When Amir went looking for Sohrab he came face to face with Assef and this time they were adults. Assef hadn’t changed at all because now he was even more set in his ways and he had said that his religion is what made him do the things he did. He had thought that God was on his side because of it. “I never forget a face. Not ever” (Hosseini 281). Assef said this to remind Amir of what had happened almost 20 years ago. To show him that he remembered all the ways that he had disrespected his race and everything he believed in. By being friends with a Hazara and by not acting like a real Pashtun, Assef saw Amir as a traitor and impure. Which is why he almost beat him to death. It was because of his race and religion that he saw Amir as a traitor to his own
When Amir went looking for Sohrab he came face to face with Assef and this time they were adults. Assef hadn’t changed at all because now he was even more set in his ways and he had said that his religion is what made him do the things he did. He had thought that God was on his side because of it. “I never forget a face. Not ever” (Hosseini 281). Assef said this to remind Amir of what had happened almost 20 years ago. To show him that he remembered all the ways that he had disrespected his race and everything he believed in. By being friends with a Hazara and by not acting like a real Pashtun, Assef saw Amir as a traitor and impure. Which is why he almost beat him to death. It was because of his race and religion that he saw Amir as a traitor to his own