Chapter 6

In chapter 6, it's winter and for the boys, the best season of the year. The school closes for the icy season. The winter games is right around the corner and the biggest highlight of the year. Baba takes Amir and Hassan to buy kites from an old blind man which makes the best kites in the city. In the winter games, boys battle kites by covering the stings in broken glass. When the string is cut, the loosing kite flies loose, and the boys called kite runners chase the kites back and forth who tries to catch the kite before it hits the ground. Hassan is the best kite runner in Kabul, and he seems to know exactly where it will land.