"In the hour of need, believe me that
there's no one you'd rather have at your side than a Pashtun." Chapter 12
"Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only
one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.
Do you understand that?" p. 17
"Homes that made Baba’s house in Wazir Akbar Khan look like a
servant’s hut." (Page135)
REPORT:
Early in the novel Baba had explained to Amir
after the kite running tournament, "'When you kill a man, you steal a
life." "You steal his wife's right to a husband; rob his children of
a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you
cheat, you steal the right to fairness" (Hosseini 18). This is extremely
ironic because Baba had been lying to Amir his whole life. Stealing his right
to the truth. He never told Amir about Hassan being his half-brother, even on
his death bed. It was Rahim Khan who had told Amir.
Baba had said to Amir in chapter 12 that "in the hour of need, believe me that there's no one you'd rather have at your side than a Pashtun." Amir is a pashtun that didn’t stand up for Hassan. Instead he just watched with fear and guilt. Hassan on the other hand is a hazara who would do anything for Amir if he needed help. From this you can sense some irony in the fact that Amir, a Pashtun didn’t help Hassan when he was by his side.
Amir stated on page (135), “Homes that made Baba’s house in Wazir
Akbar Khan look like a servant’s hut.” Irony is definitely detected in this
quote because Amir talks about his and Baba’s life in Afghanistan, and then
Baba contrasts the fact that he had more wealth in Wazir Akbar Khan, than in
present America. You can also sense the amount of Irony in this quote, because
Amir and Baba are essentially contrasting a poor country Afghanistan to a wealthy
Country America. This sense of irony can also be related to present day, when
an Immigrant from another country makes that transition to a country like
America or Canada.
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