- Sinking realisation of the truth about Baba being Hassan's father
- Confirmation of Amir's trip to Kabul
At the beginning of the chapter Hosseini uses pathetic fallacy to highlight Amir's mood; bruised and angry. To tell the story Khaled Hosseini writes Amir as an introspective, self-aware narrator, this makes the story more realistic and includes the reader in the events. There is repetitionof the word 'wept' and then again written in italics to highlight the narrators anger and realisation of all the events leading up to this moment. Hosseini uses foreshadowing with the 'brass balls', which can be cross referenced with page 253 further on in the novel. This is also ironic as this is what Sohrab uses to save Amir's life at that point in the novel.
The italics throughout this chapter also highlight the memories/flashbacks and realisations that Amir is having that help to concrete the fact that Baba is also Hassan's father. Arguably during this chapter there is evidence of Amir's first act of selflessness, when he states 'Rahim Khan had summoned me here to atone not just for my sins but for Baba's too. At this point he recognises that he may have to do this for someone else and not that it isnt just about him (being careful not to treat Amir as a real person). Hosseini also uses rhetorical questions to present Amir as an intraspective/ retraspective first person narrator. Finally, throughout short sentences are used to highlight emotions such as shock, anger and realisation.
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