The Kite Runner #4

The rest of Chapter 2 basically describes Hassan, the friend of the protagonist, and different aspects of his life. "In the eighteen years that I lived in that house, I stepped into Hassan and Ali's quarters only a handful of times. When the sun dropped low behind the hills and we were done playing for the day, Hassan and I parted ways. I went past the rosebushes to Baba's mansion, Hassan to the mud shack where he had been born, where he'd lived his entire life. I remember it was spare, clean, dimly lit by a pair of kerosene lamps. There were two mattresses on opposite sides of the room, a worn Herati rug with frayed edgeds in between, a three-legged stool, and a wooden table in the corner where Hassan did his drawings. The walls stood bare, save for a single tapestry with sewn-in beads forming the words Allah-u-akbar. Baba had bought it for Ali on one of his trips to Mashad" (Hosseini 6). The intense description shows the large importance that Hassan had on the speaker's life, and his loss (as he described) must have been tragic. Even though the character hadn't been in his house, he remembered much detail and this shows the tone of that imagery in the book.