Post B # 5

Hearing how Hassan had died reminded me of all of the times Amir and he shared during their childhood, the good and the bad. I remembered the walks they had in the hills, the time they won the kite fighting competition, the time Amir had gotten raped, the time Hassan had thrown a pomegranate over his head, but most of all, the time Hassan had stopped Assef from beating Amir up, by holding him with a slingshot trained on his eye.
Before Hassan and his wife Farzana were killed by the Taliban, they had a child named Sohrab. Not much was described about him, but the most striking fact Hosseni points out is that he is excellent with a slingshot, and has dead-on aim at anything he wants. He is sent to an Afghani orphanage when his parents and house are destroyed, and stays there for a while. Rahim Khan comes to Amir as he is about to die, and asks him to adopt Sohrab, and tells him it was what Hassan would have wanted. Amir arrives at the house, and the owner tells him that Sohrab has been taken away, sold for money. He tells him about a man who buys children (a child molestor) and tells him he only does it so he can continue to have money to run the orphanage. Sohrab was given away, recently.
Hassan finds the man who takes children, (this next part really suprised me) and the man turns out to be Assef. Assef was a bully in his younger years, and a child rapist in his latter. He agrees to let Amir have Sohrab, but says that he must fight him first, to finish up the time when Hassan prevented him from doing so. To make a long story short, Amir gets his a** kicked, but it did not happen the normal way a fight does. After his ribs started being broken, he began to feel a sense of liberation. "I felt at peace. I laughed because I saw that, in some hidden nook in a corner of my mind, I'd been looking forward to this. I remembered [all the times I had been mean to Hassan] I hadn't been happy and I hadn't felt better, not at all. But I felt better now (289)." Assef keeps punching Amir, and breaking his ribs, until the small voice of Sohrab tells them to please stop. He has a slingshot with acid trained on Assef's eye. History repeats itself.