I felt that this passage was important because it gave great significance to one of Hassan’s facial attribute in particular; his harelip. I feel that the cleft lip symbolized the poverty that Hassan was born with similar to his harelip. The difference in social status that separated Amir and Hassan from one another. This difference was especially emphasized when Baba, Amir’s father, paid for the plastic surgery that would fix Hassan’s harelip, as Ali, Hassan’s father, would have never been able to afford it.
