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ganisv
ganisv
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High School - 11th Grade

What does this dream finally help Amir realize in "The Kite Runner":

While in the hospital in Peshawar, Amir has a dream in which he sees his father wrestling a bear: "They role over a patch of grass, man and beast... they fall to the ground with a loud thud and Baba is sitting on the bear's chest, his fingers digging in its snout. He looks up at me, and I see. He's me. I am wrestling the bear." (page 271)

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Posted by ganisv on Wednesday January 14, 2009 at 10:48 PM and tagged with amir, dream, realization, the kite runner.

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  1. bocateacher322
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    Middle School

    While in the hospital in Peshawar, Amir has a dream in which he sees his father wrestling a bear: "They role over a patch of grass, man and beast...they fall to the ground with a loud thud and Baba is sitting on the bear's chest, his fingers digging in its snout. He looks up at me, and I see. He's me. I am wrestling the bear." This is a type of a coming of age dream. Throughout Amir's life he always admired his father and noticed how other people respected him. And when he was a child he felt like his father wasn't very proud of him. As he grows older with more responsibilities, he finds himself "wrestling the same bears" as his father does (or did). In short, the dream finally helps him realize that he is not much different from his father than he thought when he was younger.

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    Posted by bocateacher322 on Tuesday January 27, 2009 at 1:39 PM