• ‘The only sin is theft’
• Baba and RK discuss Amir

Question 4

Chapter 4

Answer 4

• Ali’s backstory: ‘in none of his stories did Baba ever refer to Ali as his friend’
• Ethnic and class difference exemplified
• Western films
• First mention of Hassan’s illiteracy & pomegranate.