Amir tells his story as a way of redemption for the mistakes he made as a child.
- Opens with sin endurance: "It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out".
- "A way to be good again"
- Structure of retrospective narrator. If the novel was linear, we would not have hindsight.
- Once Amir finds out about Baba's sin, he feels as though his entire life has been a cycle of betrayal.
- At the Ghazi stadium when the Taliban announces that every person should have a punishment befitting his sin - when Amir tries to get back at Hassan by telling Hassan to throw pomegranates back at him, it seems as though he believes that in order to be forgiven fur hurting Hassan, Hassan must hurt him.
- When Assef almost kills Amir, he feels "healed" as though now, he has been redeemed.
- When Hassan and Ali leave Baba's house, Amir imagines "I'd chase the car [...] I'd pull Hassan out of the backseat and tell him I was sorry, so sorry" (page 94).
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