he is worthy of his name, he consistently fails and Hassan always succeeds. Perhaps this is showing how there might be a close relationship between Hassan and Baba “ perhaps they are blood related in some way?
Also, the conflict between the powerful (Assef) and the powerless (Hassan) has becoming a running motif throughout this book (at least up to chapter 9). Constantly, the Pashtuns are doing things to the Hazaras that they would not do to other Pashtuns, most notably, raping. The fact that one ethnicity can have so much power over the other that they could do something as horrible as rape is something I have never experienced, nor want to in my life. These couple of chapters are only showing me how corrupt the Afghanistan culture is, and how much reform is needed.
Another incident of rape is described in chapter 10, the raping of Kamal. Although the scene itself is rather disturbing, Hosseini is simply showing how much power the superior classes have over the weaker classes. Nevertheless, the transition between cultures is a rather significant part of life; it involves losing close to everything one has, in addition to being displaced in a foreign and sometimes isolated area. Amir and Baba's departure to California possibly shows an important time period in the protagonist's life “ it introduced him to both General Taheri, and more importantly, Soraya, his future wife. General Taheri helps open my eyes to see the world in a new perspective “instead of trying to be better, his standpoint is that everything is below him, including work. He believes that he deserves of nothing less than general, hence the "general  in his name. He puts his family on welfare, simply because of his arrogance to work, something I have never thought of before.
This reading opened my eyes to the opportunities we have in our lives, as compared to the Afghanistan after the Taliban came. Like how Amir described Peshawar, and Kabul eventually “...