Kite Runner 3

The main characters at this point are Baba, Amir and his wife Soraya. Amir is now going to college. His wife, an Afghani like him, is a teacher. Baba is now dying of cancer. An ardent smoker, he has lung cancer and will most likely die soon. He refuses to have chemotherapy, as he feels that to postpone the inevitable would dishonner him. He is still to proud to accept it, "He had the same resolved look on his face as the day he'd dropped the stack of food stamps on Mrs. Dobbins's desk" (Hosseini 156).

The main conflict at this point in the novel arrises from the lack of honnesty displayed. Soraya, like Amir, had a secret that she had hidden within her. When she was eighteen, she eloped with an Afghan. He was into drugs and the whole thing ended poorly for everyone. Soraya is greatly ashamed of it. When she tells Amir, he forgives her because he understands the feeling. Amir however is still being torn apart by what he did to Hassan, "I opened my mouth and almost told her how I'd betrayed Hassan," (165). By not letting out his terrible secret, it is eating him up from within. Amir must learn to deal with his past, or his future may fall apart.