Conclusion

"Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting" (pg 371).

The conclusion of the novel finds Amir, Sonya, and Sohrab back in America. After what started as Sohrab refusing to communicate with Amir, opening up some, and closing back up again, ends with the slightest hint of new beginning. This slight opening occurs around the flying of a kite. Throughout the novel I find the kite to represent Amir's childhood -- for that is when he flew kites, his guilt--for after Hassan's assault he did not fly a kite again, and finally a new beginning. The difference between the two scenes of the novel however is at the beginning we find Amir in control of the kite, and having Hassan run it. At the end however, Amir will do anything to earn Sohrab's acceptance so he ultimately becomes like Hassan and will run the kite "A thousand times over for you". Although the novel ends rather ambiguous, I believe it is clear that Sohrab is eventually going to be able to accept his new "parents" and surroundings. After a short tortured life that cannot even be considered a childhood, he has found safety in the arms of a man just trying to redeem himself from his childhood.