Blog 6

Soraya, and Amir are now officially a married couple even though they skip a head by a few months since Baba has cancer, and doesn't have much time left to live. Soraya confides in Amir no matter what she has to say to him he doesn't regret marrying her at all. Eventually Amir asks her not to talk about the past anymore not because he doesn't like to hear about her past, but because listening to her past brings up memories from his own past. She agrees to not talk about her past anymore to keep Amir happy, and because she doesn't mind not talking about it. She tells Amir that she's glad that she's found him because he's different from other Afghan men which get's Amir wondering why he's so different from them. This quote shows the biggest reason why he believes he's so differen. "But I think a big part of the reason I didn't care about Soraya's past was that I had one of my own. I knew all about regret." (180) He doesn't care about her past because her past is basically all about her regreting something that she did, and Amir knows exactly what living with regret feels like because he regrets what he did to Hassan, and wrecking Ali, and Baba's forty-year relationship. He has been regreting for awhile now, and he just can't seem to find a way to forget about everything that has to deal with that. Soraya's past, and her regret always brings back memories of Hassan for Amir because those memories are strong representations of that emotion.