Amir and Baba flee to Pakistan with few items because spies for Russian soldiers are everywhere in Kabul. When they get to the border, they are stopped by a young soldier and won;t let them pass. when Baba portests, the young soldier oulls a gun on Baba and another officer let them pass. While they are trying to change trucks like planned, they find out the truck has been broken for weeks. When they are at the basement waiting, they meet Kamal ans his father waiting also. Kamal was also raped like Hassan, and this makes Amir upset. Kamal doesn't talk anymore. On the way there, Kamal dies due to gas fumes and his father kills himself due to his lost of value in his life.
Amir and Baba gets to Fremont, California and settles there. Amir says, "For me, America was a place to bury my memmories. For Baba, a place to mourn his." Baba doesn't really like it there in California working in a gas station.
Amir graduates High school at the age of 20. Baba wants Amir to go to college but when Amir hears that he is upset.
Soraya is a girl that Amir is flirting with and also is courting. He reads her his stories. But when he finds him talking to her father she stops courting her. Then Baba is diagnosed with lung cancer and it can't be fixed (since he refuses to take medicines). He collapses with a seizure at the flea market. Soraya and her family visit and soon arranges Amir's engagemnet to Soraya. But what Soraya is worried about her past, when she ran away with a man and lived with him for a month. But Amir is proud that she let him know about it. Amir and Soraya gets married and Soraya moves in with Amir and Baba since Baba is sick. She reads Amir's stories to him everyday. Baba dies the next month in his sleep.
Amir's first novel finishes in 1988. The book is released the following year. Then Amir rememebers Hassan belief of his writing abilities. But when the couple tries to get a child for a year, and they try in-vitro fertilization but that unsuccessful. When they consider an adoption, General Tahei, Soraya's father, disapproves. So they decide not to adopt.
Amir gets a call from Rahim Khan, who is in Pakistan, that he is very sick and that he should visit him. So after lots of thinking, he decides to go visit him. When he returns to Pakistan, he sees Rahim Khan, who is always talking about the unbearable life under Taliban rule. Rahim Khan tells him that Hassan is his half brother and that he should go visit him. This was a secret that was sealed from Hassan and Amir. Rahim Khan also tells him that Hassan lived there with him and that he has left. so that he should go visit him.
I promise that I will post the next one on Monday. :D
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