Characters

• Hassan The harelipped Kite runner
• Rahim Khan From Pakistan
• Baba
• Ali
• Kabul

Locations

• Pakistan Home of Rahim Khan
• Spreckels Lake in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco
• The alley near the the frozen creek

Dates

• Winter of 1975

Themes/Motifs

• Past cannot be escaped
• Returning to the past
  • “There is a way to be good again.” Rahim Khan
  • Flashback structure of book

Thoughts

After reading this first section, I anticipate this being a coming of age story with populist sentiments one would find in books like the Alchemist, which, in my opinion, was a list of trite aphorisms.