Chapter 13 summary

Chapter 13
-Baba and Amir go to the Taheri's house for the ceremony of 'giving word'.
-Because Baba is very ill they choose to plan and have the wedding soon.
-Baba pays for the Afghan banquet hall, the ring, Amir's wedding tuxedo and everything else needed for the big day.
-Amir remembers a moment from the wedding: Him and Soraya are sitting together under the veil and looking at each other in a mirror, and that is the moment Amir tells Soraya he loves her.
-That night the two of them are together for the first time.
-Soon after the marriage Baba dies. Many people come to the funeral to pay their respects, and as Amir listens to them he realises it was Baba who defined him.
-Amir begins to learn about Soraya's family; General Taheri doesn't work as he feels it is below him, and so the family is on welfare. He also does not allow Jamila to sing in public, even though she was once a great singer. When the General came to find and bring home Soraya he came with a gun, and made her chop off her hair once she was home.
-Amir finishes his novel in 1988 and it is published.
-Soraya and Amir start trying to have a baby.
-They cannot conceive but it is unknown why, even though many tests are done.The two consider adoption, however General Taheri disagrees and so does Amir, however he does seem a little uncertain.
-Amir receives an advance from his second novel, which he and Soraya use to buy a house in San Francisco.
-There is still tension between the two because of the inability to have children.