- The importance of a new setting -
- Cultural contrast
- linguistic signifiers
- Baba's response
- What America means to Amir
Chapters 11-12:
- Flea market
- significance to the Afghan community
- Explore new characters
- plot Amir's behaviour towards and impression of General Taheri
- Amir's response towards Soraya (semantic field associated with love).
The importance of a new setting
- Baba and Amir: America and Afghanistan is a contrast - Baba is struggling to fit in, whereas Amir adopts the American ways.
- "For me, America was a place to bury my memories. For Baba, a place to mourn his" - connotations to death "bury" and "mourn" - shows strength because they don't go back.
- Seeing the value of a strong leader - hanging the photo on the wall (page 110) of Ronald Reagon.
- America is a relief, after everything that happened in Kabul, though it pains him to see his father struggling with their new life in America.
- America - an escape - The Land of Dreams and opportunities, though the theme that the past is inescapable is brought forward: "I wish Hassan were here with us".
Significance of the flea market
- The General and Baba become important again at the flea market.
- The linguistic language creates an atmosphere of Afghanistan, where in which General Taheri and Baba can again, like in Kabul, become powerful - this contrasts to Baba in the gas station.
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