Four events from the novel: the 1975 kite tournament, Amir planting the watch and money, the escape to Pakistan, Rahim Khan's call. Which comes third?

Why does twelve-year-old Amir most want to win the winter kite tournament?

After Hassan runs the blue kite, what does Amir do in the alley that becomes his central guilt?

What finally causes Ali and Hassan to leave Baba's house?

What larger event leads Baba and Amir to flee Afghanistan?

In the escape from Kabul, what terrible event follows Kamal's death in the fuel truck?

How does Amir first get to know Soraya in California?

What sends adult Amir back toward Pakistan and then Afghanistan?

What condition does Assef set before Amir can take Sohrab from the Taliban house?

After Amir says Sohrab may have to return briefly to an orphanage, what crisis follows?

Amir stands silent in the alley at twelve; as an adult he takes Assef's beating rather than leave Sohrab. What does the pairing show?

Which contradiction in Baba's character matters across the whole novel?

When Hassan says, "For you, a thousand times over," what does the line reveal in its first context?

Soraya tells Amir about running away with a man before their marriage. How does that shape her role beside Amir?

What role does Rahim Khan play in Amir's development?

Farid first treats Amir like a privileged tourist, then helps him. What changes Farid's view?

How does Assef's adult role extend his childhood characterization?

What does Sohrab's near silence after arriving in America mainly show about his character arc?

Kites appear in the tournament, Hassan's promise, and the park at the end. What do they carry across the novel?

What happens to the pomegranate tree motif as Amir and Hassan's friendship breaks?

Hassan aims a slingshot at Assef; years later Sohrab fires one at Assef. What does the repeated object emphasize?

How do Hassan's repaired cleft lip and Amir's split lip after the fight with Assef work as a motif?

Why does the story of Rostam and Sohrab matter as a recurring literary allusion?

The novel compares Hassan in the alley to a sacrificial lamb. What does that image stress?

What do the watch and money under Hassan's mattress become in the novel's pattern of objects?

What is the effect of Hassan's letter being read after Amir reaches Rahim Khan?

The novel opens with adult Amir in 2001 before moving back to Kabul in the 1970s. What does that structure do?

How does the first-person retrospective narration shape the reader's view of young Amir?

What is the structural effect of delaying Baba's secret until Rahim Khan reveals it?

Hassan faces Assef in the alley; later Sohrab faces Assef in Kabul. What does this parallel structure do?

In his letter, Hassan writes warmly of Amir and hopes he will one day return to Kabul. How does that content affect Amir's guilt?

Adult Amir's return to Kabul sends him through places he remembers from childhood. What is the structural effect?

"There is a way to be good again." What theme does Rahim Khan's promise introduce?

At the end, Amir says Hassan's old line, "For you, a thousand times over," to Sohrab. What theme does the echo support?

Sohrab's small smile in the final kite scene is not a complete recovery. What theme fits that ending?

Baba teaches Amir that theft is the root of sin. How does the novel make that lesson ironic?

Which evidence best supports the novel's theme about ethnic injustice?

What theme is developed by Amir's silence after the alley?

Which statement best captures the novel's father-son theme?

What does Amir's life in California show about exile and memory?