Amir is “lost in a snowstorm” which causes him to “fall and lie panting in the snow, lost in the white, the wind wailing in [his] ears” (74). Hosseini uses the snowstorm to represent Amir’s guilt for what is …show more content…
Amir and Hassan, “the Sultans of Kabul”, are tied together by an unbreakable bond throughout the course of their lives. This goes beyond the bond of “brotherhood between people who’ve fed at the same breast” as Ali says, and beyond their actual brotherhood through Baba. They are tied to each other by devotion, loyalty, friendship, and what can even be described as love. Even with everything that befalls the two of them and all of the times Amir betrays Hassan, the bond is still there. They both stand before the fortune teller and neither hear his truth (74). They both feed “from the same breast” listening to “old wedding songs” from their nursemaid (73). Even after everything Amir has done, Hassan will extend his bloody hand into the snowstorm and pull Amir into the field, full of sunshine and kites (74). The core of the novel is their story, after all, and even when relationships are frayed and tattered, one that deep will never fully