- "Come. There is a way to be good again"
In a way this quote is quote foreshadowing. We know now that Rahim Khan knows what happened with Assef and Hassan, that he know Amir did not step into protect Hassan but instead tried to get rid of him so he didn't have to live with the guilt. The quote makes the reader suspect that Amir is going to have to do something in Afghanistan which makes him 'good again'. - "He's sit in the back of the room, dressed in his shiny old gray suit, wooden cane across his lap, smiling. Sometimes he even took notes."
This quote is about the General's relationship with Soraya. It has improved as he is older, and since he has been on a journey of various ailments, things have softened between them. This renewed relationship may be symbolic of how Amir needs to go through some sort of painful process to fix guilt and the hatred he feels towards himself.
Chapter 15
- "I told him I had written stories in the leather bound notebook he had given me, but he didn't remember the notebook."
This quite is very melancholic as throughout the novel so far it has been made clear how much the leather bound notebook meant to Amir, and now we see how Rahim Khan has even forgotten something as important as that. - "And now it was just another pile of rubble"
Amir is talking about Baba's orphanage. Amir talks about how hard Baba had worked on it, and now it had been blown up. - "Peace at last. But at what price?"
Rahim Khan is talking about how the Taliban were seen when they first took control. Everyone had seen them as heroes, when in fact they were strict and brutal, mistreating people severely. This quote links back to Hassan's rape, when Assef said that nothing is free in the world. This is sort of ironic now as he is part of the Taliban.
Chapter 16
- "Hassan had so many questions about you"
Shows that he is still loyal and caring, even after all the years that Amir had been away, and whathe did. - "Saunbar cried that coming back had been a mistake, maybe even a worse one than leaving"
Foreshadowing, Amir may find that it was a mistake for him to come back as well.# - "I guess some stories do not need telling"
- "They named him Sohrab, after Hassan's favourite hero from the Shahanah..."
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