Rahim Khan wanted Amir to understand that people would’ve talked if the secret hadn’t been kept, even before the Winter of 1975. However, was reputation more important than the truth although the truth would cause controversy? Amir, a Pashtun, and Hassan, a Hazara, had grown up together with a complicated friendship because of the “differences” that they had (upper class versus lower class) going on during their time living in Afghanistan. “I wish he had let me live on in my own oblivion” (Hosseini 226). It’s better to know the truth than to live in a lie. The scene in which Amir had just found out that Hassan was his brother and he had to make a choice to go to Kabul in Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, is important because Hosseini uses it to establish that it’s better to know the truth than to live in a lie through Amir’s late knowledge that could’ve prevented tragedies from the beginning to the end. …show more content…
Baba’s opinion was always hypocritical because he didn’t practice what he had preached to Amir for many years. “And a thief of the worst kind, because the things he’d stolen had been sacred: from me the right to know I had a brother, from Hassan his identity, and from Ali his honor” (Hosseini 225). Amir had just put the pieces together about why Baba always included Hassan in activities that Amir wished Baba hadn’t. Amir also questioned how could Baba be a hypocrite to his own words for so many years that caused Hassan to be looked down upon and Amir’s lack of knowledge that he had a brother. Had Amir known that he was Hassan’s half-brother, the tragedies throughout the novel would’ve been prevented and Amir’s life wouldn’t have been a domino