Chapter SummaryChapter 10 Summary Cormac Zachar Bumping up and down in the back of Karim's van, it was all Amir could do to keep his lunch in his stomach, but every time he was overcome with car-sickness enough to let out even the slightest moan, it was met with a quick reprimand from Baba, who looked ashamed to have suck a “weak” son. Eventually, the winding dirt road leading them towards Pakistan proved too much for Amir, and since Karim ignored his warnings to stop, he threw up out of the moving vehicle many times until their driver reached a checkpoint and finally agreed to let Amir out.
So begins Chapter 10 of The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, as Amir and Baba try to escape from the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and their now extremely difficult and unsafe life in Kabul. As Karim's truck pulls up to the checkpoint and Amir leaves to further relieve himself, two guards (one Afghan and one Russian) approach the truck and begin talking with Karim; after the Russian guard briefly speaks to Karim in Russian, Karim relates the message to the group that the price they must pay to cross is that the guard will be able to spend half an hour with one young woman traveling with Amir and Baba. Baba is outraged by this, and despite Amir's attempts to stop him, he begins to yell profusely at the Russian guard; this prompts the guard to take out his gun and fire it. Fortunately, no one is hit, and as a result an officer comes over to give the Russian guard a brief scolding and to apologize to Baba; Karim's group makes it through the checkpoint soon after. The next paragraph jumps all the way to when they arrive in Jalalabad, where they quickly find out to all of their dismay that there is no transportation to Peshawar as promised. Baba is irate at the news and literally tries to strangle Karim to death: he is only stopped because of the pleas of a young woman that traveled with them. In the basement of the one-story house they are staying in are more refugees that have been living there for weeks. Even though Karim failed in securing a truck for the trip to Peshawar, he is able to come up with a backup plan: his cousin owns a fuel truck that he is willing to lend, and so the refugees all clamor into the belly of the borrowed fuel truck. The truck makes it safely to Pakistan, where a bus will carry Amir, Baba, and the rest to Peshawar; however, because the borrowed vehicle usually carries fuel, the fumes from the belly of the truck have greatly weakened the refugees, even to the point where one, Kamal, has stopped breathing. This is to much for the boy's father, who seizes Karim's gun and takes his life in a dramatic fashion. The chapter ends, just as it began, with Amir throwing up on the side of the road. Chapter analysisLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nullam metus augue, dapibus in gravida nec, vehicula vitae nisi. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer a urna eget neque ultrices scelerisque. Aliquam pretium, mi ac tempor suscipit, magna sapien sagittis leo, eu mattis erat diam in lectus. Pellentesque posuere dolor a enim auctor, et aliquam dui egestas. Aliquam eleifend erat ac mauris aliquet pretium. Phasellus a elementum dui, vitae placerat enim. Nullam elementum faucibus dignissim. Integer in nulla metus. Donec accumsan porttitor dui sed egestas. Etiam euismod augue nisl, et elementum erat ornare vel. Curabitur placerat quis massa id accumsan. Fusce et consectetur libero.
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