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"I stepped back and all I saw was rain through window panes.."
-When Hassan and Ali left, of course it had to be raining. The rain reveals and emphasizes the somber mood.

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"I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek."
-The setting on the first page sets up a lot of questions and makes the reader want to keep reading. It makes you wonder about who this person is and what's going to happen. The crumbling mud wall also makes the reader realize the place that Amir is living in is probably much different than where they are.

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"The cratered streets were flanked by little more than ruins of shelled buildings and abandoned homes. We passed the rusted skeleton of an overturned car, and a tv set with no screen half buried in rubble, a wall with the words 'zenda bad taliban' sprayed in black."
-When Amir returns to Afghanistan, he learns many things that upsetting and the scene of Afghanistan reflects how he feels when he returns.

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"They roll over a patch of green grass, man and beast, Babas curly brown hair flying. The bear roars, or maybe it's Baba. Spittle and bloody fly; claw and hands swipe. They fall to the ground with a loud thud and Baba is sitting on the bear's chest, his fingers digging in its snout. He looks up at me and I see. He's me. I am wrestling with the bear."
-Amir has this dream while in the hospital after fighting Assef to get Sohrab to safety. The dream symbolizes the fight and his feelings towards Assef.

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"Sometimes, Soraya sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. ... and late at night, in the darkness of our room, I'd feel it rising from Soraya and settling between us."
-The emptiness symbolizes the part of their life that never was and Amir's life thus far- empty and guilty.

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'His hands are tied behind him with roughly woven rope... his knees roll on the hard ground and bleed through his pants as he rocks in prayer... I step closer. A thousand times over, he mutters. For you a thousand times over. Back and forth he rocks. ... I see a faint scar above his upper lip. We are not alone. I see the barrel first. Then the man standing behind him. He is tall, dressing in a herringbone vest and a black turban. He looks down at the blindfolded man before him with eyes that show nothing but a vast, cavernous emptiness. He takes a step back and raises the barrel. Places it on the back of the kneeling mans head. For a moment, fading sunlight catches in the middle and twinkles. The rifle roars with a deafening crack. I follow the barrel on its upward arc. I see the face behind the plume of smoke swirling from the muzzle. I am the man in the herringbone vest."
-Amir has this dream that he is the man who shot Hassan. Hassan's death haunts him because he feels guilty and responsible- that if he had stood up for Hassan when he was raped, he would have never had to leave and Hassan would still be alive with him in America.

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Thematic Pattern- Honor/love of country pg. 240

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Thematic Pattern- Honor/love of country pg. 240

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"... I was home again, standing on the soil of my ancestors. This was the soil on which my great-grandfather had married his third wife a year before dying in the cholera epidemic that had hit Kabul in 1915. She'd borne him what his first two wives had failed to, a son at last. It was on this soil that my grandfather had gone on a hunting trip with King Nadir Shah and shot a deer. My mother had died on this soil. And on this soil, I had fought for my father's love."
-Amir has always had a love for his country. he has memories of a great childhood and even after coming back to the destroyed country, he still loves it and has to defend it and the memories he has in it.

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"I would not leave Afghanistan without finding Sohrab."
-Amir is now taking responsibility for others and trying to redeem himself. He is taking care of Hassan's child because he was never brave enough as a child to take care of Hassan and now he is dead.

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"Do you remember how we used to sit under the pomegranate tree there and read from the Shahnamah? The droughts have dried the hill and the tree hasn't borne fruit in years..."
-The barren tree of Hassan and Amir's childhood is symbloic of Amir's thoughts and feelings after returning to Afghanistan and learning what has happened to Hassan.

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"Some of them are nightmares, like hanged corpses rotting in soccer fields with bloodred grass. ... I dream that Lawla flowers will bloom in the streets of Kabul again and rubab music  will play in the samovar houses and kites will fly in the skies."
-Amir dreams of what Afghanistan is and what it used to be. The 'new Afghanistan represents his new feelings after what happened to Hassan and the downward spiral he went down after that. The flowers represent the Afghanistan he remembers before Hassan was raped when everything was fun for them and they were the best of friends.

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"There is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, i will pray that He forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need, I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is. ... I bow to the west... and promise that I will do zakat, i will do namaz, I will fast during Ramadan... I will do all of this and I will think of Him every day from this day on if He only grants me this one wish: My hands are stained with Hassan's blood; I pray God doesn't let them get stained with the blood of his boy too."
-Amir has never been religious so this act shows a great deal of passion and love for Hassan and Sohrab. It also shows his hopefulness that everything will be okay.

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"'You see, General Sahib, my father slept with his servant's wife. She bore him a son named Hassan. Hassan is dead now. That boy sleeping on the couch is Hassan's son. He's my nephew. That's what you tell people when they ask."
-Amir has grown so much since the beginning of the book. He's sticking up for Hassan's son after all those years of letting Hassan take the blame and stick up for Amir.

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"But he never told on me. Never told that the mirror, like shooting walnuts at the neighbor's dog, was always my idea."
-Hassan always loved Amir. Throughout the entire novel, he always does whatever he can to please Amir. Even after Amir did nothing to stop Assef from raping him, Hassan's undying love for Amir remains.

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"Sometimes I sat there for an hour, sometimes two, listening to their laughter. Their chatter."
-Amir longs for the love of his father. He always tries to please him but fails and he gets so jealous of not being a "grown-up" that his father can talk to so he sits and listens.

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"The asphalt had split in a lightning-streak pattern, and more tangles of weed sprouted through the fissures. Most of the poplar trees had been shopped down- the trees Hassan and I used to climb..."
-The new Afghanistan is very barren and dead. Amir feels empty and sadness while visiting Afghanistan and the setting emphasizes those feelings.

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"Then Assef was screaming. He put his hand where his left eye had been just a moment ago."
-This entire scene where Amir is willing to fight to the death to save Hassan's son is very profound. He wants to redeem himslef and make up for never defending Hassan.