Fate
noun. a power that is believed to control what happens in the future; the things that will happen to a person or thing; the future that someone or something will have
How fate affects Amir:
Fate affects Amir both roughly and in his favor. All the events that take place in his life were not the most pleasant events, but they all led to a somewhat peaceful ending.
pg. 24 -"The police brought the somewhat contrite young men and the dead couple's five-year-old orphan boy before my grandfather, who was a highly regarded judge and a man of impeccable reputation...As for the orphan, my grandfather adopted him into his own household, and told the other servants to tutor him, but to be kind to him. That boy was Ali."
It was fate that Amir's grandfather took in Ali after his parents were killed by being struck by two young men in a car. Because Amir's grandfather adopted Ali, Amir was able to meet and grow up with Hassan.
pg. 140 - "Padar jan, you forgot your tea." A young woman's voice. She was standing behind us, a slim-hipped beauty with velvety coal black hair, an open thermos and Styrofoam cup in her hand. I blinked, my heart quickening. She had think black eyebrows that touched in the middle like the arched wings of a flying bird, and the gracefully hooked nose of a princess from old Persia...Her eyes, walnut brown and shaded by fanned lashes, met mine. Held for a moment. Flew away."
Amir first meets Soraya in the flea market and is entranced by her beauty. Their meeting was through fate because they would have never met if Amir and Baba and the General and Soraya did not work in the flea market. Later on, Soraya plays a major role in Amir's life as his wife.
pg. 192 -
"My suspicion had been right all those years. He knew about Assef. the kite, the money, the watch with the lightening bolt hands. He had always known. Come. There is a way to be good again, Rahim Khan had said on the phone just before hanging up. Said it in a passing, almost as an afterthought. A way to be good again."
It was fate that Amir would come back to his homeland in Afghanistan. Amir decides to do this because of Rahim Khan's phone call. Rahim Khan had called Amir and told him of his illness and convinced him to come to Pakistan by telling him "There is a way to be good again.".
pg. 281 - "I tried to take a breath and couldn't. I tried to blink and couldn't. The moment felt surreal-no, not surreal, absurd- it had knocked the breath out of me, brought the world around me to a standstill. My face was burning. What was the old saying about the bad penny? My past was like that, always turning up. His name rose from the deep and I didn't want to say it, as if uttering it might conjure him. But he was already here, in the flesh, sitting less than ten feet from me, after all these years. His name escaped my lips: "Assef.""
Amir meets Assef face to face when he comes to take Sohrab with him. It is fate that Amir is once again meeting Assef after all these years and that Sohrab, just like his father, protects Amir from Assef.
http://therunkiter.wordpress.com/plot-overview/
It was fate that Amir's grandfather adopted Ali into his household because this led to Amir and Hassan growing up together.
http://comicsand.blogspot.com/2011/12/kite-runner.html (graphic novel picture-Amir meets Soraya)
Amir's first encounter with Soraya and meeting her was through fate because this would have been unable to happen if they did not work in the same flea market at the same time. Soraya played a major role in Amir's life as his strong, loving wife.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/09/flights-airline-fares-taxes(Amir takes a plane to Pakistan)
Amir, after recieving Rahim Khan's phone call, flies to Pakistan and visits Afghanistan, his homeland. Amir returns to Afghanistan after he left many years ago.
http://justinefoster96.edublogs.org/ (Assef's brass knuckles)
Amir meets Assef once again, whom he wanted to forget. It is fate that Amir is in a situation in which he is face to face to Assef. I chose this picture because it represents Assef and his violent ways.
