poor, dirty, dead, and extremely dangerous. With the Taliban, the people are not even allowed to cheer at sport games, unless they want to be hit or possibly stoned to death. The poverty level in these places are extremely high, which makes me feel extremely lucky and fortunate to be living in San Diego, and not in a place similar to Peshawar. Once again, the discrimination against the Hazaras are prevalent in these chapters, notably Chapter 17, where Hassan and his wife are killed by the Taliban, who called him [Hassan] a liar, like all Hazaras. In addition, the motif and theme of redeeming oneself (redemption) is dominant in these couple of chapters “ Amir must risk his life for a chance on redeeming himself from not doing anything to stop Hassan's rape: saving Sohrab and retrieving him from the orphanage.
I was really surprised by Farid's sarcastic question on whether or not Amir feels like a tourist in Afghanistan, since he had spent the last twenty years in America, and his early life as a wealthy child. Despite the sarcasm and harsh...