*Warning Spoilers!*

Towards the end of the book I noticed a very important point in the story that shocked me more then anything. The part in which Amir goes to meet the man that lead the torture of the two people that apparently commited adultery earlier. After reading that passage I am amazed how much corage Amir had to go up to his headquaters and request to see Hassan's son Sohrab who they had caputered earlier.

Another thing I was shocked about, was ow Amir held in his anger and disgust when the leader of the Taiban held Sohrab in a certain way in-which a normal child should be held (its a little to graphic for words) and called him "his boy". Pg-279

Another pasage that shocked me was when The Tabiban man named Assef, who was cruel to Amir when he was little, and even destroyed the realtionship that Hassan and Amir,said when Amir said he wanted Soharb

(Assef)"What do you want to do with him?" he said. Then a coy smile. "Or to him."

(Amir)"Thats disgusting," I said

(Assef) "How do you know?Have you tired it ?" Page-285

This passage was a turning point in the book for me. I think Amir was more disgraced then he was years ago when the same fate had happened to Hassan years ago. His fate meaning to be raped and disgraced by the same excat person, Assef. If I was Amir in that situation I would feel like I let Hassan down again, after all Soharb was his half-nephew.

In respoding to what I hear on the news the situation of Afganistan wasnt the same after the end of the Cold War. Like in Amir's descriptions, nothing was the same as it was when he was young. I can come to the conclusion that Assef has problems, or he is just plain evil. It