262 Rahim Khan’s letter to Amir.

Amir’s guilt leads to his redemption…

‘A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.’

‘And that, I believe is what true redemption is, Amir jan: when guilt leads to
good.’
Rahim Khan teaches Amir about redemption.

‘I realized something: That last thought had brought no sting with it.’
Having saved Sohrab, Amir thinks again about Hassan. Amir is redeemed.

‘Sometimes I wished he wouldn’t do that. Wished he’d let me be the favourite.’

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Pg 45 Amir talks about Baba treating he and Hassan equally.

‘My body was broken… but I felt healed. Healed at last.’

Amir takes a beating to save Sohrab, and redeems himself.

‘I knew it wasn’t just Rahim Khan on the line. It was my past of unatoned sins.’
From pg 1 Amir’s guilt and need for redemption is established

‘Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay to win Baba.’
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Through his jealousy, Amir allows Hassan to be raped.

‘…there is a brotherhood between people who’ve fed from the same breast.’
Ali tells Amir that he and Hassan are linked

‘...formed a single image: Hassan’s brown corduroy pants discarded on a pile of

old bricks in the alley.”
Amir’s memories all lead back to his thinking about Hassan’s rape.