Chapter 16

Rahim Khan begs Amir to listen to what he has to say about Hassan, he speaks of how his life has been and what he's been doing with his life. Amir learns that Hassan got married to a beautiful women and had a son, which they named Sohrab. The evil that takes place in this chapter is the war that was so fierce that "no one knew if they would live to see the end of the day" (143). The "raging war" (140) became so familiar that their "ears became accustomed to the whistle of falling shells" (142) and to the "rumble of gunfire" (142). Rahim Khan tells Amir that Hassan has taught his boy to run kites, but the Taliban comes and ruins it by banning kite running. Rahim assures Hassan that the war is over, "no more killing, no more funerals" (144) but two years later, the Taliban began massacring all the Hazaras in Mazar. Lectures provide the understanding that "Evil is doing acts which inflict violence, physical or emotional, upon another; or which tolerate violent acts done to another." Blumenthal (2007) This evil describes the war that takes place, as everyone participating in the war are only doing so to inflict pain, especially on the Hazaras.

The War in Pakistan