Quarter 2: Outsied Reading Post #8

For a week after the mishap in the alley, Amir never really saw Hassan, "For a week, I barely saw Hassan. I woke up to find toasted bread, brewed tea, and a boiled egg already on the kitchen table. My clothes for the day were ironed and folded, left on the cane-seat chair in the foyer where Hassan usually did his ironing. He used to wait for me to sit at the breakfast table before he started ironing- that way, we could talk. .. Now only the folded clothes greeted me. That, and a breakfast I hardly finished anymore" (Hosseini 80). Amir feels bad about what happened and misses Hassan's company, but he replaces his loneliness by always being with Baba. Later on when Hassan tries to be friends with Amir, Amir shuns him and avoid Hassan by staying in his bedroom all the time, and his actions towards Hassan soon ruin their friendship forever. That next summer was Amir's thirteenth birthday, so Baba threw a huge party for him. At the party Amir was not enjoying himself because he did not know more than half of the people and he thought of the party as a party for Baba more than a party for himself. Since so many people came and everyone gave Amir presents, he received many presents, but did not see any of them as useful so he threw all of them in the corner of his room, except for one. The present that Rahim Khan gave him was the only worth while present to Amir, and it was a notebook to write his stories in.