Chapter 25

I don't know what Q 280 is.

266. Amir is very nervous. He says that he already has Hassan’s blood on his hands and don’t want Hassan’s son on his too. He compares it to riding with Baba in the tank of the fuel truck with all of the rest of the refugees. At both times he is scared and wants to escape from the predicament.

267. Amir sets out his prayer mat and says that he is sorry for not praying for all those years and that he has neglected god. He says that he will fast and commit to memory the Holy book. Also he will think of him every day and take a pilgrimage.

268. Sohrab is white faced with plastic tubes and IV tubes along with a ventilator.

269. Amir thinks that he sees one of the doctors in his dreams but it turns out to be the embassy man Raymond Andrews. I think that Amir dreams of him, because he is the person that he went to try and get Amir to America.

270. The hotel manager asks Amir to leave because it is bad for business for him to stay. Amir says that he understands and leaves.

271. Amir takes the Shahnamah to the hospital, because it is Sohrab’s favorite book. He hoped to get Sohrab to trust him again after he broke his promise.

272. Sohrab really wants his old life back.

273. Amir thinks about how he wishes that he had his old life back, but his old life is gone. It is in italics, because it shows a main theme of the story.

274. Amir has become more attached to Sohrab, but he wishes that Amir had let him die.

275. Amir tells of when he and Hassan sit beneath the cherry tree and Amir asks Hassan to eat dirt for him to prove his loyalty. He says that it is now his turn to prove his worthiness.

276. Sohrab used to have faith in a better life but now he had no hope.

277. Sohrab wouldn’t speak a word for the next year.

278. When things are bad your head is confused and you can’t think straight. America wasn’t bad, but Sohrab couldn’t see it because he wanted his old life back.

279. In Afghanistan the end or result is all that matters, but in America until the end has happened it shouldn’t be stated. Anything could happen.

280. Sunday’s tiny miracle was when Amir takes Sohrab to America.

281. Amir was the socially acceptable half of Baba and Hassan was the other. Amir believes that Baba thought of Hassan as his true son and not Amir.

282. Amir and the General talk about where Sohrab came from and why Amir brought him to America. Amir tells him not to refer to Sohrab as the Hazara boy, because it is disrespectful.

283. There are American flags everywhere.

284. Soraya and Amir join Afghan prodjects. They do this for civil duty and to fill the silence of Sohrab. It is similar to Baba building the orphanage.

285. March 2002

286. The General had been summoned for a military position in Afghanistan and accepted. He wanted to support his country.