Section 1: Summary
In this chapter we are going to see that after the rape, Amir and Hassan spend less time together. Baba and Amir take a trip to Jalalabad and they stay at the house of Baba’s cousin. When they finally arrived to BABA’s cousin they got an Afghan tradition dinner and Baba stared talking about the tournament that his son won but Amir wasn’t feel comfortable with that. After dinner, they all lie down to bed in the same room, but Amir couldn’t sleep. He said really loud that Hassan was raped but nobody could hear him in that night he became an insomniac. When Amir and Baba went back home, Hassan asked Amir if he wanted to walked up the hill with him and he agreed but when they were walking no one say a word so Amir decided to go home again. Amir doesn’t play with Hassan anymore and when Hassan asked Amir what he did wrong Amir told him to stop bothering him. One day Amir asked his father when they were going to get new servants and Baba got furious he said they never was going to replace them. One day Amir asked Hassan if wanted to walked to the hill with him and he would read a story for him and Hassan agree so they arrived to a pomegranate tree, and Amir asked Hassan what he would do if he threw a pomegranate at him. Amir begins pelting Hassan with pomegranates and yells at Hassan to hit him back. But Hassan didn’t. He just asked Amir if he was satisfied, and he decided to leave. In that summer of 1976, is Amir‘s birthday he turned thirteen and Baba invited a lot of people to the party. Assef arrived and he is acting nice like if he was a good guy making jokes with Baba. He told Amir that he got a present for him but Amir didn’t want it but Baba was practically forcing him to accept the gift. When Amir opened the gift, it was a biography of Hitler, which he throws away. As Amir sits in the dark, Rahim Khan showed up and started talking with him, sharing that he was almost married once. It was a Hazara girl. He said that