Chapter 14

Within this chapter, Amir receives a call from Rahim Khan. Amir is told that he is sick
and that he should come to Pakistan to visit him and because Amir had been so close to Rahim, he agrees. As Amir begins to think about Rahim, he uncovers a thought, an "unspoken secret between" (130) them. Amir knows that Rahim had always known what had happened to Hassan, he just never said anything about it. Before Rahim Khan hung up on Amir, he told him that there was "a way to be good again" and that is exactly what Amir wanted. That was all Amir needed to hear, Amir has been feeling guilty about what he had let happen to Hassan, and even worse that he never told anybody about it. Jacob Neusner, who wrote about Evil & Suffering writes that some people avoid suffering, and in a way that is exactly what Amir did, avoided the truth of how Hassan suffered, so that he wouldn't suffer the guilt. But now it's time to stop hiding from the truth, Amir packed his things in preparation to go to Pakistan, to visit the one person who had always known.