Chapter 7

The author uses structure in chapter 7 to build suspense and let the reader make their own conclusions about what's happening and let them create the scene for themselves. Which makes it worse in a way, leaving out information and cutting away from what's happening causes the reader to become anxious.

The things that the Hosseini cuts away too are memories of Amir's that he's thinking about at the time, that he's focusing on to extract himself from what's happening and again this makes it worse because it builds suspense, a sense of impending doom is present throughout the chapter and it's frustrating for the reader.

The cut to the section where it compares Hassan to a lamb, or at least Amir perceiving Hassan as being like one, helps you to understand the guilt that Amir feels and shows a lot about Hassan's character and their relationship. Relevant because this is an important scene in the story and that helps to build a sense of character and answer questions the reader has.

The Graveyard of Empires

Also known as Afghanistan but don't thee Graveyard of Empires sound more dramatic. Anyway, Afghanistan has a reight interestin' history but as you can probably tell from its nickname it's a bit of a sad one. I tell thee what, as a country it's got diverse culture, a bit because of its position and thee amount of times it was settled. I mean it was settled by them Persians, Greeks with that Great Alexander bloke and that Genghis Khan fellah in the 13th century. So it's had a few visitors in its time but they were mostly there to conquer and stuff.

So, a bit later on, 19th century like, there was this Power struggle thing called 'Thee Great Game' which wasn't really that great as games go. It went like this; Britain and Russia were muckin' about tryin' to get more power and land but with reight poor success. Then there was some other stuff like another Anglo-Afghan war (there were like at least 3), politics and that kind of thing which ain't going to pretend to understand. There was some at about a Dynasty?

Back to history, I can explain, int 1970's there was more Russia drama but this time with America in that Cold War. So this bloke called Daoud made a lot of changes like rights, education and revenue but people still wanted more and then he got killed by a communist coup led by the PDPA ( Afghanistan's People's Democratic Party) and then Communism. This chap, Noor Mohammed Taraki, headed the Khalq and took power and was not a popular lad for many reasons. Them USSR helped Taraki and the US supported resistance groups and the USSR's president sent in troops thinking it would stop the US taking advantage.

Taraki got overthrown and Them Russians put another lad in power, who didn't oppose Islam and had less unpopular policies.   There were some reight problems with people not likin' having foreign troops hanging around and with resistance brought Russians bombing villages and resistance grew. Them US wanted to make Afghanistan like the Russian 'Vietnam' so they supported opposition and resistance by doing things like giving money and weapons to groups like the Mujahidin (really fun word to say).

After a lot of lives were taken the Soviet troops were all taken out by February 1989 and them Mujahidin took over most of country although fighting was still going on. Warlords caused a lot of that, they're sort of like on land pirates, and many died because of the battles between them and then a new lad showed up. Although it weren’t a guy more like a group of religious students.

Them Taliban din't like the control in the area they lived so got support from Pakistan they started a military campaign with their extreme version of Islam which affected many reight badly and the people in general at this point were probably a bit fed up of war.

Them Taliban got supported from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and eventually had like 90% of the country in their control in 2000. Osama bin Laden was supporting the Taliban too after also supporting the resistance groups back when the Russians were still theyre, and then he was behind 9/11. The US and Britain dropped about 12,000 bombs in a few weeks on Afghanistan after what had happened and they kicked the Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders out off country.

That was a sorta brief history of Afghanistan and now after all that research I get why its nickname is the Graveyard of Empires. A lot of empires were theyre and well it's a graveyard unfortunately. Me sen I think that for a country Afghanistan’s history is an interesting but brutal and sad one.