Blog 5

Amir, and Soraya are now going to settle down since the general who's Soraya's father, and Baba agree on it. Soraya wants to talk to Amir about something before they get married first though. When Amir arrives Soraya tells him her secret about how she ran away from home with an Afghan man that's into drugs. She tells Amir how she lived with him for about a month, and how when Padar makes her go home she screams, and becomes hysterical because she didn't want to go home. When she does go home though she saw her mother had a stroke, and how she felt so guilty after that. Amir tells her that her secret bugs him a little, but he still wants to marry her. This quote shows how Amir actually feels about her secret. "I envied her. Her secret was out. Spoken. Dealt with. I opened my mouth and almost told her how I'd betrayed Hassan, lied, driven him out, and destroyed a forty-year relationship between Baba and Ali..." (165). This quote is significant because it proves that Amir hasn't forgotten about how he betrayed Hassan. It shows how one person's secret can make another person remember one of their own. Soraya felt guilty about what she did after finding out her mother had a stroke, and Amir felt guilty after witnessing it, and not saying anything knowing that Hassan would've spoken up if the positions were switched. People can try to forget about the past, but they truly can't forget it because it's always going to find a way back to haunt them just like Amir's memory of Hassan does.