Chapter 24

After leaving for a better province, Amir wakes up to an empty bed and Sohrab gone. He frantically starts searching for him, and it eventually leads him to a mosque. Amir strikes up a conversation with Sohrab and possibility of going to hell for his actions is brought up. This is interesting because they way he was brought up was to never harm anyone, even people doing bad things. Hell is the punishment for commiting a sin, so it is fitting that according to Sohrab he thinks he is going to hell for his actions which he perceived as wrong. One prevalent theme in the chapter is perseverance. On many occasions in his quest to start adopting Sohrab into his own home, Amir is told to give up because it will be near impossible. He tells Sohrab that the best option is to put him in a home again and go from there, Sohrab protests but is not listened to by Amir. Amir falls asleep, and wakes up when he receives a call from his wife saying that there is a better way to go about the adoption which would mean that Sohrab doesn't have to go back into an orphanage. By this time Sohrab is jumping up and down and starts looking for Sohrab, whom he eventually finds in the bathtub. Because of Amir's revelation earlier he tries to commit suicide, and that is how Amir finds him, near lifeless in the tub full of water.