At the end of chapter 7 Rahim Khan tells Amir that there is a way for Amir to be good again.This is very significant to Amir’s character because, he has been overwhelmed with the guilt of not helping hassan when he got raped by assef, and needs to either be punished or do something for hassan in order to find closure. Years after the incident, Rahim Khan offers Amir the opportunity to finally redeem himself by going to Afghanistan to save Hassan’s son.
Another time we see the impact of Amir’s guilt is when Soraya admits her past to Amir. After Soraya’s father gave Amir his daughter’s hand, Soraya went to Amir and told him about her past, how she fled with an afghan man when she was young. Amir forgives her but is also jealous that she had the courage to admit to her past because Amir wasn’t able to do the same for hassan. On top of that, Amir had a long time to come clean and knew that Hassan would still love and stay loyal to Amir, as he has shown before. Meanwhile, Soraya has a whole marriage to risk and doesn’t know for sure how Amir will react.
I haven’t made any mistakes that haunt me, however, I do have my regrets for some of the mistakes I made. In elementary school, I tried to fit in with my friends and started bullying Caleb Noble. I constantly harassed him with inappropriate words out of nowhere. One particular time, my teacher was teaching us about different animals in the white board and I decided it would be really cool and funny to turn around and tell Caleb that “ your mom sexed your dad’s dick”, so I did. (In my defense, that was a true statement) I ended up getting in a detention and I got really mad at Caleb, even though I know it was all my fault. When my parents talked to me about it, I kept trying to deflect lies, going so far as to saying I didn’t know what that statement even meant. Regardless, I still had to face consequences and all my legos got thrown in the trash. The lesson was definitely learnt from that incident, now I would just confess the mistakes I made to a friend, who would encourage me to move past it and to learn from it.
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