Rebellion Flashcards
(10 cards)
Hassan stands up to Assef with a slingshot
“You are right, Agha. But perhaps you didn’t notice that I’m the one ________ the slingshot… they’ll have to change your _________ from Assef ‘the Ear Eater’ to ‘One-Eyed Assef.’”
Hassan stands up to Assef with a slingshot
“You are right, Agha. But perhaps you didn’t notice that I’m the one holding the slingshot… they’ll have to change your nickname from Assef ‘the Ear Eater’ to ‘One-Eyed Assef.’”
Baba defies a Russian soldier at the checkpoint
“Tell him I’ll take a _________ of his bullets before I let this _________ take place.”
Baba defies a Russian soldier at the checkpoint
“Tell him I’ll take a thousand of his bullets before I let this indecency take place.”
Sohrab uses the slingshot against Assef
“Then I saw something I’d seen twenty-six years earlier: Hassan’s ________. Sohrab had the slingshot ________ at Assef’s face… ‘Let him go.’”
Sohrab uses the slingshot against Assef
“Then I saw something I’d seen twenty-six years earlier: Hassan’s slingshot. Sohrab had the slingshot pointed at Assef’s face… ‘Let him go.’”
Amir finally fights Assef
“I don’t know at what point I started laughing, but I did. It hurt to laugh, hurt my ______, my ribs, my throat. But I was _________.”
Amir finally fights Assef
“I don’t know at what point I started laughing, but I did. It hurt to laugh, hurt my jaws, my ribs, my throat. But I was laughing.”
Rahim Khan’s moral rebellion
“He knew about Assef, the Taliban, the stadium ___________—and he still chose to live among the oppressed rather than escape with the __________.”
Implied in Rahim Khan’s decision to stay in Kabul and protect Hassan.
Rahim Khan’s moral rebellion
“He knew about Assef, the Taliban, the stadium executions—and he still chose to live among the oppressed rather than escape with the privileged.”
Implied in Rahim Khan’s decision to stay in Kabul and protect Hassan.
Hassan refuses to leave Baba’s home
“This is my home. I will not let them take it from me.”
Hassan’s _______ to stay and protect the house from Taliban occupation is a passive yet powerful resistance.
Hassan refuses to leave Baba’s home
“This is my home. I will not let them take it from me.”
Hassan’s decision to stay and protect the house from Taliban occupation is a passive yet powerful resistance.
Amir returning to Kabul to rescue Sohrab
“There is a way to be good again.”
This line marks the _______ of Amir’s personal rebellion against his past _________.
Amir returning to Kabul to rescue Sohrab
“There is a way to be good again.”
This line marks the beginning of Amir’s personal rebellion against his past cowardice.
Amir speaking against General Taheri’s prejudice
“You will never again refer to him as ‘Hazara boy’ in my presence. He has a name and it’s Sohrab.”
Amir confronts classism and ethnic _________ in his own family circle—quiet but bold social protest.
Amir speaking against General Taheri’s prejudice
“You will never again refer to him as ‘Hazara boy’ in my presence. He has a name and it’s Sohrab.”
Amir confronts classism and ethnic prejudice in his own family circle—quiet but bold social protest.
Baba’s ideological defiance
“I’ll take a __________ bullets before I let them violate her.”
“There is only one sin. Theft.”
“They do it in the name of Islam… God help us all if Afghanistan ever falls into their hands.”
Baba repeatedly refuses to bow to social ________ and religious extremism.
Baba’s ideological defiance
“I’ll take a thousand bullets before I let them violate her.”
“There is only one sin. Theft.”
“They do it in the name of Islam… God help us all if Afghanistan ever falls into their hands.”
Baba repeatedly refuses to bow to social hypocrisy and religious extremism.
Amir saying Hassan is his half-brother
“Hassan was my half-brother.”
Publicly revealing this family secret is an act of moral _______ and ________ against his own family’s past silence.
Amir saying Hassan is his half-brother
“Hassan was my half-brother.”
Publicly revealing this family secret is an act of moral bravery and defiance against his own family’s past silence.
