Kite Runner Chapter 6

Chapter 6 starts off with Amir giving a surrealistic description of winter in Kabul. Unlike here, the school closes for three months during the winter. He says he enjoys flying kites in the winter, which will probably have something to do with the title of the book. Every year, there is a kite flying tournament, and for many years Amir and Hassan would build their own kites from scratch and compete. However, Amir says "It quickly became apparent that Hassan and I were better kite fliers then kite makers" (51). In the tournament, contestants "fought" each other by trying to have the last kite flying in the sky. They did this by cutting the opponents line (each line was coated with broken glass.) The kite runners were the kids taht chased the kites after they had been cut, getting freely blown away by the wind. Amir says that out of everybody he's seen, Hassan was by far the best kite runner. He had a natural feeling of exactly where the kite was going to go before it landed. The chapter ends with the boys playing a card game the night before the kite tournament. Amir is determined to win and is almost positive that he will.