Thus far, Amir's only friend seems to be a boy his age, named Hassan. Hassan's mother Sanaubar is the definition of a whore if I have ever heard it. Near the beginning, Hassan and Amir are walking on the road, when they approach a group of soldiers. One of the group of soldiers starts talking to Hassan. He tells him to look at him while he is being spoken to, and starts making sexual motions with his hands. "I knew your mother, did you know that? I knew her real good. I took her from behind by that creek over there. [...] What a tight little sugary c*** she had (7)." I know that part of this is just stressing the discrimination and inequality in the novel, but I can't help but wonder about his mom. I mean, what kind of self-respecting woman lets herself get taken behind a creek, especially by a random soldier who chain-smokes cigarettes?
She is described a bit more. "People were surprised when Ali, a man who had memorized the Koran, married Sanaubar, a woman nineteen years younger, a beautiful but notoriously unscrupulous woman who lived up to her dishonorable reputation. [...] Sanaubar's brilliant green eyes and impish face had, rumor has it, tempted countless men into sin (8)." There is another quote about how not many men could resist her oscillating hips. From her provocative walking and talking, as well as her abandoning of her son Hassan (when she saw his cleft lip), I judge Sanaubar as a shallow, evil character.
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