Chapter 6-8

Chapter six starts with winter in Kabul which is every kids favorite season because they get out of school and they can fly and run kites which is a reference back to the title.
Kites also seem like a thing connecting Amir and Baba. Hassan is "The kite runner" and is very good at it.

Amir remembers a time when he and Hassan were running a kite and while they were waiting for the kite to land at their spot Amir tests Hassan's loyalty by asking him if he would eat dirt if he asked him to. Hassan is totally loyal and completely honest. Hassan then tests Amir by saying that he wouldn't ever ask him to do that, right? And Amir says he wouldn't but apparently he is not so sure of it though and he says " And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too."

Amir finds that if he wins the tournament, he will finally make his Baba proud.

In chapter seven they get ready for the tournament and the night before, Hassan had a dream that they were with thousands of other people by a lake but no one dared go swimming in the lake because there was a monster in it. Then Amir and Hassan start swimming in the lake and show the crowd that there is no monster. This dream has a later significance when Amir gets nervous for the tournament. Hassan reassures him that there is no monster.

Amir wins the tournament and as the last kite is cut, the biggest relic for kite runners is the last kite and Hassan takes off with the words to Amir "For you a thousand times over!" And Amir says that the next time he would see Hassan smile was 26 years later in a photo.

When Hassan hasn't come back for a while, Amir goes out and looks for him and finds him in an alley where he is surrounded by Assef and his entourage. This must be the alley he has been looking in to the last 26 years.

Then later Assef rapes Hassan in the alley and Amir can't bring himself to say something and stop him so he just sits and watches paralyzed. Then he ran...

He can no longer bear to look at Hassan and when they finally get home Amir runs to Baba and weeps in to his arms.

In chapter eight Hassan just wants to sleep all the time and he never told his father what happened in the alley which was probably the first lie Hassan ever told. Amir lies about it too.

Finally, Amir and Baba are getting closer to each other, but it does not seem to matter that much anymore since the incident in the alley which is really an aching irony.

The dream Hassan had had before the kite tournament is brought up again and this time Amir says that Hassan was wrong. There was a monster and the monster is Amir. And the same night when they are in Jalalabad, Amir spends his first night as an insomniac. Amir is do filled with guilt that he stays in his room most of the time reading and writing stories and always planning his day to avoid Hassan as much as possible, which is so sad to read about and is very aching.

Although, one time Amir asks Hassan to come to the tree with him so he can read a story but Amir starts hitting Hassan, hoping that Hassan would hit him back so he can finally get his penance! But he never does.

Later at Amir's birthday party, the knife is twisted even more when Hassan has to serve drinks to Assef who is also there. "Then mercifully, darkness."