Blog 7

Amir is looking at a photo of Hassan from when he was a kid, and reading a letter from Rahim Khan. Amir starts thinking about what is said in the letter, and trying to decipher what is what, and who is who in the letter. This quote states what his final outcome of the letter is "I had been the entitles half, the society-approved, legitament half, the unwitting embodiment of Baba's guilt. I looked at Hassan...The half who had inheritedwhat had been pure and noble in Baba. The half that, maybe, in the most secret recesses of his heart, Baba had thought of as his true son." (359) This quote is significant because it shows that Amir is doubting his place in his father's heart, and thinking that Hassan is who Baba thought to be his real son. Amir is putting himself down in this quote because he thinks that Hassan is more important to Baba then he is, and that's not true because if Baba didn't think of Amir as his true son then he wouldn't have asked the Soraya's father for her hand in marriage for Amir. Amir needs to believe that he does hold a special place in Baba's heart, and so does Hassan because Hassan is Ali's son and Baba and Ali were friends for forty-years. Amir is an imprtant person to Baba, but he starts to doubt it with looking at one picture, and reading one letter.