Chapter+1-4+Quotes

 **"Then I glanced up and saw a pair of kites, red with long blue tails, soaring in the sky. They danced high above the tress on the west end of the park, over the windmills, floating side by side like a pair of eyes looking down on San Francisco, the city I now call home."** (p.1) This quote comes from the very, very beginning of the book. Obviously, coming from the title, //The Kite Runner//, this is important. I'd imagine that this idea will reoccur at some point in the novel. Considering it is talking about the kites above his new home, maybe it will reference to something about his old home in Afghanistan.

This demonstrates the boys coming from two different lifestyles at the time, which can lead us to learning about two different perspectives through out the novel.
 * "I went past the rosebushes to Baba's mansion, Hassan to the mud shack where he had been born, where he'd lived his entire life."** (p.6)