| A | B |
|---|
| There is a way to be good again | Redemption/Forgiveness |
| What was so funny was that for the first time since 1975 i felt at peace | Redemption / Forgiveness |
| I know that in the end, God will forgive you. He will forgive your father, me and you too. I hope you can do the same, forgive your father if you can, forgive me if you wish, but most importantly forgive yourself | Redemption / Forgiveness |
| For you, a thousand times over | Friendship |
| I treated Hassan just like a friend, better even, more like a brother | Friendship |
| He knew i betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again | Friendship |
| I thought of all the trucks, train sets, and bikes he'd bought me in Kabul. Now America. One last gift for Amir | Immigrant Experience |
| For me America was a place to bury my memories, for Baba it was a place to mourne his | Immigrant Experience |
| What kind of country is this? Noone trust anybody | Immigrant Experience |
| My father is still adjusting to life in America | Immigrant Experience |
| He had been working in a gas station in Freemont | Immigrant Experience |
| Keep your eyes on your feet when the Talibs are near | Power |
| He wants to see my license Baba bellowed. Almost two years we've bought his damn fruit | Immigrant Experience |
| I watched Hassan get raped | Guilt |
| Baba and I were more alike then I'd ever known. We both betrayed the people who would have given their lives for us | Guilt |
| I wished he'd given me the punishment I craved so maybe I'd finally sleep at night | Guilt |
| It's wrong what they say about the past. I've learned about how you can't bury it because the past claws its way out | Guilt |
| I thought about Hassan's dream the one of us swimming in the lake. There is no monster only water. But he was wrong about that. There was a monster that grabbed Hassan by the ankles and dragged him to the murky bottom. I was that monster | Guilt |
| I wish Hassan had been with us today | Guilt |
| Earlier that morning when i was certain no one was looking i did something i had done twenty six years earlier: I planted a fistful of crumpled money under a mattress | Redemptions / Forgiveness |
