The Kite Runner Chapter 22

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Farid tells Amir that he will hold up for him in the auto and Amir comprehends why he might settle on that decision. Amir would like to go in that house either. He is searched by watchmen remaining outside the house and they take him to a room upstairs. As he holds up for his crowd with the Taliban official, he ponders what craziness he has been able himself into, needing to converse with a man he had seen murder two individuals that day. He pops a few grapes in his mouth as the hold up proceeds and lets us know that at the time he was uninformed that those grapes might be the last touch of strong sustenance he might consume for quite a while. He even perceives how the table before him is backed by legs embellished with metal balls and they help him to remember a table he had seen some place in the recent past.

At last, the authority touches base, with spots of guilt on his left sleeve, something that Amir discovers horribly captivating. He additionally recognizes that he has needle stamps on his arms, much the same as the pill addicts Amir had seen living in the smudged back roads of San Francisco. They trade welcome and afterward, all of a sudden the Talib movements to one of the watchmen, who tears the whiskers from Amir's face. They understand that his whiskers is a fake,which implies that he is surely in a bad position. Nonetheless, the Talib first examines the slaughter of the Hazara at Mazar in 1998 and how they cleared out the figures of those they murdered out in the lanes for the canines to consume. He demands that what they have done is prudent and great and therefore, exceptionally freeing. At that point he tells Amir that since he has headed off to live in America that he is a backstabber and could be executed.

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...he feels at peace and recuperated. At the same time it is the thing that happened at the end that is the clearest and the memory he will take to his grave. Assef has aggregate control of Amir and is primed to strike maybe a mortal blow when a voice rings out, "Bas," or no more. Sohrab has his slingshot cocked and primed to fly with metal balls from the ring in the base of the table where Amir had been sitting. Assef won't let Amir go and requests the kid to put it down. On the other hand, Sohrab gives it a chance to fly and it hits Assef in the eye. Amir figures out how to go out of the house notwithstanding his wounds and when Farid sees him, he picks him in his arms and with Sohrab at his side, gets Amir in the Land Rover. Since Assef had cautioned his gatekeepers to release them if the

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