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Sohrab seems to be the type of character that brings the resolution to the storyline:
He ended the years of guilt that Amir held onto and at the very end, he became the son that he never had. This establishes a whole new relationship of father and son.
Sohrab is also the resolution of Hassanr's story as he defeats the man that degraded Hassan. Sohrab used his own father's tool to defeat Assef. This action, along with Amir's, ends the novel on a light note and resolves all problems.
"Do you want me to run that kite for you?"
"For you a thousand times over."
It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight.
But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting." (Hosseini 371 Chpt. 25)
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Amir felt guilt for Hassan's rape a long time, even after leaving Afghanistan. He never found a way to alleviate his guilt until Rahim Khan said "Come. There is a way to be good again" (pg 192)
When Amir returned to Afghanistan, Rahim Khan explained the story of Hassan and told him that Sohrab was in an Orphanage. Amir's intent to save Sohrab however came after Rahim Khan told him that Hassan was his half brother. Afterwards Amir kept thinking back to his words "There is a way to be good again".
When Amir says “Hassan had loved me once, loved me in a way that no one ever had or ever would again. He was gone now, but a little part of him lived on. It was in Kabul. Waiting” (pg 227), he confirms that he must save Sohrab not just because he should, but because he must as a duty to his half -brother whom he treated unfairly.
How does Hosseini's use of imagery and metaphor influence what he is trying to say? Why are these lines so important and how can you connect it to the rest of the novel?
How does Sohrab's resemblance to Hassan play a significant role on the solution of Hosseini's novel and how does this resemblance satisfy good Amir was trying to find?
What effect does the suicide have on Sohrab and does this quote mean that he will be whole again?
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When I was in fifth grade, we had a mullah who taught us about Islam. His name was Mullah Fatiullah Khan, a short, stubby man with a face full of acne scars and a gruff voice. He lectured us about the virtues of zakat and the duty of hadj; he taught us the intricacies of performing the five daily namaz prayers, and made us memorize verses from the Koran – and though he never translated the words for us, he did stress, sometimes with the help of a stripped willow branch, that we had to pronounce the Arabic words correctly so God would hear us better. He told us one day that Islam considered drinking a terrible sin; those who drank would answer for their sin on the day of Qiyamat, Judgment Day. (pg.15-16 Chpt. 3)