There are several dreams--and nightmares--in The
Kite Runner, but the most important one comes in Chapter 19. Amir awakes
during the night in Farid's house in Jalalabad "with a scream trapped in my throat." He
has had a nightmare, a vivid re-creation of the last moments of Hassan's life. As he
kneels in the wet street, bound and bleeding, Amir hears Hassan muttering,
"For you a thousand times over." An arm wielding a rifle puts the
barrel to Hassan's head, and the trigger is pulled. When Amir traces the barrel upward
to the bearer of the weapon, he sees his own
face.
Symbolically, in his terrible dream, Amir has caused
the death of Hassan. When he walked outside, he felt, for the first time on his journey,
that he was home. He felt a kinship for his homeland again, and he had a renewed faith
in the mission that he was about to undertake.
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