Juxtaposition

Selfishness and Loyalty

“I had one last chance to make a decision. One final opportunity to decide who I was going to be. O could step into that alley, stand up for Hassan – the way he’d stood up for me all those times in the past – and accept whatever would happen to me. Or I could run. In the end, I ran.” – Khaled Hosseini

America and Afghanistan

“ Long before the roussi army marched into Afghanistan, long before mines were planted like seeds of death and children buried in rock-piled graves, Kabul had become a city of ghosts for me. A city of harelipped ghosts. America was different. America was a river, roaring along unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.” – Khaled Hosseini

Master and Servant

“But we were kids who had learned to crawl together, and no history, ethnicity, society, or religion was going to change that either.” – Khaled Hosseini