Kite Runner

3. Narrative technique that follows a characters thoughts and feelings as they occur
4. Narrative structure in which one story is told within another story
5. Animal Ali is cruelly compared to because of his disability and Hazara identity
7. Conflict that began in 1979 when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan
10. One of Assefs accomplices and a childhood acquaintance of Amir and Hassan
12. Subject studied by Khaled Hosseini before becoming a novelist
14. Former mujahideen fighter who helps Amir travel through Taliban controlled Afghanistan
16. Afghan resistance fighters who opposed Soviet forces during the Soviet Afghan War
17. Literary technique in which a text draws attention to itself as a constructed story

1. Description of a narrator whose account may be influenced by personal feelings and limited knowledge
2. Literary movement associated with fragmented narratives memory and questioning objective truth
6. Persian hero from the Shahnameh whom Hassan admires in stories
8. Character who tells Amir there is a way to be good again
9. King of Afghanistan who ruled during much of Baba and Amirs early life
11. Fundamentalist group that gained control of much of Afghanistan and serves as a major force in the novel
13. Capital city of Afghanistan where much of the novel is set
15. Ethnic group to which Hassan and Ali belong and which faces discrimination in Afghanistan