Chapter 4
As a teacher, this chapter particularly resonated with me. Fired up both by his obsessive passion for books and reading aloud to Hassan, his most ardent fan, Amir discovers that he has a knack for impromptu story-telling and creative writing. This epiphany is fanned by Rahim Kahn after Hassan once again smarts from the rejection of his he-man-sports-loving-bear-wrestling father. Rahim, after reading his first story about the pearl-crying man, tells the young writer “Bravo,” and gives him a kind note encouraging him to follow his talent, asserting that people who waste their God-given talents are “donkeys.”
Hassan’s inadvertent inspiration is life-changing for Amir, while Rahim Kahn’s encouragement is deliberate. Enabling children to realize their innate talents, and then encouraging them to become “their own best teachers” seems more precious than pearls or rubies.
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