Kite Runner 4

The main characters at this point in the book are Amir and Rahim Khan. Amir receives a letter from Afghanistan saying that he needs to come. The letter was from Rahim Khan. Rahim is sick and dying and he wants to tell Amir his story. Amir finds out that his boyhood friend Hassan married and had a child. He also finds out that Hassan was his half-brother. Then Rahim tells Amir that Hassan and his wife are dead, leaving his child an orphan,

"No," I breathed.
"-- and order him to kneel--"
"No. God, no."
"-- and shot him in the back of the head."
"No" (Hosseini 219).

This leads to the main conflict of dealing with the past. Similar to Oskar's "betrayel" of his father, Amir feels that he has betrayed Hassan and in order to make up for it, he wants to find Hassan's child. It is Rahim's dying wish, "I want you to go to Kabul. I want you to bring Sohrab here" (Hosseini 220). Amir does not want to risk his life in Kabul, an extremely dangerous place, nor does he want to betray Hassan again. In the end, Amir gives in. He will try to find Sohrab, and bring him home.