Soon after Amir betrays Hassan, the realization of what he did as a child causes him to feel guilt into adulthood. The life-altering betrayal Amir commits in his adolescence follows him into his adult life, even as he starts anew in America. In his haste of attempting to start a new life, the guilt clouding his conscious idles him into finding his redemption. As a child, Amir ponders the scant dreams and allegories that he and Hassan share with each other. Amir remembers one of Hassan’s dreams about monsters in a cloudy lake, and how Hassan was relieved to know that the monsters did not exist. As Amir reflects on the dream, he realizes that “[Hassan] is wrong about that. There is a monster in the lake. It grabs Hassan by the ankles, [and] drags
