![]() Once the reader determines the accuracy of this statement, the reader will be able to determine the reliability of the narrator. The narrator asserts "I became what I am today at the age of twelve" and it is up to the reader to determine the relative truth of this assertion. The narrator, being thirty-eight years old, not only can share experiences from his youth, but also can comment upon them. The subheading indicates what the reader presumes to be the present. ![]() ![]() Two different settings are established - San Francisco and Afghanistan - which illustrates the two primary purposes of Chapter 1: to provide exposition and to build suspense. The subheading to the chapter immediately sets the time for the present, but the first sentence indicates the narrative technique of flashback. The chapter ends with another reference to 1975 and the assertion that the event that transpired in the winter of 1975 "made me what I am today." He recalls Hassan, the harelipped kite runner and list names such as Baba, Ali, and Kabul. Going for a walk, the narrator notices kites flying in the San Francisco sky. The narrator then mentions a phone call last summer from a friend in Pakistan, Rahim Khan, and unatoned sins. Chapter 1 opens with the words "December 2001." A nameless narrator immediately refers back to the winter of 1975, when the narrator "became what I am today" and obliquely mentions an event that occurred in an alley when he was twelve years old.
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