Monday, February 05, 2007
The Novel - Discussion #3
Early in Amir and Hassan's friendship, they often visit a pomegranate tree where they spend hours reading and playing. "One summer day, I used one of Ali's kitchen knives to carve our names on it: 'Amir and Hassan, the sultans of Kabul.' Those words made it formal: the tree was ours." In a letter to Amir later in the story, Hassan mentions that "the tree hasn't borne fruit in years." Discuss the significance of this tree.
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Section 21-13
Like the discussion said, that at the biginning of the story the tree was alive,gave fruit,Hassan's and Amir's tree, and beautiful. I think this resembled thier friendship and the city of Kabul. At that time, everything to them seemed perfect, just like the tree. In the letter that Hassan wrote to Amir, saying that the tree was not giving any more fruit, was a resemblence on where thier friendship stood, and also the significance of how Kabul had changed. Now the city that Amir once lived, and knew so well, has become something very new and strange. As he said in the book, he felt like a tourist in his own country. The relationship between Kabul with the frendship of Hassan and Amir had both died/"giving fruit", just like the tree.
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