Name______

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The Kite Runner, Introductory Power Point

Directions:

1. Sign into the Chrome book with your gmail.com email account. IF you do not have one, create on now.

2. Go to & click on “STAFF” and click on “Staff/ School Directory”

3. Type in Tracey Bly in the bar

4. You will be taken to my webpage automatically:

5. Click on The Kite Runner in the black box on the right side

6. Scroll to Power Points and click on the KR PowerPoint Introduction

7. Now, complete this worksheet using the power point. You will need to open & play it through Google slides. (IF it doesn’t work, make sure you are logged in with your own Gmail account. You CANNOT browse as a guest).

NOTE: This is an INDIVIDUAL assignment. Please focus on your own paper.

Directions: Fill in the blanks on this worksheet.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

  1. Khaled Hosseini

•Born in Kabul in ______

•His family moved to ______in 1980

•Graduated from Santa Clara University and UC San Diego School of Medicine

  1. Kite Running

•Kite running (gudipran bazi) has been a favorite pastime in Afghanistan for ______

•Two-person affair:

•one person is the ______, who holds the wooden kite spool;

•the other is the ______, who controls the movement of the kite in the air

•Kite flyers stand on tops of ______, fighting with kites from all over the ______

•The object is to strike down the kite of your ______with the ______of your kite

•Strings are made with wire or string ______

  1. Afghanistan

•Ethnically ______country – reflects geographic locations as well as ______

•Pashtu and Dari are the official ______spoken by 85% of the people

•99% of population is ______; 84% of Muslims are ______

•Long history of ______, creating imbalances of wealth, influence, and education

•Traditionally ______have dominated the country because they are the presumed majority of the population

•Many other ethnic groups have not had a ______voice

•Society has a ______which dominates the inter-ethnic interactions and relations

  1. Pashtuns

•______ethnic group, constituting approximately 42% of the population

•Highest ethnicity on the social ladder and ______governmental bodies

•Pashtu is their native language

•Consist mainly of ______Muslims

  1. Hazaras

•Resides mainly in the ______Afghanistan mountain region known as ______

•Make up approximately ______of the population

•Seem to have ______origins, as evidenced by physical attributes, culture, and language

•Most are ______Muslims

•On the ______of the socioeconomic scale

  1. Islam

A religion based on the interpretations of God’s word by the ______found in the Qu’ran (sometimes spelled Koran)

Followers of Islam, Muslims, are devoted to ______(five times a day facing Mecca, the holy city).

  1. Islam

•There are two major Islamic sects: ______and ______.

The two groups are very similar, although the two sects have also had sharp ______differences.

The split stems from the early days of Islam and ______over Mohammed's successors as caliph or leader.

Sunni comprise about ______of all Muslims.

•Shi’a are the second-largest sect. ______is the only nation with an overwhelming Shiite majority.

  1. The Tenets of Islam

• There are several tenets of Islam, but there are ____mentioned early on in the book:

• Zakat – charitable ______

• Hadj – ______to Mecca

• Namaz – 5 daily ______facing Mecca

IX. The Taliban

•Very ______Islamic fundamentalist faction. Set up what it considered to be the world's purest ______. Based on its strict ______of Islamic law, the Taliban:

–Banned movies and______, photographs of people and animals, statues, stuffed toys, use of the ______, non-religious music and musical instruments, dancing, ______, playing cards and chessboards.

–Said ______are not allowed to work outside the home, attend school and must be ______in public.

–Stated men must wear untrimmed ______and pray in the mosque.

•Religious police enforce these rules, often ______.

  1. Politics

• In the 19th century, Afghanistan ceded many territories to ______.

• In ______, the Anglo-Afghan wars returned the ruling power to the Afghani monarchy.

• In 1973, the king’s brother staged a coup to create ______.

• In 1978, ______overthrew the ruler and took over the government.

XI. How does it relate?

• In the beginning of The Kite Runner, the______is still in place and the country is relatively ______.

However, ______starts to erupt as the king is overthrown by his brother.

• In the second half of The Kite Runner, the ______is in power, creating a much more volatile and ______Afghanistan.

  1. What is the Kaaba?

•The Kaaba or "Cube" is a circular ______located inside the al-Masjid al-Haram mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The ______was built around the original Kaaba.

•The Kaaba is the ______place in Islam.

•The qibla, the direction Muslims face during prayer, is the direction from their location on Earth towards the Kaaba. It is around the Kaaba that ritual circumambulation is performed by Muslims during the Hajj (pilgrimage) season as well as during the Umrah (lesser pilgrimage).

  1. Divisions of Islam

• Islam is divided into ______denominations, ______and ______.

Because of the differing views of these two groups, they maintain a rather ______relationship.

• The Pashtun (majority) are typically ______, and

the Hazara (minority) are typically ______.

• Thus, the ______differences are compounded by the ______differences.

  1. Hazara

• The Hazaras are most

easily identified by their

tendency to have light colored

and ______shaped

eyes and ______faces.

• They are possibly direct

descendents of ______who invaded

Afghanistan in the 13th

century.

• Thus, they are seen as

“invaders” and ______

XV.The Hazaras typically function as the ______class and partake in ______of the freedoms enjoyed by the Pashtun upper-class.

XVI. Afghani Words

• jan – a term of ______often used after a person’s name: Baba jan

• agha – leader, ruler,______, lord

• sahib – ______(original), lord

• naan – bread