Questions: Chapters 15-20

1. In Chapter 15, Amir meets with dying Rahim Kahn in Peshawar.

2. Amir thinks that cliches are always correct, and Amir uses the cliche "an elephant in the room" to describe his meeting with Rahim Khan because he knows he isn't telling him everything and he's hiding something.

3. Afghanistan has been seized by the Taliban in Chapter 15.

4. Hassan was living in a small village, where he had married and had a kid whom died. He has another kid, but Hassan died, then his son becomes an orphan.

5. Farzana is Hassan's wife and Sohrab is his son.

6. In 1996, the Taliban massacred the Hazara's.

7. In the letter Hassan wrote to Amir, Hassan is friendly and nice, and it's obvious he misses Amir. Amir is shocked and notices he died a few days after he had written it. He was very sad.

8. Amir is overwhelmed and confused with his assigned task. He doesn't agree with it at first. I do not think that Rahim Khan's dying wish is unfair because Amir owes it to Hassan to make up for his mistake years ago.

9. The cliche, "like father, like son," relates to Baba and Amir because they have experienced similar things. In particular, they have both hurt or betrayed the people who would bend over backward just to save them.

10. The clues that hint at the secret revealed in chapters 17-18 are like how Hassan and Amir interacted with each other and their relationship.

11. Farid means that he never noticed that he had been there, with all of his money he was distracted by these details. Farid's impression of emigrant Afghans who return to visit Afghanistan is that they usually come back happy and with lots of money.

12. The realizations that come to Amir are that he is a new, uncomfortable person in his own home country, and he was sheltered.

13. When Amir sees Kabul for the first time since he left he focuses on the beggars.

14. Zaman defends his actions by saying they are getting money from it, and that he only takes a few of them.