The Kite Runner Post A # 7

Vocab
Replete (353)- abundantly supplied or provided
Erroneous (361)- containing error; mistaken; incorrect; wrong
Figurative Language

"Watching his chest rise and fall to the rhythm of the hissing ventilator, a curious numbness washes over me [...](349)" The word hissing in this sentence is an ONOMATOPAEIA.

"I'd end up back in the ICU, by the whooshing ventilator beside his bed, and I'd be no closer to knowing (351)." The word whooshing in his second description of the ventilator unit is also ONOMATOPAEIA.

"Until my meeting with the lawyer, Omar Faisal, a light of hope had begun to enter Sohrab's eyes like a timid guest (356)." Hosseini uses a SIMILE to describe Sohrab's almost false hope when he thought that he might be able to move to the U.S. with Amir.
Quote

"You know, I've done a lot of things I regret in my life," I said, "and maybe none more than going back on the promise I made you. But that will never happen again, and I am so very profoundly sorry. I ask for you bakhshesh, your forgiveness. Can you do that? Can you forgive me? Can you believe me?" I dropped my voice. "Will you come with me [to America]?"

I chose this quote, because it is the last time in the novel that Amir breaks a promise he has made. This time, however, I understood and forgave him for it. He was using all of his energy to try and adopt Sohrab, the last thing he could do to honor his friend Hassan. The only way to adopt Sohrab that he knew of, would be to get a humanitarian visa into the U.S., and for that to happen, Sohrab would have to stay in an orphanage for around two years. This promise he broke was different. Over the time of the novel, my feelings toward Amir had changed, and by the end,
if nothing else, I respected him.

Theme
Don't make promises you can't keep.