Summary Of The Chapter 'The Kite Runner'

Chapter 1 Summary:

In the first chapter, we meet Colin Singleton, and we learn how bad his life is right now. When we first meet Colin he is in a tub taking a bath because his number one policy in life is to never do anything standing up that could easily be done sitting down. While Colin is in the tub we learn that he is a child prodigy, and he wants to have a Eureka moment like Archimedes had when he discovered volume could be measured by water displacement. Also, we learn that his 19th girlfriend whose name is Katherine, and all the girls’ names before that was Katherine dumps Colin. After Colin gets out of his bath his parents call him from his room, and he is a little skeptical about this because whenever both of his parents call him it ends up being something bad. When Colin steps into his room his dad tells him that Katherine has

Collins mom wants to know where they are going, and why they are going. Collins dad wants Colin to learn another language this summer. Collins dad says that he needs to work harder than ever before or he might be wasting his potential, and Colin says that he has already wasted it. After that his parents couldn’t do anything else but say yes. Now all they have to do is persuade Hassan’s parents, which isn’t any easier, but Colin persuades Hassan’s mom by telling her that they will get jobs. Now they are off on their road trip. While Colin is driving he thinks about how he has only dated girls who name is Katherine, then he thinks back to the very first Katherine, and when his parents realized he was brilliant. Once Collins parents realized he was a prodigy they started making him read many books. For Colin being a know it all wasn’t great for him, because he would always be bullied. So when Colin entered the third grade it was a surprise for him that Katherine one and he began