Amir-The character Amir is a very important character. Not only is he the narrarator, but he is the entire voice of the story. He is an unlikely protagonist because he also has many weaknesses. He is flawed, imperfect, and human. But when it comes down to it, you're rooting for him to do what is right in the end. Which he seems very capable of doing. Being friends with Hassan, shouldn't be difficult. Because of the time and how Hassan is seen, it is. So instead of being the brave  kind of person that his father is, he instead finds himself being a coward and looking out for himself. He can't go out and try to help Hassan after the kite competition, because he doesn't know for sure what's going to happen to him. It seems like all he knows in his life is that he needs to gain his fathers approval. He fears that his father looks at him as the murderer of his mother, the person who is responsible for the death of the princess. He has a love/hate relationship with his father. Even on page 14 he quotes, " You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little." He is nothing what his father expects him to be. He doesn't stand up for himself, he doesn't play sports and he doesn't do any of the activities that his father did when he was younger. Instead he  climbs trees with Hassan and writes short stories.Even after everything that Hassan has been through, Amir still is able to be almost jealous of him. He is jealous of someone that he constantly refers to as a lamb, or a symbol of sacrifice. He is jealous of the true and honest person that Hassan has. I think he envies him because in his mind, Hassan has nothing to aspire to because he already knows his fate. But Amir has such big shoes to fill and is unable to so thus far. So far into the story we have seen his faults and his weakness for his desperation for approval from his father. I believe that the rest of the story will determine the personal integrity of Amir, and if he decides to stand up and do the right thing and defend someone who has been so loyal to him, or if he wil succomb to the idea of Rahim Khan and agree that, " In the end, the world always wins." (86).

      Amir and Hassan are not speaking. Amir is ashmaed with himself for what has happened to Hassan and how he never did anything about it. He is still very shy and is scared to do things that might get him into trouble or beatten up by someone. Amir puts some of his b-day toys under Hassan bed to get him andhis father sent away. I think he does this in order for him to not feel as guality for what had happen to Hassan. Amir graduates from high school. He is not wearing as nice as cloths as he had before but I think that he is better with it then his father. When Amir meet Soraya he gets like butterflies in his tummy and is shy about aprouching her. Amir is like the father now that his own father is sick and he has to take care of his own father now. Amir marries Soraya it is the happiest day of his life. He finally gets his novel written. Amir feels sad when he finds out about Rahim Khan is sick. Amir never forgets about Hassan and is always wondering what he is doing.

Amir has decided to go back home to meet with Rahim Khan. "I walked up the creaky stairs on to the second floor, down a dim hallway to the last door on the right. Checked the address on the piece of stationery paper in my palm. Knocked. Then, a thing made of skin and bones pretending to be Rahim Khan opened the door" (197). It seems that at this point in the story, Amir feels like he is so close to getting the forgiveness he has been searching for his whole life, however, he can't take the final step to have his wish granted.

Rahim Khan also tells Amir what has happened to Hassan. Hassan has married and had a son. He had moved back into Baba's House and lived there with Rahim Khan for some time. Hassan had also learned how to write and left behind letters for Amir. However, when the Taliban came, they massacred the Hazaras. Hassan was executed in the street. "So they took him to the street....and order him to kneel....and shot him in the back of the head....Faranza came screaming and attacked them....shot her too. Self-defense, they claimed later" (219). Rahim Khan also tells Amir that Hassan is his half-brother. " 'He(Ali) and Sanaubar had Hassan, didn't they? They had Hassan' 'No they didn't,' Rahim Khan said. 'Yes they did!' 'No they didn't Amir.' 'Then who..' 'I think you know who.' " (222).  It is at this point in the story that Amir realizes what Rhahim Khan meant when he said on the phone, "There is a way to be good again." 

Amir meets up with Farid who helps Amir find Sohrab. They journey back to Amir's home city of Kabul. They travel to an orphanage and meet Zaman. He tells them that Sohrab was taken by one of the Taliban. " 'He took Sohrab a month ago,' Zaman finally croaked, hands still shielding his face" (257). Zaman tells them to go to the Ghazi stadium where they set up a meeting with the man who took Sohrab. This man turns out to be Assef. " 'I've been wondering,' the Talib said, his bloodshot eyes peering at me over Sohrab's shoulder. 'Whatever happened to old Babalu (Ali) anyway?...But he was already here, in the flesh, sitting less than ten feet from me, after all, these years. His name escaped my lips: 'Assef ' " (281).

Thanks to Assef, Amir is able to feel the forgivness that he had been searching for his entire life. "I don't know at what point I started laughing, but I did. It hurt to laugh, hurt my jaws, my ribs, my throat. But I was laughing and laughing. And the harder i laughed, the harder he kicked me, punched me, scratched me" (289). "What was so funny was that, for the first time since the winter of 1975, I felt at peace. I laughed because I saw that, in some hidden nook in a corner of my mind, I'd even been looking forward to this" (289). The event of Assef beating up Amir, resolved Amir's internal conflict. Man vs. Himself.