I see Him here, in the eyes of the people in this corridor of desperation. "I see now Baba was wrong, there is a God, there always has been.Assef is trying to get rid of all Hazarans from Afghanistan. Assef, who is now a Taliban Official, explains his version of"liberation" to Amir when they met for the last time."You don’t know the meaning of the word ‘liberating’ until you’ve done that, stood in a roomful of targets, let the bullets fly, free of guilt and remorse, knowing you are virtuous, good, and decent.Amir's and Hassan's friendship could be very deep, but Amir believes their religious culture still divides them. This is the work of generations of this culture being used to separating people based on their religion.In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi’a, and nothing was ever going to change that. He will do this by rescuing Hassan's son Sohrab and take him to America. But Amir realizes that he must return in order to redeem himself and his father from their sins. By returning to Kabul, he risks his life of the dangers from the Taliban. At this point of the book, Amir lives a safe and secure life in America."There is a way to be good again, he’d said.Amir realizes that he is not only resolving his sins, but his father's as well. This lie revealed that Amir and Hassan are actually brothers by blood. Amir has just learned that Baba had lied to Assef, their servant and friend, by fathering Hassan.And with that came this realization: that Rahim Khan had summoned me here to atone not just for my sins but for Baba’s too." We had both betrayed the people who would have given their lives for us. "Baba and I were more alike than I’d ever known.This is a choice that Amir made that will haunt him in his future and ultimately sets his journey of redeeming himself.
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