Amir
A-Ashamed. Amir is ashamed of his past. He will never forgive himself for what he has done to his best friend. He has always been taught to grow up with honor, and that was lost as he watched his own brother walk from his house. Throughout the story his past is racing to catch up with him as he is running away from the deed that cannot be undone.
M-Married. Further into the story, after Amir has moved to the United States, he meets a woman who changes his world. He can't stop thinking about her as they grow closer. They met at a flea market that Baba and Amir sold things at. They soon get married and share everything. They are honest in every way. Still though, Amir can't bring himself to tell her about what happened between him and Hassan all those years back.
I- " My Iftikhar (pride) wasn't stung at all that she had been with a man..." (165). After Amir and Soraya announce their engagement, Soraya feels the urge to tell a secret that she thinks could be a deal breaker. She told Amir about her and another man, yet Amir regrets nothing and is ready to forgive her. And yet, no one is there for him, to tell him that every thing that was done and not done in the past could and would be forgiven. He still had that deed constantly tugging at his emotions, and his choices.
R- Regret. Throughout this whole story regret is a constant theme. Amir will never forgive himself until the person he betrayed, Hassan, forgives him first. Not only that, he feels everything that has happened since that tragedy has been forced there by him and his deeds. Although he acknowledges his weaknesses, it still gnaws at his life. As he later finds out, his own best friend was really his half brother, who was killed in a land mine. Had the event that happened so long ago, the action left undone, led up to this horrible happenstance?
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