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Rahim Khan, a venerable friend of Amir and Baba, succors Amir to be free of his guilt
by giving him the duty to travel into the corrupt Afghanistan and bring back Sohrab, Hassan’s
orphaned son, to the safety of Pakistan. This trip helps Amir mitigate, if not completely erase,
his guilt because it compels him not to be selfish and to risk his own life to rescue Sohrab. It
additionally requires Amir to find the self-confidence that he incessantly doubts throughout the
book. Friends like Rahim Khan give one hope that there is something to look forward to in the
future even if you make an irrevocable mistake in your past. “There is a way to be good again”
(192). When Rahim calls Amir in America he assures him that there is a way to make good out
of what happened in the winter of 1975. Smuggling Sohrab into Pakistan was just one of them.
Amir tries to befriend Sohrab once they are in Pakistan. “’…I’d like to be your friend.
I think I could be a good friend to you”’ (306). He tries to be Sohrab’s friend to redeem the
poor friendship that Amir caused between him and Hassan. Amir finds this particularly difficult
considering that Sohrab is especially quiet and abhors being touched in any way so he …show more content…
After taking Sohrab to places around the city and making a few
promises, Sohrab seems to finally trust Amir and he is happy. Amir and Soraya decide that it is
only morally right to take Sohrab to America to live with them and Sohrab agrees to go. Amir’s
determination to be friends with Sohrab paid off. The two of them were both untroubled and
Sohrab went from being a farouche boy to a gleeful one in a just a few weeks. Friends can really
make a difference to someone who is woebegone and lost in their own dull world.
Hassan was once lost in his own miserable world too. But in those times Amir was
not mature enough to help Hassan like he helped Sohrab when he was older. In the winter
of 1975 Amir thought that Hassan was his servant and that they only played together but
were not friends. He was brought up around Pashtuns showing Hazaras their place like Assef
showed Hassan. “But in none of his stories did Baba ever refer to Ali as his friend. The curious
thing was, I never thought of Hassan and me as friends either…Because history isn’t easy to
overcome. Neither is religion. In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was
by giving him the duty to travel into the corrupt Afghanistan and bring back Sohrab, Hassan’s
orphaned son, to the safety of Pakistan. This trip helps Amir mitigate, if not completely erase,
his guilt because it compels him not to be selfish and to risk his own life to rescue Sohrab. It
additionally requires Amir to find the self-confidence that he incessantly doubts throughout the
book. Friends like Rahim Khan give one hope that there is something to look forward to in the
future even if you make an irrevocable mistake in your past. “There is a way to be good again”
(192). When Rahim calls Amir in America he assures him that there is a way to make good out
of what happened in the winter of 1975. Smuggling Sohrab into Pakistan was just one of them.
Amir tries to befriend Sohrab once they are in Pakistan. “’…I’d like to be your friend.
I think I could be a good friend to you”’ (306). He tries to be Sohrab’s friend to redeem the
poor friendship that Amir caused between him and Hassan. Amir finds this particularly difficult
considering that Sohrab is especially quiet and abhors being touched in any way so he …show more content…
After taking Sohrab to places around the city and making a few
promises, Sohrab seems to finally trust Amir and he is happy. Amir and Soraya decide that it is
only morally right to take Sohrab to America to live with them and Sohrab agrees to go. Amir’s
determination to be friends with Sohrab paid off. The two of them were both untroubled and
Sohrab went from being a farouche boy to a gleeful one in a just a few weeks. Friends can really
make a difference to someone who is woebegone and lost in their own dull world.
Hassan was once lost in his own miserable world too. But in those times Amir was
not mature enough to help Hassan like he helped Sohrab when he was older. In the winter
of 1975 Amir thought that Hassan was his servant and that they only played together but
were not friends. He was brought up around Pashtuns showing Hazaras their place like Assef
showed Hassan. “But in none of his stories did Baba ever refer to Ali as his friend. The curious
thing was, I never thought of Hassan and me as friends either…Because history isn’t easy to
overcome. Neither is religion. In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was