Amir falls in love with Soraya and asks for his fathers help in asking for her hand in marriage such respect is very important to Afghan families Soraya feels she cannot commit to Amir until she admits her guilty secret that she ran off with another man when she was younger ID: 798332
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Chapter 12
Baba falls ill with lung cancer and refuses treatment.Amir falls in love with Soraya and asks for his father’s help in asking for her hand in marriage – such respect is very important to Afghan families.Soraya feels she cannot commit to Amir until she admits her “guilty secret” that she ran off with another man when she was younger – “You need to know. I don’t want us to start with secrets”. Amir accepts her regardless. What is the irony that is occurring here?Soraya admits that she longs to be a teacher because she wants to do something worthwhile. What is the irony here?“I thought of how I had used my literacy to ridicule Hassan. How I had teased him about big words he didn’t know.”
Slide2Chapter 13
They marry and Soraya helps to care for Baba. Amir is touched to learn that she has been sharing his stories with Baba – acceptance at last. Baba dies. “I realized how much of who I was, what I was, had been defined by Baba and the marks he had left on people’s lives. My whole life, I had been “Baba’s son”. Now he was gone. Baba couldn’t show me the way anymore; I’d have to find it on my own. The thought of it terrified me.”Amir has his first novel published.Soraya
and Amir try for a family. “What sort of a father would I made, I wondered. I wanted to be just like Baba and I wanted to be nothing like him.” What does he mean by this?
They find they are unable to have children.