“I wasn’t worthy of this sacrifice; I was a liar, a cheat, and a thief.”
Amir deals with internal conflict through the majority of the book. After he failed to help his friend Hassan fight off Assef, he feels like he is a very unworthy person. This thinking effects every future decision he makes, and Hassan comes to mind every time he has a happy moment. He thinks of how he does not deserve it, and where Hassan might be. This internal conflict is important to the plot of the book because did he not feel such guilt and hold such a dark secret, he might not have married Soraya, and he might have had children. His internal conflict matches up with the external conflict in his homeland of Afghanistan. As he moves to America, he begins to view both as something of his past, but it still unable to move on from them. The events that happen in the past are the biggest influence on the future, and Amir knows this, but doesn’t recognize when it occurs in his own life.
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